Abstract: Data obtained during the Hawaii-to-Tahiti Shuttle Experiment in the central Pacific from the Equator to 17°S are used to study the variability of the two eastward flowing currents in the area: the South Equatorial ...

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: he upwelling system off southern Peru has been observed using an autonomous underwater vehicle (a Slocum glider) during October?November 2008. Nine cross-front sections have been carried out across an intense upwelling ...

Abstract: he semienclosed Solomon Sea is the final passage in the equatorward transit of the South Pacific western boundary currents (WBCs) that play a key role in heat and mass budgets of the equatorial Pacific. The Solomon WBCs ...