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NEWS FROM THE WOCE IPO
Not Long to go Now W. John Gould 1

ATLANTIC OCEAN
Labrador Sea Water in the Iceland Basin: An Overview of the Present Kiel RAFOS Float Programme Walter Zenk 3
Is Labrador Sea Water Formed in the Irminger Basin? Robert S. Pickart and Kara L. Lavender 6
Mixing of Antarctic Intermediate Water from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean at the Agulhas Retroflection Olaf Boebel et al. 9
Changes in the Deep and Bottom Waters of the Scotia Sea, 1995-1999 Michael P. Meredith et al. 15

MODELLING
The Role of the Southern Ocean in the Upwelling of North Atlantic Deep Water Pedro de Vries et al. 12
Impact of 4D-Variational Assimilation of WOCE Hydrography on the Meridional Overturning Circulation of the Indian Ocean Bruno Ferron and Jochem Marotzke 20
Modelling Internal Waves with a Global Ocean Model Alan D. Fox et al. 27
Thermocline Theories and WOCE: A Mutual Challenge Geoffrey K. Vallis 30
A New Approach to the Sigma-Coordinate Pressure Gradient Problem in a Terrain-Following Bottom Boundary Layer Model A. J. George Nurser et al. 34

MISCELLANEOUS
WOCE Hydrographic Program Office Report James H. Swift et al. 36
Building Version 2.0 of WOCE Global Data on CD-ROM: A Summary of the Data Products Committee Meeting in April 2000 N. P. Holliday 38
The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment Michele Rienecker and Neville Smith 39

MEETINGS
H. U. Sverdrup Symposium Announcement 41
WCRP/SCOR Workshop on Intercomparison and Validation of Ocean-Atmosphere Flux Fields (Washington, DC, USA, 21-25 May 2001) 42
Meeting Timetable 2000/2001 43

Prepared by Sheelagh Collyer 5 August 2000