William S. Kessler

TL;DR: In this article, an extensive field study and interpretive effort was made by researchers, primarily at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to sample and understand the physical oceanography of the eastern tropical Pacific.

TL;DR: Ongoing efforts are seeking to understand the heat and mass balances of the equatorial Pacific, and possible changes associated with greenhouse-gas-induced climate change.

TL;DR: In this article, a model was proposed that suggests an ocean-atmosphere coupling by which zonal advection of SST feeds back to the atmosphere; the model duplicates the steplike advance of warm water and westerly winds across the equatorial Pacific at the onset of the El Nino of 1991-1992.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of low-frequency quasi-geostrophic pycnocline variability allows the physical processes of Ekman pumping, the radiation of long (nondispersive) Rossby waves due to such pumping in midbasin, and the radiation from the observed eastern boundary depth fluctuations is found in variations of the depth of the 20°C isotherm in the northern tropical Pacific during 1970-1987.

TL;DR: In this article, a model was proposed that suggests an ocean-atmosphere coupling by which zonal advection of SST feeds back to the atmosphere; the model duplicates the steplike advance of warm water and westerly winds across the equatorial Pacific at the onset of the El Nino of 1991-1992.