American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations. Phase II: Space Science and Geophysics.

Initiated in 1981, the Warm Core Rings project used three research vessels to sample repeatedly, in coordinated fashion, selected meso-scale eddies that separate from the Gulf Stream off the eastern coast of the United States and move separately through the surrounding water. The integrity of these rings and the ability to track them by satellite allowed scientists from all the oceanographic disciplines to study ocean processes in a relatively controlled setting and in conjunction with others studying related processes. A Science Management Office at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution managed this project, with assistance of an Executive Committee comprised of participating scientists from each of the disciplines represented in the project.

From the description of Warm Core Rings (WCR) (Geophysics and Oceanography): Oral history interviews, 1992-1994. (American Institute of Physics). WorldCat record id: 84940167