PDF Bindoff_Wunsch_...pdf | Request a copy Full text restricted Available under University of Tasmania Standard License.

Abstract

To understand the extent to which oceanic climate shifts could be detected, a South Pacific climatology has been used to create pseudosections of temperature, salinity, and other tracers along a zonal and meridional lines at 15°S and 90°W, respectively. Interpolations from the climatology were made using combined empirical orthogonal functions and objective mapping. Comparisons are made with independent measurements, taken in 1987, of temperature and salinity at 15°S. Temperature and salinity fields between the surface and 300 db along the 15°S section are predicted with an uncertainty sufficiently small to display significant differenccs in temperature and salinity related to El Niño of 1987. The 90°W pseudosection is a forecast of a synoptic section to be obtained as part of WOCE in 1992. Explicit values for the smallest temperature shift with depth that could be detected are produced.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Bindoff, NL and Wunsch, C
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Climate
ISSN:	0894-8755
DOI / ID Number:	10.1175/1520-0442(1992)005<0631:COSACM>2.0.CO;2
Additional Information:	Copyright 1992 AMS. Full copyright information is available at http://www.ametsoc.org/pubs/copyrightinfo/AMS_Copyright_Policy_2001_final.pdf
Item Statistics:	View statistics for this item

Actions (login required)

Item Control Page