Sentences with phrase «pacific cold tongue»

Here we show the existence of a distinctive seasonal cycle of subsurface cooling via mixing in the equatorial Pacific cold tongue, using multi-year measurements of turbulence in the ocean.

Not exact matches

For the Ekman pumping (one good example of the Ekman pumping is the so - called «cold tongue» near in the eastern part of the Pacific near the Equator), the stability is not so important, but rather the depth of the upper warm surface layer.

In fact simultaneously with the strengthening warming of the subsurface western Pacific is an intensification of the cold subsurface tongue at the east Pacific (WUWT ENSO page).

Mixing of cold, nutrient rich, sub-surface water with warm surface water creates the wind and current feedbacks drive the cold tongue across the Pacific.

Surface cloud forcing in the east Pacific stratus deck / cold tongue / ITCZ complex.