Drifter Measurements of Ocean Salt and Heat Budgets and WindResponse in COARE

这个项目是一个获得海洋环流和大气强迫长期（2年）观测资料的合作项目的一部分，预期在1992年底/ 1993年初计划在西太平洋暖池进行一个密集的实验，称为TOGA-COARE（耦合海洋-大气响应实验）。长期测量将于1991年年底开始，并一直持续到密集实验完成后很长一段时间，为密集实验提供全面的环境背景。在这个组件中，pi为了更好地描述上层海洋的密度，科学家们将测试在漂流浮标上安装电导率（盐度）传感器的可行性。电导率波动是密度结构变率的一个主要来源，因此极大地影响了西太平洋区域海洋对大气强迫的响应。

This project is part of a collaborative effort to obtain long- term (2 years) observations of ocean circulation and atmospheric forcing, in anticipation of an intensive experiment planned for the Western Pacific Warm Pool in late 1992/early 1993, called TOGA-COARE (Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment). Long- term measurements will begin in late 1991, and continue until well after the intensive experiment is completed, providing the overall environmental context for the intensive experiment. In this component, the P.I.'s will test the feasibility of attaching conductivity (salinity) sensors to drifting buoys, in order to obtain better descriptions of the upper ocean density. Conductivity fluctuations are a major source of variability in the density structure, and hence greatly affect the ocean response to atmospheric forcing in the Western Pacific Region.