Cruise Report-OCEANUS 218, March 20-April 9, 1990. Warm Ring Inertial Critical Layer Experiment (WRINCLE)

摘要

The scientific objective of the Warm Ring Inertial Critical Layer Experiment (WRINCLE) was to study the phenomenon of inertial-internal wave trapping in anticyclonic rings and the associated mixing. High Resolution Profiler (HRP) casts provided fine- and microstructure data, and the Richardson Number float and eXpendable Current Profiler (XCP) surveys provided velocity and density finestructure measurements. During the time R/V Oceanus was in and around the ring, 78 HRP drops to 1000 m were completed, and data from 55 XCPs, 26 Conductivity Temperature and Depth Profiler (CTD) casts, and 59 eXpendable BathyThermograph (XBTs) were logged. The report documents the work performed at sea, and summarizes some of the data collected.