For 74 days during the spring and summer upwelling seasons of 1981 and 1982, in conjunction with the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment, profiles of upper ocean currents were collected in the waters over the shelf and slope off northern California using a shipboard Doppler acoustic log. These measurements provide detailed...
Repeated mesoscale surveys of a 40-km-wide, 100-km-long, coastal region near Point Arena, California, were conducted during the upwelling season (April-August) in 1981 and 1982. Each survey included conventional conductivity-temperature-depth casts at standard locations over the continental shelf and slope between 38°N and 39°10'N, and continuous operation of a Doppler acoustic...
Seasonal cycles of coastal wind stress, adjusted sea level (ASL), shelf currents, and water
temperatures off the west coast of North America (35°N to 48°N) are estimated by fitting annual and
semiannual harmonics to data from 1981-1983. Longer records (9-34 years) of monthly ASL indicate
that these two harmonics adequately...
Past measurements off the coast of central Oregon and Washington have shown that the rapid change
from northward monthly mean winter winds to southward summer winds forces a "spring transition" of
the coastal ocean: sea levels and temperatures drop, and mean surface currents shift from northward to
southward. Current and...
The response of alongshore currents V over the continental shelf and of coastal sea level ζ along the
Pacific coast of North America to atmospheric forcing on large alongshore scales (100-2000 km) during
May-July 1981 (Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment (CODE) 1) and May-July 1982 (CODE 2) has
been studied using...
We study the statistical properties of the coastal wind field along the west coast of North America for
two summers. 1981 and 1982 Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiments 1 and 2, respectively), and the
Intervening winter using measured winds and geostrophic winds calculated from Fleet Numerical Oceanography
Center atmospheric pressure analyses....