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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:: 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., 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:: Chelton, Dudley B., Schlax, Michael C., Samelson, Roger M., and de Szoeke, Roland A.
Abstract:: Ten years of sea-surface height (SSH) fields constructed from the merged TOPEX/Poseidon (T/P) and ERS-1/2 altimeter datasets are analyzed to investigate mesoscale variability in the global ocean. The higher resolution of the merged dataset reveals that more than 50% of the variability over much of the World Ocean is accounted...
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Full Text:: B. Chelton,1 Michael G. Schlax,1 Roger M. Samelson,1 and Roland A. de Szoeke1 Received 26 May 2007

Creator:: Chelton, Dudley B., Esbensen, Steven K., Schlax, Michael G., Thum, Nicolai, Freilich, Michael H., Wentz, Frank J., Gentemann, Chelle L., McPhaden, Michael J., and Schopf, Paul S.
Abstract:: Satellite measurements of surface wind stress from the QuikSCAT scatterometer and sea surface temperature (SST) from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Microwave Imager are analyzed for the three-month period 21 July–20 October 1999 to investigate ocean–atmosphere coupling in the eastern tropical Pacific. Oceanic tropical instability waves (TIWs) with periods of...
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Full Text:: . SCHLAX, NICOLAI THUM, AND MICHAEL H. FREILICH College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State

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