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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
NOVEMBER 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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Sea level and SST along the Peru coast continue to track on climatology or
slightly above, and are punctuated by intraseasonal events.
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Day of Sea Sfc Temperature Sea Level Height (cm)
Nov Baltra Talara Callao Baltra Libertad Callao
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
4 ** 17.9 15.9 ** ** 107.3
9 ** 18.4 15.5 ** ** 106.8
14 ** 18.4 16.6 ** ** 113.2
19 ** 17.7 16.9 ** ** 109.1
24 ** 17.4 15.9 ** ** 116.3
29 ** 17.2 15.6 ** ** 114.8
Anomalies
4 ** -0.1 0.4 ** ** 0.8
9 ** 0.3 -0.1 ** ** 0.1
14 ** 0.3 0.9 ** ** 6.3
19 ** -0.5 1.1 ** ** 1.9
24 ** -0.9 0.1 ** ** 8.8
29 ** -1.2 -0.3 ** ** 7.0
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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