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  • The South Atlantic Ocean response to local and remote forcings

    Creator:
    Fetter Filho, Antonio F. H.
    Abstract:
    The local and remote sources of variability of the South Atlantic Ocean are investigated using a set of numerical experiments and satellite data. A global, eddy-permitting, numerical simulation is analyzed to investigate the dynamical links between the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and the Malvinas Current (MC). The model results indicate...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    statistical analysis and prediction of geophysical fluid systems, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid

  • Diurnal wind-driven processes on the northern Monterey Bay inner shelf

    Creator:
    Suanda, Sutara H.
    Abstract:
    In the summer of 2007, a biophysical experiment was conducted to identify physical processes that determine the delivery of invertebrate larvae and juvenile rockfish to rocky intertidal and kelp forest communities in northern Monterey Bay, California. The experiment was sponsored by the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO)...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • A study of the relationship between ageostrophy and dynamical periodicities of the tropical Pacific Boundary Layer

    Creator:
    McCandlish, Cole B.
    Abstract:
    Eight years (1980-87) of twice-daily high-resolution radiosonde data from a tropical mid-Pacific island station are analyzed to generate time series of the planetary boundary layer (PBL) top pressure, an ageostrophic parameter (related to the divergence), and a parameter of mean PBL specific humidity. Sample spectra of these time series are...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Mathematical approaches to the physics of mesoscale oceanography

    Creator:
    Early, Jeffrey J.
    Abstract:
    The long-term evolution of Gaussian eddies is studied in an equivalent barotropic model using both linear and nonlinear quasi-geostrophic theory in an attempt to understand westward propagating satellite altimetry tracked mesoscale eddies. By examining both individual eddies and a large basin seeded with eddies, it is shown that long term...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    . Journal reference: J. Math. Anal. Appl, 297:317–342. Anderson and Gill, 1975. Anderson, D. and Gill, A

  • Dynamics of the Columbia River tidal plume

    Creator:
    Kilcher, Levi F.
    Abstract:
    This dissertation investigates the dynamics of the tidally modulated outflow from the Columbia River mouth using high resolution measurements of velocity, density and turbulent microstructure. At high tide, flow through the river mouth reverses from flood (onshore) to ebb (offshore). During ebb, buoyant fluid issues from the river mouth and...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    . Kilcher, Jonathan D. Nash Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans 2000 Florida Avenue N.W., Washington