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  • Modern and past climate variability in the eastern Pacific warm pool

    Creator:
    Benway, Heather M.
    Abstract:
    Westward transport of water vapor across the Panama Isthmus helps to maintain the salinity contrast between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, important in thermohaline circulation and global climate. Relatively low sea-surface salinities and a strong, shallow pycnocline in the eastern Pacific warm pool (EPWP) region near Central America reflect high...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    eastern Pacific warm pool (EPWP) region near Central America reflect high net precipitation. This