Abstract: The data provided by ships of opportunity operated by SURTROPAC Group (Centre ORSTOM de Nouméa) are used to study surface temperature and salinity. In 1979 and 1982, negative anomalies of salinity occurred in the equatorial ...

Abstract: Short-term climatic variability in both sea surface temperature (SST) and vertically averaged temperature over the upper 400 m of ocean (Tav) is mapped over the Pacific from 20°S to 50°N each bimonth for four years from ...