Terrence Michael Joyce

Physical Oceanographer

Senior Scientist

Physical Oceanography Department

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

 

B.Sc., Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Indiana, 1968; Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program, 1972.

 

Department Chair, 1998-2002, Senior Scientist, 1986-, Associate Scientist, 1977-1986; tenure awarded, 1981; Assistant Scientist, 1973-1977; Postdoctoral Investigator, 1972-1973, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

 

Paul M. Fye Senior Scientist Chair, 2003-; Director, Ocean & Climate Change Institute, WHOI, 2005-2007; Visiting Professor, LODYC, Paris, May, 1999, 2003, April 2006; Chair, WHOI Marine Operations Committee, 1994-February 1998; Director, WOCE Hydrographic Programme Office, September 1989-December 1996; Visiting Research Scientist, June to December, 1979, Institut für Meereskunde, Christian Albrechts Universität, Kiel, West Germany.

 

Co-Editor, Deep-Sea Research Special Volume (39), on Warm-Core Rings, 1992; Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research, 1983-88; Associate Editor, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 1982-1986;

 

Member, U.S. AMOC Science Steering Committee (2009-…), U.S. CLIVAR Process Studies and Model Improvement panel 2006-2008, NOAA Climate Change Data and Detection Advisory Panel, 1993-2000; Member, Advisory Committee for Ocean Sciences, N.S.F., 1986-1988; Member, U.S. WOCE Science Steering Committee, 1985-1988; Member, U.S. Warm-Core Ring Steering Committee, 1980-1985.

 

Recent or Pertinent Publications

 

Joyce, T. M., 1974. Fine-structure contamination of moored temperature sensors: a numerical experiment. J. Phys. Oceanogr, 4(2), 183-190.

 

Joyce, T. M., 1974. Nonlinear interactions among standing surface and internal gravity waves. J. Fluid Mechanics, 63(4), 801-825.

 

Hayes, S. P., T. M. Joyce and R. C. Millard, 1975. Measurements of vertical fine-structure in the Sargasso Sea. J. Geophys. Res., 80(3), 314-319.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., 1976. Large-scale variations in small scale temperature/salinity finestructure in the main thermocline of the northwest Atlantic. Deep-Sea Res., 23, 1175-1186.

 

Joyce, Terrence M. and Yves Desaubies, 1977. Discrimination between internal waves and temperature finestructure. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 7(1), 22-32.

 

Joyce, T. M. and Steven L. Patterson, 1977. Cyclonic ring formation at the Polar Front in the Drake Passage. Nature, London, 265(5590), 131-133.

 

Joyce, T. M., 1977. A note on the lateral mixing of water masses. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 7, 626-629.

 

The MODE Group, 1978. The Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment. Deep-Sea Res., 25(10), 859-910.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., Walter Zenk and John M. Toole, 1978. The anatomy of the Antarctic Polar Front in the Drake Passage. J. Geophys. Res., 83(C12), 6093-6113.

 

Frankignoul, Claude, and Terrence M. Joyce, 1979. On the internal wave variability during the Internal Wave Experiment (IWEX). J. Geophys. Res., 84(C2), 769-776.

 

Ruddick, Barry R., and Terrence M. Joyce, 1979. Observations of interaction between the internal wave-field and low frequency flows in the North Atlantic. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 9(3), 498-517.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., 1980. On production and dissipation of thermal variance in the oceans. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 10, 460-463.

 

Joyce, T. M., R. H. Kase, and W. Zenk, 1980. Horizontal advection of temperature in the seasonal thermocline during JASIN 1978. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 10(10), 1686-1690.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., 1981. Influence of the mid-Atlantic Ridge upon the circulation and the properties of the Mediterranean Water southwest of the Azores. J. Marine Res., 39(1), 31-52.

 

Joyce, T. M., S. L. Patterson, and R. C. Millard, Jr., 1981. Anatomy of a cyclonic ring in the Drake Passage. Deep-Sea Res., 28(11A), 1265-1287.

 

Joyce, T. M., D. S. Bitterman, Jr., and K. E. Prada, 1982. Shipboard acoustic profiling of upper ocean currents. Deep-Sea Research, 29(7A), 903-913.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., 1982. Marginally unstable salt fingers: Limits to growth. J. Marine Res., Supplement to 40, 291-306.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., Raymond W. Schmitt, and Marvel C. Stalcup, 1983. Influence of the Gulf Stream upon the short-term evolution of a warm-core ring. Australian J. Marine and Freshwater Res., 34, 515-524.

