Table 4— Midocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE) projects 



Project 



Investigator 



Organization 



MOORED CURRENT METER ARRAYS 

 16 moorings with current-temperature 

 meters 



5 moorings with 4 current meters each 



BOTTOM-MOUNTED INSTRUMENTS 



2 IGPP capsules (1-month lifetime), 



1 IGPP capsule (1-year lifetime) (tempera- 

 ture, current, pressure bottom) 



6 inverted echo sounders 



3 electric field recorders 



5 bottom pressure recorders, fused silica 

 bourdon type 



6 to 8 bottom-mounted current recorders, 

 1 to 3 current meters each 



FLOAT TRACKING 



20 long-range SOFAR type floats using 

 MILS tracking 



50 intermediate-range acoustic floats with 

 5 buoy hydrophone array 



Hydrophone arrays for tracking SOFAR 

 floats 



DENSITY MEASUREMENTS 

 Shipboard STD and CTD casts 



MOORED THERMAL ARRAY 

 Thermal array 



TOWED INSTRUMENTS 



STD tows to map isopycnal surfaces 



FREE-FALL INSTRUMENTS 



Velocity profiler, accoustically tracked by 

 bottom-mounted beacons 



Electric field free-falling probe and bottom 

 recorders 



Displacement type current probe; airborne 

 expendable 



NUMERICAL MODELLING AND 

 THEORETICAL STUDIES 

 Synoptic maps 



Interactions between short internal waves 

 and larger scale motions in the ocean 



Array design as an inverse problem 



Theory and computer experiments on 

 oceanic eddies and waves 



Analytic and numerical studies of meso- 

 scale motions 



Theoretical numerical study of geostrophic 

 eddy motions in the oceans 



ADMINISTRATIVE 

 Executive Office 



Hot Line Center 



N. Fofonoff, W. Schmitz, 

 F. Webster 



J. Swallow 



W. Munk, F. Snodgrass, 

 W. Brown 



T. Rossby 



C. Cox, V. Vacquier, 

 J. Filloux, R. Parker 



J. Baker 



J. Knauss 

 T. Sturges 



A. Voorhis, D. Webb, 

 T. Rossby 



J. Swallow 



R. Walden, H. Berteaux 



J. Crease 



D. Hansen, A. Leetmaa 



R. Scarlet 

 C. Wunsch 



E. Katz, R. Nowak 

 T. Pochapsky 



T. Sanford 

 W. Richardson 



F. Bretherton 

 K. Hasselmann 



M. Hendershott, R. Davis, 

 W. Munk 



P. Rhines 

 A. Robinson 

 P. Welander 



H. Stommel. D. Moore 

 F. Webster 



Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 



National Institute of Oceanography, England 



Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Phys- 

 ics, University of California, San Diego 



Yale University 



Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Uni- 

 versity of California, San Diego 



Harvard University 



University of Rhode Island 

 Florida State University 



Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and 

 Yale University 



National Institute of Oceanography, England 

 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 



National Institute of Oceanography, England 



Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological 



Laboratory, NOAA 



Massachusetts Institute of Technology 



Draper Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology 



Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 



Columbia University 



Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 



Nova University 



The Johns Hopkins University 

 University of Hamburg, West Germany 



Scripps Institution of Oceanography 



Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 



Harvard University 



University of Gothenberg, Sweden 



Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 



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