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Sharp Frontal Interfaces in the Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean in the Western Equatorial Pacific Warm Pool
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: During the TOGA COARE rich horizontal temperature and salinity variability of the near-surface layer of the ocean in the western Pacific warm pool was observed. High-resolution measurements were made by probes mounted on ...
Observation of Spatial Variability of Diurnal Thermocline and Rain-Formed Halocline in the Western Pacific Warm Pool
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: High-resolution measurements of temperature and salinity were made in the near-surface layer of the ocean during the Tropical Oceans-Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment, using probes mounted on ...
Parameterization of the Cool Skin of the Ocean and of the Air-Ocean Gas Transfer on the Basis of Modeling Surface Renewal
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Heat and gas transport in molecular sublayers at the air-sea interface is governed by similar laws. A model of renewal type based on the physics of molecular sublayers allows the derivation of a parameterization of the ...
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 ...
Slippery Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean Arising Due to Daytime Solar Heating
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Measurements made in the Equatorial Atlantic during the 35th cruise of the R/V Akademic Vernadsky using a free-rising profiler and drifters revealed a near-surface slippery layer of the ocean arising due to daytime solar ...
3D Sonar Measurements in Wakes of Ships of Opportunity
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he aim of this work is to test the potential capabilities of 3D sonar technology for studying small-scale processes in the near-surface layer of the ocean, using the centerline wake of ships of opportunity as the object ...
A Near-Surface Microstructure Sensor System Used during TOGA COARE. Part I: Bow Measurements
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: High-resolution probes mounted on the bow of the vessel at a 1.7-m depth in an undisturbed region ahead of the moving vessel were used for microstructure and turbulence measurements in the near-surface layer of the ocean ...