Windward islands passages monitoring program: Physical oceanographic data collected on cruises WI-04, HMBS trident, 7-13 December 1992, WI-05, JMBS trident, 7-12 February 1993, and WI-06, JMBS trident, 24-28 March 1993. Technical memo
During 1991, a collaborative program between the United States and Barbados was established with the support of NOAA`s Climate and Global Change Atlantic Climate Change Program, to conduct regular measurements of the transport and water mass characteristics in the major southern passages to the Caribbean Sea. This program involves the use of a Barbados Coast Guard vessel, the HMBS Trident, which makes routine monthly patrols in the area and has been equipped to collect standard hydrographic measurements (CTDO2 profiles and water samples) and velocity profile measurements using a downward-looking acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP). The purpose of the program is to determine the quantity and time-variability of South Atlantic surface, thermocline, and intermediate waters flowing into the North Atlantic in compensation for southward cross-equatorial transport of North Atlantic Deep Water, and to establish an economical means for future monitoring of this transport loop. This report contains data collected on cruises WI - 04, WI - 05, and WI - 06 of this program.
- Research Organization:
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, FL (United States). Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Labs.
- OSTI ID:
- 63822
- Report Number(s):
- PB-95-208674/XAB; NOAA-TM-ERL-AOML-84; TRN: 51571798
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: See also PB--94-129079 and PB--94-194131; PBD: Mar 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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