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AN: OS41A-0175    [Abstracts]
TI: Hydrographic monitoring of moderate El Nino 2006 off the Southwestern Coast of Mexico
AU: * Tereshchenko, I
EM: itereshc@cencar.udg.mx
AF: University of Guadalajara, Mexico, av.Juarez 975, Guadalajara, Jal 44100, Mexico
AU: Filonov, A
EM: afilonov@cencar.udg.mx
AF: University of Guadalajara, Mexico, av.Juarez 975, Guadalajara, Jal 44100, Mexico
AB: Hydrographic data from monthly surveys off the Southwestern Coast of Mexico (near Barra de Navidad) and time series of temperature, salinity and sea level from a mooring deployed 1 km off the coast, for the period 2005-07, are analyzed. Temperature and salinity profiles for the 2006 summer-fall seasons differ from similar profiles obtained in 2005. The differences might be due to the input of large volumes of relatively warm and less saline water, with TS (temperature-salinity) characteristics suggesting a Tropical Pacific origin. By October 2006, those water masses had filled the whole 50m upper layer. Time series of temperature, salinity and sea level at the mooring location for a time period longer than a year, since June, 2006, have shown the passage of coastal trapped waves through the polygon. These waves caused fluctuations of temperature, salinity and sea level up to 10 degrees centigrade, 0.6 psu and 20 cm, respectively.
DE: 3270 Time series analysis (1872, 4277, 4475)
DE: 3339 Ocean/atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504)
DE: 4215 Climate and interannual variability (1616, 1635, 3305, 3309, 4513)
DE: 4277 Time series experiments (1872, 3270, 4475)
DE: 4922 El Nino (4522)
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting