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Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Level From Eastern Pacific
GOES Stations
David B. EnField, NOAA/AOML
Instituto Oceanografico de la Armada Guayaquil, Ecuador
Direccion de Hodrografia y Navigacion de la Marina, Callao, PERU
JANUARY 2009
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Through
cooperative arrangements with South American institutions, the TOGA
program has maintained a network of nine tide stations and four
meteorological stations in Ecuador, Peru and Chile since the mid
1980's. The stations are maintained by NOAA/AOML and the University of
Hawaii. The hourly data are transmitted to down-link stations via the
GOES satellite in real time and processed. The five-day averages
(pentads) at critical stations give us an effective means of monitoring
coastal conditions with good time resolution and compact data volume.
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Except for a short-lived spike of SST at the end of January,
conditions are persisting at levels slightly below normal.
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Day of Sea Sfc Temperature Sea Level Height (cm)
Jan Baltra Talara Callao Baltra Libertad Callao
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3 ** 25.4 15.6 ** ** 102.8
8 ** 24.5 15.6 ** ** 101.1
13 ** 22.1 15.6 ** ** 107.7
18 ** 21.7 16.3 ** ** 103.1
23 ** 24.0 16.4 ** ** 106.4
28 ** 25.5 17.7 ** ** 109.9
Anomalies
3 ** 4.6 -1.4 ** ** -7.7
8 ** 3.4 -1.5 ** ** -9.9
13 ** 0.8 -1.7 ** ** -3.8
18 ** 0.3 -1.2 ** ** -8.9
23 ** 2.7 -1.2 ** ** -6.0
28 ** 4.2 0.0 ** ** -2.8
For further information contact David.Enfield@noaa.gov
or go to http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/epac/
** - Data missing due to hardware failure
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FIGURE A1.5
Five-day averages of Sea Surface
Temperature (SST, C) and Sea Level Height (SLH, cm) from GOES receiving
stations in Ecuador and Peru. Dashed line and shading show climatology
departures.
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