U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: Warm-Core Rings / Woods Hole, Massachusetts / October 1988

该奖项将支持美国研究人员参加由两位博士联合组织的关于暖核环的研讨会。伍兹霍尔海洋研究所的Peter Wiebe和Terrence Joyce以及日本东京大学海洋研究所的Takahisa Nemoto教授。参加者将于1988年10月在马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔的伍兹霍尔海洋学研究所举行会议，交换在墨西哥湾流、黑潮和其他西部边界流区域形成的海洋暖核环的物理、化学和生物学方面的研究成果和想法。讨论会将包括口头介绍成果、工作组讨论与环结构和动力学有关的特定多学科问题、一次总结会议和编写一份报告。讨论的主题将包括环的形成、结构和演化，以及不同西部边界水流机制之间环特征的差异。这次研讨会将是1985年在东京海洋研究所举办的非常成功的海洋环研讨会的继承者，该研讨会也是在美日合作科学计划的赞助下举行的。自上次研讨会以来，由于暖核环计划的研究，对墨西哥湾流暖环的结构和动力学的认识有了很大的进展。同样，由于最近从日本进行的几次多学科研究巡航，有关黑潮系统环的大量新数据也可获得。1988年的研讨会将为交流当前的研究成果提供一个有用的论坛，并将导致美国和日本海洋学家之间进行更多的合作研究。

This award will support the participation of U.S. researchers in a seminar on warm-core rings organized jointly by Drs. Peter Wiebe and Terrence Joyce of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Professor Takahisa Nemoto of the Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan. Participants will meet in October 1988 at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts for an exchange of research results and ideas on the physics, chemistry, and biology of oceanic warm-core rings which form in the Gulf Stream, Kuroshio and other western boundary current regions. The seminar will consist of oral presentations of results, working group discussions of particular multidisciplinary problems associated with ring structure and dynamics, a summary session, and preparation of a report. Topics of discussion will include ring formation, structure and evolution, and the differences in ring characteristics between different western boundary current regimes. This seminar will be a successor to the very successful workshop on oceanic rings held in Tokyo at the Ocean Research Institute in 1985, also under the auspices of the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Science Program. Knowledge of the structure and dynamics of the Gulf Stream warm rings has been greatly advanced since the last workshop as a result of studies carried out by the Warm-Core Rings Program. Similarly, extensive new data are available on rings in the Kuroshio system as a result of several recent multidisciplinary research cruises from Japan. The 1988 seminar will provide a useful forum for the exchange of current research results and should result in more cooperative research among U.S. and Japanese oceanographers.