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JASIN78  

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  • The JASIN (Joint Air-Sea Interaction) Project was designed to study the interaction of the atmospheric and oceanic boundary layers with the large scale motions of the sea and air. The primary aims were as follows: 1. to observe and distinguish between the physical processes causing mixing in the atmospheric and oceanic boundary layers and relate them to the mean properties of the layers 2. to examine and quantify aspects of the momentum and heat budgets in the atmospheric and oceanic boundary layers and fluxes across and between them. The multiplicity of processes sampled necessitated a large experiment and JASIN involved 14 ships and 3 aircraft with more than 50 teams of investigators from 9 countries. Altogether 35 mooring systems were deployed. The experiment lasted for 2 months from mid-July to mid-September 1978 and comprised 2 intensive observational phases preceded by a preparatory test period. The Project took place in the North Rockall Trough, an area of deep water (1000m - 2000m) several hundred kilometres off the west coast of Scotland. (en)

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