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Dynamics of marine zooplankton : social behavior, ecological interactions, and physically-induced variability
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Marine ecosystems reflect the physical structure of their environment and the biological processes they carry out. This leads to spatial heterogeneity and temporal variability, some of which is imposed externally and some ...
Cross-shelf circulation and momentum and heat balances over the inner continental shelf near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
The water circulation and evolution of water temperature over the inner continental shelf are investigated using observations of water velocity, temperature, density, and bottom pressure; surface gravity waves; wind stress; ...
The effect of stratification on wind-driven, cross-shelf circulation and transport on the inner continental shelf
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Observations from a three-year field program on the inner shelf south of Martha's Vineyard, MA and a numerical model are used to describe the effect of stratification on inner shelf circulation, transport, and sediment ...
Low-latitude Western North Atlantic climate variability during the past millennium : insights from proxies and models
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Estimates of natural climate variability during the past millennium provide a frame of reference in which to assess the significance of recent changes. This thesis investigates new methods of reconstructing low-latitude ...
Gulf stream temperature, salinity and transport during the last millennium
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Benthic and planktonic foraminiferal [delta]18O ([delta 18Oc) from a suite of well-dated, high-resolution cores spanning the depth and width of the Straits of Florida reveal significant changes in Gulf Stream cross-current ...
A determination of air-sea gas exchange and upper ocean biological production from five noble gasses and tritiugenic helium-3
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
The five noble gases (helium, neon, argon, krypton, and xenon) are biologically and chemically inert, making them ideal oceanographic tracers. Additionally, the noble gases have a wide range of solubilities and molecular ...
Wind, sea ice, inertial oscillations and upper ocean mixing in Marguerite Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula : observations and modeling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Two years of moored oceanographic and automatic weather station data which span the winter ice seasons of 2001-2003 within Marguerite Bay on the western Antarctic Peninsula (wAP) shelf were collected as part of the Southern ...
Observations and modelling of deep equatorial currents in the central Pacific
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
Analysis of vertical profiles of absolute horizontal velocity collected in January 1981, February 1982 and April 1982 in the central equatorial Pacific as part of the Pacific Equatorial Ocean Dynamics (PEQUOD) program, ...
A multi-dimensional spectral description of ocean variability with applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Efforts to monitor the ocean for signs of climate change are hampered by ever-present noise, in the form of stochastic ocean variability, and detailed knowledge of the character of this noise is necessary for estimating ...
Observations of turbulent fluxes and turbulence dynamics in the ocean surface boundary layer
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This study presents observations of turbulence dynamics made during the low winds portion of the Coupled Boundary Layers and Air-Sea Transfer experiment (CBLAST-Low). Observations were made of turbulent fluxes, turbulent ...