Abstract: During the autumn and winter seasons, large amounts of heat are given up to the atmosphere at the subarctic frontal zone off the east coast of Asia. According to Fisher, the Laplacian of this heat flux (?2Q) is related to ...

Abstract: The time and length scales of baroclinic eddies in the eastern half of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre are examined using four data sets: 1) single vertical sections of temperature, based on closely spaced bathy-thermograph ...

Abstract: The El Niño studies carried out by Bjerknes indicate that the anomalous warming of the eastern boundary tropical ocean in 1939 and 1958 extended 1000 km into the interior ocean, corresponding with a diversion of the Humboldt ...

Abstract: The meridional atmospheric teleconnections over the central North Pacific Ocean during winter are investigated by correlating the year-to-year fluctuations in the convective activity at the Equator, mid-latitude pressure/wind ...

Abstract: Several hundred XBT observations in the western North Pacific were collected each month over a 2½ year period 1976?78. They have been assembled into a monthly map sequence of thermocline temperature in the Kuroshio Extension ...

Abstract: Reported here are the statistical results leading to the design of an optimum oceanographic network in the interior midlatitude North Pacific from 30 to 50°N, the primary function of which is to detect the generation and ...

Abstract: Monthly mean atmospheric data taken over the North Pacific during the period 1950?70 are used to investigate blocking ridge activity over the central ocean. The blocking ridge is observed to be a finite-amplitude, ...

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Abstract: A set of 19 zonal vertical sections of temperature were collected in 1975 with XBT observations at 80 km spacing, made from ships-of-opportunity transiting the mid-latitude North Pacific. In the region of the Kuroshio ...

Abstract: Wind-driven flow in the upper 90 meters during autumn?winter in the midlatitude North Pacific is investigated using satellite-traced drifting buoys (i.e., drifters) deployed nearly simultaneously but drogued at different ...