REU: Low-Latitude Western Boundary Currents in the Pacific Ocean

该项目是牵头和协调工作， 一项涉及四个美国机构的研究， 来自澳大利亚和法国。 一个联合实地项目将 进行了研究的水团分布，电流 低纬西边界的结构和输运 西赤道太平洋的洋流 重点将是 北方和南半球沃茨的汇合处， 它们通过太平洋到达印度尼西亚海的入口， 南赤道海流、新几内亚海岸暗流、 棉兰老洋流水团示踪剂和直流电 将进行测量。 Lukas和Firing将执行 水文、系泊海流计和船上声学 多普勒海流剖面仪（ADCP）测量，而 协调Fine（迈阿密）和Gammon（UW）的工作， 建议通过分包合同进行示踪剂研究（氟利昂 和氚/氦）。 水文地理学将由 斯克里普斯数据采集设施，根据一项单独的裁决。 理查森（WHOI）将部署一系列表面漂移器， 直接观察该区域的表面流动。 本实验 是一项主要的过程研究，有助于实现 美国热带海洋和全球大气计划（TOGA）。

This project constitutes the lead and coordination effort for a study involving four US institutions, and institutions from Australia and France. A joint field program will be carried out to study the water mass distributions, current structures and transport of the low-latitude western boundary currents in the western Equatorial Pacific. Focus will be on the confluence of northern and southern hemisphere waters, which arrive at the entrance to the Indonesian Seas via the South Equatorial Current, the New Guinea Coastal Undercurrent, and the Mindanao Current. Water mass tracers and direct current measurements will be employed. Lukas and Firing will carry out hydrographic, moored current meter, and shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) measurements, while coordinating the work of Fine (Miami) and Gammon (UW), who propose, via subcontracts, to carry out tracer studies (freons and tritium/helium). The hydrography will be done by the Scripps data acquisition facility, under a separate award. Richardson (WHOI) will deploy an array of surface drifters, to directly observe surface flows in the region. This experiment is a major process study contributing to the objectives of the US TOGA (Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere) Program.