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。数据包括在阻塞点和裂缝带系泊的流速计、中性浮力浮子以及带示踪剂和营养物的水文数据。作者建议将数据分析、反演方法、准解析模型和数值模型相结合，对巴西盆地深部环流形成动态一致的认识。新发现的深部环流特征将被纳入分析。这些特征包括深层环流的明显纬向带，盆地内明显的低频（2年左右）晃动，嵌入在大尺度环流中的许多小涡，以及从边界延伸到盆地内部的异常水羽流。

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.