Collaborative Research: Deep Basin Experiment Synthesis

要求提供资金，以完成作为世界海洋环流实验一部分进行的深盆地实验的分析和综合。这些数据包括在阻塞点和断裂区系泊的流速计、中性浮力浮子以及带有示踪剂和营养物的水文数据。建议使用数据分析，逆方法和准解析和数值模型的层次结构相结合，以产生一个动态一致的理解巴西盆地内的深环流。新发现的深环流特征将被纳入分析。这些措施包括一个突出的纬向带状的深循环，一个明显的低频（订单2年）晃动内的盆地，许多小涡嵌入在较大规模的流通，和羽状的异常水延伸远离边界到盆地内部。

Funds are requested to complete the analysis and synthesis of the Deep Basin Experiment conducted as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE). The data include current meter mooring at choke point and fracture zone, neutrally buoyant floats and hydrographic data with tracers and nutrients. It is propose to use a combination of data analysis, inverse methods, and a hierarchy of quasi-analytic and numerical models to produce a dynamically consistent understanding of the deep circulation within the Brazil Basin. Newly discovered features of the deep circulation will be incorporated in the analysis. These include a prominent zonal banding of the deep circulation, an apparent low frequency (order 2 year) sloshing within the basin, numerous small vortices embedded in the larger scale circulation, and plumes of anomalous water extending away from the boundary into the basin interior.