Structure of ocean circulation between the Galápagos Islands and Ecuador

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 33, Issue , 2013, Pages 3-12

  Collins, C ^a   Mascarenhas, A ^b   Martinez, R ^c  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c CIIFEN Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL CURRENT; COUNTERCURRENT; FLOW VELOCITY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; VESSEL;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS;

EID: 84890255739     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-33-3-2013     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Allauca, S.: Presencia de la corriente costanera Ecuatoriana, Acta Oceanográfica del Pacifico, 6, 10-17, 1990.
2. Chaigneau, A., Gizolme, A., and Grados, C.: Mesoscale eddies off Peru in altimeter records: Identification algorithms and eddy spatio-temporal patterns, Prog. Oceanogr., 79, 106-119, 2008.
3. Chavez, F.: The Legitimate El Niño Current, Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere Newsletter, 34, p. 1, 1986.
4. Church, J. A. and White, N. J.: A 20th century acceleration in global sea-level rise, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L01602, doi:10.1029005GL024826, 2006.
5. Collecte Localisation Satellites: SSALTO/DUACS User Handbook: (M) SLA and (M) ADT near real time and delayed time products, CLS-DOS-NT-06.034, Ramonville Saint-Agne, France, 2006.
6. Donohue, K. A., Firing, E., Rowe, G. D., Ishida, A., and Mitsudera, H.: Equatorial Pacific Subsurface Countercurrents: A Model-Data Comparison in Stream Coordinates, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 1252-1264, 2002.
7. Hayes, S. P.: Sea Level and Near Surface Temperature Variability at the Galapagos Islands, 1979-83, in: El Niño en las Islas Galápagos: El Evento de 1982-1983, Fundación Charles Darwin para los Islas Galápagos, Quito, Ecuador, 49-81, 1985.
8. Hayes, S. P., Mangum, L. J., Barber, R. T., Huyer, A., and Smith, R. L.: Hydrographic Variability West of the Galápagos Islands during the 1982-83 El Niño, Prog. Oceanogr., 17, 137-162, 1986.
9. Karnauskas, K. B., Murtududde, R., and Busalacchi, A. J.: Observing the Galápagos-EUC Interaction: Insights and Challenges, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 40, 2768-2777, 2010.
10. Knauss, J. A.: Further Measurements and Observations of the Cromwell Current, J. Marine Res., 14, 205-240, 1966.
11. Kessler, W. S.: The circulation of the eastern tropical Pacific: A review, Prog. Oceanogr., 69, 181-217, 2006.
12. Lucero, M. and Cornejo Rodriguez, M. P.: Evidencia de la corriente de Cromwell entre 92°W y 84°W, observada en periodos normales y durante El Niño 82-83, Acta Oceanográfica del Pacifico, 6, 18-27, 1990.
13. Lucero, M.: Distribución de las corrientes alrededor de las Islas Galápagos, Acta Oceanográfica del Pacifico, 10, 21-27, 2000.
14. Lukas, R.: The Termination of the Equatorial Undercurrent in the Eastern Pacific, Prog. Oceanog., 16, 63-90, 1986.
15. Martinez, R., Zambrano, E., and Garcés, J.: Predicción del evento El Niño 97-98 en el mar Ecuatoriano usando métodos estadísticos, Acta Oceanográfica del Pacifico, 10, 1-8, 2000.
16. Martinez, R., Zambrano, E., Vera, L., Briones, K., and Zambrano, L.: Indice multívariado del El Niño en el Ecuador, Acta Oceanográfica del Pacifico, 11, 1-6, 2002.
17. Montes, I., Colas, F., Capet, X., and Schneider, W.: On the pathways of the equatorial subsurface currents in the eastern equatorial Pacific and their contributions to the Peru-Chile Undercurrent, J. Geophys. Res., 115, C09003, doi:10.1029JC005710, 2010.
18. Pak, H. and Zaneveld, J. R. V.: The Cromwell Current on the East Side of the Galapagos Islands, J. Geophys. Res., 78, 7845-7859, 1973.
19. Steger, J., Collins, C., and Chu, P.: Circulation in the Archipiélago de Colón (Galapagos Islands), November 1993, Deep-Sea Res. Pt. II, 45, 1093-1114, 1998.
20. Stevenson, M. R. and Taft, B. A.: New Evidence of the Equatorial Undercurrent East of the Galapagos Islands, J. Mar. Res., 29, 103-115, 1971.
21. Strub, P. T., Mesias, J. M., Montecino, V., Rutllant, J., and Salinas, S.: Chapter 10. Coastal Ocean Circuation off Western South America, in: The Sea, Vol. 11, edited by: Robinson, A. R. and Brink, K., John Wiley, Hoboken, N.J., 273-314, 1998.
22. Talley, L. D., Pickard, G. L., Emery, W. J., and Swift, J. H.: Descriptive Physical Oceanography: An Introduction, Academic Press, London, 555 pp., 2011.
23. Tsuchiya, M. and Talley, L. D.: A Pacific hydrographic section at 88° W: Water-property distribution, J. Geophys. Res. 103, 12899-12918, 1998.
24. Wyrtki, K.: Monitoring the Strength of Equatorial Currents from XBT Sections and Sea Level, J. Geophys. Res., 83, 1935-1940, 1978.
25. Zambrano, Q., Martinez, R., and Garcés-Vargas, J.: Variabilidad oceanografica en Ecuador asociada con el evento ENSO 1997-98, Acta Oceanográfica del Pacifico, 10, 9-20, 2000.