 

Joyce, T. M., and M. C. Stalcup, 1984. An upper ocean current jet and internal waves in a Gulf Stream warm core ring. J. Geophys. Res., 89(C2), 1997-2003.

 

Joyce, Terrence, Richard Backus, Karen Baker, Patricia Blackwelder, Otis Brown, Timothy Cowles, Robert Evans, Greta Fryxell, David Mountain, Donald Olson, Ronald Schlitz, Raymond Schmitt, Peter Smith, Raymond Smith, and Peter Wiebe, 1984. Rapid evolution of a Gulf Stream warm core ring. Nature, 308, 837-840.

 

Joyce, T. M., 1984. Velocity and hydrographic structure of a Gulf Stream warm-core ring. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 14(5), 936-947.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., and Marvel C. Stalcup, 1985. Wintertime convection in a Gulf Stream warm core ring. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 15(8), 1032-1042.

 

Joyce, T. M., and M. A. Kennelly, 1985. Upper ocean velocity structure of Gulf Stream Warm Core Ring 82B. J. Geophys. Res., 90(C5), 8839-8844.

 

Kennelly, Maureen, Robert H. Evans, and Terrence Joyce, 1985. Small-scale cyclones on the periphery of a Gulf Stream warm-core ring. J. Geophys. Res., 90(C5), 8845-8857.

 

Olson, D. B., R. W. Schmitt, M. Kennelly, and T. M. Joyce, 1985. A two-layer diagnostic model of the long term physical evolution of Warm Core Ring 82B. J. Geophys. Res., 90(C5), 8813-8822.

 

Nelson, David, M., Hugh W. Ducklow, Gary L. Hitchcock, Mark A. Brzezinski, Timothy J. Cowles, Christopher Garside, Richard W. Gould, Jr., Terrence M. Joyce, Christopher Langdon, James J. McCarthy, and Charles S. Yentsch, 1985. Distribution and composition of biogenic particulate matter in a Gulf Stream warm core ring. Deep-Sea Res., 32(11A), 1347-1370.

 

Joyce, T. M., C. Wunsch and S. D. Pierce, 1986. Synoptic Gulf Stream velocity profiles through simultaneous inversion of hydrographic and acoustic Doppler data. J. Geophys. Res., 91(C6), 7573-7585.

           

Joyce, Terrence M., Bruce A. Warren, and Lynne D. Talley, 1986. The geothermal heating of the abyssal sub arctic Pacific Ocean. Deep-Sea Res., 33(8A), 1003-1016.

 

Schmitt, Raymond W., Rolf G. Lueck, and Terrence M. Joyce, 1986. Fine- and microstructure at the edge of a warm core ring. Deep-Sea Res., 33(11/12A), 1665-1689.

 

Bishop, James K. B. and Terrence M. Joyce, 1986. Spatial distributions and variability of suspended particulate matter in Warm-Core Ring 82B. Deep-Sea Res., 33(11/12A), 1741-1760.

 

Joyce, Terrence M. and Kevin G. Speer, 1987. Modeling the large-scale influence of geothermal sources on abyssal flow. J. Geophys. Res., 92(C3), 2843-2850.

 

Joyce, T. M., 1987. Hydrographic sections across the Kuroshio Extension at 165°E and 175°W. Deep-Sea Res., 34(8A), 1331-1352.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., 1988. Wind-driven cross-equatorial flow in the Pacific Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 18, 19-24.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., 1988. On the wind-driven cross-equatorial flow in the Atlantic Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 18(5), 793-799.

 

Pierce, Stephen D., and Terrence M. Joyce, 1988. Gulf Stream velocity structure through inversion of hydrographic and acoustic Doppler data. J. Geophys. Res., 93(C3), 2227-2236.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., and William J. Schmitz, Jr., 1988. Zonal velocity structure and transport in the Kuroshio Extension. J.Phys. Oceanogr., 18(11), 1484-1494.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., Roger Lukas, and Eric Firing, 1988. On the hydrostatic balance and equatorial geostrophy. Deep-Sea Res., 35(8), 1255-1257.

 

Church, John A., Terrence M. Joyce and James F. Price, 1988. Current and density observations across the wake of Typhoon Gay. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 19(2), 259-265.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., 1989. On in-situ calibration of shipboard ADCPs. J. Atmospheric and Oceanic Tech., 6(1), 169-172.

 

Nelson, David M., James J. McCarthy, Terrence M. Joyce, and Hugh W. Ducklow, 1989. Decay of a warm-core ocean eddy: results in accelerated nutrient transport and primary production. Deep-Sea Res., 36(5), 705-714.

