Pacific Ocean
Remarkable features
Surface: 180 000 000 km2
Maximum depth: 10 000 m
Currents: Kuroshio (warm), Humbolt, Oyashio (cold)
Seas: Bering, Japan, China, Okhotsk, Celebes, Yellow sea...
Oscillation phenomena: El Niño/Southern Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Oscillation.
Pacific Ocean in the Aviso web site
- Apr. 21, 2008 : The cool Australian eddy has become giant
- Aug. 2005: Satellites shed light on the Kon Tiki story
- Aug. 2007: Altimetric views of a typhoon
- Aug. 2013: 20 years of typhoons
- Aug. 16, 2004: El Niño on Novembers
- Aug. 18, 2009: Severe typhoon Morakot in the western Pacific
- Aug. 2012: Screencast new LAS
- Aug. 4, 2003: Having a closer look
- Currents around the world
- Decadal oscillations
- Dec. 22, 2003: Longitude-time diagram (2)
- El Niño bulletin
- Feb. 2022: The tsunami detected by altimeters after the Tonga eruption
- Feb. 2023: Eddies from altimetry help understand northern elephant seals' behavior
- Feb. 17, 2006: La Niña in sight
- Gulf Stream & Kuroshio
- Jan. 2005: Current heat
- Jan. 2008: Like a stone carried away by the current
- Jan. 2011: La Niña's in turn to wreak havoc
- Jan. 2016: The 2015 El Niño: An extraordinary Modoki event?
- Jan. 22, 2008: La Niña, westerly current
- Jul. 2015: El Niño's return, West side story
- Jul. 2022: Filaments in the California Current
- Jul. 17, 2009, Prelude to El Niño
- July 21, 2003: Tracking El Niño
- Jul. 31, 2006: Near-Real Time vs Delayed Time
- June 15, 2004: SLA vs ADT
- Kuroshio
- Man-Yi 2007
- Mar. 2004: Tuvalu islands under water
- Mar. 2010: Eddies in the Gulf of Alaska
- Mar. 2012: Following Kuroshio paths
- March 28, 2007: Cool Australian eddies
- May 15, 2008 : Rossby waves in ENSO events
- May 2024: Swot measurements help in seafloor mapping
- Nida 2004
- Nov. 2002: El Niño under close scrutinies
- Nov. 2007: The ocean is going up and down around the Solomon Islands
- Nov. 2009: If it's not El Niño, then it must be his brother...
- Nov. 2013: Typhoon Haiyan seen by Saral
- Nov. 17, 2004: Currents on the slope
- Nov. 17, 2005: Averages in slice
- Nov. 23, 2009: Meeting the Mindanao and the Kuroshio currents
- Nov. 24, 2003: A temporal ocean slice
- Nov. 27, 2006: El Niño conditions to come
- Oct. 2011: Crustaceans off Chile
- Oct. 18, 2004: An El Niño this year?
- Oct. 20, 2003 : Averaging an area
- Regional trends
- Sep. 2019: Internal tides in the Solomon Sea change with ENSO phases
- Sep. 15, 2004: Error is part of data
- Sep. 18, 2008: Eddies in the Gulf of Alaska
- Sep. 22, 2003: Along-time data
- Tehuantepec eddies
- Tehuantepec eddies
- The 2022 tsunami in the Pacific Ocean (Hunga Tonga volcano eruption)