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RISRegional Weather Patterns during Anomalous Air–Sea Fluxes at the Kuroshio Extension Observatory (KEO)
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The weather patterns during periods of anomalous surface fluxes in the Kuroshio recirculation gyre of the western North Pacific are documented. Separate analyses are carried out for the cold season (October? March) when ...
Near-Surface Shear Flow in the Tropical Pacific Cold Tongue Front
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Near-surface shear in the Pacific cold tongue front at 2°N, 140°W was measured using a set of five moored current meters between 5 and 25 m for nine months during 2004?05. Mean near-surface currents were strongly westward ...
Surface Heat Flux Variations across the Kuroshio Extension as Observed by Surface Flux Buoys
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Wintertime sea surface heat flux variability across the Kuroshio Extension (KE) front is analyzed using data from the Kuroshio Extension Observatory (KEO) buoy in the Kuroshio recirculation gyre south of the KE front and ...
Annual Cycle and Depth Penetration of Wind-Generated Near-Inertial Internal Waves at Ocean Station Papa in the Northeast Pacific
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he downward propagation of near-inertial internal waves following winter storms is examined in the context of a 2-yr record of velocity in the upper 800 m at Ocean Station Papa. The long time series allow accurate estimation ...
Variations of the North Pacific Subtropical Mode Water from Direct Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ooring measurements from the Kuroshio Extension System Study (June 2004?June 2006) and from the ongoing Kuroshio Extension Observatory (June 2004?present) are combined with float measurements of the Argo network to study ...
Atmospheric Sensitivity to SST near the Kuroshio Extension during the Extratropical Transition of Typhoon Tokage
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: It is hypothesized that the tropical-to-extratropical transition of a cyclone in the western North Pacific can be sensitive to the underlying sea surface temperature (SST) distribution. This hypothesis was tested through ...
Barometric Pressure Variations Associated with Eastern Pacific Tropical Instability Waves
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Barometric pressure, surface temperature, and wind time series in the eastern equatorial Pacific are analyzed to determine if oceanic tropical instability wave (TIW) sea surface temperature variations cause barometric ...
Wind-Forced Reversing Jets in the Western Equatorial Pacific
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Upper-ocean zonal currents in the western equatorial Pacific are remarkably variable, changing direction both with time and depth. As a part of the Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean?Atmosphere Response ...
Horizontal and Vertical Structure of Easterly Waves in the Pacific ITCZ
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and low-level wind fields in the Atlantic and Pacific intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) are dominated by variability on synoptic time scales primarily associated with easterly waves ...