Search Results - "Niiler, P. P."

Ocean mixed layer depth: A subsurface proxy of ocean-atmosphere variability by Lorbacher, K., Dommenget, D., Niiler, P. P., Köhl, A.

“…A new criterion, based on the shallowest extreme curvature of near surface layer density or temperature profiles, is established for demarking the mixed layer…”
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Warming of SST in the cool wake of a moving hurricane by Price, James F., Morzel, Jan, Niiler, Pearn P.

“…Satellite imagery and in situ ocean data show that the cool anomaly of sea surface temperature in the wake of a moving hurricane will disappear over an…”
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North Atlantic Ocean surface currents by Reverdin, Gilles, Niiler, P. P., Valdimarsson, H.

“…Close to 1800 surface drifters are used to investigate the 15 m circulation of the North Atlantic Ocean. The data are used to describe structures of the…”
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Observations of the cold wake of Typhoon Fanapi (2010) by Mrvaljevic, Rosalinda K., Black, Peter G., Centurioni, Luca R., Chang, Ya-Ting, D'Asaro, Eric A., Jayne, Steven R., Lee, Craig M., Lien, Ren-Chieh, Lin, I-I, Morzel, Jan, Niiler (deceased), Pearn P., Rainville, Luc, Sanford, Thomas B.

“…Several tens of thousands of temperature profiles are used to investigate the thermal evolution of the cold wake of Typhoon Fanapi, 2010. Typhoon Fanapi formed…”
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Cold wake of Hurricane Frances by D'Asaro, Eric A., Sanford, Thomas B., Niiler, P. Peter, Terrill, Eric J.

“…An array of instruments air‐deployed ahead of Hurricane Frances measured the three‐dimensional, time dependent response of the ocean to this strong (60 ms−1)…”
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Ocean's response to Hurricane Frances and its implications for drag coefficient parameterization at high wind speeds by Zedler, S. E., Niiler, P. P., Stammer, D., Terrill, E., Morzel, J.

“…The drag coefficient parameterization of wind stress is investigated for tropical storm conditions using model sensitivity studies. The Massachusetts Institute…”
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Dynamically balanced absolute sea level of the global ocean derived from near-surface velocity observations by Niiler, Pearn P., Maximenko, Nikolai A., McWilliams, James C.

“…The 1992–2002 time‐mean absolute sea level distribution of the global ocean is computed for the first time from observations of near‐surface velocity. For this…”
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Ocean–Atmosphere Interaction over Agulhas Extension Meanders by Liu, W. Timothy, Xie, Xiaosu, Niiler, Pearn P.

“…Many years of high-resolution measurements by a number of space-based sensors and from Lagrangian drifters became available recently and are used to examine…”
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Tropical Pacific near-surface currents estimated from altimeter, wind, and drifter data by Lagerloef, Gary S. E., Mitchum, Gary T., Lukas, Roger B., Niiler, Pearn P.

“…Tropical surface currents are estimated from satellite‐derived surface topography and wind stress using a physically based statistical model calibrated by 15 m…”
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Stationary mesoscale jet-like features in the ocean by Maximenko, Nikolai A., Melnichenko, Oleg V., Niiler, Pearn P., Sasaki, Hideharu

“…XBT and float data of the World Ocean Database 2005 are used to validate new stationary jet‐like features (striations) recently found in the high‐resolution…”
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Near-surface dynamical structure of the Kuroshio Extension by Niiler, P. P., Maximenko, N. A., Panteleev, G. G., Yamagata, T., Olson, D. B.

“…Lagrangian data from 657 SVP drifters, CNES/Aviso (Archiving, Validation, and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic data) time variable satellite altimeter…”
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AIR–SEA EXCHANGE IN HURRICANES: Synthesis of Observations from the Coupled Boundary Layer Air–Sea Transfer Experiment by Black, Peter G., D’Asaro, Eric A., Drennan, William M., French, Jeffrey R., Niiler, Pearn P., Sanford, Thomas B., Terrill, Eric J., Walsh, Edward J., Zhang, Jun A.

“…The Coupled Boundary Layer Air–Sea Transfer (CBLAST) field program, conducted from 2002 to 2004, has provided a wealth of new air–sea interaction observations…”
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Circulation over the continental shelf in the northern Gulf of Mexico by Ohlmann, J. Carter, Niiler, P. Peter

“…More than 750 surface drifters were deployed over the northern continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico (gulf) from 1993 through 1998. Drifters were mostly…”
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Near-surface circulation in the South China Sea during the winter monsoon by Centurioni, L. R., Niiler, P. N., Lee, D.-K.

“…Original velocity measurements at 15 m depth from Surface Velocity Program drifters are used to calculate the circulation in the South China Sea during the…”
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The North Atlantic Oscillation, Surface Current Velocities, and SST Changes in the Subpolar North Atlantic by Flatau, Maria K., Talley, Lynne, Niiler, Pearn P.

“…Changes in surface circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic are documented for the recent interannual switch in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index…”
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The Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere observing system: A decade of progress by McPhaden, Michael J., Busalacchi, Antonio J., Cheney, Robert, Donguy, Jean‐René, Gage, Kenneth S., Halpern, David, Ji, Ming, Julian, Paul, Meyers, Gary, Mitchum, Gary T., Niiler, Pearn P., Picaut, Joel, Reynolds, Richard W., Smith, Neville, Takeuchi, Kensuke

“…A major accomplishment of the recently completed Tropical Ocean‐Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Program was the development of an ocean observing system to support…”
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The inertial chimney: The near-inertial energy drainage from the ocean surface to the deep layer by Lee, Dong‐Kyu, Niiler, Pearn P.

“…A three‐dimensional primitive equation numerical model is used to study the behavior of near‐inertial waves generated by surface wind stress on an ƒ plane. The…”
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On the surface currents of the Caribbean Sea by Centurioni, Luca R., Niiler, Pearn P.

“…Velocity observations from near surface drifters made between 1996 and 2001 were used to construct surface circulation maps of the Caribbean Sea. In the…”
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Effects of instability waves in the mixed layer of the equatorial Pacific by Baturin, N. G., Niiler, P. P.

“…Data from more than 1900 Lagrangian drifters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean from 1980 to 1994 together with velocity records from two Tropical Ocean‐Global…”
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Mesoscale Dongsha Cyclonic Eddy in the northern South China Sea by drifter and satellite observations by Chow, Chun-Hoe, Hu, Jian-Hwa, Centurioni, Luca R., Niiler, Pearn P.

“…Near the center of the northern South China Sea (NSCS), the Dongsha atoll is situated on the continental slope that runs from Taiwan to Hainan. A mesoscale…”
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