The circulation of the eastern tropical Pacific: A review

WS Kessler - Progress in Oceanography, 2006 - Elsevier
During the 1950s and 1960s, an extensive field study and interpretive effort was made by
researchers, primarily at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to sample and understand …

Direct measurements of upper ocean currents and water properties across the tropical Pacific during the 1990s

GC Johnson, BM Sloyan, WS Kessler… - Progress in …, 2002 - Elsevier
Meridional sections of upper ocean zonal currents, potential temperature, and salinity are
estimated at ten longitudes from 143° E to 95° W using Conductivity–Temperature–Depth …

Mesoscale eddies off Peru in altimeter records: Identification algorithms and eddy spatio-temporal patterns

A Chaigneau, A Gizolme, C Grados - Progress in Oceanography, 2008 - Elsevier
Relatively little is known about coherent vortices in the eastern South-Pacific along the
Peruvian coast, even with regard to basic facts about their frequency of occurrence …

[HTML][HTML] GFDL's CM2 global coupled climate models. Part III: Tropical Pacific climate and ENSO

AT Wittenberg, A Rosati, NC Lau… - Journal of …, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
GFDL's CM2 Global Coupled Climate Models. Part III: Tropical Pacific Climate and ENSO in:
Journal of Climate Volume 19 Issue 5 (2006) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

Zooplankton and the oceanography of the eastern tropical Pacific: A review

MA Fernández-Álamo, J Färber-Lorda - Progress in Oceanography, 2006 - Elsevier
We review the spatial and temporal patterns of zooplankton in the eastern tropical Pacific
Ocean and relationships with oceanographic factors that affect zooplankton distribution …

MIROC4h—a new high-resolution atmosphere-ocean coupled general circulation model

TT Sakamoto, Y Komuro, T Nishimura… - Journal of the …, 2012 - jstage.jst.go.jp
A new high-resolution atmosphere-ocean coupled general circulation model named
MIROC4h has been developed, and its performance in a 120-year control experiment …

Eddies and tropical instability waves in the eastern tropical Pacific: A review

CS Willett, RR Leben, MF Lavín - Progress in Oceanography, 2006 - Elsevier
Mesoscale eddies and tropical instability waves in the eastern tropical Pacific, first revealed
by satellite infrared imagery, play an important role in the dynamics and biology of the …

Seasonal mixed layer heat budget of the tropical Atlantic Ocean

GR Foltz, SA Grodsky, JA Carton… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
This paper addresses the atmospheric and oceanic causes of the seasonal cycle of sea
surface temperature (SST) in the tropical Atlantic on the basis of direct observations. Data …

The tropical eastern Pacific seasonal cycle: Assessment of errors and mechanisms in IPCC AR4 coupled ocean–atmosphere general circulation models

SP De Szoeke, SP Xie - Journal of Climate, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
Warmer SST and more rain in the Northern Hemisphere are observed year-round in the
tropical eastern Pacific with southerly wind crossing the equator toward the atmospheric …

The surface-layer heat balance in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Part I: Mean seasonal cycle

W Wang, MJ McPhaden - Journal of physical oceanography, 1999 - journals.ametsoc.org
The surface-layer heat balance in the equatorial Pacific is examined in order to determine
the processes responsible for the mean seasonal cycle of sea surface temperature (SST) …