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RISEffect of Mesoscale Eddies on Subtropical Mode Water Variability from the Kuroshio Extension System Study (KESS)
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Forty-eight profiling floats have been deployed in the Kuroshio Extension (KE) region since May 2004 as part of the Kuroshio Extension System Study (KESS) project. By combining the float temperature?salinity measurements ...
Spinup of a Submesoscale Eddy in the TOGA COARE Intensive Flux Array during the Spindown of an Intense Eastward Jet
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: During the TOGA COARE Intensive Observing Period, an energetic, surface-intensified, submesoscale cyclonic eddy was observed in the near-equatorial western Pacific warm pool. The eddy appeared to have been generated as ...
Horizontal Structure of the Upper Ocean Velocity and Density Fields in the Western Equatorial Pacific Warm Pool: Depth Range from 20 to 250 m
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Wavenumber spectra of velocity and density fields in the western equatorial Pacific warm pool on scales 6?120 km are estimated using the shipboard survey data collected during the TOGA Coupled Ocean?Atmosphere Response ...
Synoptic-Scale Air–Sea Flux Forcing in the Western North Pacific: Observations and Their Impact on SST and the Mixed Layer
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Decade-long surface meteorological measurements from a Japan Meteorological Agency buoy at 29°N, 135°E are analyzed to elucidate the surface air?sea flux forcing in the western North Pacific Ocean. Besides the well-defined ...
Spatial Optimal Interpolation of Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity: Algorithms and Implementation in the North Atlantic
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: method is presented for mapping sea surface salinity (SSS) from Aquarius level-2 along-track data in order to improve the utility of the SSS fields at short length [O(150 km)] and time [O(1 week)] scales. The method is ...
Near-Surface Frontal Zone Trapping and Deep Upward Propagation of Internal Wave Energy in the Japan/East Sea
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The full-depth current structure in the Japan/East Sea was investigated using direct velocity measurements performed with lowered and shipboard acoustic current Doppler profilers. Rotary spectral analysis was used to ...
Impact of Atmospheric Intraseasonal Variability in the Indian Ocean: Low-Frequency Rectification in Equatorial Surface Current and Transport
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An ocean general circulation model (OGCM) is used to investigate the low-frequency (period longer than 90 days) rectification of atmospheric intraseasonal variability (10?90-day periods) in zonal surface current and transport ...
The Kuroshio Extension Northern Recirculation Gyre: Profiling Float Measurements and Forcing Mechanism
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Middepth, time-mean circulation in the western North Pacific Ocean (28°?45°N, 140°?165°E) is investigated using drift information from the profiling floats deployed in the Kuroshio Extension System Study (KESS) and the ...
Upper-Ocean Heat and Salt Balances in the Western Equatorial Pacific in Response to the Intraseasonal Oscillation during TOGA COARE
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: During the TOGA COARE Intensive Observing Period (IOP) from November 1992 through February 1993, temperature, salinity, and velocity profiles were repeatedly obtained within a 130 km ? 130 km region near the center of the ...
Observations of the Subtropical Mode Water Evolution from the Kuroshio Extension System Study
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Properties and seasonal evolution of North Pacific Ocean subtropical mode water (STMW) within and south of the Kuroshio Extension recirculation gyre are analyzed from profiling float data and additional hydrographic and ...