Meridional Sections at 66 Degrees W and 52 Degrees W as Part of ACCE

作为世界海洋环流实验水文计划的“大西洋环流和气候实验”的一部分，将在北大西洋沿西经66度和52度的沿着两条赤道线进行自上而下的水文和海流测量。这项工作的主要目标是获得北大西洋环流和水团分布的定量描述，并将这种状态与前两个时代的类似全流域描述进行比较：20世纪50年代末的国际地球物理年（IGY）时期和20世纪80年代初。总体目标是从气候变化的角度描述这些快照的特征，希望进一步加深我们对海洋-大气耦合系统的时间尺度和机制的理解。

Joyce 9529607 Top to bottom hydrographic and current measurements will be carried out along two meridional lines at 66 W and 52 W in the North Atlantic as part of the "Atlantic Circulation and Climate Experiment" (ACCE) of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) hydrographic prgoram. The main objectives of the work are to obtain a quantitative description of the North Atlantic circulation and water mass distribution, and compare this state to similar basin-wide descriptions from two previous era: the International Geophysical Year (IGY) period of the late 1950s' and the early 1980s'. The overall goal is to characterize these snapshots in terms of climate variability, with the hope of furthering our understanding of the time scales and mechanisms of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system.