Satellites, Oceanography, and the Southeast Pacific Ocean (Invited Presentation)

. The southeast Pacific Ocean is an oceanographic and meteorological in-situ data-sparse region. Satellite technology provided the first opportunity to create the climatology and monthly variability, with minimal aliasing, of several surface variables (e. g., geostrophic current, wind stress curl, wind divergence, and phytoplankton abundance) important for the study of El Nino, La Nina, coastal upwelling, stratus clouds, and intermediate-water formation. The surface wind will be compared with numerical weather prediction data products. The continuation and anticipated improvement of satellite ocean data products during the next decade will be describe