Year-Long Measurements of Upper-Ocean Currents in the Western Equatorial Pacific by Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers
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- Kutsuwada Kunio
- School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University
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- Inaba Hideo
- School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University
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- 超音波式ドップラー流速計による西部赤道太平洋での表層海流の長期観測
- 超音波式ドップラー流速計による西部赤道太平洋での表層海流の長期観測〔英文〕
- チョウオンパシキ ドップラー リュウソクケイ ニ ヨル セイブ セキドウ タイ
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Abstract
Measurements of oceanic currents were performed at two sites (0°, 147°E and 0°, 154°E) in the western equatorial Pacific by upward-looking moored Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) during about one year in 1992-93 to investigate current variabilities in the surface layer of a warm-pool region. The zonal currents are always eastward except in the uppermost layer above 100m, in which the current direction changed frequently. Mean eastward currents corresponding to the Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC) have two maxima at 70-90m and 210m. The depth of the EUC's core tends to shift in the vertical direction with time scales from several days to a few months.<br>These layered structures of the zonal currents are represented by those of empirical orthogonal function (EOF) modes. At the western site, the first EOF mode contributing about 60% of the total variance has no nodes in the depth range with a maximum of 90m, meaning that the entire layer changes with the same phase, while the second EOF mode, contributing about 20%, has a node at about 110m, meaning that the upper and lower currents change with an out-of-phase relation. In the uppermost layer above 100m, strong eastward currents reaching about 80cm s-1 are found in January 1992, and are related to the third mode which has two nodes, one at 70m and the other at 130m. The meridional current has a time average of about zero in almost all layers, its change being about half of the zonal change in magnitude. Spectral analyses indicate that dominant changes are found at periods of about 10 days, 15-20 days, and 30-60 days.
Journal
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- Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II
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Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II 73 (2B), 665-675, 1995
Meteorological Society of Japan
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- CRID
- 1390001206506328832
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- NII Article ID
- 110001807187
- 130007347031
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- NII Book ID
- AN00317933
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- ISSN
- 21869057
- 00261165
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- NDL BIB ID
- 3610119
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- JaLC
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