 

Cooper, Cortis, George Z. Forristall, and Terrence M. Joyce, 1990. Velocity and hydrographic structure of two Gulf of Mexico warm-core rings. J. Geophys. Res., 95(C2), 1663-1679.

 

Joyce, T. M., K. A. Kelly, D. M. Schubert and M. J. Caruso, 1990. Shipboard and altimetric studies of rapid Gulf Stream variability between Cape Cod and Bermuda. Deep-Sea Res., 37(6), 897-910.

 

Talley, Lynne D., Terrence M. Joyce, and Roland A. deSzoeke, 1991. Transpacific sections at 47°N and 152°W: Distributions of properties. Deep-Sea Res., 38(Supplement 1), S63-S82.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., 1991. Thermohaline catastrophe in a simple four box model of the ocean climate. J. Geophys. Res., 96(C11), 20,393-20,402.

 

Qiu, Bo, Kathryn A. Kelly and Terrence M. Joyce, 1991. Mean circulation and variability of the Kuroshio extension from GEOSAT altimetry data. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 96(C10), 18,491-18,507.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., 1991. Review of U.S. contributions to warm-core rings. Reviews of Geophysics, Supplement (U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1987-1990), 610-616.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., and Trevor J. McDougall, 1992. Physical structure and temporal evolution of Gulf Stream Warm-Core Ring 82B. Deep-Sea Res., 39(1), S19-S44.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., James K. B. Bishop and Otis B. Brown, 1992. Observations of offshore shelf water transport induced by a warm-core ring. Deep-Sea Res., 39(1), S97-S113.

 

Kelly, Kathryn A., Terrence M. Joyce, David M. Schubert, and Michael J. Caruso, 1992. The mean sea surface height and geoid along the GEOSAT subtrack from Bermuda to Cape Cod. J. Geophys. Res., 96(C7), 12,699-12,709.

 

Talley, Lynne D., and Terrence M. Joyce, 1992. The double silica maximum in the North Pacific. J. Geophys. Res., 97(C4), 5465-5480.

 

Qiu, Bo, and Terrence M. Joyce, 1992. Interannual variability in the Mid- and Low-latitude Western North Pacific. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 22(9), 1062-1079.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., and William J. Jenkins, 1993. Spatial variability of subducting water in the North Atlantic: A pilot study. J. Geophys. Res., 98(C6), 10,111-10,124.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., and Paul E. Robbins, 1996. The long-term hydrographic record at Bermuda. J. Climate, 9, 3121-3131.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., James R. Luyten, Alexander Kubryakov, Frank B. Bahr, and Julie S. Pallant, 1998. Meso- to large-scale structure of subducting water in the subtropical gyre of the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 28(1), 40-61.

 

Curry, Ruth G., Michael S. McCartney, and Terrence M. Joyce, 1998. Linking subtropical deep water climate signals to North Atlantic subpolar convection variability. Nature, 391, 575-577.

 

Joyce, T. M., G. A. Cannon, D. Pashinski, K. R. Helfrich, and S. A. Harrington, 1998. Vertical and temporal vorticity observations at Juan de Fuca Ridge: Hydrothermal signatures. Geophys. Res. Letters, 25, 1741-1744.

 

Helfrich, K. R., T. M. Joyce, G. A. Cannon, S. A. Harrington, and D. Pashinski, 1998. Mean hydrographic and velocity sections near Pipe Organ vent at Juan de Fuca Ridge. Geophys Res. Letters, 25, 1757-1740.

 

Wijffels, Susan, Melinda M. Hall, Terrence Joyce, Daniel J. Torres, Peter Hacker, and Eric Firing, 1998. Multiple deep gyres of the western North Pacific: A WOCE section along 149°E. J. Geophys. Res., 103(C6), 12,985-13,009.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., Robert S. Pickart, and Robert C. Millard, 1999. Long-term hydrographic changes at 52° and 66°W in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre and Caribbean. Deep-Sea Res. II, 46, 245-278.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., Clara Deser, and Michael A. Spall, 2000. On the relation between decadal variability of Subtropical Mode Water and the North Atlantic Oscillation. J. Climate, 13, 2550-2569.

 

Hernandez-Guerra, Alonso, and Terrence M. Joyce, 2000. Water masses and circulation in the surface layers of the Caribbean at 66°W. Geophys. Res. Letters, 27, 3497-3500.

