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The salinity extrema of the world ocean

Creator:: Ingham, Merton C., 1930-
Abstract:: The principal salinity extrema and extremum surfaces of the world ocean are described by the analysis and plotting of data from 885 hydrographic stations in the three major oceans, the Southern Ocean, and the American Mediterranean Sea. The distributions of salinity, temperature, depth, and density along the extremum surfaces, plotted...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Pacific Ocean . 49 11, Plot of the depth of the deep maximum salinity surfaces versus latitude along

Differentiating freshwater contributions and their variability to the surface and halocline layers of the Arctic and subarctic seas

Creator:: Alkire, Matthew Buckley
Abstract:: Dramatic and ongoing changes pervading the Arctic and subarctic seas over recent decades have motivated this effort to track and better understand hydrographic variability using chemical tracers. Particular emphasis has been paid to differentiating freshwater contributions to upper layers: namely Pacific water, meteoric water, and sea-ice melt/formation. Data collected in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Page 2.1 General map of the Arctic Ocean………………………………... 11 2.2 θ-S plots (left), salinity

Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQ) in the Pacific Halibut Fishery : Applications to the Magnuson Act

Creator:: Reisenweber, John W.
Abstract:: The Pacific halibut has supported a major commercial fishery on the West coast of the United States for over 100 years. In the past, the halibut fishery was managed by a policy of open access which led to an overcapitalized fishery and raised concerns about overfishing, fishing safety, and deteriorating...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of the Commission is to preserve the halibut fishery of the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea

Impact of tropical instability waves on nutrient and chlorophyll distributions in the equatorial Pacific

Creator:: Evans, William Wiley
Abstract:: Tropical instability waves (TIWs) are prominent seasonal features in both the equatorial Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. This work quantifies their role in modulating the distributions of nutrients and phytoplankton biomass. Using an eight year record of biannual ship observations along the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) buoy array, cruise sections crossing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: coupling between the ocean and atmosphere. This is particularly true for the equatorial Pacific, because

The leading edge of a tropical instability wave : interpretation as a gravity current

Creator:: McHugh, Elizabeth Helen
Abstract:: A sharp temperature front, oriented along the south-west corner of the leading edge of a Tropical Instability Wave (TIW) warm trough, was encountered at 0°N, 140°W on November 2, 2008 and detected by a 0.45°C increase in SST that occurred over 7 s. The distinct SST signal was observed at...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THESIS OF Elizabeth Helen McHugh for the degree of Master of Science in Ocean, Earth and

Modeling studies of the coastal circulation off northern California

Creator:: Pullen, Julie D.
Abstract:: By implementing a series of mass-conserving nested high-resolution models down to approximately 1 km resolution that have realistic bathymetry, coastline, wind forcing and river run-off, the winter 1996-1997 shelf flow near Cape Mendocino, California, is simulated and compared with available observations from the Strata Formation on Margins (STRATAFORM) marine geology...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Numerical and assimilative studies of the equatorial Pacific cold tongue

Creator:: Perez, Renellys Christine
Abstract:: Numerical model and assimilation experiments were conducted in the tropical Pacific Ocean to obtain a better understanding of the processes that control the cold tongue surface mixed layer temperature balance during August 1999 to July 2004. The numerical model was first applied to test two hypotheses (asymmetric background currents and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Numerical model and assimilation experiments were conducted in the tropical Pacific Ocean to obtain a

Shear and convective turbulence in a model of thermohaline intrusions

Creator:: Mueller, Rachael
Abstract:: Thermohaline interleaving is an important mechanism for laterally fluxing salt, heat, and nutrients between oceanic water masses. Interleaving is driven by a release of potential energy resulting from the vastly differing diffusivities of heat and salt in seawater. The flows are composed of stacked intrusions that flux more buoyant and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: temperature and salinity profiles, observed as early as 1952 (Ruddick and Richards, 2003). Stommel and

Buoy and satellite observation of wind induced surface heat exchange in the intraseasonal oscillation over West Pacific and Indian Ocean

Creator:: Araligidad, Nilesh
Abstract:: The importance of wind-driven latent heat fluxes for supporting tropical intraseasonal precipitation variability is analyzed. Tropical intraseasonal variability in the west pacific and Indian ocean is analyzed for northern and southern hemisphere summer during 1999-2005 using satellite and buoy observations. A composite analysis of QuikSCAT ocean vector winds and TRMM...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: - ity in the west pacific and Indian ocean is analyzed for northern and southern hemisphere summer

Sea surface water motion off Chile latitudes18°S-40°S, revealed from satellite images ofchlorophyll and temperature distribution

Creator:: Espinoza, Felix R.
Abstract:: The mesoscale sea-surface circulation pattern within 400 km off Chile and between 18°S and 40°S latitude is described using chlorophyll and temperature images from the Coastal Zone Color Scanner NIMBUS-7 satellite. The data base is a set of four mosaics developed from band-3 (550 nm) images taken on June 4...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Antarctic Intermediate Water 7 Pacific Deep Water 8 Circulation 8 The Humboldt Current 8

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The salinity extrema of the world ocean

Differentiating freshwater contributions and their variability to the surface and halocline layers of the Arctic and subarctic seas

Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQ) in the Pacific Halibut Fishery : Applications to the Magnuson Act

Impact of tropical instability waves on nutrient and chlorophyll distributions in the equatorial Pacific

The leading edge of a tropical instability wave : interpretation as a gravity current

Modeling studies of the coastal circulation off northern California

Numerical and assimilative studies of the equatorial Pacific cold tongue

Shear and convective turbulence in a model of thermohaline intrusions

Buoy and satellite observation of wind induced surface heat exchange in the intraseasonal oscillation over West Pacific and Indian Ocean

Sea surface water motion off Chile latitudes18°S-40°S, revealed from satellite images ofchlorophyll and temperature distribution

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