The Pacific Profiler Network: Tropical Dynamics Research

摘要/Avery-(ATM-9614613)本研究的目的是：(1)利用热带太平洋廓线网络（TPPN）继续观测整个热带太平洋的大气过程；(2)将现有的多年观测扩展到强气候变率的预估期；(3)从这些观测中提取三维风场的精确值，包括平均值以及季节性和短期变率（例如潮汐和重力波强度）；(4)将TPPN结果与其他数据库结合起来，研究这些量与全球环流、厄尔尼诺、热带对流、热带降雨估计和非绝热加热以及地形产生的波之间的关系；(5)通过互联网网站和数字计算机磁盘向科学界的其他人员提供剖面网的数据。

Abstract/Avery-(ATM-9614613) The objectives of this research are: (1) to continue our observations of the atmospheric processes that operate throughout the tropical Pacific using the Tropical Pacific Profiler Network (TPPN), (2) to extend our existing multi-year observations into projected periods of strong climate variability, (3) to extract from these observations accurate values of the three-dimensional wind fields, including mean values as well as seasonal and shorter- term variability (e.g., tidal and gravity wave intesities, (4) using TPPN results in conjunction with other data bases, to study the relationship between these quantities and global circulation, El Nino, tropical convection, tropical rainfall estimation and diabatic heating, and orographyically-generated waves, and (5) to provide data from the profiler network to the rest of the scientific community by means of an Internet Web Site as well as by digital computer disks.