Secular trend in the near-surface currents of the equatorial Pacific Ocean

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Sep 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002georl..29q...9c&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 17, pp. 9-1, CiteID 1828, DOI 10.1029/2002GL015227

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Oceanography: General: Climate And Interannual Variability (3309), Global Change: Oceans (4203), Oceanography: General: Equatorial Oceanography, Oceanography: Physical: Currents, Oceanography: Physical: El Nino

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The westward zonal near-surface currents of the equatorial Pacific Ocean appear to have strengthened during the past 20 years by 9-10 cm/s. Here we document this change in both near-surface drifter and moored currents. Accompanying this increase in surface currents is a shallowing of the equatorial thermocline and a weakening of the zonal component of the equatorial trade winds. However, a simple model suggests that the most important factor is a reduction by 8 m of the average mixed layer depth over this period.

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