Observations by TRITON Buoy Array in the Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean

摘要

The Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC) has monitored the entire Pacific Ocean in cooperation with the Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory (PMEL)/ U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to explicate the mechanism by which the El Nino is generated. Sets of TRITON buoys have been sequentially installed in the equatorial waters north of New Guinea since 1998. The observed data indicate that the largest warm water accumulated in the past 10 years has been formed in the western equatorial Pacific Ocean since March 2000. (See Fig. 1).