Status on Equatorial Indian Ocean – OceanSITES Long-term measurements of currents in the equatorial Indian Ocean using deep-sea moorings – Project funded.
Currents 1
From TOPEX-POSEIDON to JASON Science Working Team Meeting GRACE Mission Status Arles, France November 18-21, 2003 Byron D. Tapley (Principal Investigator)
Damping of Tropical Instability Waves caused by the action of surface currents on stress R. Justin Small 1, Kelvin Richards 2, Shang-Ping Xie 3, Pierre.
Currents Surface Currents –About 10% of the ocean’s water is in surface currents, water flowing horizontally in the uppermost 400 m Driven mostly by wind.
Ocean Current Notes 2 nd quarter 1. What factors cause ocean currents? Wind, gravity, and variations in water density 2. What kinds of ocean currents.
CIRCULATION OF OCEANS. OCEAN & ATMOSPHERE SIMILARITIES Circulation of Atmosphere & Oceans both driven by convection currents Coriolis force rotates.
TOGA Pan-Pacific Surface Current Study NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) 25-26 April 1988 Miami, Florida.
Ocean Circulation
OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION: EL NINO AND THE SOUTHERN OSCILLATION
TOGA Pan-Pacific Surface Current Study
