Renewal of World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) PacificOcean High Resolution XBT/XCTD Transects

提供Roemmich支持，以继续在太平洋进行高密度，涡分辨消耗性测深温度计（XBT）的横断面。XBT网络的目的是在年至年代际尺度和从边界流和锋面到海洋盆地的空间尺度上观测海洋环流的变率模式。一个主要目标是通过在海面上热量和盐的再分布，探讨时变海洋环流在气候变率中的作用。商业船上每季度的XBT横断面将再进行三年，数据档案将通过万维网提供。该分析将侧重于洋流对质量、热量和盐的输送，以及利用卫星测高、大尺度xbt、海气通量等各种补充数据集对观测到的变率进行解释。

9632983 Roemmich Support is provided to continue the high-density, eddy resolving eXpendable Bathymetric Thermometer (XBT) transects in the Pacific Ocean. The XBT network is designed to observe the modes of variability in ocean circulation on annual to decadal time scales and on space scales from that of boundary currents and fronts to ocean basins. A principal objective is to explore the role of the time varying ocean circulation in climate variability through redistribution of heat and salt in the upper kilometer. Quarterly XBT transects on board commercial ships will be conducted for an additional three years and a data archive will be accessible via the World Wide Web. The Analysis will focus on the transport of mass, heat and salt by ocean currents and on the interpretation of observed variability using a variety of complementary data sets like satellite altimetry, broadscale XBTs, air-sea fluxes.