Hawaii Ocean Mixing Experiment (HOME): Near-Field Program: Moored Measurements of Tidal Oscillations

9819533提供路德基金会是为了在夏威夷海脊附近进行一项大型的协调实验(主页：夏威夷海洋混合实验)，以确定地形崎岖的地点是否对全球海洋的混合负责。目标是确定海洋混合的主要能源途径，并实现该区域的大致能源收支。HOME项目的近场实验重点是研究夏威夷海脊附近的动力过程，特别是对正压潮汐强迫的响应，包括低模和高模内波的产生、传播和湍流耗散和混合。这一分项目的重点将是：(1)确定各个潮汐成分在距震源几个距离处的垂直结构，并确定与正压潮汐锁定的部分；(2)测量潮汐对切变、应变、理查森数和其他混合指标的贡献，如索普尺度；(3)确定其他混合能量来源的贡献，如中尺度流和高频内波；(4)描述随着夏威夷海脊的接近，背景内波谱的变化；以及(V)研究切变、应变、索普尺度等观测与其他近场研究人员获得的湍流混合的直接观测之间的关系。将部署三个系泊设备，从考艾岛海峡的海脊顶部开始，向南延伸：在海脊顶部部署一个短型系泊设备，在大约1500米处部署一个中深系泊设备，以及在4000米处部署一个深系泊设备。这三个系泊设施将于2002年8月部署，就在近场试验密集剖面开始之前，并将在三个月后恢复。该仪器将包括：多普勒海流剖面仪、温度记录仪和温度传导性记录仪。

9819533 LutherFunding is provided to conduct a large coordinated experiment (HOME: Hawaiian Ocean Mixing Experiment) near the Hawaiian Ridge to determine whether sites with rough topography are responsible for the mixing of the global ocean. The goals are to identify the major energy pathways for ocean mixing and achieve an approximate energy budget for the region. The Near-field experiment of the HOME project focuses on the investigation of the dynamical processes in the immediate vicinity of the Hawaiian Ridge, and especially the response to barotropic tidal forcing including generation of low- and high-mode internal waves, propagation and turbulent dissipation and mixing. This sub-project will focus on (i) defining the vertical structure of the individual tidal constituents at several distances from the source and determine the portion that is phase-locked with the barotropic tide; (ii) measuring the tidal contribution to shear, strain, Richardson number, and other mixing indicators such as Thorpe scale; (iii) determining the contribution of other energy sources for mixing, such as mesoscale currents and high-frequency internal waves; (iv) describing the modification of the background internal wave spectrum as the Hawaiian Ridge is approached; and (v) studying the relationship between observations of shear, strain, Thorpe scale, etc., and the direct observations of turbulent mixing obtained by other Nearfield investigators. Three moorings will be deployed starting at the top of the Ridge in the Kauai Channel and extending to the south: a short mooring at the top of the Ridge, a mid-depth mooring deployed at about 1500m, and a deep mooring at 4000m. The three moorings will be deployed in August, 2002, just before the intensive profiling of the Nearfield experiment begins, and will be recovered three months later. The instrumentation will include: Doppler current profilers, temperature recorders, and temperature-conductivity recorders.