A four-year record from an inverted echo sounder deployed near Palmyra Island at 6 degrees N in the central Pacific Ocean is compared with a simultaneous record of subsurface pressure from this island lagoon. A factor m, converting round-trip acoustic travel time to surface dynamic height relative to a deep pressure level, was estimated from the ratio of the spectra of the two records in the energetic synoptic oscillation band. Year-to-year variation in m was not statistically significant. For the overall record, m was found to be -70+or-8 dynamic m/s, where the error bounds represent a 90% confidence interval. This is consistent with first-baroclinic-mode excitation.


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    Title :

    Inverted echo sounder measurement of dynamic height through an ENSO cycle in the central equatorial Pacific


    Additional title:

    Invertierte Echoakustikmessung dynamischer Höhe durch einen ENSO-Zyklus im Zentraläquatorial-Pazifik


    Contributors:
    Wimbush, M. (author) / Chiswell, S.M. (author) / Lukas, R. (author) / Donohue, K.A. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1990


    Size :

    4 Seiten, 16 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English






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