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    Surveying the upper Ocean with the Ocean Surveyor - a new Phased Array Doppler Current Profiler (2003)
    AMS (American Meteorological Society)
    In:  Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 20 (5). pp. 742-751.
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    Publication Date: 2020-08-04
    Description: A new shipboard current profiler, a 75-kHz ocean surveyor, was operationally used during two research cruises in the tropical Atlantic and the subpolar North Atlantic, respectively. Here, a report is presented on the first experience with this instrument in two very different current regimes, in the Tropics with large vertical shears, and in the subpolar regime with mainly barotropic flow. The ocean surveyor continuously measured currents in the upper ocean from near the surface to about 500–700-m depth. The measurement range showed a dependence on the regional and temporal variations of scattering particles and on the intensity of swell and wind waves. Statistical comparisons are performed with on-station lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler (LADCP) profiles and underway measurements by classic shipboard acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) measurements. Accuracy estimates for hourly averaged ocean surveyor currents result in errors of about 1 cm s–1 for on-station data and of 2–4 cm s–1 for underway measurements, depending on the regional abundance of scatterers and on the weather conditions encountered.
    Type: Article , PeerReviewed
    Format: text
    DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(2003)20〈742:STUOWT〉2.0.CO;2
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    OceanRep: Article in a Scientific Journal - peer-reviewed
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    Circulation, variability and near equatorial meridional flow in the central tropical Atlantic (2003)
    Elsevier
    In:  In: Interhemispheric Water Exchange in the Atlantic Ocean. , ed. by Goni, G. and Malanotte-Rizzoli, P. Elsevier Oceanography Series, 68 . Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 1-22.
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    Publication Date: 2019-08-16
    Description: Observations in the central tropical Atlantic are used to investigate the circulation, the variability, and the near-equatorial meridional flow in this oceanic region. Meridional sections confirm that the southern band of the South Equatorial Current is a broad sluggish flow transporting subtropical water northwestward toward the western boundary. Variability in the South Equatorial Current is weak with an annual signal of about 2 cm/s. Recent equatorial flow observations agree with the previously proposed mean flow field, indicating that a permanent tropical circulation exists that is composed of several zonal current and countercurrent bands of small vertical and meridional extent compared to the subtropical gyres. However, wave phenomena superimpose on the mean flow field. On seasonal time scales the variability in the zonal flow field near the equator is dominated by the semiannual cycle in the central and eastern part while the annual cycle dominates in the western part. This seasonal variability is caused by the propagation of equatorial Rossby and Kelvin waves generated mainly by the zonal wind anomaly at the equator. Despite the observations of instantaneous cross-equatorial velocities and of floats crossing the equator it remains unclear whether there is a net cross-equatorial flow in the central tropical Atlantic in addition to cross-equatorial exchanges via thermocline convergence, upwelling and Ekman divergence. Three floats deployed at 200 m and 400 m depth either leave their deployment region at the equator to join the North Equatorial Undercurrent and progress further northward or in two cases have been deployed in the southern hemisphere and drift towards the equator.
    Type: Book chapter , PeerReviewed
    Format: text
    DOI: 10.1016/S0422-9894(03)80141-1
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    The zonal currents and transports at 35°W in the tropical Atlantic (2003)
    AGU (American Geophysical Union)
    In:  Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (7). pp. 1349-1352.
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    Publication Date: 2018-02-20
    Description: The total of 13 existing cross-equatorial shipboard current profiling sections taken during the WOCE period between 1990 and 2002 along 35°W are used to determine the mean meridional structure of the zonal top-to-bottom circulation between the Brazilian coast, near 5°S, and 5°N and to estimate mean transports of the individual identified shallow, intermediate and deep current branches. One of the results is that, on the equator, a mean westward Equatorial Intermediate Current below the Equatorial Undercurrent exists.
    Type: Article , PeerReviewed
    Format: text
    DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016849
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