Sentences with phrase «pacific sea surface salinity»

Hendy, E. J., Gagan M. K., Alibert C. A., McCulloch M. T., Lough J. M. and Isdale P.J. (2002) Abrupt Decrease in Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Salinity at End of Little Ice Age, Science, 295, 1511 - 154.

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A team of scientists led by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory modified the current formula to calculate Potential Intensity by including the effects of upper - ocean mixing, sea - surface cooling, and salinity during a cyclone.

[5] Linsley et al. (2006) reconstructed sea - surface temperature and sea surface salinity in the southwest Pacific starting circa 1600CE by measuring the oxygen isotopic composition of four Porites coral records from Rarotonga and two from Fiji.

El Ni o an irregular variation of ocean current that, from January to February, flows off the west coast of South America, carrying warm, low - salinity, nutrient - poor water to the south; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fishing

Observations of sea surface salinity in the western Pacific fresh pool: Large - scale changes in 1992 1995 Christian H nin

This paper investigates the variability of sea surface salinity (SSS) in the western equatorial Pacific fresh pool.