Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30g..53i&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 7, pp. 53-1, CiteID 1400, DOI 10.1029/2002GL016683
Physics
Geophysics
History Of Geophysics: Ocean Sciences, Oceanography: General: Climate And Interannual Variability (3309), Oceanography: Physical: El Nino, Oceanography: General: Equatorial Oceanography, Oceanography: Physical: Upper Ocean Processes
Scientific paper
Vertical distributions of salinity, temperature and currents were measured in the upper 1000 m of the tropical South Pacific Ocean along 165°E and 180° and along the equator in between, during the WESPALIS-1 cruise (Oct./Nov. 1999). The high salinity tongue of the South Pacific subtropical overturning cell (STC) is eroded along its westward and equatorward isopycnal flow. Part of the STC is contained in the eastward flow of the EUC which is then upwelled further east. During La Niña, another, shallower, portion of the STC layer flows directly towards the equator and is upwelled but confined south of the equator. During El Niño, there is also possibly intense exchange of heat between the STC and the equatorial mixed layer.
Eldin Gerard
Gouriou Yves
Ioualalen Mansour
Lukas Roger
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