Nelson George Hogg	Senior Scientist	    Physical Oceanography

      Birth:  February 9, 1944

      B.A.Sc., University of Toronto, 1967 (engineering science)

      Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods  Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1971

      Research Assistant, 1967-71; Research Associate, 1972-73,
      Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of  Technology

      Postdoctoral Fellow, 1971-72,
      Institute of Oceanographic  Sciences (then National Institute of Oceanography), England

      Assistant Scientist, 1973-77; Associate Scientist, 1977-85,  
      awarded tenure, 1981; Senior Scientist, 1985-, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

      Wilson Medal for highest average in graduating class at the University of Toronto, 1967

      Summer fellowship in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1970

      Postdoctorate fellowship from the National Research Council of Canada, 1971

      Research Interests:  
        	The general circulation with special emphasis on the deep flow beneath the thermocline; 
        	dynamics of low frequency motions and their relation to the mean circulation;
        	effects of topography;
        	wave motions and mixing processes

      Author or co-author of 52 refereed scientific publications

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1971.  
	Longshore current generation by obliquely incident internal waves.  
			 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics,  2, 361-376.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1972.  
	Steady flow past an island with applications to Bermuda.   
			Geophysical Fluid Dynamics,  4, 55-81.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1973.  
	On the stratified Taylor column.   
			Journal of Fluid Mechanics,  58, 517-537.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1973.  
	The preconditioning phase of MEDOC 1969 -II.  Topographic effects.   
			Deep-Sea Research,  20(5), 449-459.

 Roberts, D. G., N. G. Hogg, Derek G. Bishop and C. G.  Flewellen, 1974.  
	Sediment distribution around moated seamounts in the Rockall Trough.   
			Deep-Sea Research,  21(3), 175-184.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1976.  
	On spatially growing baroclinic waves in the ocean.   
			Journal of Fluid Mechanics,  78, 217-235.

 Richman, James G., Carl Wunsch and Nelson G. Hogg, 1977.  
	Space and time scales of mesoscale motion in the western North Atlantic.  
			Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics,  15(4), 385-420.

 Hogg, Nelson G., Eli J. Katz and Thomas B. Sanford, 1978.  
	Eddies, islands and mixing.   
			Journal of Geophysical Research,  83(C6),  2921-2938.

 Schmitz, William J., Jr. and Nelson G. Hogg, 1978.  
	Observations of energetic low frequency current fluctuations in the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone.   
			Journal of Marine Research,  36(4), 725-734.

 The MODE Group, 1978.  
	The Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment.  
			Deep-Sea Research,  25(10), 859-910.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1980.  
	Effects of bottom topography on ocean currents.  
			In:  Orographic Effects in Planetary Flows, R. Hide and P. W.  White, 
			editors; GARP Publication Series No. 23,  pp. 167-205.

 Hogg, N. G., and W. J. Schmitz, Jr., 1980.  
	A dynamical interpretation of low frequency motions near very rough topography--the Charlie 	Gibbs Fracture Zone.   
			Journal of Marine Research, 38(2), 215-248.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1980.  
	Observations of internal Kelvin waves trapped round Bermuda.   
			Journal of Physical Oceanography,  10(9),1353-1376.

 Owens, W. Brechner, and Nelson G. Hogg, 1980.  
	Oceanic observations of stratified Taylor columns near a bump.   
			Deep-Sea Research, 27(12A), 1029-1045.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1981.  
	Topographic waves along 70\degrees W on the Continental Rise.   
			Journal of Marine Research,  39(4),627-649.

 Hogg, Nelson, Pierre Biscaye, Wilford Gardner, and William J. Schmitz, Jr., 1982.  
	On the transport and modification of Antarctic Bottom Water in the Vema Channel.   
			Journal of Marine Research, Supplement to  40, 231-263.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1983.  	
	Hydraulic control and flow separation in a multi-layered fluid with applications to the Vema 	Channel.  
			Journal of Physical Oceanography,  13(4), 695-708.

 Schmitz, William J., Jr., and Nelson G. Hogg, 1983.  
	Exploratory observations of abyssal currents in the South Atlantic near Vema Channel.
 			Journal of Marine Research,  41, 487-510.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1983.  
	A note on the deep circulation of the western North Atlantic:  its nature and causes.  
			 Deep-Sea Research,  30(9A), 945-961.

 Hogg, Nelson, G., 1985. 
	 Evidence for baroclinic instability in the Gulf Stream recirculation
			Progress in Oceanography,  14, 209-229.

 Hogg, Nelson G. and Henry M. Stommel, 1985.  
	The heton, an elementary interaction between discrete baroclinic geostrophic vortices, and its 	implications concerning eddy heat-flow.   
			Proceedings of the Royal Society of London,  A,  397, 1-20.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1985.  
	Multilayer hydraulic control with application to the Alboran Sea circulation.   						Journal of Physical Oceanography,  15(4), 454-466.

