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Michael A Spall

Michael A Spall

Faculty
Research Keywords: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Meso- to Basin-scale Ocean Circulation, Ocean Modeling, Marginal Seas

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Evaluating altimetry-derived surface currents on the south Greenland shelf with surface drifters

Coquereau, A., & Foukal, N. P., 2023. Evaluating altimetry-derived surface currents on the south Greenland shelf with surface drifters. Ocean Science, 19(5), 1393–1411. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-1393-2023 The pathways and fate of freshwater in the East Greenland Coastal Current (EGCC) are crucial to the climate system. The EGCC transports large amounts of freshwater in close proximity to sites of deep open-ocean…

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The competition between anthropogenic aerosol and greenhouse gas climate forcing is revealed by North Pacific water-mass changes

Shi, J.-R., Wijffels, S. E., Kwon, Y.-O., Talley, L. D., & Gille, S. T. (2023). The competition between anthropogenic aerosol and greenhouse gas climate forcing is revealed by North Pacific water-mass changes. Science Advances, 9(38), eadh7746. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh7746 Zonally averaged observed salinity trends in density space in the Pacific basin. Salinity trends [colors, psu/decade] from the EN4 product for (A)…

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An afternoon on the RV Sally Ride

An afternoon on the RV Sally Ride:  Brian Hogue (foreground, steadying the instrument) from the FIXIT Lab and Austin Liou from the Upper Ocean Processes Group (background, running the A-frame) are helping to deploy a modem-PIES, which is one component of an Internal Wave Resolving Array deployed west of California through the National Ocean Partnership…

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Formation and circulation of newly ventilated winter water in the western Beaufort Sea

Lin, P., Pickart, R. S., Weingartner, T. J., Simmons, H. L., Itoh, M., & Kikuchi, T., 2023. Formation and circulation of newly ventilated winter water in the western Beaufort Sea. Progress in Oceanography, 216, 103068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103068 Newly ventilated winter water (NVWW) is a cold, salty, nutrient-rich water mass that is critical for supporting the ecosystem of the western Arctic…

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Freshwater contributions to decadal variability of the Indonesian Throughflow

Wang S, Ummenhofer CC, Oppo D, Murty SA, Wagner P, Böning CW, and Biastoch A., 2023. Freshwater contributions to decadal variability of the Indonesian Throughflow. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2023GL103906. Average SSS in the Indonesian Seas (blue shading). Arrows indicate the main ITF pathway through Makassar (black solid arrows), freshwater pathways of South China Sea and Java Sea…

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