MODE 



SCIENTIFIC 



COUNCIL 



Executive Officer 



DENSITY COMMITTEE 



THEORETICAL 

 COMMITTEE 



SHIP NEEDS COMMITTEE 



ARRAY COMMITTEE 



DATA ANALYSIS COMMITTEE 



EXISTING DATA COMMITTEE 



BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY COMMITTEE 



MODE-1 COMMITTEE 



POTENTIAL VORTICITY WORKING GROUP 



SYNOPTIC MAPPING PANEL 



REYNOLDS STRESS & HIGH FREOUENCY PANEL 



EULERIAN/LAGRANGIAN PANEL 



USSR BUOY EXPERIMENT PANEL 



NUMERICAL METHODS 



PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



Figure 10 



peratures and other phenomena in the western 

 North Atlantic, weather in Western Europe is 

 to some degree controlled by conditions in the 

 North Pacific area. 



It became obvious that the ongoing level of 

 effort for this research program was insuffi- 

 cient to discover the causes of a number of 

 environmental phenomena so far identified. 

 Thus, the resources of International Decade 

 of Ocean Exploration (IDOE) and ONR were 

 combined to produce a larger and more com- 

 prehensive effort than either could support 

 alone. 



Objectives 



The major objective of NORPAX is to de- 

 scribe and develop a basis for explaining the 



mechanisms responsible for the large-scale 

 oceanic and atmospheric fluctuations that 

 occur in the mid-latitudes of the North Pacific 

 Ocean. The fluctuations may be described in 

 terms of complex interactions between and 

 within major oceanic and atmospheric sys- 

 tems. All of the contiguous systems and re- 

 gimes in the North Pacific Basin interact with 

 each other to some degree. This fact makes 

 it clear that NORPAX must consider the en- 

 tire sequence of systems. 



To achieve this objective, research efforts 

 are concentrated in two main areas of study: 

 investigations of the total North Pacific sys- 

 tem: and investigations of regional interactions 

 (e.g., how fluctuations in the position and 

 strength of the Aleutian Low affect the North 

 Pacific Current]. 



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