 Hogg, N. G., and H. Stommel, 1985.  
	On the relation between the deep circulation and the Gulf Stream.   				Deep-Sea Research,  32(10A), 1181-1193.

 Hogg, Nelson G., and Henry M. Stommel, 1985. 
	 Hetonic explosions: the breakup and spread of warm pools as explained by baroclinic point 	vortices.  
			 Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences,  42, 1465-1476.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1986.  
	On the correction of temperature and velocity time series for mooring motion.   						Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology,  3(1), 204-214.

 Hogg, Nelson G., Robert S. Pickart, Ross M. Hendry and William Smethie, Jr., 1986.  
	The northern recirculation gyre of the Gulf Stream.
 			Deep-Sea Research,  33, 1139-1165.

 Luyten, James R., Nelson G. Hogg and Henry M. Stommel, 1987.  	
	Closing the oceanic circulation.   				
			Deep-Sea Research,  34(1A), 55-60.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1987.  
	A least-squares fit of the advective-diffusive equations to Levitus Atlas data.   						Journal of Marine Research,  45(2), 347-375.

 Richardson, M. J., P. Biscaye, W. Gardner and N. G. Hogg, 1987.
	Suspended particulate matter transport through Vema Channel.  
 			Marine Geology,  77, 171-184.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1988.  
	Stochastic wave radiation by the Gulf Stream.  
			 Journal of Physical Oceanography,  18(11), 1687-1701.

 Pickart, Robert S. and Nelson G. Hogg, 1989.  
	A tracer study of the deep Gulf Stream cyclonic recirculation.   
			Deep-Sea Research, 36(6A), 935-956.

 Pickart, Robert S., Nelson G. Hogg and William M. Smethie, Jr., 1989. 
	Determining the strength of the deep western boundary current using the chlorofluoromethane 	ratio.   				
			Journal of Physical Oceanography,  19(7), 940-951.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1989. 
	Finite amplitude effects on deep planetary circulation over topography.   
			Journal of Physical Oceanography, 19(11), 1697-1706.

 Hogg, Nelson G. and Henry M. Stommel, 1990.  
	Maximizing buoyancy flux across layered geostrophic sections.   
			Journal of Physical Oceanography,  20(2), 264-273.

 Hogg, Nelson G. and Henry M. Stommel, 1990.  
	How currents in the upper thermocline could advect meddies deeper down.   
			Deep-Sea Research,  37(4), 613-623.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1991. 
	Mooring motion corrections revisited.  
			Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology,  8(2), 289-295.  

 Welsh, Elizabeth B., Nelson G. Hogg, and Ross M. Hendry, 1991.  
	The relationship of low-frequency deep variability near the HEBBLE site to Gulf Stream 	fluctuations.   
			Deep Ocean Sediment Transport,
			 A. R. M. Nowell, editor,  Marine Geology,  99, 303-317.

 Bower, Amy S., and Nelson G. Hogg, 1992.  
	Evidence for barotropic wave radiation from the Gulf Stream.  
			 Journal of Physical Oceanography,   22(1), 42-61.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1992.  
	On the transport of the Gulf Stream between Cape Hatteras and the Grand Banks.  
			Deep-Sea Research,  39(7/8), 1231-1246.  

 Zhang, Huai-Min, and Nelson G. Hogg, 1992.  
	Circulation and water mass balance in the Brazil Basin.  
			Journal of Marine Research, 50(3), 385-420.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1993. 
	 Toward parameterization of the eddy field near the Gulf Stream.   
			Deep-Sea Research,  40, 2359-2376.

 Zenk, Walter, Kevin G. Speer, and Nelson G. Hogg, 1993.  
	Bathymetry at the Vema Sill.   
			Deep-Sea Research,  40, 1925-1933.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1994. 
	Observations of Gulf Stream meander-induced disturbances.   
			Journal of Physical Oceanography,  24(12), 2534-2545.

 Malanotte-Rizzoli, Paola, Nelson G. Hogg and Roberta E. Young, 1995.
	Stochastic wave radiation by the Gulf Stream: Numerical experiments. 
			Deep-Sea Research,  42(3), 389-423. 

 Hogg, Nelson G., and William E. Johns, 1995.  
	Western boundary currents.
			 U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
			1991-1994, Supplement to  Reviews of Geophysics, pp.~1311-1334.  

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1996. 
	 Oceanographic data for parameter estimation.
			 In:   Modern Approaches to Data Assimilation in Ocean Modeling,
			P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, editor, Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, pp.~57-76.

 Jayne, Steven R., Nelson G. Hogg, and Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, 1996.
	Recirculation gyres forces by a beta-plane jet.  
			 Journal of Physical Oceanography,  26(4), 492-504.

