Postdoctoral Investigator Christoph Renkl
Christoph Renkl, Postdoctoral Investigator, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreReabsorption of lee-wave energy in bottom-intensified currents
Wu, Y., Kunze, E., Tandon, A., & Mahadevan, A, 2022. Reabsorption of lee-wave energy in bottom-intensified currents. Journal of Physical Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-22-0058.1 While lee-wave generation has been argued to be a major sink for the 1-TW wind work on the ocean’s circulation, microstructure measurements in the Antarctic Circumpolar Currents find dissipation rates as much…
Read MoreRiver effects on sea-level rise in the Río de la Plata estuary during the past century
Piecuch, C. G., 2023. River effects on sea-level rise in the Río de la Plata estuary during the past century, Ocean Sci., 19, 57–75. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-57-2023 Identifying the causes for historical sea-level changes in coastal tide-gauge records is important for constraining oceanographic, geologic, and climatic processes. The Río de la Plata estuary in South America…
Read MoreSubsurface ocean temperature responses to the anthropogenic aerosol forcing in the North Pacific
Shi, J.-R., Y.-O. Kwon, and S. E. Wijffels, 2023. Subsurface ocean temperature responses to the anthropogenic aerosol forcing in the North Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett. 50, e2022GL101035, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101035 Climate variations in the Pacific have long been of interest as considerable evidence has emerged of a decades-long change in the Pacific atmosphere and ocean. Superimposed on…
Read MoreReview of oceanic mesoscale processes in the North Pacific: Physical and biogeochemical impacts
Ueno, H., Bracco, A., Barth, J., Budyansky, M., Hasegawa, D., Itoh, S., Kim, S., Ladd, C., Lin, X., Park, Y.-G., Prants, S., Ross, T., Rypina, I., Sasai, Y., Trusenkova, O., Ustinova, E., & Zhong, Y., 2023. Review of oceanic mesoscale processes in the North Pacific: Physical and biogeochemical impacts. Progress In Oceanography, 102955. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102955 This…
Read MoreWHOI PO Department has strong showing at the COP27 Climate Conference
By Dominic Fucile Over 30 members of the WHOI community attended the Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt. From November 6 – 18 2022, WHOI administrators, scientists, and graduate students participated in the global discussion on climate. The Institution’s presence was ten times larger than it was during last year’s Climate Change…
Read MoreCoupled atmosphere‐ocean observations of a cold air outbreak and its impact on the Iceland Sea
Renfrew, I., Huang, J., Semper, S., Barrell, C., Terpstra, A., Pickart, R., Våge, K., Elvidge, A., Spengler, T., Strehl, A., & Weiss, A., 2022. Coupled atmosphere‐ocean observations of a cold air outbreak and its impact on the Iceland Sea. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4418 In winter 2018, we went to the Iceland…
Read MoreThe Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Gyre
The Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Gyre
Read MoreA cruise during autumn freeze-up in the western Arctic Ocean
A cruise during autumn freeze-up in the western Arctic Ocean
Read MorePostdoctoral Fellow Xuan Shan
Xuan Shan, Postdoctoral Fellow, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreUntangling Eddy Kinetic Energy in Our Oceans and Climate Models
By Randy Showstack The Ocean’s heat, freshwater, carbon, and nutrients are transported around the globe by ocean currents, including the meandering, swirling, and wiggly mesoscale eddy field. These eddying motions span from tens to hundreds of kilometers, contain a majority of ocean kinetic energy, and help to shape mean currents and their variability. The mesoscale…
Read MoreAdministrative Associate I Kurt Reynolds
Kurt Reynolds, Grant Administrator, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MorePostdoctoral Investigator Yanxu Chen
Yanxu Chen, Postdoctoral Investigator, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreApplying dynamical systems techniques to real ocean drifters
Rypina, I. I., Getscher, T., Pratt, L. J., & Ozgokmen, T., 2022. Applying dynamical systems techniques to real ocean drifters. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 29(4), 345–361. https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-29-345-2022 Techniques from the dynamical systems theory have been widely used to study transport, quantify the intensity of stirring, and measure Lagrangian coherence in oceanic flows. However, they…
Read MoreOverflow water pathways in the North Atlantic
Overflow water pathways in the North Atlantic
Read MoreSlantwise convection in the Irminger Sea
Le Bras, I. a.-A., Callies, J., Straneo, F., Biló, T. C., Holte, J., & Johnson, H. L., 2022. Slantwise Convection in the Irminger Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans, 127(10), e2022JC019071. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC019071 The subpolar North Atlantic is a site of significant carbon dioxide, oxygen, and heat exchange with the atmosphere. This exchange, which regulates…
Read MoreSpotlight on Research Specialist Heather Furey
Heather Furey came to the Oceanographic in May 1997 after finishing a Master’s in Physical Oceanography at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Read MoreVertical structure of barotropic‐to‐baroclinic tidal energy conversion on a continental slope
Liu, Z., Zhang, W., & Helfrich, K., 2022. Vertical structure of barotropic‐to‐baroclinic tidal energy conversion on a continental slope. Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, 127(9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jc019130
Read MoreSpotlight on PO Chair Young-Oh Kwon
The PO Department congratulates Young-Oh Kwon on his recent appointment as Department Chair.
Read MorePostdoctoral Investigator Ming Shao
Ming Shao, Postdoctoral Investigator, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreIberian hydroclimate variability and the Azores High during the last 1200 years: evidence from proxy records and climate model simulations
Thatcher, D. L., Wanamaker, A. D., Denniston, R. F., Ummenhofer, C. C., Asmerom, Y., Polyak, V. J., Cresswell-Clay, N., Hasiuk, F., Haws, J., & Gillikin, D. P., 2022. Iberian hydroclimate variability and the Azores High during the last 1200 years: Evidence from proxy records and climate model simulations. Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06427-6 The state of the…
Read MoreOrcas spotted off the Armstrong
While transiting from the work site in the Irminger Sea to Reykjavik during a recent AR69-01 OOI-Irminger 9/OSNAP-SDWBC cruise, a pod of orca whales came by the ship. NOAA Marine Mammal Observer Pete Dooley was on board, and he estimated the pod size to be 32, with several calves in the group. It was a…
Read MoreThe importance of non-tidal water-level variability for reconstructing Holocene relative sea level
Kemp, A. C., T. A. Shaw, and C. G. Piecuch, 2022. The importance of non-tidal water-level variability for reconstructing Holocene relative sea level, Quaternary Science Reviews, 290, 107637, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107637 Salt-marsh sediment is an important geological archive for reconstructing Holocene relative sea level. The vertical uncertainty of these reconstructions is usually quantified as proportional to tidal…
Read MoreHABS Cruise on the R/V Norseman II
Senior Scientist Bob Pickart, Research Associate Marshall Swartz, and 14 others from WHOI…
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