 

Joyce, T. M., I. Yasuda, Y. Hiroe, K. Komatsu, K. Kawasaki, and F. Bahr, 2001. Mixing in the meandering Kuroshio Extension and the formation of North Pacific Intermediate water. J. Geophys. Res., 106(C3), 4397-4404.

 

King, B. A., E. Firing, and T. M. Joyce, 2001. Shipboard observations during WOCE. Chap-ter 3.1 in: Ocean Circulation and Climate, G. Siedler, J. Church and W. J. Gould, editors, International Geophysics Series, Academic Press, 715 pp.

 

Yasuda, Ichiro, Yutaka Hiroe, Kosei Komatsu, Kiyoshi Kawasaki, Terrence M. Joyce, Frank Bahr, and Yasuhiro Kawasaki, 2001. Hydrographic structure and transport of the Oyashio south of Hokkaido and the formation of North Pacific Intermediate Water. J. Geophys. Res., 106(C4), 6931-6942.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., Alonso Hernandez-Guerra, and William M. Smethie, Jr., 2001. Zonal circulation in the NW Atlantic and Caribbean from a meridional World Ocean Circulation Experiment hydrographic section at 66°W. J. Geophys. Res., 106(C10), 22,095-22,113.

 

Frankignoul, Claude, Guelle de Coёtlogon, Terrence M. Joyce, and Shenfu Dong, 2002. Gulf Stream variability and ocean-atmosphere interactions. J. Phys.Oceanogr., 31, 3516-3529.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., 2002. One hundred plus years of wintertime climate variability in the eastern US. J. Climate, 15, 1076-1086.

 

Aoyama, M., T. M. Joyce, T. Kawano and Y. Takatsuki, 2002. Standard seawater comparison up to P129. Deep-Sea Res., 49, 1103-1114.

 

Joyce, Terrence M. and Dunworth-Baker, Jane, 2003. Long-term hydrographic variability in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. Geophys. Res. Letters, 30(2), 1043, doi:10.1029/2002 GLO15225.

 

Yang, Jiayan and Terrence M. Joyce, 2003. How do high-latitude North Atlantic climate signals negotiate the crossover boundary between the Deep-Western Boundary Current and the Gulf Stream. Geophys. Res. Letters, 30(2), 1070, doi:10.1029/2002GLO15366.

 

Hiroe, Y., I. Yasuda, K. Komatsu, K. Kawasaki, T. M. Joyce, F. Bahr, 2003. Transport of North Pacific Intermediate Water in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Interfrontal Zone. Deep-Sea Res. II, 49, 5353-5364.

 

Joyce, T. M., C. Frankignoul, J. Yang, and H. E. Phillips, 2004. Ocean response and feedback to the SST dipole in the Tropical Atlantic, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34, 2525-2540.

  

Hall, M. M., T. M. Joyce, R. S. Pickart W. M. Smethie Jr. and D. J. Torres, 2004. Zonal circulation across 52°W in the North Atlantic. J. Geophys. Res., 109, C11008, doi:10.1029/2003JC002103.

  

Joyce, Terrence. M., Jane Dunworth-Baker, Robert S. Pickart, Daniel Torres, Stephanie Waterman, 2005. On the Deep Western Boundary Current south of Cape Cod, Deep-Sea Res. II, 52 , 615-625.

 

Kawano, T., M. Aoyama, T. Joyce, H. Uchida, Y. Takatsuki and M. Fukasawa, 2006. The Latest Batch-to-batch Difference Table of Standard Seawater and its Application to the WOCE Onetime Sections, J. Oceanography, 62, 777-792.

  

Yang, Jiayan, and Terrence M. Joyce, 2006. Local and Equatorial Forcing of Seasonal Variations of the North Equatorial Countercurrent in the Atlantic Ocean, J. Phys. Oceanogr, 36 , 238-254.

  

Phillips, Helen E., and Terrence M. Joyce, 2007. Bermuda’s Tale of Two Time Series: Hydrostation S and BATS, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37, 554-571.

  

Joyce, Terrence M., and Andrey Proshutunsky, 2007.Greenland’s Island Rule and the Arctic Ocean Circulation, J. Mar. Res., 65,639-653..

 

Peña-Molino, Beatriz, and Terrence Joyce, 2008. Variability in the Slope Water and its relation to the Gulf Stream path. Geophys. Res. Let.,35,LO3606, doi: 10.1029/2007GL032183.

