Work in progress: Encyclopedia article on wind and buoyancy forced upper ocean structure

Work in progress: Encyclopedia article on wind and buoyancy forced upper ocean structure

Cronin, M. F., and J. Sprintall. Upper ocean structure: Wind and buoyancy-forced upper ocean. In Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, J. Steele, S. Thorpe, and K. Turekian (eds.), accepted, 2000.

  • Figure 1. Cartoon of wind and buoyancy forcing on the upper ocean mixed layer.

  • Figure 2. (left panel) Climatological net surface heat flux, Q0, and (right panel) climatological SST.
    Q0 is the constrained net surface heat flux from da Silva et al. (1994) and has units W/m^2. A positive Q0 value tends to warm the ocean. SST is from Reynold and Smith (199?) and has units degree Celsius.

  • Figure 3. (left panel) Climatological evaporation and (right panel) climatological precipitation.
    Both fields are from da Silva ATLAS and are in units mm/day.

  • Figure 4. Mean seasonal cycle at OWS PAPA in the north Pacific.

  • Figure 5. Mean seasonal cycle of the tropical Pacific winds and SST.
    (upper left) JFM, (upper right) AMJ, (lower left) JAS, (lower right) OND. Winds are from daSilva et al. (1994), SST is from Reynolds and Smith (199?).
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