Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The evolution of upper ocean thermal structure at 10°N, 125°W during 1997-1998
Abstract
dc:description.abstractIn this thesis I have endeavored to determine the factors and physical processes that controlled SST and thermocline depth at 10°N, 125°W during the Pan American Climate Study (PACS) field program. Analysis based on the PACS data set, TOPEX/Poseidon sea surface height data, European Remote Sensing satellite wind data, and model simulations and experiments reveals that the dominant mechanisms affecting the thermocline depth and SST at the mooring site during the measurement period were local surface fluxes, Ekman pumping, and vertical mixing associated with enhancement of the vertical shear by strong near-inertial waves in the upper ocean superimposed upon intra-seasonal baroclinic Rossby waves and the large scale zonal flow.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2003
Author and committee
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- Farrar, J. Thomas
Subjects
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- Language dc:language.iso
- en_US
Identifiers
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- oai:darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org:1912/2270