NUMBER 16 (07/94)

 

   

WOCE NEWSLETTER NUMBER 16 - CONTENTS BELOW:
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News from the IPO, W. John Gould 2
Meetings Timetable 1994 2

WOCE FIELD WORK IN THE ATLANTIC
Cross-Equatorial Flow of the Atlantic Deep Western Boundary Current, Philip Richardson 3
Preliminary Results from "A Mediterranean Undercurrent Seeding Experiment" (AMUSE), Amy Bower, Larry Armi and Isabel Ambar 5
The Romanche Fracture Zone: Blocking and Mixing of Arctic and Antarctic Waters at the Equator, Kevin Speer, Herle Mercier, Marie-Jos Messias and and Laurent Memery 8
The North Atlantic Tracer Release Experiment, James Ledwell and Andrew Watson 11
FS Meteor Completes A8, Thomas Muller 14
All Current Meters Recovered from the Hunter Channel Array: FS Meteor Finishes Third DBE Cruise, Walter Zenk 16

Indian Ocean Plans Continue to Evolve, Piers Chapman 18

WOCE Field Programme Activities in 1994, N. Penny Holliday 21

The Spreading of Antarctic Bottom Water into the Indian Ocean - First Results of the UK ADOX Programme, Bob Dickson 25

CHOKE POINT MEASUREMENTS
Monitoring Pressure Difference across the ACC, Thomas Whitworth III and Dale Pillsbury 28
BPR Measurements of the ACC Across the Drake Passage, Ian Vassie, Robert Spencer, Peter Foden, Duncan Smith and Geoff Hargreaves 30

PACIFIC FIELD WORK
Ocean Heat Transport - A Precursor to the Cold Winter of 1992 in the SW Pacific Ocean, Janet Sprintall, Dean Roemmich and Basil Stanton32
Repeat Hydrography Programme for Line PR6, Frank Whitney, Howard Freeland and Ron Perkins 37

DATA AND PUBLICATIONS
First Edition of the WOCE Data Handbook Issued 40
The New WOCE DIU On-line Gopher and World Wide Web Information Systems 40
Upper Ocean Thermal Data Availability 42
The GEBCO Digital Atlas (GDA): Now Available on CD-ROM 42
WOCE Provides the Stimulus for a New Textbook in Oceanography, Matthias Tomczak 43
An Announcement and an Enquiry (both with respect to scientific publications), Peter Saunders 44
CLIVAR Status Report, Arnold Gordon 44
WOCE Results at the IUGG/IAPSO XXI General Assembly, Boulder, Colorado, 2-15 July 1995 - A Call for Papers 46
WOCE IPO at Oceanology International '94, Ilse Hamann 46
WOCE at The Oceanography Society Pacific Basin Meeting, Honolulu, 19-22 July 1994, Ilse Haman 47