NUMBER 21 (12/95)

 

   

WOCE NEWSLETTER NUMBER 21 -CONTENTS BELOW:

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NEWS FROM THE IPO
WOCE Data Assimilation and Synthesis W. John Gould 2

MODELLING AND ASSIMILATION
WOCE Synthesis and Modelling Working Group Lynne Talley 3
Mesoscale Global Ocean Circulation Modelling with Assimilation Robin Tokmakian and Albert J. Semtner 4
Variational Assimilation of Altimetric, Surface Drifter and Hydrographic Data into a QG Model of the Azores CurrentRosemary Morrow and Pierre De Mey7
A Steady State Inverse Model of the Large Scale Circulation of the Weddell Sea D.A. Nachaev, et al. 11
A Variational Analysis of WOCE Repeat Section SR4M.I. Yaremchuk, et al.14
NE Atlantic Circulation and Fluxes from CONVEX 1991 Sheldon Bacon17

LAGRANGIAN MEASUREMENTS
Drifter Measurements in the Nordic and Barents Seas P.-M. Poulain19
Deep Basin Experiment: Meteor Float Missions in the Southern Brazil Basin Successfully Completed Walter Zenk, et al. 22
Subsurface Float Data P.L. Richardson and C.M. Wooding 24

SOUTH ATLANTIC
Control of the Deep Circulation in the Brazil Basin by the Sill in the Romanche Fracture ZoneHarry Bryden and Herle Mercier27

SOUTHERN OCEAN
The Problem of Meridional Heat Transport in the Pacific Sector of the Antarctic M.N. Koshlyakov and T.G. Sazhina 30
Is the Deep Water Circulation in the Argentine Basin Going Round the "Wrong" Way? Denise Smythe-Wright and Stephen Boswell 33

INDIAN OCEAN
Preliminary Results From a WHP Section in the Central Indian Ocean Lynne Talley and Molly Baringer 35

TRACERS
Maurice Ewing Symposium on 'Application of Trace Substance Measurements to Oceanographic Problems' Peter Schlosser 38

MISCELLANEOUS
Second Revision of the WOCE Data Handbook 21
Air-Sea Flux Fields Workshop Peter K. Taylor 39
WHPO Status Reports 26
Meetings Timetable 39

Prepared 20 January, 1996 Peter Saunders