Joe Pedlosky Scientist Emeritus Physical Oceanography Office Phone: +1 508 289 2534 Fax: +1 508 457 2181 jpedlosky@whoi.edu » CV
WHOI Mailing Address: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 266 Woods Hole Rd. MS# 21 Woods Hole, MA 02543-1050 Education B.Sc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960, Aeronautical Engineering M.Sc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960, Aeronautics/Astronautics Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963, Meteorology Research Interests Baroclinic instability and general stability problems in fluid dynamics; nonlinear dynamics of finite amplitude waves; general circulation of the ocean, especially mid-latitude gyres; geophysical fluid dynamics; equatorial oceanic circulation; abyssal ocean circulation. Recently Submitted Manuscripts The Skirted Island: The Effect of Topography on the Flow Around Planetary Scale Islands (pdf) » A Note on The Weakly Nonlinear Ekman Layer: Thickness and Flux (pdf) » Thermally Driven Circulations in Small Oceanic Basins (pdf) » Baroclinic Instability of Time-Dependent Currents (pdf) » The Instability of Rossby Basin Modes and the Oceanic Eddy Field (pdf) » The Nonlinear Dynamics of Time Dependent Subcritical Baroclinic Currents (doc) » Rossby wave instability and apparent phase speeds in large ocean basins (pdf) » Time Dependent Response to Cooling in a Beta-Plane Basin (pdf) » Eddy formation near the west coast of Greenland (pdf) » The Two-layer Skirted Island (pdf) » The Nonlinear Downstream Development of Baroclinic Instability (pdf) » Courses Course 12.802 "Waves in the Ocean and Atmosphere" Course 12.824 Instability theory for the oceans and atmosphere Course 12.800 "Fluid Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean" GFD 2007 Fall 2007 Course 12.800 "Fluid Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean" Course 12.800: Lecture Videos Lectures Jule Charney: Life and Works Haurwitz Lecture, American Meteorological Society, 2009: "Kelvin's Theorem, The Propagation of Rossby Waves through Barriers, and the Circulation around Planetary Islands"

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