Fresh Equatorial Jets

Roemmich, Dean; Morris, Michele Y.; Young, W. R.; Donguy, Jean-René

doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1994)024<0540:fej>2.0.co;2

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“…On some routes, expendable conductivity-temperaturedepth (XCTD) data were also collected [Roemmich et al, 1994]. By the end of TOGA most VOS XBT data were telemetered to shore in real time via Service Argos or via geostationary satellites, then retransmitted on the GTS.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Tropical Ocean‐Global Atmosphere observing system: A decade of progress

McPhaden¹,

Busalacchi²,

Cheney³

et al. 1998

J. Geophys. Res.

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Abstract. A major accomplishment of the recently completed Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Program was the development of an ocean observing system to support seasonal-to-interannual climate studies. This paper reviews the scientific motivations for the development of that observing system, the technological advances that made it possible, and the scientific advances that resulted from the availability of a significantly expanded observational database. A primary phenomenological focus of TOGA was interannual variability of the coupled oceanatmosphere system associated with E1 Nifio and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Prior to the start of TOGA, our understanding of the physical processes responsible for the ENSO cycle was limited, our ability to monitor variability in the troi•ical oceans was primitive, and the capability to predict ENSO was nonexistent. TOGA therefore initiated and/or supported efforts to provide real-time measurements of the following key oceanographic variables: surface winds, sea surface temperature, subsurface temperature, sea level and ocean velocity. Specific in situ observational programs developed to provide these data sets included the Tropical AtmosphereOcean (TAO) array of moored buoys in the Pacific, a surface drifting buoy program, an island and coastal tide gauge network, and a volunteer observing ship network of expendable bathythermograph measurements. Complementing these in situ efforts were satellite missions which provided near-global coverage of surface winds, sea surface temperature, and sea level. These new TOGA data sets led to fundamental progress in our understanding of the physical processes responsible for ENSO and to the development of coupled ocean-atmosphere models for ENSO prediction.And thorough this distemperature we see the seasons alter

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Section: Measurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Tropical Ocean‐Global Atmosphere observing system: A decade of progress

McPhaden¹,

Busalacchi²,

Cheney³

et al. 1998

J. Geophys. Res.

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562

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“…During an El Ni * no, this warm water forms an eastwardflowing 'equatorial jet' that effectively caps the water containing high CO 2 east of the dateline (Roemmich et al, 1994;Feely et al, 1995). In contrast, during a La Ni * na, the warm pool retreats to the western Pacific exposing water with high pCO 2 to the surface.…”

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Carbon fluxes in the equatorial Pacific: a synthesis of the JGOFS programme

Borgne

Feely

Mackey

2002

Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

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“…The surface salinity front existing in the western equatorial Pacific is considered a good indicator of the eastern edge of the warm water pool, and its position is directly connected to the advective-reflective oscillator theory (e.g., Picaut et al, 1997). Roemmich et al (1994) suggested that the salinity front affects the current fields in the near-surface layer. Formation of the barrier layer (the isothermal layer in which salinity is stratified; Lukas & Lindström, 1991) is another important feature associated with salinity there.…”

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confidence: 99%