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Fine-scale variability at 140°W in the Equatorial Pacific

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Chereskin, T. K., Moum, James N., Stabeno, P. J., Caldwell, Douglas R., Paulson, C. A., Regier, L. A., and Halpern, D.

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In November-December 1984 we carried out an intensive 12-day upper ocean sampling program on the equator at 140°W as part of the Tropic Heat Experiment. From our observations we constructed hourly averaged profiles of temperature, salinity, σ₁, turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate, and horizontal velocity. These data were used to...

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The role of the turbulent stress divergence in the equatorial Pacific zonal momentum balance

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Hebert, D., Moum, James N., Paulson, C. A., Caldwell, Douglas R., Chereskin, T. K., and McPhaden, M. J.

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From a comprehensive set of upper ocean measurements made during a moderate El Niño in boreal spring 1987, we reassess the role of turbulence in transporting momentum vertically at the equator. An examination of the terms in the vertically integrated zonal momentum equations indicates that on short time scales the...

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