Abstract
A report released this summer outlines a proposed 5‐year coordinated research program to study tropical circulation and air‐sea interactions. The program, dubbed Tropic Heat, seeks to ‘measure and model the seasonal and interannual time‐scale evolution of the heat and mass budgets of the central Pacific equatorial upper ocean.’ The proposal, which has been sent to the National Science Foundation for review, calls for the program to begin in January 1983.The result of discussions at two Tropical Upper Ocean Circulation Meetings during the past 18 months, the program aims to clarify further the air‐sea interactions that have in recent years been linked to climate. One such phenomenon is the Southern Oscillation, a quasiperiodic fluctuation of atmospheric pressure in tropic and subtropic regions.
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