Simultaneous observations of sea surface temperature in the western equatorial Pacific Ocean by bulk, radiative and satellite methods

1991 ◽  
Vol 96 (S01) ◽  
pp. 3401 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Coppin ◽  
E. F. Bradley ◽  
I. J. Barton ◽  
J. S. Godfrey
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Equatorial Pacific Ocean ◽  
Western Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Satellite Methods

Sea Surface Temperature of the Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean during the Younger Dryas

1996 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Thunell ◽  
Qingmin Miao
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Younger Dryas ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Equatorial Pacific Ocean ◽  
Sample Spacing ◽  
Winter Temperatures ◽  
Western Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Climatic Cooling

High resolution (∼200 yr sample spacing) records of sea surface temperature for the past 15,000 yr have been inferred from planktonic foraminiferal assemblages in a sediment core from the South China Sea. Although the assemblages imply a large glacial-to-interglacial temperature change (∼7°C for winter temperatures), they give no indication of a cooling during Younger Dryas time. This suggests that the Younger Dryas increase in δ18O observed in cores from the western equatorial Pacific is not due to a climatic cooling but rather to a change in the isotopic composition of the oceans.

Satellite sea surface temperature: a powerful tool for interpreting in situ pCO2 measurements in the equatorial Pacific Ocean

Tellus B ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 490-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. BOUTIN ◽  
J. ETCHETO ◽  
Y. DANDONNEAU ◽  
D. C. E. BAKKER ◽  
R. A. FEELY ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Equatorial Pacific Ocean

Satellite sea surface temperature: a powerful tool for interpreting in situ pCO2measurements in the equatorial Pacific Ocean

Tellus B ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 490-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Boutin ◽  
J. Etcheto ◽  
Y. Dandonneau ◽  
D. C. E. Bakker ◽  
R. A. Feely ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Equatorial Pacific Ocean

scholarly journals Climate Variability in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean Induced by Decadal Variability of Mixing Coefficient

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 1163-1176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuan Jiang Huang ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Rui Xin Huang
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Energy Input ◽  
Decadal Variability ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Equatorial Pacific Ocean ◽  
Diapycnal Mixing ◽  
Mixing Coefficient

Abstract The circulation in the equatorial Pacific Ocean is studied in a series of numerical experiments based on an isopycnal coordinate model. The model is subject to monthly mean climatology of wind stress and surface thermohaline forcing. In response to decadal variability in the diapycnal mixing coefficient, sea surface temperature and other properties of the circulation system oscillate periodically. The strongest sea surface temperature anomaly appears in the geographic location of Niño-3 region with the amplitude on the order of 0.5°C, if the model is subject to a 30-yr sinusoidal oscillation in diapycnal mixing coefficient that varies between 0.03 × 10−4 and 0.27 × 10−4 m2 s−1. Changes in diapycnal mixing coefficient of this amplitude are within the bulk range consistent with the external mechanical energy input in the global ocean, especially when considering the great changes of tropical cyclones during the past decades. Thus, time-varying diapycnal mixing associated with changes in wind energy input into the ocean may play a nonnegligible role in decadal climate variability in the equatorial circulation and climate.

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