The Official Magazine of The Oceanography Society
Volume 01 | Number 2 | November 1988
On the Cover: Results from a global ocean model with resolved mesoscale eddies. The upper panel shows a 300- day time mean of the temperature field at a depth of 160m. Temperatures range from 28.8°C to - 1.8°C on a global basis, corresponding to color gradations from reds to blues according to the accompanying scale bar. The interconnectivity of the enid-latitude warm-core gyres is evident, including a linkage between the Pacific Ocean and the South Atlantic Ocean through the lndian Ocean and around the Cape of Good Hope. The lower panel shows the structure of the standard deviation of ocean temperature at 160m depth for the 300-day sample. Dark red areas typically have magnitudes of 2 to 4°C. These areas include essentially all of the known unstable currents of the world ocean, specifically the Gulf Stream, the Kuroshio, the Oyashio, the North Equatorial Countercurrent, the East Australia Current, the East Madagascar Current, the Agulhas Current, the Brazil-Falkland Confluence, and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
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REGULAR ISSUE FEATURES
Satellite Altimetry: Observing Ocean Variability From Space
By
Lee-Leung Fu,
Dudley B. Chelton, and
Victor Zlotnicki
The South Atlantic: An Overview of Results From 1983–88 Research
By
Arnold L. Gordon and
With contributions from participants in the ONR-sponsored South Atlantic research program: S. Bennett, D. Boudra, O. Brown, R. Evans, R. Fine, S. Garzoli, J. Luyten, M. McCartney, D. Olson, G. Roden, T. Whitworth, P. Zemba
White Waters of the Gulf of Maine
By
S. Ackleson ,
W.M. Balch, and
P.M. Holligan
Is El Niño Becoming More Common?
By
David B. Enfield
DEPARTMENTS
QUARTERDECK • Vision
By
David A. Brooks
LETTER TO THE EDITOR •
Letters to the Editor. 1988. Oceanography 1(2):3.
REVIEW AND COMMENT • Implications of High Dissolved Organic Matter Concentrations for Oceanic Properties and Processes
By
George A. Jackson
REVIEW AND COMMENT • The Measurement of Oceanic Particle Flux—Are "Swimmers" a Problem?
By
Cindy Lee,
Stuart G. Wakeham , and
John I. Hedges
REVIEW AND COMMENT • U.S. Marine Scientific Research and Access to Foreign Waters
By
David A. Ross and
Judith Fenwick
REVIEW AND COMMENT • Retrospective
By
David A. Brooks
REVIEW AND COMMENT • Multidisciplinary Issues in Marine Science
By
Donald B. Olson
REVIEW AND COMMENT • Hydrocarbon Seep Communities: Fours Years of Study
By
Mahlon C. Kennicutt II ,
James M. Brooks, and
Robert R. Bidigare
MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS • A Trip to Moscow
By
Ferris Webster
MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS • The Dissertation Symposia in Chemical Oceanography (DISCO)
By
Neil R. Andersen
MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS • Arctic Drilling Workshop, Ottawa, June 23–24, 1988
By
Randall Jacobson
MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS • UK Oceanography 88
By
David Pugh
NEWS AND INFORMATION • Planning for the Inaugural Meeting of The Oceanography Society
By
W. Stanley Wilson and
Christopher N.K. Mooers
NEWS AND INFORMATION • Status of Sea-WiFS, TOPEX and NSCAT: News from NASA
By
W. Stanley Wilson
NEWS AND INFORMATION • The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
By
Richard T. Barber
NEWS AND INFORMATION • The Institute for Naval Oceanography
By
Christopher N.K. Mooers
NEWS AND INFORMATION • Germany's New Research Center for Marine Geosciences (GEOMAR)
By
Stephanie Pfirman
NEWS AND INFORMATION • International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean (IAPSO), Commission on Natural Marine Hazards
By
M.I. EI-Sabh
NEWS AND INFORMATION • Natural Hazards Society (NHS) Founded
By
M.I. EI-Sabh
SHIPS AND FACILITIES • Research Vessel ARGO-Maine
By
David W. Townsend
BOOK REVIEW • The Crest of the Wave: Adventures in Oceanography
By
David A. Brooks
STUDENTIA • Enriching the Graduate Experience
By
Michael McClain and
Charles Harden
IN MEMORY OF • Raymond B. Montgomery (1910–1988); Konstantin N. Federov (1927–1988)
Omega. 1988. Oceanography 1(2):59.