Environmental Forecasting Program 



The Environmental Forecasting Program focused on projects 

 designed to explain the large-scale, long-term behavior of the 

 ocean and the ocean's influence on weather and climate. 

 Experiments and studies included: Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. Mid- 

 Ocean Dynamics Experiment (POLYMODE); North Pacific 

 Experiment (NORPAX); International Southern Ocean Studies 

 (ISOS); and Climate: Long-range Investigation, Mapping,and 

 Prediction study (CLIMAP). 



NODC Accession No.: 79-00297 

 Organization: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 

 Investigator: W.G. Metcalf (WHOI) 

 Grant No.: OCE77-01026 

 Project: POLYMODE 



Data: XBTs taken aboard the Iselin, Gyre, Atlantis-11, Oceanus, 

 between 4/2 - 7/16/78. Data submitted on NODC-compatible 

 magnetic tape. 



Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. Mid-Ocean Dynamics 

 Experiment (POLYMODE) 



The purpose of POLYMODE was to establish the dynamics 

 and statistics of mesoscale motions in the ocean, their energy 

 source, and their role in the general circulation of the ocean. 

 POLYMODE was based on: 1) U.S.S.R. Polygon project — a 

 continuing series of experiments investigating mesoscale phenom- 

 ena in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in the Arabian Sea, and 

 2) Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE-I) of the united 

 States and the United Kingdom. A Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. POLY- 

 MODE Organizing Committee, established under the Agreement 

 between the Governments of the United States and the U.S.S.R. 

 on Cooperation in Studies of the World Ocean, directed the 

 POLYMODE experiment. The UNESCO/ Intergovernmental 

 Oceanographic Commission's Scientific Committee on Ocean- 

 ographic Research (SCOR) Working Group 34 invited other 

 countries to participate in POLYMODE. 



POLYMODE Data 



POLYMODE data received during the period of this report are 

 available from NODC as follows: 



NODC Accession No.: 79-00206 

 Organization: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 

 Investigator: William Metcalf (WHOI) 

 Grant No.: OCE77-01026 

 Project: POLYMODE 



Data: XBT data taken from 50 cruises between 6/ 1 6/ 76-9/30/ 78. 

 Data submitted on NODC-compatible magnetic tape. 



NODC Accession No.: 79-00243 

 Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 Investigator: Carl Wunsch (MIT) 

 Grant No.: OCE75-03998 A02 

 Project: POLYMODE II - 3 



Data: Temperature and pressure data from buoys, obtained 

 between 10/6/76 - 7/5/77. Data submitted on magnetic tape. 



NODC Accession No.: 79-00244 

 Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 Investigator: Carl Wunsch (MIT) 

 Grant No.: OCE75-03998 A02 

 Project: POLYMODE III - I 



Data: Temperature and pressure data from buoys, obtained 

 between 5/77 - 5/78. Data submitted on tape. 



POLYMODE Bibliography 



McWilliams, J. C, and R. H. Heinmiller. 



1978. The POLYMODE local dynamics experiment: Objective, 

 location and plan. 



MODE GROUP 



1978. The Mid-Ocean dynamics experiment. Deep-Sea Re- 

 search 25:859-910. 



MODE-I ATLAS GROUP. 



1977. V. Lee and C. Wunsch (editors). Atlas of the Mid-Ocean 

 dynamics experiment (MODE-I). Mass. Inst. Technology, 

 Cambridge, MA, 274p (MODE). 



POLYMODE XBT GROUP. 



1978. POLYMODE XBT survey by the Soviet research Vessel 

 Victor Bugaev, 10-21 July 1977. XBT Technical Rpt. 78-1, 78- 

 1, 9p. Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, Mass. 



POLYMODE XBT GROUP. 



1978. POLYMODE XBT survey by the Soviet Research Vessel 

 Akademik Vemadsky, 23 July - 2 August 1977. XBT Tech. 

 Rep. #78-2, POLYMODE XBT Group, Woods Hole Oceano- 

 graphic Institution, 9p. 



POLYMODE XBT GROUP. 



1978. POLYMODE XBT survey by the Soviet Research Vessel 

 Victor Bugaev, 28 July - 16 August 1977. XBT Tech. Rep #78-3, 

 POLYMODE XBT Group, Woods Hole Oceanographic 

 Institution, 1 lp. 



POLYMODE XBT GROUP. 



1978. Combined POLYMODE XBT surveys by the Soviet 

 Research Ships Akademik Vemadsky, Petr Lebedev, Sergey 

 Vavilov, and Akademic Krilov, 7 August - 9 September 1977. 

 XBT Tech. Rep. #78-4, POLYMODE XBT Group, Woods 

 Hole Oceanographic Institution, 16p. 



POLYMODE XBT GROUP. 



1978. POLYMODE XBT surveys by the Soviet Research 

 Vessels Akademic Krilov and Akademic Kurchatov, 18 August 

 - 11 September 1977. XBT Tech. Rep. #78-5, POLYMODE 

 XBT Group, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 14p. 



