Collaborative Research: Ocean Radiant Heating in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific

合作研究：赤道东太平洋海洋辐射加热

• 批准号: 0002902
• 负责人: Carter Ohlmann
• 金额: $ 42.37万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-11-01 至 2005-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0002902&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Ocean; Radiant; Heating

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.

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、理解和量化热带间辐合带(ITCZ)深对流区上层海洋主要结构和过程的演变，以改进区域模式，最终获得更好的年度和年际气候变率预测。测量将包括使用从飞机上投放的消耗性剖面仪的中尺度速度、温度和盐度，使用船载ADCP和连续海面剖面的小尺度速度、温度和盐度场，速度微结构和温度、盐度和速度精细。通过在10 N、95 W的船上站上连续的微结构剖面和沿95 W不同位置的辐射和生物光学剖面来测量结构。