ru l" -ru Õ i. :i-ri . ;:= CJ ::= 0 CD== ,. __ 0 Abstract Three surface moorings were recovered and redeployed during RN Thomas Thompson cruise number 73 in the eastern equatorial Pacific as par of the Pan American Climate Study (P ACS). P ACS is a NOAA-funded study with the goal of investigating links between sea-surface temperature varabilty in the tropical oceans near the Americas and climate over the American continents. The three moorings were deployed near 125°W, spanning the strong

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... onal sea-surface temperature gradient associated with the cold tongue south of the equator and the warer ocean north of the equator, near the norternmost, summer location of the Intertropical Convergence Zone. The moored aray was deployed to improve the understanding of air-sea fluxes and of the processes that control the evolution of the sea surface temperature field in the region. Two surface moorings, located at 3°S, 125 ow and lOON, 125°W, belonging to the Upper Ocean Processes (UOP) Group at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WOI), were recovered after being on station for eight months and redeployed. Two eight-month deployments were planned. A third mooring deployed at the equator and 128°W by the Ocean Circulation Group at the University of South Florida (USF) was also recovered and redeployed. The USF mooring, unfortunately, had to be recovered immediately following redeployment due to a problem with the buoy and instrmentation.