Analysis of the Upper Ocean Budgets of Heat, Salt and Momentum

一组广泛的拉格朗日海洋表面温度测量数据，海面盐度和混合层环流将与其他来源的欧拉测量数据（来自热带海洋全球大气（TOGA）计划的观测系统的系泊和耦合海洋大气响应实验（COARE）部署的系泊）结合使用，以组合40个月期间西热带太平洋表面环流和海平面的时空描述。目的是在日至月的时间尺度上确定热带混合层海洋动力场平流特性的水平结构和演变。此外，还将检验赤道的大空间尺度热量和盐度变化是由风驱动的吉田喷流平流决定的假设。上层海洋数据集还将用于参数化近地表湍流通量收敛作为地表通量的函数，为确定地表通量提供另一种方法。

An extensive data set of Lagrangian measurements of sea surface temperature, sea surface salinity and mixed layer circulation will used in conjunction with Eulerian measurements from other sources (moorings from the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) program's observing system and moorings deployed during the Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE)) to assemble a space-time description of the surface circulation and sea level of the western tropical Pacific Ocean over a 40-month period. The goal is to determine the horizontal structure and evolution of the advective properties of oceanic dynamic fields in the tropical mixed layer on time scales of days to months. In addition, the hypothesis that large spatial scale variations of heat and salinity at the equator are determined by advection from wind-driven Yoshida jets will be examined. The upper ocean data set will also be used to parameterize the near surface turbulent flux convergence as a function of surface fluxes, provide an alternate way to determine surface fluxes.