Abstract: Geostrophic transports in the upper 300 m relative to 1000 db are computed from observations along four meridional sections occupied monthly during the Trade Wind Zone Oceanography Study, February 1964 to June 1965. ...

Abstract: Annual variation in the depth of the 14°C isotherm (i.e., the main thermocline) throughout the tropical Pacific Ocean between 30°N and 30°S is studied on the basis of 156 000 bathythermographs. Large-amplitude variations ...

Abstract: The annual variation in the depth of the 14°C isotherm is described on the basis of the mechanical and expendable bathythermographic data in the archives of the National Oceanographic Data Center. The variations are ...

Abstract: The relationship between typical seasonal and interannual variations in Truk sea level is discussed. Periods of extreme low sea level occur episodically, at the same time that El Niño occurs in the eastern tropical Pacific. ...

Abstract: In the equatorial Indian Ocean, sea surface has warmed by 0.5°?1°C over the 1960?99 period, while waters have cooled at thermocline depth and the net atmospheric heat flux has decreased. Among a set of twentieth-century ...

Abstract: The trade wind field over the Pacific Ocean between 30°N and 30°S has been studied on the basis of five million wind observations made from ships. Data were sorted by quadrangles of 2° latitude and 10° longitude to resolve ...

Abstract: Temperature and sea level variability within the Indonesian seas and southeast Indian Ocean are described based on expendable bathythermograph deployments along volunteer merchant shipping lines under way since 1983. These ...

Abstract: The circulation in the southeastern tropical Indian Ocean is studied using historical temperature and salinity data. A southward shift of the subtropical gyre at increasing depth dominates the structure of the annual mean ...

Abstract: Linear regression analysis of tropical Pacific winds versus a Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) show departures from the seasonal mean wind associated with the phase of SOI. When the SOI is low the largest departures are ...

Abstract: Using results from the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA), this study assesses the mixed layer heat budget to identify the mechanisms that control the interannual variation of sea surface temperature (SST) off Java and ...