Eldin Gérard auteur aut IRD Delcroix Thierry auteur aut IRD Hénin Christian auteur aut IRD Richards K. auteur aut IRD Penhoat Yves du auteur aut IRD Picaut Joël auteur aut IRD Rual Pierre auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf reformatted digital access From December 1992 to February 1993, 18 meridional sections of temperature, salinity, and current were collected along 156°E, from 5°S to 5°N, during the Intensive Observation Period of the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment. The average conditions were characteristic of the ongoing El Nino event, with a relatively shallow thermocline and fresh surface waters. Alternating westerly and easterly wind forcing was observed, and the warm surface layer (the "Warm forcing was observed, and the warm surface layer (The "Warm Pool") responded in a time scale of a few days by corresponding alternating flows; the Equatorial current system was less affected at depht. The upper-layer oceanic temperature variability involved several mechanisms, including surface cooling by evaporation during westerly winds and entrainment from the thermocline. (Résumé d'auteur) specialized COUPLAGE OCEAN ATMOSPHERE COLLECTE DE DONNEES TEMPERATURE SALINITE COURANT PROFIL VERTICAL PACIFIQUE TROPICAL OUEST 032MILPHY 21 24 2681-2684 1994 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:42332 10.1029/94GL01166 [F B42332] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:42332 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/b_fdi_35-36/42332.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 1995-09-14 2015-07-02 fdi:42332 fre