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J. Tom Farrar

Associate Scientist

Physical Oceanography

Office Phone: +1 508 289 2691

jfarrar@whoi.edu

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Education

• B.S. Physics, University of Oklahoma
• B.A. Philosophy, University of Oklahoma
• S.M. Physical Oceanography, MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography
• Ph.D. Physical Oceanography, MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography

Refereed Publications

• Farrar, J. T., and R. A. Weller (2006). Intraseasonal variability near 10° N in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean,  J. Geophys. Res., 111, C05015, doi:10.1029/2005JC002989.
• Plueddemann, A.J. and Farrar, J.T. (2006). Observations and models of the energy flux from the wind to mixed layer inertial currents.  Deep Sea Research II, 53, 5-30, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2005.10.017.
• Edson, J.B. and coauthors (2007). The Coupled Boundary Layers and Air-Sea Transfer Experiment in Low Winds (CBLAST-LOW). Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc., 88(3), 341-356.
• Farrar, J.T., Zappa, C.J., Weller, R.A., and Jessup, A.T. (2007). Sea surface temperature signatures of oceanic internal waves in low winds.   J. Geophys. Res., 112, C06014, doi: 10.1029/2006JC003947.
• Farrar, J.T. (2008). Observations of the dispersion characteristics and meridional sea-level structure of equatorial waves in the Pacific Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 38, 1669-1689.
• Jiang, H., Farrar, J.T., Beardsley, R., Chen, R. and Chen, C. (2009). Zonal surface wind jets across the Red Sea due to mountain gap forcing along both sides of the Red Sea.  Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 36, L19605, doi:10.1029/2009GL040008.
• Wells, A.J., Cenedese, C., Farrar, J.T. and Zappa, C.J. (2009). Variations in ocean surface temperature due to near-surface flow: Straining the cool skin layer.  J. Phys. Oceanogr., 39, 2685-2710.
• Farrar, J.T. (2011). Barotropic Rossby waves radiating from tropical instability waves in the Pacific Ocean.  J. Phys. Oceanogr. , 41 1160-1181.
• Davis, K.A., Lentz, S.J., Pineda, J., Farrar, J.T., Starczak, V.R., and Churchill, J.H. (2011). Observations of the thermal environment on Red Sea platform reefs: A heat budget analysis.  Coral Reefs, 30, 25-36, DOI:10.1007/s00338-011-0740-8.
• Berloff, P., Karabasov, S., Farrar, J.T., and Kamenkovich, I.  (2011).  On Latency of Multiple Zonal Jets in the Oceans.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 686, 534-567, doi:10.1017/jfm.2011.345.
• Ganju, N.K., Lentz, S.J., Kirincich, A.R. and Farrar, J.T.  (2011)  Complex mean circulation over the inner-shelf south of Martha's Vineyard revealed by observations and a high-resolution model.  J. Geophys. Res., 116, C10036, doi:10.1029/2011JC007035.
• Farrar, J.T. and Durland, T.S.  (2012)  Wavenumber-frequency spectra of inertia-gravity and mixed Rossby-gravity waves in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.  J. Phys. Oceanogr., 42, 1859–1881.
  
• Durland, T.S. and  Farrar, J.T.  (2012)  The wavenumber-frequency content of resonantly excited equatorial waves.  J. Phys. Oceanogr., 42, 1834–1858.
• Cronin, M.F., Bond, N.A.,  Farrar, J.T., Ichikawa, H., Jayne, S.R., Kawai, Y., Kona, M., Qiu, B., Rainville, L., and Tomita, H.  (2013)  Formation and erosion of the seasonal thermocline in the Kuroshio Extension Recirculation Gyre.  Deep Sea Research II, 85, 62-74.