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Table of contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Wind-driven circulation
1.2 The Humboldt Currents system
1.2.1 Large scale circulation in the HCS
1.2.2 The south Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone
1.2.3 Mesoscale features
1.3 Teleconnection with the equatorial Pacific
1.3.1 A brief description of El Niño
1.3.2 The ENSO arrival at the Humboldt Currents System
1.3.3 The connection between the equatorial Pacific and the deep eastern Pacific
1.4 ENSO diversity
1.4.1 ENSO diversity trend
1.5 Thesis motivations and objectives
1.5.1 Scientific objectives and manuscript plan Introduction (français)
2 Methodology and Observations
2.1 The regional ocean modeling system: ROMS
2.1.1 Coordinate transformation
2.1.2 Pressure gradient errors
2.1.3 Spatial discretization and time stepping
2.1.4 Advection scheme and mixing parametrization
2.2 Long Rossby waves
2.2.1 At the origin of long Rossby waves: the β-plane
2.2.2 The dispersion relation for long Rossby waves
2.2.3 Theoretical approach for vertically propagating Rossby waves
2.2.4 Rossby wave energy flux
2.3 ENSO indices
2.4 Observations
2.4.1 Climatologies and reanalyses
2.4.2 Remote sensing data
3 Subthermocline variability in the South Eastern Pacific: interannual to decadal timescales
3.1 Overview
3.2 Is it possible to use ARGO data to observe the long Rossby wave?
3.2.1 Argo data set
3.2.2 The equatorial Rossby wave
3.2.3 The Extra-Tropical Rossby wave
3.2.4 Conclusion
3.3 Vertical energy flux at interannual to decadal timescales
3.4 Synthesis
4 Ventilation of the South Pacific oxygen minimum zone: the role of the ETRW and mesoscale
4.1 Overview
4.2 Seasonal variability of the oxygen minimum zone
4.3 Synthesis
5 Conclusions and Perspectives
Conclusions et Perspectives (français)
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