TITLE:
Two Years of Oceanographic and Meteorological Data from the UNAM Buoy Anchored at Socorro Island in the Mexican Pacific
AUTHORS:
D. A. Salas-de-León, M. A. Monreal-Gómez, A. Gracia, D. Salas-Monreal
KEYWORDS:
Socorro Island, Mexican Pacific, Currents, Tides, Sea Level, Madden-Julian
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Marine Science,
Vol.5 No.2,
March
30,
2015
ABSTRACT: The paper analyzes
oceanographic and meteorological data registered by an oceanographic buoy in
the Mexican Pacific. In 2005 the Marine Science and Limnology Institute of the
National Autonomous University of Mexico moored an oceanographic buoy off the
coast of Socorro Island in the Mexican Pacific that transmitted data hourly
from July 11, 2005 to November 15, 2007. The buoy recorded oceanographic
(current speed and direction, conductivity, temperature, salinity, density,
turbidity, pH, fluorescence, sea level, waves, and tides) and meteorological
(wind speed and direction, temperature, relative humidity, and pressure) data.
Linear spectral analysis and wavelet analysis revealed annual, seasonal, and
biweekly frequencies, as well as frequencies associated with the main tidal
components, and those corresponding with inertial oscillations and Madden-Julian
oscillations.