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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
AUGUST 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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SST and sea levels remain somewhat above normal along
the eastern boundary.
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Day of Sea Sfc Temperature Sea Level Height (cm)
Aug Baltra Talara Callao Baltra Libertad Callao
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
1 ** 19.2 17.6 ** ** 110.6
6 ** 18.8 17.2 ** ** 105.9
11 ** 19.2 17.3 ** ** 111.9
16 ** 19.1 16.7 ** ** 106.0
21 ** 18.2 16.7 ** ** 105.0
26 ** 17.5 16.5 ** ** 106.5
31 ** 17.8 16.5 ** ** 110.6
Anomalies
1 ** 1.6 1.6 ** ** 1.8
6 ** 1.2 1.3 ** ** -2.5
11 ** 1.6 1.4 ** ** 3.9
16 ** 1.5 0.9 ** ** -1.6
21 ** 0.6 1.0 ** ** -2.3
26 ** -0.2 0.8 ** ** -0.6
31 ** 0.1 0.9 ** ** 3.8
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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