TY - JOUR
T1 - Long waves in the equatorial Pacific Ocean
AU - Philander, George
AU - Halpern, David
AU - Hansen, Donald
AU - Legeckis, Richard
AU - Miller, Laury
AU - Watts, Randolph
AU - Wimbush, Mark
AU - Paul, Carl
AU - Watts, Randolph
AU - Weisberg, Robert
PY - 1985/4/2
Y1 - 1985/4/2
N2 - Westward traveling waves, with a period of 3 weeks and a wavelength of ∼1000 km, are observed intermittently in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (see cover). The waves were first detected in 1975 in satellite measurements of the sea surface temperature [Legeckis, 1977]. Since then, additional measurements (under the auspices of the NOAA program Equatorial Pacific Ocean Climate Studies (EPOCS)) with a variety of instruments—drifting buoys, current meters and temperature sensors on moorings, and inverted echo sounders—have provided considerable information about these waves and have confirmed the hypothesis that they are caused by instabilities associated primarily with the latitudinal shear of the surface currents near the equator [Philander, 1978a; Cox, 1980].
AB - Westward traveling waves, with a period of 3 weeks and a wavelength of ∼1000 km, are observed intermittently in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (see cover). The waves were first detected in 1975 in satellite measurements of the sea surface temperature [Legeckis, 1977]. Since then, additional measurements (under the auspices of the NOAA program Equatorial Pacific Ocean Climate Studies (EPOCS)) with a variety of instruments—drifting buoys, current meters and temperature sensors on moorings, and inverted echo sounders—have provided considerable information about these waves and have confirmed the hypothesis that they are caused by instabilities associated primarily with the latitudinal shear of the surface currents near the equator [Philander, 1978a; Cox, 1980].
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U2 - 10.1029/EO066i014p00154
DO - 10.1029/EO066i014p00154
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84982621898
SN - 0096-3941
VL - 66
SP - 154
JO - Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
JF - Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
IS - 14
ER -