Propagation and dissipation of tidal internal waves in the north pacific on the basis of the MEGAPOLYGON data, an experiment with 170 moored buoys

摘要

In 1987 the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology conducted a large scale experiment "MEGAPOLYGON" in the North Pacific, north of the Kuroshio. A cluster of 177 moored buoys was set for two months in the region between 38°- 42° N and 152° - 158° E. The moorings were set at a distance of 24 miles. The current meters were set at 120 m and 1200 m levels. A scheme of the location of moorings is shown in Fig. 1 [The MEGAPOLYGON Experiment, 1992]. Black circles indicate buoys with valid data. White circle show the position of moorings which were either lost, or were recovered with unavailable data.