Recently, a group of researchers from the U.S. and the broader international community have developed coordinated plans for observational and modeling work in the western tropical Atlantic. The overall research program is referred to as WESTRAX, for Western Tropical Atlantic Experiment. This article summarizes the research plans of the various participants and the scientific issues that have motivated the studies.

Brown, W.S., W.E. Johns, E.J. Katz, K.D. Leaman, J.P. McCreary, R.L. Molinari, P.L. Richardson, and C. Rooth. 1992. A Western Tropical Atlantic Experiment (WESTRAX). Oceanography 5(1):73–77, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.1992.38.

This is an open access article made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format as long as users cite the materials appropriately, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate the changes that were made to the original content. Images, animations, videos, or other third-party material used in articles are included in the Creative Commons license unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If the material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission directly from the license holder to reproduce the material.