Ocean dynamic characteristics obtained by synthesizing climatic data and the WOCE program information

The method developed by the authors is used to Compute the physical charact eristics of the ocean by inlaying the WOCE synoptic section into the climat ic temperature and salinity fields, followed by the synthesis of the result ing data. The synthesis (or amalgamation) of two dissimilar data sets was i mplemented using the system of nonlinear nonstationary equations of ocean t hermohydrodynamics. The main results of this work are as follows. (1) A cle arly defined asymmetry occurs in the spatial distribution of the effect of inlaying synoptic data. Namely. (a) the effect of synoptic information deca ys in the meridional direction at a distance of a few degrees from the sect ion. and it is obvious that this effect also decays with depth because of b aroclinicity; (b) in the zonal direction. the effect is propagated westward under the action of Rossby waves and other factors, and. in the continenta l slope (east of 80 degrees W), this effect enhances through the JEBAR and is propagated northward by the Antilles Current and further by the Gulf Str eam. This western intensification is clearly reflected in the mass and heat transport values. (2) Due to eddies and other-type spatial variability. as well as to the action of the JEBAR, meridional transport processes in the region of the section are an order of magnitude stronger than those in the case of computations based on climatic data. which is confirmed by direct o bservations in the Bahamas region. From computations, it is inferred that t he western intensification and a high degree of variation in the characteri stics of this region is, at least partially, due to synoptic processes occu rring in the extended zone between the Bahamas and Africa.