Abstract: The seasonal variations of the dynamic topography relative to 500 decibars in the western equatorial Pacific, using data from 6900 hydrographic stations, are compared with the seasonal fluctuations of sea level observed ...

Abstract: The mean meridional profile of dynamic topography across the zonal currents of the equatorial Pacific Ocean is disturbed by the observed deviation of monthly sea level at island stations from the long-term mean. From these ...

Abstract: El Niño is the occasional appearance of warm water off the coast of Peru; its presence results in catastrophic consequences in the fishing industry. A new theory for the occurrence of El Niño is presented. It isshown that ...

Abstract: The dynamic topography of the Pacific Ocean has been mapped and its mean annual and random variability has been investigated using approximately 66,600 hydrographic stations. Largest annual fluctuations are associated with ...

Abstract: Sea level records at many island and coastal stations in the equatorial Pacific Ocean have been used to study its response and that of the associated equatorial circulation to the 1972 El Niño. The response can be divided ...

Abstract: Long equatorial waves recently discovered in the Pacific Ocean on satellite photographs are being linked to oscillations in sea level at Fanning Island and to the oscillatory trajectory of a drifting buoy. The drift pattern ...

Abstract: Upwelling in the equatorial Pacific Ocean manifests itself by a tongue of cool water stretching from the Galapagos Islands to the date line. To estimate the rate of upwelling, the mass, heat and salt budgets of the tongue ...

Abstract: The response of sea level in the equatorial Pacific Ocean during the 1976 El Niño event is analyzed and compared with the response during the stronger El Niño event in 1972. Monthly mean maps of sea surface topography ...

Abstract: Observations taken during the Hawaii to Tahiti Shuttle Experiment allow identification of eddies drifting westward with the North Equatorial Current. During 17 months only three eddies passed through the area and their ...

Abstract: Sea level variability at Tahiti is analyzed from daily to interannual time scales and compared with that at neighboring island stations. Tahiti lies close to an amphidromic point with respect to the major semidiurnal tides; ...