Abstract: A method is developed for the computation of dynamic height from temperature data alone by using a mean T-S relationship to provide salinity values. This method is tested at three Pacific weathership locations where a large ...

Abstract: Four empirical equations relating sound velocity, salinity, temperature and pressure are examined to determine the errors in computing salinity from measurements of temperature, pressure and sound velocity. The measurement ...

Abstract: A study of the heat budget of the upper northeastern Pacific Ocean demonstrates the importance of heat changes due to vertical motion. Bathythermograph observations are used to form time series of monthly average thermal ...

Abstract: Two series of very high resolution thermal infrared satellite images, off Vancouver Island, are examined for evidence of baroclinic waves. A 1979 winter sequence of three images exhibits cold tongues, extending seaward ...

Abstract: A satellite-tracked drifting buoy, deployed unintentionally in the Bering Sea in 1982, completed a circuit of that basin in about one year. During its cyclonic passage around the Bering Sea, it experienced many different ...

Abstract: An automated neural network cloud classifier that functions over both land and ocean backgrounds is presented. Motivated by the development of a combined visible, infrared, and microwave rain-rate retrieval algorithm for ...

Abstract: Mean temperature-salinity (TS) curves are computed from all available hydrographic data for 10° quadrangles in the Pacific between 20°S and 40°N. These curves together with temperature profiles from hydrographic stations ...

Abstract: The cross sections of four trenches peripheral to the Pacific Ocean are fitted by a double exponential depth profile. Nondivergent trapped wave propagation is shown to be possible in two directions along such a profile. ...

Abstract: As part of creating an atmospheric database for research purposes, 73 497 radiosonde observation (RAOB) soundings from 1983 through 1987 were checked for nonsurface (at least 50 mb above the surface) superadiabatic lapse ...

Abstract: The observed and predicted response of the bulk ? skin sea surface temperature difference (δT) to changes in the wind speed and net heat flux is analyzed. Observations of δT from the northern Atlantic and tropical Pacific ...