Marine Science Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-15-1987
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1029/JC092iC04p03821
Abstract
Current meter measurements recorded over the water column at 10 depths ranging from 20 m to 3027 m using surface and subsurface moorings near 0°, 110°W are analyzed for the M2 tidal current over a 10‐month sampling interval. A kinematical description is given by month and depth, followed by a decomposition into a barotropic mode and three baroclinic modes. The barotropic tide was dominant, and its hodograph was stable over the 10 months sampled. The baroclinic tide was random, isotropic, and without mode preference.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 92, issue C4, p. 3821-3826
Copyright 1987 by the American Geophysical Union.
Scholar Commons Citation
Weisberg, Robert H.; Halpern, D.; Tang, T. Y.; and Hwang, S. M., "M2 Tidal Currents in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean" (1987). Marine Science Faculty Publications. 70.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/70