Observations of the transition scale from balanced to unbalanced motions in the eastern tropical Pacific from historical ship data

Saulo M Soares1, Sarah T Gille2, Teresa K Chereskin3, Eric Firing4, Julia M Hummon5 and Cesar B Rocha1, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)SIO/UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States