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Altimeter estimates of anomalous transports into the northern California Current during 2000–2002 Public Deposited

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  • Surface transports into the California Current are calculated from TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter surface height slopes during the 9.5 year period from October 1992–May 2002. These quantify the anomalous onshore and southward displacements of the water column during the 2000–2002 period, which had been hypothesized by others based on anomalous water properties observed in mid-2002 off Oregon. Anomalous eastward transport into the boundary between 52º–54ºN occurred first (mid-2000 to mid-2001) followed by eastward transport into the boundary between 50º–52ºN in 2001. Equatorward transports during 2001 and 2002 resulted in approximately 800 km of anomalous southward displacements during the 1.5 years prior to the anomalous observations off Oregon. This sequence suggests that both onshore and southward displacement anomalies off British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest contributed to the subarctic characteristics of the water observed off Oregon.
  • Keywords: Currents, Upwelling and convergences, Climate and interannual variability, Eastern boundary currents, Water masses
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  • Strub, P. T. and James, C., 2003, Altimeter estimates of anomalous transports into the California Current during 2000–2002: Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 30(15), 8025, doi:10.1029/2003GL017513.
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  • 30
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  • 15
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  • The work was supported by the U.S. GLOBEC NEP project with funding from NSF/NASA grant OCE-0000900 and the Jason-1 project with funding from NASA/JPL grant 1206714. This is Contribution Number 391 of the U.S. GLOBEC program, jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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  • 0094-8276

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