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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
JUNE 2008
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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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After two strong intraseasonal events in early 2008,
sea levels and SSTs have settled down to near-normal
values, trending upward slightly, and punctuated by
moderate intraseasonal fluctuations.
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Day of Sea Sfc Temperature Sea Level Height (cm)
Jun Baltra Talara Callao Baltra Libertad Callao
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2 ** 21.2 16.0 ** ** 118.8
7 ** 20.8 16.4 ** ** 122.7
12 ** 20.8 17.0 ** ** 115.1
17 ** 20.7 17.0 ** ** 113.6
22 ** 20.2 17.1 ** ** 118.8
27 ** 20.0 17.1 ** ** 119.4
Anomalies
2 ** 2.3 -0.9 ** ** 6.2
7 ** 2.0 -0.4 ** ** 10.3
12 ** 2.0 0.3 ** ** 2.9
17 ** 2.1 0.4 ** ** 1.6
22 ** 1.7 0.6 ** ** 7.1
27 ** 1.7 0.7 ** ** 8.1
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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