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2008

Logvinov, Evgeny: Two Responses of a Uniformly Stratified Flow over a Sloping Bottom to a Spatially Varying Downwelling Favorable Wind
Joseph Pedlosky, Advisor

Wang, Jinbo: On the Warm Bias Along the South-West African Coast in Coupled Models: An Oceanic Perspective
Paola Rizzoli, Advisor
Abstract

Mazloff, Matthew: The Southern Ocean Meridional Overturning Circulation as Diagnosed from an Eddy Permitting State Estimate
Carl Wunsch, Advisor
Abstract

Sugimura, Peter: Arctic Ocean Circulation in an Idealized Numerical Model
Peter Winsor, Advisor
Abstract

Gerbi, Gregory: Observations of Turbulent Fluxes and Turbulence Dynamics in the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer
John Trowbridge, Advisor
Abstract

Kaspi, Yohai: Turbulent Convection in an Anelastic Rotating Sphere: A Model for the Circulation on Gas Giant Planets
Glenn Flierl, Advisor
Abstract

Sutherland, David: The East Greenland Coastal Current: Its Structure, Variability and Large-Scale Impact
Robert Pickart, Advisor
Abstract

Verdy, Ariane: Dynamics of Marine Zooplankton: Social Behavior, Ecological Interactions and Physically-Induced Variability
Glenn Flierl, Advisor
Abstract

2007

Fewings, Melanie: Cross-Shelf Circulation and Momentum and Heat Balances
over the Inner Continental Shelf Near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

Steve Lentz, Advisor
Abstract

Moffat-Varas, Carlos: Ocean Circulation and Dynamics on the West Antarctic Peninsula Continental Shelf
Robert Beardsley, W. Brechner Owens, Advisors
Abstract

Wood, Christie: The Interaction of Two Coastal Plumes and its Effect on the Transport of Alexandrium Fundyense
Glenn Flierl, Advisor

Farrar, J. Thomas: Air-Sea Interaction at Contrasting Sites in the Eastern Tropical Pacific: Mesoscale Variability and Atmospheric Convection at 10°N
Robert Weller, Advisor
Abstract

2006

Hyatt, Jason: Wind, Sea Ice, Inertial Oscillations and Upper Ocean Mixing in Marguerite Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula: Observations and Modeling
Robert Beardsley, W. Brechner Owens, Advisors
Abstract

Kida, Shinichiro: Overflows and Upper Ocean Interaction: A Mechanism for the Azores Current
Jiayan Yang, Jim Price, Advisors
Abstract

Thomson, James: Infragravity Waves Over Topography: Generation, Dissipation, and Reflection
Steve Elgar, Advisor
Abstract

Mazloff, Matthew: Production of a Southern Ocean State Estimate
Carl Wunsch, Advisor
Abstract

Vaage, Kjetil: Winter Mixed-Layer Development in the Central Irminger Sea: The Effect of Strong, Intermittent Wind Events
Robert Pickart, Advisor

Verdy, Ariane: Influence of Circulation on Temperature and Zooplankton Variability in the Southern Ocean
Glenn Flierl, Advisor

Rykova, Tatiana: Evolution of the Irminger Current Anticyclones in the Labrador Sea from Hydrographic Data
Fiamma Straneo, Advisor
Abstract

2005

Stuebe, David: Temperature and Salinity Variability in Thermohaline Staircase Layers
Ray Schmitt, Advisor
Abstract

2004

Gebbie, Geoffrey: Subduction in an Eddy-Resolving State Estimate of the Northeast Atlantic Ocean
Carl Wunsch, Advisor
Abstract

2003

Kida, Shinichiro: Eddy Dynamics of ß Plumes
Jiayan Yang, James Price, Advisors

Farrar, J. Thomas: The Evolution of Upper Ocean Thermal Structure at 10°N, 125°W during 1997-1998
Robert Weller, Advisor

