Collaborative Research: Mesoscale Ocean Current, Temperature and Salinity Variability in EPIC

提出了一项名为“东太平洋海洋-大气耦合系统气候过程调查”（EPIC）的过程研究，以研究该地区大气和海洋的行为。EPIC海洋学部分的目标是描述、理解和量化热带辐合带（ITCZ）深层对流区上层海洋主要海洋结构和过程的演变，以改进区域模式，最终更好地预测年际和年际气候变率。测量将包括使用从飞机上扔下的消耗性剖面仪进行中尺度速度温度和盐度测量，使用机载ADCP和连续的Seasoar剖面进行小规模速度、温度和盐度场测量，通过在10北纬95瓦的船上进行连续的微观结构剖面测量速度微观结构和温度、盐度和速度精细结构，以及在95瓦的不同位置进行辐射和生物光学剖面测量。

A process study called the Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate Processes in the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System (EPIC) is proposed to study the behavior of the atmosphere and ocean in that region. The goals of the oceanographic component of EPIC are to describe, understand and quantify the evolution of the major oceanic structures and processes in the upper ocean under the deep convection region of the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) in order to improve regional models and ultimately gain better prediction of annual and interannual climate variability. Measurements will include mesoscale velocity temperature and salinity using expendable profilers dropped from aircraft, small scale velocity, temperature and salinity fields with a shipboard ADCP and continuous Seasoar sections, velocity microstructure and temperature, salinity and velocity finestructure by continuous microstructure profiling from a ship on station at 10 N, 95 W and radiometric and bio-optical profiles at various locations along 95 W.