Regional Scale Current and Hydrographic Observations in the Western Weddell Sea: A Component of AnZone

这项拟议的工作是威德尔海西部海洋结构综合研究计划的一部分。它将于1992年2月至6月在美国和苏联科学家共同占领的一个冰营进行。本项目研究的是威德尔海边界流的区域尺度环流和变率。每隔50公里，在一条与洋流平均方向垂直的直线上，将五个系泊点悬挂在冰面上，每个系泊点由两个流速计组成。上层的流量表将在极地地表水内，而下层的流量表将在温暖的威德尔温水内。该阵列将补充由德国南极计划在威德尔海中部放置的一系列紧绷的金属线系泊。

The proposed work is part of an integrated research program into the oceanographic structure of the western Weddell Sea. It is to be carried out from an ice camp jointly occupied by U.S. and USSR scientists from February to June 1992. This project concerns the regional-scale circulation and the variability of the Weddell SEa boundary current. Five moorings consisting of two current meters each will be suspended from the ice at 50 kilometer intervals in a line normal to the mean direction of the current. The upper current meters will within Polar Surface Water, while the lower meters will be within the warmer Weddell Warm Water. This array will complement a series of taut wire moorings to be emplaced by the German Antarctic Program in the central Weddell Sea.