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WNACW

Abbreviation for Western North Atlantic Central Water.

WNPCW

See Western North Pacific Central Water.

WOCE

Acronym for the World Ocean Circulation Experiment program, a component of the WCRP that is a cooperative scientific effort by more than 30 nations to provide essential strategic research on ocean circulation. The primary goals of WOCE are (1) to develop models useful for predicting climate change and to collect the data necessary to test them and (2) to determine the representativeness of the specific WOCE data sets for the long-term behavior of the ocean, and to find methods for determining long-term changes on time scales from ten to one hundred years. The field phase of the program is from 1990 to 1997 and the analysis, interpretation, modeling and synthesis (AIMS) phase continues until the year 2002. Some WOCE observations will be continued by the CLIVAR program. For more information see the U.S. WOCE Office Web site, the WOCE International Project Office (IPO), the WOCE Hydrographic Program Office (WHP), or the WOCE Data Information Unit (DIU).

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

See the WHOI Web site.

WOCE cruises

WOCE sponsored many hydrographic programs, most of which were given abbreviations based on geographic location and latitude or longitude. The Pacific cruises included:

• P1
• P2
• P6
• P9
• P10
• P12
• P13
• P14C
• P14N
• P15N
• P16C
• P16N
• P16S
• P17C
• P17E
• P17N
• P17S
• P18
• P19A - 11/01/92 to 12/08/92, James Clark Ross
• P19C - 2/22/93 to 4/13/93, Knorr
• P19S - 12/04/92 to 1/22/93, Knorr
• P21
• P31
• S04P - 2/14/92 to 4/6/92, Akademik Ioffe
  [http://whpo.ucsd.edu/data/onetime/southern/s04/s04p/s04pdo.txt]
• S4
• SR4
• T10
• T24
• T47
• TEW

[http://whpo.ucsd.edu/]
[http://sam.ucsd.edu/pacwoce/]

WOTAN

Acronym for Wind Observations Through Ambient Noise, an oceanographic instrument for the determination of wind stress from measurements of ambient noise. See Vakkayil et al. (1996).

WPWP

Abbreviation for Western Pacific Warm Pool.

WRINCLE

The Warm Ring Inertial Circle Layer Experiment took place in March 1990 in the northwest Atlantic between 37-45$^\circ$ N and 75-60$^\circ$ W. The goal of the experiment was to investigate the rates and types of mixing associated with a Gulf Stream warm core ring. A high resolution profiler (HRP) was used to complete 78 profiles in and around one warm core ring during a 21 day cruise, with the complete depth of the ring resolved by profiling to 1000 m. The HRP measurements were accompanied by 26 CTD profiles, 55 expendable current profiler (XCP) profiles, a Richardson Number float deployment, and two XBT surveys to precisely define the position of the ring. See Kunze et al. (1995) and Schmitt and Montgomery (1991).

WSACW

Abbreviation for Western South Atlantic Central Water.

WSBW

See Weddell Sea Bottom Water.

WSDW

See Weddell Sea Deep Water.

WSPCW

See Western South Pacific Central Water.

WW

See Winter Water.

Wust, Georg

More later.

WWSP

Abbreviation for Winter Weddell Sea Project.

Wyrtki, Klaus

More later.

[http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/Wyrtki/]

Wyrtki Center for Climate Research and Prediction (WCCRP)

A research center established at JIMAR whose mission is to conduct research on the predictability of the coupled ocean-atmosphere-land system, to develop the methods for making predictions of the evolution of this system, and to make experimental predictions to determine their usefulness. The focus of WCCRP is on the Asian-Australian Monsoon system and its interactions with ENSO. See the WCCRP Web site.