U.S. Australia Cooperative Study of the Northern Branch of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

小行星9414972 在该项目中，四名主要研究人员将在五个独立机构的支持下研究澳大利亚塔斯马尼亚南部南极绕极流（ACC）的能量，动量和涡度预算，以及纬向体积和热传输变率。 将与塔斯马尼亚州霍巴特的科学家提供的类似资源合作，使用系泊海流计、海底电场记录仪和倒置回声测深仪。 在这一部分，主要研究员将与夏威夷大学和斯克里普斯海洋研究所合作，监督海底压力计和海底水平电场仪器的建造和部署，以确定正压海流的变化。

9414972 Filloux In this project, four principal investigators with support from five separate institutions will study energy, momentum, and vorticity budgets, and zonal volume and heat transport variability in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) south of Tasmania, Australia. A mix of moored current meters seafloor electric field recorders, and inverted echo sounders will be used in collaboration with similar resources from scientists in Hobart, Tasmania. In this component, the PI will work with the University of Hawaii and Scripps Institution of Oceanography to oversee the construction and deployment of the Bottom Pressure gauges and seafloor Horizontal Electric Field (HEF) instruments for determining barotropic current variability.