 Bower, Amy S., and Nelson G. Hogg, 1996.  
	Structure of the Gulf Stream and its recirculations at 55 degrees W.  
			 Journal of Physical Oceanography,  26(6), 1002-1022.

 Zhang, Huai-Min, and Nelson G. Hogg, 1996.  
	Deducing dynamic properties from simulated hydrographic data:  Part~I.  Results from a non-	eddy resolving model.   
			Journal of Marine Research,  54(4), 679-703.

 Hogg, Nelson G., W. Brechner Owens, Gerold Siedler, and Walter Zenk, 1996.  
	Circulation in the Deep Brazil Basin.  In:   The South Atlantic:  Present and Past Circulation, 
			G. Wefer, W. H. Berger, G. Siedler and D. Webb, editors;
			Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, in press.  
			WHOI contr. no. 8880

 Klein, Birgit, and Nelson Hogg.  
	On the variability of 18 degrees water formation as observed from moored instruments at 55 	degrees W. 
			Deep-Sea Research, accepted.

 Zenk, Walter, and Nelson Hogg.  
	Warming trend in Antarctic Bottom Water flowing into the Brazil Basin
			Deep-Sea Research, accepted.
			%WHOI contr. no. 8925


Hogg, Nelson G., and Rui Xin Huang (editors), 1995.   
	Collected Works of Henry M. Stommel, Volumes~I-III, 
			American Meteorological Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 2000~pp.\ (approx.).


 Hogg, Nelson G. (Editor), 1975.  
	Balance of terms.  In:  Dynamics and the Analysis of MODE-I:  Report of the MODE-I Dynamics 	Group to the MODE-I Scientific Council, March 1975.  
			The Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment -- MODE-I, Executive Office 54-1417 				Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 Member of Committee on Earth Sciences, 1982.
 	A Strategy for Earth Science from Space in the 1980's, Part 1:  Solid Earth and Oceans.  
		Space Science Board, Assembly  of Mathematical and Physical Sciences,
		 National Research Council; National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 99~pp.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1983. 
	 Observational evidence for an eddy-driven deep circulation in the North Atlantic. 
			 In:   The Role of Eddies in the General Ocean Circulation, 
			Proceedings, 'Aha Huliko'a, Hawaiian Winter Workshop, 
			University of Hawaii at Manoa, January 5-7, 1983; 
			Lorenz Magaard, Peter Muller and Rita Pujalet, editors; 
			Hawaii Institute of Geophysics Special Publication; pp.~175-198.

 Schmitz, W. J., T. M. Joyce, W. R. Wright, and N. G. Hogg, 1984.
	Physical oceanography.  Chapter~3 in:   Environmental Summary of the U.S. Atlantic Continental 	Slope and Rise, 28-4 degrees N, Volume~I,
		Marine Geoscience Applications, Inc., Woods Hole, Massachusetts, pp.~3.1-3.99.

 Hogg, Nelson, 1992.  
	The Gulf Stream and its recirculations.  
			Oceanus,  35(2), 18-24.

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1995.  
	Some examples of topographic influence on  the abyssal circulation. 
		 In:   Topographic Effects in the Ocean,
		Proceedings, 'Aha Huliko'a, Hawaiian Winter Workshop, University of Hawaii
		at Manoa, January~17-20, 1995; Peter M\"uller and Diane Henderson,editors;
		 School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) Special Publication; 			pp.~137-139.

Technical Reports and Thesis

 Hogg, Nelson G., 1971.  
	The effect of topography on steady currents and internal waves.  
		Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic 		Institution.

 Sanford, Thomas B., and Nelson G. Hogg, 1977.  
	The North Atlantic Fine and Microstructure Cruise  Knorr 52 and  Eastward 75-12.
		Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report WHOI-77-11.

 McKee, Theresa K., Erika A. Francis, and Nelson G. Hogg, 1981.
        	A compilation of moored current-meter data from three topographic experiments:  the Bermuda 	Microstructure Array, the Island Trapped Waves Array and the Gibbs Fracture Zone Array, 	Volume XXVII.  
		Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report WHOI-81-68, 41 pp.\ + 3
		microfiche.

 Tarbell, Susan A., Scott E. Worrilow and Nelson G. Hogg, 1993.  
	A compilation of moored current meter data from SYNOP Arrays One and Two (September~1987 	to July~1991), Volume~XLIV. 
		 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report WHOI-93-01, 87~pp.\ + 			7~microfiche.

 Tarbell, Susan, Ralf Meyer, Nelson Hogg, and Walter Zenk, 1994.  
	A moored array along the southern boundary of the Brazil Basin for the Deep Basin Experiment -- 	Report on a joint experiment 1991-1992. 
		 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report WHOI-94-07 and Berichte aus 			dem Institut fur Meereskunde an der Christian-Albrechts-Universit at-Kiel-IfM-Kiel 			243, 107~pp.