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Creator:: Swenson, Mark S., Niiler, Pearn P., Brink, Kenneth H., and Abbott, Mark R.
Abstract:: We use the position fixes and temperature readings from 56 Tristar-II mixed-layer drifters, in conjunction with advanced very high resolution radiometer images, to provide a description of the mesoscale variability of the flows associated with cold-water filaments in the California Current system off northern California in July 1988. We find...
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Creator:: Paden, Cynthia A., Winant, Clinton D., and Abbott, Mark R.
Abstract:: Satellite infrared imagery and coastal meteorological data for March 1984 through February 1985 are used to estimate the net annual surface heat flux for the northern Gulf of California. The average annual surface heat flux for the area north of Guaymas and Santa Rosalia is estimated to be +74 W...
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Creator:: Paden, Cynthia A., Abbott, Mark R., and Winant, C. D.
Abstract:: Two years of satellite infrared imagery (1984–1986) are used to examine the sea surface temperature (SST) variability in the northern Gulf of California. Empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) of the temporal and spatial SST variance for 20 monthly mean images show that the dominant SST patterns are generated by spatially varying...
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Creator:: Denman, Kenneth L. and Abbott, Mark R.
Abstract:: Sequences of coastal zone color scanner (CZCS) images from the offshore region adjacent to Vancouver Island, Canada, have been analyzed to estimate the time rate of decorrelation of surface phytoplankton chlorophyll pigment patterns. In these high-latitude, high-pigment areas, CZCS-derived pigment estimates were lower than those obtained from ship samples by...
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Full Text:: Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada MARK R. ABBOTT 1 Scripps Institution of Oceano

Creator:: Abbott, Mark R., Brink, Kenneth H., Booth, D. R., Blasco, Dolors, Codispoti, L. A., Niiler, Pearn P., and Ramp, Steven R.
Abstract:: A Lagrangian drifter was deployed in a cold filament off northern California as part of the Coastal Transition Zone program. The drifter was equipped with an optical package (consisting of a spectroradiometer, a fluorometer, and a beam transmissometer) suspended at 8.5-m depth and a water sampler suspended at 16.3-m depth....
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Full Text:: California MARK R. ABBOTT, 1 KENNETH H. BRINK, 2 C. R. BOOTH, 3 DOLORS BLASCO 4 L. A. CODISPOTI, 5 PEARN P

Creator:: Kim, Sung Yong, Cornuelle, Bruce D., Terrill, Eric J., Jones, Burt, Washburn, Libe, Moline, Mark A., Paduan, Jeffrey D., Garfield, Newell, Largier, John L., Crawford, Greg, and Kosro, P. Michael
Abstract:: The network comprising 61 high-frequency radar systems along the U.S. West Coast (USWC) provides a unique, high resolution, and broad scale view of ocean surface circulation. Subinertial alongshore surface currents show poleward propagating signals with phase speeds of O(10) and O(100–300) km d⁻¹ that are consistent with historical in situ...
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Full Text:: . West Coast Sung Yong Kim,1 Bruce D. Cornuelle,2 Eric J. Terrill,3 Burt Jones,4 Libe Washburn,5 Mark A

Creator:: Abbott, Mark R., Brink, Kenneth H., Booth, C. R., Blasco, Dolors, Swenson, Mark S., Davis, Curtiss O., and Codispoti, L. A.
Abstract:: A drifter equipped with bio-optical sensors and an automated water sampler was deployed in the California Current as part of the coastal transition zone program to study the biological, chemical, and physical dynamics of the meandering filaments. During deployments in 1987 and 1988, measurements were made of fluorescence, downwelling irradiance,...
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Full Text:: -surface drifters Mark R. Abbott, 1 Kenneth H. Brink, 2 C. R. Booth, 3 Dolors Biascoil Mark S. Swenson

Creator:: Moore, J. Keith, Abbott, Mark R., and Richman, James G.
Abstract:: The location of the Antarctic Polar Front (PF) was mapped over a 7-year period (1987-1993) within images of satellite-deprived sea surface temperature. The mean path of the PF is strongly steered by the topographic features of the Southern Ocean. The topography places vorticity constraints on the dynamics of the PF...
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Full Text:: temperature data J. Keith Moore, Mark R. Abbott, and James G. Richman College of Oceanic and Atmospheric

Creator:: Brink, K. H., Beardsley, R. C., Niiler, Pearn P., Abbott, Mark R., Huyer, Adriana, 1945-, Ramp, S., Stanton, T., and Stuart, D.
Abstract:: During the summers of 1987 and 1988, 77 near-surface satellite-tracked drifters were deployed in or near cold filaments near Point Arena, California (39ºN), and tracked for up to 6 months as part of the Coastal Transition Zone (CTZ) program. The drifters had large drogues centered at 15 m, and the...
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Creator:: Leigh-Abbott, Mark R., Coil, John A., Powell, Thomas M., and Richerson, Peter J.
Abstract:: The existence of a distinct coastal zone is confirmed in Lake Tahoe (California-Nevada) by horizontal transects measuring chlorophyll and temperature simultaneously. Creation of the coastal region is influenced by bottom topography, the nature of the surface wind stress, and the difference between physical processes occurring within a Rossby radius of...
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Full Text:: -Nevada MARK R. LEIGH-ABBOTT AND JOHN A. Coil Division of Environmental Studies, University of

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