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 and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally occurring fluctuation of the
climate system that is generated in the tropical Pacific through interactions between the …

Descriptive Physical Oceanography, Sixth Edition, provides an introduction to the field with
an emphasis on large-scale oceanography based mainly on observations. Topics covered …

Long-term ocean observations are needed to gain a comprehensive understanding of
natural habitat variability as well as global environmental change that might arise from …

A reconstruction of the prebomb Δ14C distribution in the tropical Pacific using data from old
coral heads shows that surface waters with the lowest Δ14C content are found distinctly …

This paper is intended as a review of the biology, resource, and fisheries associated with
skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis, in the Pacific Ocean. Because of the distribution of the …

Heat flux, CTD and current profile data from the Hawaii-to-Tahiti Shuttle Experiment are
used to study the upper ocean heat budget in order to better understand the seasonal …

In the western tropical Atlantic, seasonal variations in the surface winds and in the ocean are
dominated by an annual harmonic. A simulation with a general circulation model indicates …

The 'Eastern Pacific Barrier'(EPB), 5400 km of uninterrupted deep water between the central
and eastern Pacific, constitutes the greatest marine obstacle to the dispersal of shallow …

Data from 20 satellite‐tracked drifting buoys deployed in the eastern equatorial Pacific
Ocean during the summer of 1979 were used to investigate the nature, effects, and …