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Creator:: Haack, Tracy, Chelton, Dudley, Pullen, Julie, Doyle, James D., and Schlax, Michael
Abstract:: High-resolution mesoscale model sea surface temperature (SST) analyses and surface wind stress forecasts off the U.S. West Coast are analyzed on monthly time scales for robust signatures of air–sea interaction as the surface winds encounter ocean surface features such as SST fronts, filaments, and eddies. This interaction is manifest by...
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Full Text:: Laboratory, Monterey, California MICHAEL SCHLAX College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State

Creator:: Chelton, Dudley B., Schlax, Michael G., and Samelson, Roger M.
Abstract:: Satellite observations of wind stress and sea surface temperature (SST) are analyzed to investigate ocean–atmosphere interaction in the California Current System (CCS). As in regions of strong SST fronts elsewhere in the World Ocean, SST in the CCS region is positively correlated with surface wind stress when SST fronts are...
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Full Text:: , Oregon MICHAEL G. SCHLAX College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University

Creator:: Chelton, Dudley B., deSzoeke, Roland A., Schlax, Michael G., El Naggar, Karim, and Siwertz, Nicolas
Abstract:: Global 1° × 1° climatologies of the first baroclinic gravity-wave phase speed c¹ and the Rossby radius of deformation λ1 are computed from climatological average temperature and salinity profiles. These new atlases are compared with previously published 5° × 5° coarse resolution maps of λ₁ for the Northern Hemisphere and...
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Full Text:: . CHELTON, ROLAND A. DESZOEKE, AND MICHAEL G. SCHLAX College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon

Creator:: Gaube, Peter, Chelton, Dudley B., Samelson, Roger M., Schlax, Michael G., and O'Neill, Larry W.
Abstract:: Three mechanisms for self-induced Ekman pumping in the interiors of mesoscale ocean eddies are investigated. The first arises from the surface stress that occurs because of differences between surface wind and ocean velocities, resulting in Ekman upwelling and downwelling in the cores of anticyclones and cyclones, respectively. The second mechanism...
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Full Text:: ,* DUDLEY B. CHELTON, ROGER M. SAMELSON, MICHAEL G. SCHLAX, AND LARRY W. O’NEILL College of Earth, Ocean

Creator:: Samelson, R. M., Schlax, M. G., and Chelton, D. B.
Abstract:: It is shown that the life cycles of nonlinear mesoscale eddies, a major component of low-frequency ocean physical variability, have a characteristic structure that differs fundamentally from that which would be expected on the basis of classical interpretations of ocean eddy evolution in terms of mean flow instability and equilibration...
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Full Text:: . Schlax, D. B. Chelton, 2014: Randomness, Symmetry, and Scaling of Mesoscale Eddy Life Cycles. Journal of

Creator:: Weare, Bryan C., Strub, P. Ted, and Samuel, Michael D.
Abstract:: The four components of the long-term annual mean net surface heating of the tropical Pacific Ocean between 30°N and 40°S are calculated and portrayed. These flux elements were derived by using the bulk formulas and about 5 million marine weather reports for the years 1957–76. In addition to illustrating the...
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Creator:: Shearman, R. Kipp, Barth, John A., and Kosro, P. Michael
Abstract:: A high-resolution upper-ocean survey of a cyclonic jet meander and an adjacent cyclonic eddy in the California Current region near 38°N, 126°W was conducted as part of the summer of 1993 Eastern Boundary Currents program. Temperature and salinity were measured from a SeaSoar vehicle, and velocity was measured by shipboard...
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Full Text:: Motion in the California Current R. KIPP SHEARMAN, JOHN A. BARTH, AND P. MICHAEL KOSRO College of

Creator:: Perez, Renellys C., Chelton, Dudley B., and Miller, Robert N.
Abstract:: The latitudinal structure of annual equatorial Rossby waves in the tropical Pacific Ocean based on sea surface height (SSH) and thermocline depth observations is equatorially asymmetric, which differs from the structure of the linear waves of classical theory that are often presumed to dominate the variability. The nature of this...
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Full Text:: Latitudinal Structure of Equatorial Rossby Waves RENELLYS C. PEREZ, DUDLEY B. CHELTON, AND ROBERT N. MILLER

Creator:: Whitney, Michael M. and Allen, J. S.
Abstract:: This study investigates wind-driven circulation in the vicinity of the Heceta Bank complex along the Oregon shelf. Numerical experiments forced with steady winds (0.1 Pa) are conducted; upwelling and downwelling cases are compared. The asymmetric bank bathymetry is the only configurational difference from the symmetric bank runs analyzed in Part...
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Full Text:: Vicinity of a Bank. Part II: Modeling Flow over the Heceta Bank Complex on the Oregon Coast MICHAEL M

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