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RISThe Subtropical Mode Waters of the South Pacific Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The subtropical mode waters (STMW) of the southwestern Pacific Ocean are described, including their physical characteristics, spatial distribution, and temporal variability. STMW is a thermostad, or minimum in stratification, ...
Improvement of Tomographic Maps by Using Surface-Reflected Rays
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The results of the experiment conducted in the northwest Atlantic in 1981 have demonstrated the possibilities of acoustic tomography. The first maps, based only on purely refracted rays, showed the evolution of a cold eddy, ...
Observing the Fluctuations of Gyre-Scale Ocean Circulation: A Study of the Subtropical South Pacific
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Seasonal and interannual variability of the subtropical gyre in the South Pacific Ocean are investigated by means of a time series of expendable bathythermograph (XBT) sections between New Zealand (36°S, 175°E) and Fiji ...
The Forcing of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO), defined as the leading empirical orthogonal function of North Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies, is a widely used index for decadal variability. It is shown that the PDO can ...
Sensitivity of Western Boundary Transport at the Mean North Equatorial Current Bifurcation Latitude to Wind Forcing
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he bifurcation of the North Equatorial Current (NEC) plays an important role in the heat and water mass exchanges between the tropical and subtropical gyres in the Pacific Ocean. The variability of western boundary transport ...
Observations of Variability in the South Pacific Subtropical Gyre
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Variability of the subtropical gyre in the South Pacific Ocean was investigated using high-resolution expendable bathythermograph sections along a repeated track between New Zealand and Hawaii. The southern part of the ...
Dynamic Mapping of Along-Track Ocean Altimetry: Method and Performance from Observing System Simulation Experiments
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: imulated along-track ocean altimetry data were used to implement the use of a nonlinear dynamic propagator to perform three-dimensional (time and 2D space) interpolation of mesoscale sea surface height (SSH). The method ...
Adjoint Sensitivity of the Niño-3 Surface Temperature to Wind Forcing
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he evolution of sea surface temperature (SST) over the eastern equatorial Pacific plays a significant role in the intense tropical air?sea interaction there and is of central importance to the El Niño?Southern Oscillation ...
Data Assimilation of Range- and Depth-Averaged Sound Speed from Acoustic Tomography Measurements in Fram Strait
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Anisotropic Response of Surface Currents to the Wind in a Coastal Region
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Analysis of coastal surface currents measured off the coast of San Diego for two years suggests an anisotropic and asymmetric response to the wind, probably as a result of bottom/coastline boundary effects, including ...