Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution September 2003
Description:
In this thesis I have endeavored to determine the factors and physical processes
that controlled SST and thermocline depth at 10°N, 125°W during the Pan American
Climate Study (PACS) field program. Analysis based on the PACS data set,
TOPEX/Poseidon sea surface height data, European Remote Sensing satellite wind
data, and model simulations and experiments reveals that the dominant mechanisms
affecting the thermocline depth and SST at the mooring site during the measurement
period were local surface fluxes, Ekman pumping, and vertical mixing associated with
enhancement of the vertical shear by strong near-inertial waves in the upper ocean
superimposed upon intra-seasonal baroclinic Rossby waves and the large scale zonal
flow.
Description:
This work was funded under NOAA Grant NA17RJ1223 and I also gratefully
acknowledge receipt of an MIT Presidential Fellowship in 2000-2001.
Keywords:
Thermoclines
;
Ocean-atmosphere interaction
;
Roger Revelle (Ship) Cruise Genesis 4
;
Thomas G. Thompson (Ship) Cruise TN73
;
Melville (Ship) Cruise PACS03MV
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Thesis
Format:
application/pdf
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