NUMBER 25 (02/97)

 

   

WOCE NEWSLETTER NUMBER 25 - CONTENTS BELOW:

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NEWS FROM THE IPO
Happy New Year! W. John Gould and Roberta Boscolo 2

PACIFIC OCEAN
The Large-Scale, Wind-Driven Response of the North Pacific Dudley B. Chelton and Alberto M. Mestas-Nunez3
Preliminary Estimates of North Pacific Circulation from Combined Altimetry, Acoustic Tomography, and a General Circulation Model D. Menemenlis, et al.7
The Seasonal Heat Budget of the North Pacific: Net Heat Flux and Heat Storage Rates (1950-1990) John R. Moisan and Pearn P. Niiler11
Mean Circulation in the North Western Pacific Mixed Layer from Drifter Data Nikolai Maximenko, et al.13
Time Series of the Kuroshio Transport Derived from Field Observations and Altimetry DataShiro Imawaki, et al.15
The Impact of Upper Ocean Ð Topographic Coupling on the Kuroshio Pathway South and East of Japan Harley E. Hurlburt, et al.19
The North Pacific Intermediate Salinity Minima Along WHP P2 Ayako Nishina, et al. 26

OTHER SCIENCE
Can One Estimate the Oceanic Seasonal Baroclinic Heat Transport from Climatological Hydrography?S. Wacongne and L. Crosnier 29
Deep Circulation Southwest of Australia Gwyneth E. Hufford and Michael S. McCartney 31
Inferring Ocean Transports from Surface FluxesW.G. Large and S.C. Doney36
Do Transient Tracers Really Help to Improve Ocean General Circulation Models? Christoph Heinze and Ernst Maier-Reimer 38

MISCELLANEOUS
Drifter Data now Available on the WWW 10
The Comprehensive WOCE Data Information System Katherine A. Bouton 40
An International Survey of the North Atlantic, 1996-98N. Penny Holliday42
WOCE Hydrographic Program Office 43

MEETINGS
Meetings Schedule 18
Ocean Circulation and Climate - the WOCE Conference 25
OOPC Ocean Climate Time Series Workshop, Baltimore, 18-20 March 1997 35

Prepared by Peter Saunders 24 January 1997