The Coastal Ocean Processes (CoOP) program held an open scientific workshop, "Wind-driven transport processes on the U.S. west coast" in Portland Oregon July 14-16, 1993. The goal of the workshop was to create a document that would define a CoOP process study involving cross-margin transport processes centering on the predominantly wind-driven currents of the United States west coast continental shelf and slope. The 70 attendees of the meeting were divided into various working groups (Bottom Boundary Layer Processes, Inner Shelf Processes, Upper Ocean Processes, Interior Water Column Processes, Frontal Processes) which discussed important interdisciplinary aspects of a wind-driven transport study. The workshop report by Bob Smith and Ken Brink (CoOP Report No. 4, 1994) includes the recommendations of these working groups as well as a science plan based on the recommendations.

The CoOP Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) felt that it was appropriate to update the Wind-Driven Transport Science Plan to include relevant findings since the 1993 workshop and to revise, if necessary, the important research objectives of a proposed CoOP study. An editorial committee of: John Allen, Nick Bond, Peter Franks, Claire Reimers, Bob Smith and Dick Sternberg revised the original 1994

Wind-Driven Transport Science Plan, with additional input from the CoOP SSC. The Science Plan was published in July of 1998 to provide information prior to the NSF Announcement of Opportunity for Wind-Driven Transport Processes in the NE Pacific in early 1999. Wind-Driven Science Plan available here. Note: this is a PDF file and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. To download a free copy,