Large-scale current and thermohaline structures along 156°E during the COARE intensive observation period

Details Large-scale current and thermohaline structures along 156°E during the COARE intensive observation period Large-scale current and thermohaline structures along 156°E during the COARE intensive observation period

Dec 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994georl..21.2681e&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 21, Issue 24, p. 2681-2684

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Oceanography: General: Equatorial Oceanography, Oceanography: Physical: Currents, Oceanography: Physical: Upper Ocean Processes, Information Related To Geographic Region: Pacific Ocean

Scientific paper

From December 1992 to February 1993, 18 meridional sections of temperature, salinity, and current were collected along 156°E, from 5°S to 5°N, during the Intensive Observation Period of the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment. The average conditions were characteristic of the ongoing El Niño event, with a relatively shallow thermocline and fresh surface waters. Alternating westerly and easterly wind forcing was observed, and the warm surface layer (the ``Warm Pool'') responded in a time scale of a few days by corresponding alternating flows; the equatorial current system was less affected at depth. The upper-layer oceanic temperature variability involved several mechanisms, including surface cooling by evaporation during westerly winds and entrainment from the thermocline.

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