Western Weddell Ice Station Turbulence and Mixed Layer Project

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。本文提出的工作是为了确定威德尔环流西部的垂直和水平温盐通量。具体来说，能够直接测量雷诺应力和湍流热通量的仪器集群将从营地的冰面上悬挂下来，并将放置保持上层海洋温度、盐度和洋流结构的仪器集群，以观测湍流数据所包含的更大尺度的变异性。这对湍流强度有一定的影响。这些测量将与其他同时进行的实验一起使用，以量化带到冰底的能量，并形成从海洋通过海冰覆盖到大气的能量通量的一部分。

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. The work proposed here is an effort to define the vertical and horizontal thermohaline fluxes within the western part of the Weddell Gyre. Specifically, instrument clusters capable of measuring the Reynolds stress and the turbulent heat flux directly will be suspended from the ice at the camp and maintained upper ocean temperature, salinity, and current structure will be emplaced to make observations on the larger scale variability within which the turbulence data is embedded, and which can be expected to have some effect on the turbulence intensity. The measurements will be used in conjunction with other concurrent experiments to quantify the energy brought to the underside of the ice and form part of the flux of energy from the ocean through the sea ice cover to the atmosphere.