Physical Oceanography
Special Seminar: Deep Argo Quantifies Bottom Water Warming Rates in the Southwest Pacific Basin
Gregory Johnson, NOAA/PMEL
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Role of Residual Overturning for the Sensitivity of Southern Ocean Isopycnal Slopes to Changes in Wind Forcing
Madeleine Youngs, MIT/WHOI
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department – Clark 507
A Lagrangian View of Spring Phytoplankton Blooms
Shin Kida, Kyushu University
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Multidecadal Relationships Between US East Coast Sea Level and North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures
Christopher M. Little, Atmospheric and Environmental Research
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Physical Oceanography Speed Talks – Round Two
Alison Macdonald, WHOI; Amy Bower, WHOI; and Sachiko Yoshida, WHOI
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Physical Oceanography Speed Talks – Round One
Robert Todd, WHOI; Karl Helfrich, WHOI; and Viviane Menezes, WHOI
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
The Different Roles of Atlantic and Pacific Ocean in Partitioning Global Energy Transport and Shifting ITCZ Position
Sungduk Yu, Yale
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
New report takes in-depth look at three factors contributing to sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast
A new report from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) discusses some of the science of sea level rise and highlights three key processes that contribute to the phenomenon. Produced in […]
Read MoreUpper-Ocean Response to Precipitation Forcing in an Ocean Model Hindcast of Hurricane Gonzalo
John Steffen, WHOI
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Oceanographer wins big money in rainfall forecasting contest
Rainfall forecasting is big money! For over 40 years, Ray Schmitt has been a physical oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Read MoreDense Antarctic water returning to the Atlantic
“This region, the Scotia Sea, is unique in that it hosts several different physical mechanisms which launder dense water to make it lighter within a relatively small basin (the Southern […]
Read MoreOn the Vertical Modes of a Restless Ocean
Ken Brink, WHOI
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Summer Student Fellow Presentations: The Role of Coastal Ocean Surface Fluxes During Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers
Sam Bartusek, Princeton University
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Summer Student Fellow Presentations: Sea Surface Height Variance Spectra of Internal Waves
Weiguang Wu, University of California, San Diego
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Schmitt Symposium on Ocean Salinity and Mixing
Closing remarks
Read MoreSchmitt Symposium on Ocean Salinity and Mixing
Ray Schmitt, WHOI. Apologia pro bon fortun
Read MoreSchmitt Symposium on Ocean Salinity and Mixing
Session 4: Water Cycle
Laifang Li, Duke. Signatures of the Oceanic Water Cycle on the Earth’s Climate System
Caroline Ummenhofer, WHOI. Relative Skill of Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity for […]
Schmitt Symposium on Ocean Salinity and Mixing
Special lunch time seminar
Jubao Zhang, Boston College. Random Walks from Oceanography to Finance
Schmitt Symposium on Ocean Salinity and Mixing:
Session 3: Mixing
John Toole, WHOI. The High Resolution Profiler: A Retrospective
Jim Ledwell, WHOI. Tracer and Microstructure Working Together
Will Fortin, LDEO. Always Something New: Ray Waves into Seismic […]
Schmitt Symposium on Ocean Salinity and Mixing:
Session 2: Double Diffusion
Barry Ruddick, Dalhousie. Arctic Chi
Timour Radko, NPS. Thermohaline Layering on the Microscale
Mary Louise Timmermans, Yale. Double Diffusion in the Arctic Ocean
Schmitt Symposium on Ocean Salinity and Mixing
Special lunch time seminar
Special guests
Schmitt Symposium on Ocean Salinity and Mixing: Session 1: Salinity Dynamics
R.Xin Huang, WHOI. Potential Spicity and its Application to Water Mass Analysis and Climate Study
Julian Schanze, ESRI. The fate of Rain: Salinity Physics in the Intertropical Convergence Zone
Arnold […]
Schmitt Symposium on Ocean Salinity and Mixing: Downwelling, Upwelling, and Tracer Dispersion Near a Sloping Boundary
Trevor McDougall, UNSW
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
How Arctic Sea Ice Decline and Indian Ocean Warming Affect the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
Alexey Federov, Yale
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department