Physical Oceanography Seminars at SIO

--- Previous Seminars Aug 03 - Jun 04 ---

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September 24, 2003
Kathryn Kelly, Applied Physics Laboratory/University of Washington: "Western Boundary Current Heat Transport Variations and Their Role in Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling"

October 1, 2003
Paola Cessi, PORD/SIO: "The eddy-driven thermocline"

October 8, 2003
David Webb, SOC: "Results from the OCCAM Global Ocean Model"

October 9, 2003
Shenfu Dong, School of Oceanography/University of Washington: "Interannual Variations in Upper Ocean Heat Content and Heat Transport Convergence in the Western North Atlantic."

October 15, 2003
Mathijs Schouten, College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences/Oregon State University: "Intermediate water in the Southern Ocean of a GCM".

October 22, 2003
Mark Ohman, IOD/SIO: "Nonlinear ecological responses to North Pacific climate change."

November 4, 2003, 3.00 pm
Vladimir Zakharov, Department of Mathematics/University of Arizona: "Weak-turbulent theory of the wind-driven sea"

November 5, 2003
Edward Dever, IOD/SIO: "Observed Surface Boundary Layer Variability over an Upwelling Shelf"

November 12, 2003
Oscar Velasco Fuentes, MAE/UCSD: "Eddies over seamounts: laboratory experiments and numerical simulations."

November 19, 2003
Michael Longuet-Higgins, INLS/UCSD: "Sand transport, peristaltic pumping, and internal wave set-up in the surf zone"

November 26, 2003
Emily Pidgeon, IOD/SIO: "Baroclinic diurnal structures in the Santa Barbara Channel"

December 3, 2003
Rick Salmon, PORD/SIO: "Designed to conserve: building conservation laws into numerical algorithms"

December 17, 2003
Wolfgang Berger, GRD/SIO: "Solar and tidal cycles in the decadal to centennial range as recorded in corals, varves and tree-rings."

January 14, 2004
Stephen Belcher, Department of Meteorology/University of Reading: "The role of surface waves on the dynamics of the mixed layer"

January 21, 2004
Jose Ochoa, CICESE: "The Yucatan Current, "recent" ('97-'03) observations"

February 11, 2004
Jerome Smith, MPL/PORD/SIO: "Mixed Layer/Internal Wave Interactions - Fact or Myth?"

February 18, 2004
Lynne Talley, PORD/SIO: "Global freshwater balances and transports"

February 25, 2004
Stefan Llewellyn Smith, MAE/UCSD: "Models of tidal conversion"

March 3, 2004
Atle Jensen, Department of Mathematics/University of Oslo: "Solitary wave runup"

March 10, 2004
Clinton Winant, IOD/SIO: "Three-dimensional wind-driven flow around a headland"

March 17, 2004
François Primeau, ESS/UCI: "An Idealized Modeling Study of the Elongation and Contraction of the Gulf-Stream and Kuroshio Extension systems"

March 24, 2004
Larry Pratt, WHOI: "Entrainment in layer models of overflows"

April 7, 2004
Tony Lee, JPL: "Effects of diurnal wind sampling on simulated upper-ocean temperature: implication to satellite scatterometer missions"

April 14, 2004
Brian Arbic, GFDL/Princeton University: "A forward model of global ocean tides and tidal dissipation present and past"

April 21, 2004
James Swift, PORD/SIO: "Long-Term Variability of Arctic Ocean and Nordic Sea Waters"

April 28, 2004
Peter Rhines, School of Oceanography/UW: "Exploring the subpolar Atlantic: climate dynamics, storm tracks, Seagliders"

May 5, 2004
Francis Poulin, IOD/SIO: "An oscillatory jet in the Cape Cod Bay"

May 12, 2004
Ralph Keeling, GRD/SIO: "Northern ice discharges and Antarctic warming: could ocean eddies provide the link?"

May 19, 2004
Alberto Naveira-Garabato, School of Environmental Sciences/UEA: "Turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean"

May 26, 2004
Xavier Capet, IGPP/UCLA: "Ocean response to coastal wind profiles in upwelling regions" abstract

June 2, 2004
Shaun Johnston, PORD/SIO: "Internal Tide Scattering at Midocean Topography"

June 9, 2004
Emanuele di Lorenzo, PORD/SIO: "Bouyancy driven eddies in the Gulf of Alaska"


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