Abstract: We know that long-period (>1 day) and long-wavelength (>100 km) topographical Rossby waves can be generated by a wind acting directly on a continental shelf (Adams and Buchwald, 1969). Here we examine the characteristics ...

Abstract: In October 1987, 49 Lagrangian surface drifters (TRISTAR-II) were released in a 200-km ? 200-km square area southeast of Ocean Station Papa as part of the OCEAN STORMS Experiment. The drifters measured temperature at the ...

Abstract: Analysis is presented of the time-dependent motion of 47 surface drifters in the northeast Pacific during fall 1987 and 16 drifters in fall and winter 1989/90. The drifters were designed at 15-m depth and were designed to ...

Abstract: A new method for diagnosing the zonal gradient of sea level on the equator from in situ data is proposed and validated using satellite altimetry. A no-turbulent-stress-level boundary condition in the Pacific Equatorial ...

Abstract: Simultaneous moored temperature, salinity, velocity, and wind measurements from the equator at 157.5°E, during 10 May?21 December 1992, are combined with a no-stress-level boundary condition in the Equatorial Undercurrent ...

Abstract: A current meter mooring maintained for over three years at 28°N, 152°W, in the eastern North Pacific has yielded velocity and temperature data throughout the water column, with particularly good thermocline resolution The ...

Abstract: A simple statistical technique is described to determine monthly mean marine surface-layer humidity, which is essential in the specification of surface latent heat flux, from total water vapor in the atmospheric column ...

Abstract: An analysis is made of the ensemble mean ageostrophic near-surface circulation measured by 1503 Lagrangian drifters drogued to 15-m depth in the tropical Pacific between 1987 and 1994. It was found that the physical model ...

Abstract: A kinematic description of the surface circulation in the southern California current System is presented using the statistics of the 7?11 month long trajectories of 29 satellite-tracked mixed layer drifters. The drifters ...

Abstract: Heat flux, CTD and current profile data from the Hawaii-to- Tahiti Shuttle Experiment are used to study the upper ocean heat budget in order to better understand the seasonal evolution of sea surface temperature (SST) in ...