Welcome Postdoctoral Investigator Jacob Forsyth
Jacob Forsyth, Postdoctoral Investigator, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreNew resource for teachers on how oceanographers take the pulse of ocean currents
One of the means by which we observe the ocean is to deploy moorings, lines with anchors on the seafloor and flotation…
Read MoreWelcome Research Assistant II Eve Cinquino
Eve Cinquino, Research Assistant II, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreSources and upstream pathways of the densest overflow water in the Nordic Seas
Huang, J., Pickart, R.S., Huang, R.X. et al. 2020. Sources and upstream pathways of the densest overflow water in the Nordic Seas. Nature Communications, 11, 5389, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19050-y The pathways of warm Atlantic inflow and dense outflow are shown in red and green arrows, respectively. Colors and gray contours represent the bathymetry from ETOPO2, and the…
Read MoreWelcome Postdoctoral Scholar Zihua Liu
Zihua Liu, Postdoctoral Scholar, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreScientists and crew on R/V Sikuliaq work along edge of a large multi-year ice flow
Scientists and crew on R/V Sikuliaq work along the edge of a large multi-year ice flow during SKQ202014S in Oct/Nov 2020. Photo by Ethan Roth, R/V Sikuliaq.
Read MoreAON Cruise
Leah McRaven and Evie Fachon are craned onto multi-year ice via a personnel basket to deploy an SVP drifter.
Read MoreWelcome Postdoctoral Fellow Nina Whitney
Nina Whitney, Postdoctoral Fellow, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreOSNAP Cruise
Members of WHOI prepare the CTD rosette for an optode calibration dip.
Read MorePioneer Cruise
After 14 days of quarantine, a nine-person science team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution boarded the R/V Neil Armstrong.
Read MoreSearch and rescue at sea aided by hidden flow structures
Predicting the location of a person lost at sea several hours after the accident is critical for a successful search and rescue operation. TRAPs are structures within the oceanic flow that are hidden to naked-eye inspections of ocean currents and that attract and trap all floating objects, including people lost at sea. Thus, knowing where…
Read MoreWelcome Postdoctoral Investigator Jacob Steinberg
Jacob Steinberg, Postdoctoral Investigator, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreWelcome Research Associate Thomas Meunier
Thomas Meunier, Research Associate, joins WHOI’s PO Department
Read MoreGulf Stream transport
The Gulf Stream, one of, if not the world’s strongest ocean current, plays a major role in earth’s climate by transporting heat from the tropics to the mid latitudes. Changes in the strength of this current could therefore have profound impact. But how to quantify the intensity of the Gulf Stream? Based on upper-ocean velocity…
Read MoreImpact of multidecadal variability in Atlantic SST on winter atmospheric blocking
Kwon, Y.-O., H. Seo, C.C. Ummenhofer, and T.M. Joyce, 2020. Impact of multidecadal variability in Atlantic SST on winter atmospheric blocking. Journal of Climate, 33, 867-892. https://journals.ametsoc.org/jcli/article/33/3/867/346256/Impact-of-Multidecadal-Variability-in-Atlantic-SST Lag between AMV and North Atlantic wintertime jetstream conditions. Lag composite of winter (December-March) (a) zonal wind speed at 200hPa during periods following warm AMV phases by 4…
Read MoreLong‐term SST variability on the northwest Atlantic continental shelf and slope
Chen, Z., Kwon, Y.‐O., Chen, K., Fratantoni, P., Gawarkiewicz, G., & Joyce, T. M. 2020. Long‐term SST variability on the northwest Atlantic continental shelf and slope. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL085455. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085455 Spatial pattern of linear trends of sea surface temperature anomaly between 1982 and 2018 based on the NOAA Optimum Interpolation sea…
Read MoreCharacteristics of an advective marine heatwave in the Middle Atlantic Bight in early 2017
Gawarkiewicz, G., Chen, K., Forsyth, J., Bahr, F., Mercer, A. M., Ellertson, A., Han, L. 2019. Characteristics of an advective marine heatwave in the Middle Atlantic Bight in early 2017. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6 , 712. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00712/full A sequence of Sea Surface Temperature images of the Middle Atlantic Bight from November 14, 2016 through…
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