The Environment Development Branch (ED), United States Joint Staff J7 (JS J7), formerly the Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) J7, supports a variety of simulation environment development activities in concert with NATO and Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries. Recent activities include development of the NATO Training Federation (NTF) in support of an experiment running in parallel with the “tradit...

The Environment Development Branch (ED), United States Joint Staff J7 (JS J7), formerly the Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) J7, supports a variety of simulation environment development activities in concert with NATO and Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries. Recent activities include development of the NATO Training Federation (NTF) in support of an experiment running in parallel with the “tradit...

I. Introduction Trade integration in Africa is often viewed in light of the European Union and other regional integration arrangements like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). From this perspective, integration is regarded as necessarily destined to proceed on a linear path where tariffs and non-tariff barriers are progressively eliminated, the trade regimes of member countries are...

Samples of albacore Thunnus alalunga from 6 locations worldwide were used for blood group analysis according to the binding patterns of 8 different lectins. Conventional tag recapture data was reviewed and a spatially structured tag attrition model was fitted to data from the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Blood group analyses suggest that: (1) the Pacific population is the most distant ...

In an attempt to elucidate the role of atmospheric and oceanic processes in setting a vigorous ocean overturning circulation in the North Atlantic but not in the North Pacific, a comparison of the observed atmospheric circulation and net surface freshwater fluxes over the North Atlantic and Pacific basins is conducted. It is proposed that the more erratic meridional displacements of the atmosph...

Climate variations influence North Atlantic winter storm intensity and resultant variations in wave energy levels. A 60 year hindcast allows investigation of the influence of decadal climate variability on long-term trends of North Atlantic wave power, PW, spanning the 1948–2008 epoch. PW variations over much of the eastern North Atlantic are strongly influenced by the fluctuating North Atlanti...