Fox-Kemper, Baylor T.: Eddies and Friction: Removal of Vorticity from the Wind-Driven Gyre
Joseph Pedlosky, Paola Rizzoli, Advisors
Abstract

Li, Xingwen: Constraining the North Atlantic Circulation with Transient Tracer Observations
Carl Wunsch, Advisor
Abstract

Russell, Sarah: Shelf Currents, Ice and Wind: A Numerical Modeling Study
W. Brechner Owens, Paola Rizzoli, Advisors
Abstract

Wells, Judith: A Laboratory Study of Localized Boundary Mixing in a Rotating Stratified Fluid
Karl Helfrich, Advisor
Abstract

2002

Atherton, Juli K.: Linear and Nonlinear Rossby Waves in Basins both with and without a Thin Meridional Barrier
Joseph Pedlosky, Advisor

Jochum, Markus: On the Pathways of the Return Flow of the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Tropical Atlantic
Paola Rizzoli, Advisor
Abstract

Ohiwa, Mitchiro: An Experimental Study on Mixing Induced by Gravity Currents on a Sloping Bottom in a Rotating Fluid
John Whitehead, Advisor

2001

Botella, Juan: Mesoscale Variability and Mean Flow Interaction Near the Gulf Stream as Seen by Satellite Altimetry and Numerical Modelling
Nelson Hogg, Advisor

Deese, Heather: Chaotic Advection and Mixing in a Western Boundary Current-Recirculation System: Laboratory Experiments
Lawrence Pratt, Glenn Flierl, Advisors

Walker, Alison: Linear Mode Analysis of Baroclinic Instability
Joseph Pedlosky, Advisor

2000

Arbic, Brian: Generation of Mid-Ocean Eddies: The Local Baroclinic Instability Hypothesis
Glenn Flierl, Advisor

Bowen, Melissa: Mechanisms and Variability of Salt Transport in Partially-Stratified Estuaries
W. Rockwell Geyer, Steven Lentz, Advisors

Ganachaud, Alexandre: Large Scale Oceanic Circulation and Fluxes of Freshwater, Heat, Nutrients and Oxygen
Carl Wunsch, Advisor

Kassis, Patricia: Submesoscale Coherent Vortices in the Deep Brazil Basin
W. Brechner Owens, Advisor

Ru, Hua: A 2½ Dimensional Thermohaline Circulation Model with Boundary Mixing
Jochem Marotzke, Advisor

1999

Austin, Jay: Wind-Driven Circulation on a Shallow, Stratified Shelf
Steven Lentz, Advisor

Beliakova, Natalia: Generation and Maintenance of Recirculations by Gulf Stream Instabilities
Glenn Flierl, Advisor

Chechelnitsky, Michael: Adaptive Error Estimation in Linearized Ocean General Circulation Models
Carl Wunsch, Advisor

Jayne, Steven: Dynamics of Global Ocean Heat Transport Variability
Jochem Marotzke, Advisor

Jeunhomme, Gwenalelle C.: Injection and Movement of Tritium-3He in the Eastern North Atlantic
Carl Wunsch, Advisor

Solovev, Mikhail: Assessment of Mesoscale Eddy Parameterizations for Coarse Resolution Ocean Models
Paola Rizzoli, Advisor

St. Laurent, Louis: Diapycnal Advection by Double Diffusion and Turbulence in the Ocean
Raymond Schmitt, Jochem Marotzke, Advisors

Trevino Lozano, Carlos: Effects of the Chaotic Behavior of a Superposition of Waves in the Flux Across a Channel
Glenn Flierl, Advisor

Wang, Caixia: Diagnosis of Physical and Biological Controls on Phytoplankton Distributions in the Gulf of Maine - Georges Bank Region
Paola Rizzoli, Advisor

Wardle, Richard: Representation of Eddies in Climate Models by a Potential Vorticity Flux
John Marshall, Advisor

Werner, Sandra: The Tidal Bottom Boundary Layer and the Wind-Driven Circulation on the Southern Flank of Georges Bank
Robert Beardsley, Advisor