Collaborative Research: A new Account of Souther Ocean Waters: Characteristics, Variability, Production

世界海洋环流实验（WOCE）最近收集的水文站质量控制数据库将用于创建南纬25度以南地区的高分辨率气候学。将根据气候学和客观绘制的财产领域，对南大洋沃茨进行精细的体积普查。将使用剖面数据检查气候学和体积普查中变化大的区域，作为时间和中尺度变化的可能地点。与新的深和底部南极沃茨在大陆架/斜坡制度的生产相关的水团转换和混合率的估计将导致从经典的示踪剂分布，体积普查数据，和平均跨坡速度场的定量分析。更广泛的影响：将制作一系列地图和垂直剖面图，作为静态数字，供访问我们网站的人浏览，以说明南大洋的水团结构和环流。一个交互式工具将允许用户选择特定的数据集或子集，不同的网格和相关长度，以及几个绘图选项来生成自定义图形。这些特点可能是有用的课堂教学辅助描述海洋学和绘图技术。网格化的气候学和普查数据将在网站上提供，供其他研究人员使用。还将制作这些数字的高质量版本，以纳入世界海洋环流实验地图集的印刷版。

A recently quality-controlled database of hydrographic stations collected by the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) will be used to create a high-resolution climatology for the region south of 25 S. A fine-scale volumetric census of Southern Ocean waters will be created based on the climatology and objectively mapped property fields. Regions of high variance in the climatology and volumetric census will be inspected using profile data as possible sites of temporal and mesoscale variability. Estimates of water mass transformations and mixing rates associated with the production of new deep and bottom Antarctic waters over the shelf/slope regime will result from the quantitative analysis of classic tracer distributions, volumetric census data, and mean cross-slope velocity fields. Broader impacts:A collection of maps and vertical sections will be produced as static figures that can be browsed by visitors to our web site to illustrate the water mass structure and circulation of the Southern Ocean. An interactive tool will allow users to choose particular datasets or subsets, different grids and correlation lengths, and several plotting options to generate custom figures. These features may be useful as classroom aids in the teaching of descriptive oceanography and mapping techniques. The gridded climatology and census data will be made available on the web site for use by other researchers. A high quality version of the figures will also be produced for inclusion in a printed version of the WOCE atlases.