Chapter Ten¶
Pacific Ocean¶
Data files supplied for Chapter 10 exercises
Pacific_sections: →
P16_1991_1992: →
P16_1991_1992_heavydeci_CTD.joa
P14_1992_1996: →
P14_1992_1996_clean_bottle.joa
P14_1992_1996_clean_CTD.joa
P02_2004: →
P02_2004_clean_bottle.joa
P17_1991_1992_1993: →
P17_1991_92_93_bottle.joa
P10_2005: →
P10_2005_clean_bottle_incomplete.joa
P10_2005_clean_CTD.joa
P16_2005_2006: →
P16_2005_2006_bottle_clean.joa
P16_2005_2007_heavydeci_CTD.joa
P16S_2005_2006_CTD.joa
P06_2003: →
P06_2003_clean_bottle.joa
P18_2007: →
P18_2007_clean_bottle.joa
P18_2007_clean_CTD.joa
P21_1994: →
P21_1994_bottle.joa
P19_1993: →
P19_1993_bottle.joa
P03_1985: →
P03_1985_bottle.joa
P17N_2001: →
P17N_2001_clean_bottle.joa
P11_1993: →
P11_1993_bottle.joa
P01_1985_1993: →
P01_1985_1993_clean_CTD.joa
P01W_1985_1993_clean_bottle.joa
P04_1989: →
P04_1989_bottle.joa
P06_1992: →
P06_1992_bottle.joa
WOA_copies_of_Pacific_sections: →
P02_WOA05.joa
P16_WOA09.joa
WOA98_heavideci_basin_global_gridded_data: →
WOA98_heavydeci_Pacific.poa
WOA_decimated_basin_global_gridded_data: →
WOA05_decimated_North_Pacific.joa
WOA05_decimated_Pacific.joa
WOA05_decimated_South_Pacific.joa
WOA_basin_global_gridded_data: →
WOA05_North_Pacific.joa
WOA05_South_Pacific.joa
Download: Chapter 10 Pacific_sections
Download: Chapter 10 WOA98_heavideci_basin_global_gridded_data
Download: Chapter 10 WOA_decimated_basin_global_gridded_data
Download: Chapter 10 WOA_basin_global_gridded_data
Goals¶
Understand the water masses, circulation and other aspects of descriptive physical oceanography of the Pacific Ocean & its marginal seas
To accomplish this, one will:¶
Learn to extract data subsets from map plots
Learn how to use advanced JOA tools for working with basin-scale data sets
Tools¶
JOA Section Editor
Interpolations Options dialog box
Fig 10i-01 Pacific sections map¶
DPO Chapter 10 Sections¶
DPO JOA examples are available for the following emphasized sections:
10.1 |
Introduction and overview |
10.2 |
Wind and buoyancy forcing |
10.3 |
North Pacific circulation |
10.3.1 |
Subtropical circulation |
10.3.1.1 |
General description |
10.3.1.2 |
The Kuroshio and Kuroshio Extension |
10.3.1.3 |
North Pacific Current and mid-latitude fronts |
10.3.1.4 |
California Current System |
10.3.1.5 |
North Equatorial Current |
10.3.1.6 |
Depth dependence of the subtropical circulation |
10.3.2 |
Subpolar circulation |
10.3.2.1 |
General description |
10.3.2.2 |
Subpolar western boundary currents |
10.3.2.3 |
Circulation in the Gulf of Alaska |
10.4 |
South Pacific circulation |
10.4.1 |
Subtropical circulation |
10.4.1.1 |
East Australian Current |
10.4.1.2 |
South Pacific Current and Subtropical Front |
10.4.1.3 |
Northward flow of the subtropical gyre and the Peru-Chile Current System |
10.4.1.4 |
South Equatorial Current |
10.5 |
Pacific Ocean mesoscale eddy variability |
10.6 |
Depth dependence of the Pacific Ocean circulation and meridional overturn |
10.7 |
Tropical Pacific circulation and water properties |
10.7.1 |
Introduction |
10.7.2 |
Tropical wind and buoyancy forcing |
10.7.3 |
Equatorial Pacific current structure |
10.7.3.1 |
Zonal currents and associated mid-ocean meridional flows |
10.7.3.2 |
Zonal structure of the equatorial currents |
10.7.3.3 |
Equatorial upwelling and biological productivity |
10.7.4 |
Low latitude western boundary currents |
10.7.5 |
Equatorial property distributions |
10.7.6 |
Intraseasonal and seasonal variability |
10.8 |
El Niño/ La Niña and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO) |
10.8.1 |
El Niño/La Niña description |
10.8.2 |
ENSO mechanisms |
10.9 |
Pacific Ocean water masses |
10.9.1 |
Pacific Ocean upper waters |
10.9.2 |
Intermediate waters |
10.9.2.1 |
North Pacific Intermediate Water |
10.9.1.2 |
Antarctic Intermediate Water |
10.9.3 |
Deep waters |
10.9.4 |
Bottom water (Lower Circumpolar Deep Water) |
10.10 |
Decadal climate variability and climate change |