 

The Climode Group, 2009.Observing the cycle of convection and restratification over the Gulf Stream system and the subtropical gyre of the North Atlantic ocean: preliminary results from the CLIMODE field campaign, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90, 1337-1350.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., Leif N. Thomas, and Frank Bahr, 2009. Wintertime observations of Subtropical Mode Water formation within the Gulf Stream, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L02607, doi:10.1029/2008GL035918

 

Joyce, Terrence M., Young-Oh Kwon, and Lisan Yu, 2009. On the relationship between Synoptic Wintertime Atmospheric Variability and path shifts in the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extension, J. Climate, 22, 3177-3192.

 

Hernández-Guerra, Alonso, Terrence M. Joyce, Eugenio Fraile-Nuez, and Pedro Vélez-Belchí 2009. Using Argo data to investigate the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the North Atlantic. Deep-Sea Res. I, 57,29-36.

 

Joyce, Terrence M., and Rong Zhang 2010. On the path of the Gulf Stream and the Atlantic Meridional Overturing Circulation J. Climate, 23, 3146-3154.

 

Thomas, Leif N., and Terrence M. Joyce, 2010. Subduction on the northern and southern flanks of the Gulf Stream, J. Phys. Oceanogr.,40,429-438..

 

Kelly, K. A., R. J. Small, R. M. Samelson, B. Qiu, T. M. Joyce, Y.-O. Kwon, and M. F. Cronin 2010. Western Boundary Currents and Frontal Air-Sea Interaction: Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extension. J. Climate, 23,5644-5667.

 

Toole, J.M., R.G. Curry, T.M. Joyce, M. McCartney and B. Peña-Molino. Transport of the North Atlantic Deep Western Boundary Current about 39°N, 70°W: 2004-2008 . Deep-Sea Res. II, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.10.058.

 

Nye, J.A., T.M. Joyce, Y.-O. Kwon, and J.S. Link, 2011: Gulf Stream position determines spatial distribution of silver hake. Nature Commun., 2:412, doi:10.1038/ncomms1420.

 

Peña-Molino, B., T.M. Joyce, J.M. Toole, 2011. Recent changes in the Labrador Sea Water within the Deep Western Boundary Current southeast of Cape Cod, Deep-Sea Research, 58 (2011) 1019-103.

 

Joyce, Terrence M. 2011, New perspectives on Eighteen Degree Water formation in the North Atlantic. J. Oceanography, in press.

 

Thomas, Leif N., John Taylor, Raffael Ferrari, and Terrence M. Joyce. Symmetric Instability in the Gulf Stream, DSR-II, submitted.

 

Joyce, T.M., L.N. Thomas, W.K. Dewar, J.B. Girton, Eighteen Degree Water Formation within the Gulf Stream: a new paradigm arising from CLIMODE, DSR-II submitted.

 

Pérez-Hernandez, M.D, A. Hernandez-Guerra, T.M. Joyce, P. Velez-Belchi, Wind-Driven Cross-Equatorial Flow in the Indian Ocean, in preparation.

  

Synergistics: T. Joyce served as department chair of physical oceanography at WHOI from 1998-2002, has helped to develop and lead the WOCE Hydrographic Program as director of an international project office (1989-1996) and prior to that served as a member of the US WOCE Science Steering Committee. He has been active in the MIT/WHOI education program beginning with teaching of one of the core courses and advising nine students (5 M.S., 4 Ph.D.). He has worked in the development of oceanographic applications of the shipboard acoustic Doppler profiler from an early commercial model and led the growth of the WHOI CTD group in its early years of existence. He has served as an associate editor of JGR Oceans and been co-editor of a special volume of DSR (1992) dealing with Warm Core Rings (of the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio). He has served on the awards nomination committee and on the Editor Search Committee for Geophysical Research Letters for AGU. He has also served on the advisory committee for Ocean Sciences at NSF and on the advisory panel of the NOAA program of Climate Change Data and Detection. T. Joyce was recently a member of the Process Study and Model Improvement Panel for U.S. CLIVAR, a member of the Science Steering Committee for the U.S. AMOC Program, and the Director of the Ocean & Climate Change Institute at WHOI.

 

Graduate Students: Kevin Speer (Ph.D. 1988), John Toole (Sc.D. 1980), Barry Ruddick (Ph.D. 1977), Marlene Noble (M.S. 1975), Maureen Kennelly (M.S. 1983), Steven Pierce (M.S. 1986), D. Schubert (M.S. 1990), Stephanie Harrington (M.S. 1997), Beatriz Pena-Molino (Ph.D. 2010).

 

Postdoctoral Scholars: Edward Horn (1979), Bo Qiu (1990-1991), Helen Phillips (2000-2001).

 

Advisors: Ph.D.: Robert C. Beardsley, WHOI