Pacific Ocean Areas, 1 August

Central Pacific Area activated 14 August 1943. Prior reports for Hawaiian Department. Central Pacific forces absorbed by U.S. Army Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas on 1 August 1944. Redesignated U.S. Army Forces, Middle Pacific, 1 July 1945. Strength reported under U.S. Army Forces in the Pacific from 1 July 1945. 

Figure 16.26, for example, shows ozone isopleths predicted for the Los Angeles area using the CIT Eulerian model under two different assumptions for the boundary and initial conditions (Winner et al., 1995). In Fig. 16.26a, the pollutant concentrations measured in the past were used to set the boundary and initial conditions. In Fig. 16.26b, concentrations measured in clean air over the Pacific Ocean upwind of the modeled area were used instead. The axes are given in terms of the percentage of VOC or NOx emissions compared to the baseline level on August 28, 1987, rather than in terms of absolute concentrations as for... 

I In August, 2006, Fredrik Fransson and the crew of his yacht discovered a large area of floating pumice in the South Pacific Ocean near Tonga. The pumice was being emitted by an underwater volcano that created a new island. 

This is not the first instance of its kind. A similar incident took place on 31 August 1998 in the same vicinity in which the North Korean missiles were fired in July 2006. An object propelled by rockets was launched by North Korea and a part of the object hit the sea in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Sanriku in north-eastern Japan. The impact area of the object was in the vicinity of the international airway A590 which is known as composing NOP AC Composite Route System, a trunk route connecting Asia and North America where some 180 flights of various countries fly every day. 

Fig. 11-16 Partial pressure of CO2 in surface ocean water along the GEOSECS tracks (a) the Atlantic western basin data obtained between August 1972 and January 1973 (b) the central Pacific data along the 180° meridian from October 1973 to February 1974. The dashed line shows atmospheric CO2 for comparison. The equatorial areas of both oceans release CO2 to the atmosphere, whereas the northern North Atlantic is a strong sink for CO2. (Modified with permission from W. S. Broecker et al. (1979). Fate of fossil fuel carbon dioxide and the global carbon budget, Science 206,409 18, AAAS.)...

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