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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
OCTOBER 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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Sea levels and SST remain close to normal during
October 2008.
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Day of Sea Sfc Temperature Sea Level Height (cm)
Oct Baltra Talara Callao Baltra Libertad Callao
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
5 ** 17.5 15.5 ** ** 100.6
10 ** 17.5 15.2 ** ** 104.7
15 ** 17.8 15.3 ** ** **
20 ** 18.5 15.1 ** ** **
25 ** 18.5 14.1 ** ** **
30 ** ** 14.2 ** ** **
Anomalies
5 ** -0.4 0.2 ** ** -5.1
10 ** -0.4 0.0 ** ** -1.0
15 ** -0.1 0.1 ** ** **
20 ** 0.6 -0.2 ** ** **
25 ** 0.5 -1.2 ** ** **
30 ** ** -1.2 ** ** **
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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