Tropical Highlights

  Table of Atmospheric Indices  (Table 1)

  Table of Oceanic Indices  (Table 2)

  Time Series

  Time-Longitude Sections

  Mean & Anomaly Fields

  Appendix 1: Outside Contributions

• Tropical Drifting Buoys  A1.1
  
• Thermistor Chain Data  A1.2
  
• TAO/TRITON Array (a)  A1.3
  
• TAO/TRITON Array (b)  A1.4
  
• East Pac. SST & Sea Level  A1.5
  
• Pacific Wind stress  A1.6
  
• Surface Currents (a)  A1.7
  
• Surface Currents (b)  A1.8
  
  

Pacific Wind Stress & Anomalies

Jeremy Rolph, Mark A. Bourassa, and Shawn R. Smith
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University

MAY 2009

FIGURE A1.6  FSU SURFACE PSEUDO-STRESS VECTORS AND ANOMALIES: Pseudo stress vector (top) are objectively analyzed from ship and buoy winds on a 2 degree grid. Ship and buyo data are independently weighted and the background field is created from the data. Contour interval of the vector magnitude is 20 m²s^-2. Anomalies (bottom) are departures from 1978-2001 mean. The contour interval is 15 m²s^-2. For more information, please visit: www.coaps.fsu.edu/RVSMDC/html/winds.shtml.