A major accomplishment of the recently completed Tropical Ocean‐Global Atmosphere
(TOGA) Program was the development of an ocean observing system to support seasonal …

El Niño events—anomalous warmings of the tropical Pacific with associated climatic and
economic impacts around the globe—have occurred at several‐year intervals since before …

The climate of the eastern Pacific exhibits a pronounced equatorial asymmetry. Boundary
layer air originating in the Southern Hemisphere trades crosses the equator and flows into …

During the 1997–98 El Niño, the equatorial Pacific Ocean retained 0.7× 1015 grams of
carbon that normally would have been lost to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. The …

Tropical surface currents are estimated from satellite‐derived surface topography and wind
stress using a physically based statistical model calibrated by 15 m drogue drifters. The …

Temporal correlations between near-equatorial surface wind and sea-surface temperatures
(SST) at 11° W in the eastern Pacific Ocean are investigated using data from an array of …

Because of their generally small drainage basin areas, high topographic relief, relatively
young and erodible rocks, and heavy rainfall, rivers draining the high-standing islands of the …

Moored buoy data from the equatorial Pacific are analyzed to investigate the relationship
between sea surface temperature (SST) and latent heat flux from the ocean. It is found that at …

As part of the JGOFS field program, extensive CO2 partial-pressure measurements were
made in the atmosphere and in the surface waters of the equatorial Pacific from 1992 to …

Sea surface salinity (SSS) measurements from the Aquarius/SAC‐D satellite during
September–December 2011 provide the first satellite observations of the salinity structure of …