Abstract: A method is developed to estimate oceanic heat content (0?300 m) variations from sea level measurements in the tropical Pacific. To this end, statistical relationships between heat content and steric level, used as a ...

Abstract: Direct current measurements (0?600 m; re. 600 m) were carried out every six months from January 1984 to June 1986 in the western tropical Pacific Ocean (165°E) from 20°S to 10°N. The Equatorial Intermediate Current (EIC) ...

Abstract: The thermal structure variability of the tropical Pacific is investigated using an objective analysis of about 250?000 temperature profiles (mainly XBT) collected during the 1979?96 time period. Mean conditions and seasonal ...

Abstract: An analysis of El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) related precipitation changes in New Caledonia, southwestern tropical Pacific, based on 21 selected stations covering the 1969?98 period is performed. The analysis at the ...

Abstract: Profiling current meter (PCM) measurements under a drifting buoy are compared with concurrent shipboard acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) measurements carried out in the western equatorial Pacific in March 1991, ...

Abstract: As part of the international TOGA program, the ORSTOM Center in Nouméa (New Caledonia) initiated in January 1984 a series of semi-annual cruises along the 165°E meridian from 20°S to 10°N, across the equatorial current ...

Abstract: A large reversal of zonal transport below the thermocline was observed over a period of 6 months in the western Pacific Ocean between 2°S and the equator [from 26.2 Sv (1 Sv ≡ 106 m3 s?1) eastward in October 1999 to 28.6 ...

Abstract: hanges in the global water cycle are expected as a result of anthropogenic climate change, but large uncertainties exist in how these changes will be manifest regionally. This is especially the case over the tropical oceans, ...