Abstract: Spectral analysis of scattered island and coastal tide-gage records from the Pacific Ocean reveals the presence of a coherent sea level fluctuation at 4?6 days period. The oscillation is distinct from baroclinic, inertia-gravity ...

Abstract: New co-amplitude and cotidal charts of the central Pacific Ocean have been constructed for constituents M2, S2, N2, K1 and O1. The charts exhibit some significant differences from previous attempts. Admittance curves, ...

Abstract: The global spatial distribution of the turbulent diapycnal diffusivity in the abyssal ocean is reexamined in light of the growing body of microstructure data revealing bottom-intensified turbulent mixing in regions of rough ...

Abstract: In the presence of a strong current, such as the Gulf Stream or the North Atlantic Current, current meter moorings are known to ?blow over? due to drag from the moving water. This dipping of the current meters, which has ...

Abstract: Eddy energetics in the central equatorial Pacific Ocean is examined using Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler velocities and CTD densities collected during the Hawaii-to-Tahiti Shuttle Experiment, in 1979?80. Three distinct ...

Abstract: Interactions between motional electric fields and lateral gradients in electrical conductivity (e.g., seafloor topography) produce boundary electric charges and galvanic (i.e., noninductive) secondary electric fields that ...

Abstract: The fortnightly and monthly tides are discussed in the light of recent sea level observations and numerical modeling results. Within the tide gauge network of the low-latitude Pacific, the fortnightly tide is shown to ...

Abstract: Five current meter moorings and four horizontal electric field records spanning June 1990?February 1992 are used to describe the mean structure and variability of the vertically averaged velocity field and volume transport ...

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 ...

Abstract: Previous analyses of satellite-tracked drifting buoy data (30 m drogue depth) and Fleet Numerical Ocean Center (FNOC) surface wind stress in the midlatitude North Pacific during autumn/winter have shown near-surface current ...