Table 6. — U.S. institutions, investigators, and projects in NORPAX (Cont.) 



Institutions 



U.S. Naval Oceanographic 

 Laboratory 



USN/Fleet Numerical Weather 

 Central 



USN/Naval Postgraduate School 

 Oregon State University 

 San Diego State University 

 Texas A&M University 



University of Tokyo 

 University of Washington 



Investigators 



H. E. Hurlbert 

 J. D. Thompson, and 

 S. A. Piacsek 

 R. E. Hughes 



R. L. Haney 



W .L Gates 



C. E. Dorman 



W. Emery 



A. D. Kirwan 

 H. Solomon 



B. A. Taft 



Projects 



A Numerical Investigation of the Time-Dependent 

 Circulation of the Equatorial and Eastern Pacific 



Ships of Opportunity XBT Program 



Numerical Simulation of the Coupled North Pacific 

 Ocean-Atmosphere System 

 Research on the Dynamics of the Mixed Layer and 

 Its Role in the Oceanic General Circulation 

 Variability of the Oceanic Thermal Structure Be- 

 tween San Francisco and Hawaii 

 Computation of Density from Measurements of 

 Thermal Structure 

 Anomaly Dynamics Study 



The Role of Subpolar Western Boundary Currents 

 in Large-scale Ocean Atmosphere Coupling in the 

 North Pacific 



Study of Thermocline Fluctuations of the Pacific 

 North Equatorial Current 



DATA PROGRAM 



Climatic 

 data collection 



Data set 



acquisition, 



maintenance, and 



updating 



Development of a 



NORPAX climatic 



data bank 



CLIMATE PROGRAM 



Statistical and 

 diagnostic analysis 



Statistical 

 studies: 



Scale analysis 



Relations between 

 variables 



Statistical models 



and hypothesis 



formulation 



Phenomenological 

 studies: 



Mid-latitude 

 events 



Equatorial 

 events 



ANOMALY DYNAMICS STUDY, EQUATORIAL PROGRAMS 



Dynamical 

 modeling 



Regional model 

 development 



Model application 

 and analysis: 



Basic model analysis 



Event simulation 



and hypothesis 



testing 





Figure 19.— Elements and activities of the NORPAX Climate Program and their principal interactions. 

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