El Nino‐induced onshore transport in the California Current during 1982‐1983
- 1 March 1984
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 11 (3) , 233-236
- https://doi.org/10.1029/gl011i003p00233
Abstract
Persistent (>9 month) large‐scale positive temperature (3‐4°C), negative salinity (0.1‐0.3‰) and positive dissolved oxygen (0.5‐1 ml/l) subsurface anomalies characterize the El Niño‐induced onshore transport in the California Current during 1982‐83. These anomalies, characteristic diagrams, and sign reversals in the salinity and oxygen anomalies are consistent only with enhanced onshore transport of Subarctic water from the offshore California Current. Onshore transport excludes poleward propagating Kelvin waves as a generation mechanism for the 1982‐83 Californian "El Niño". The data, however, support the conclusion (Simpson, 1983) that an anomalous basinwide atmospheric circulation produced the Californian "El Niño".This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- The 1982‐83 warm episode in the California CurrentGeophysical Research Letters, 1983
- Large‐scale thermal anomalies in the California Current during the 1982‐1983 El NiñoGeophysical Research Letters, 1983