A climatology of galeand storm-force gap wind events in the Gulf of Tehuantepec is constructed for the first time using 10 yr of ocean surface vector wind data from the SeaWinds scatterometer on board NASA’s Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) satellite. These wind events are among the most severe that occur within the National Hurricane Center’s (NHC) area of marine forecasting responsibility outsi...

Reduction of the by-catch in shrimp fishery is an important goal worldwide. In order to compare by-catch using the conventional trawling net and a newly designed short funnel net, nine cruises were carried out by the commercial fleet operating in the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico. A total of 480 trawls were done (mean duration: 85 min). The experimental trawls using the modified net produced a 21...

'Ihree upward looking acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP) were deployed beneath meteorological buoys in the Gulf of Tehuantepec. Mexico. during winter 1988-1989. Hourly averaged wind speed data from the buoys and from ship when in the vicinity were compared with surface acoustic backscatter intensity recorded at the ADCPs. The backscatter was found to be a significant predictor of wind sp...

A total of 1,173 specimens of Stomatopoda were captured in 27 localities at different depths (20 to 73 m) during three oceanographic cruises in the Mexican Pacific along the continental shelf of the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas. Seven species were identified of the families Eurysquillidae, Lysiosquillidae and Squillidae. Squilla hancocki and Squilla parva were the most abundant species and the ...

Observations of extreme, “freak” or “rogue waves” have typically depended on chance observations from ships at sea or from fixed oil or gas platforms. The observations have been so sparse that there are very few direct temporal or spatial measurements, and those that do exist are so infrequent that they have often been individually named: e.g. the “Draupner Wave.” Such named observations tend t...