Collaborative Research: Shallow Circulation in the Tropical Pacific: A Geochemical and Modeling Study

合作研究：热带太平洋浅层环流：地球化学和模拟研究

• 批准号: 9819257
• 负责人: Daniel Schrag
• 金额: $ 26.51万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-03-01 至 2002-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9819257&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Shallow; Circulation; Tropical

This work will be a study of processes that determine the structureand variability of the thermocline in the equatorial Pacific. Datadescribing the distribution of various chemical tracers will becompared with simulations made with a general circulation model.The aim is to improve modeling skill, gain a better understanding ofthe processes that transport tracers in the tropical Pacific, and touse the historical tracer data to identify variations in the tropicalupper-ocean circulation. One of the tests of the model will be acomparison between the model's prediction of 14C concentration inthe Pacific with 14C time series derived from corals in the tropicaland subtropical Pacific.

这项工作将研究决定赤道太平洋温跃层结构和变化的过程。 描述各种化学示踪剂分布的数据将与一般环流模型进行的模拟进行比较。目的是提高建模技能，更好地了解热带太平洋中传输示踪剂​​的过程，并利用历史示踪剂数据来识别热带上层海洋环流的变化。 该模型的测试之一是将模型预测的太平洋 14 C 浓度与源自热带和亚热带太平洋珊瑚的 14 C 时间序列进行比较。