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A Study of Geostrophy in Tropical Pacific Ocean Currents during the NORPAX Tahiti Shuttle using a Shipboard Doppler Acoustic Current Profiler
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Continuous velocity measurements from a shipboard Doppler acoustic long on the NORPAX shuttle experiment in the central equatorial Pacific are presented. The time mean of these velocities shows the classical zonal equatorial ...
Observations of 20-Day Period Meridional Current Oscillations in the Upper Ocean along the Pacific Equator
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Prominent oscillations of the meridional current, with a mean period of approximately 20 days, have been observed in the upper ocean over several years from May 1979 to October 1985 using moored current measurements along ...