The effects of alongshore variability in topography (banks and capes) and spatial variability in the wind forcing, including the wind-stress curl, on coastal ocean circulation are studied using a combination of observations and model simulations. Satellite sea surface temperature observations are used to describe the seasonal evolution of temperature fronts...
Published October 1968. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the Sea Grant Catalog: http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/publications
Revised October 1972. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the Sea Grant Catalog: http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/publications
Revised August 1977. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the Sea Grant Catalog: http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/publications
The R/V WECOMA cruise leg 6 emphasized the field work of the marine geology research program on "Patterns and processes of continental margin sedimentation." This program constitutes a mesoscale study of processes controlling hemipelagic sediment distribution and composition beneath the coastal upwelling, non-upwelling and pelagic regimes of the equatorial East...
Gravity, magnetic and seismic data indicate that the oceanic
crust is 9.7 km thick west of the Continental Borderland. The top
of the mantle is about 12 km deep under the Borderland, and deepens
to 27 km beneath the Peninsular Ranges of Baja California. The
mantle is about 20 km...
The continental margin off the coast of Pakistan between the
Murray ridge and the Gulf of Cambay has been studied in this
work using gravity, magnetic and bathymetric data. Two dimensional
gravity and magnetic models based on free-air
gravity and residual magnetic data are developed along a north-south
profile off...
CTD observations of temperature and salinity were made off Oregon and California between 34° N and 44° N from the R/V Wecoma, 5 Feb. - 17 Feb. 1981. The stations were from 2-360 km off shore, in water depths ranging from 30 to 4,300 meters. The maximum sampling depth at...
CTD observations were made in the CODE region near Pt. Arena on the northern California coast at 39°N, off Coos Bay, Oregon at 43°13'N, off Crescent City at 41°541N, and off Half Moon Bay at 37°25'N. The observations in the CODE region included two repeated sections along the Central Line,...