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Zinc and cadmium in benthic foraminifera as tracers of ocean paleochemistry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Benthic foraminiferal δ13C, Cd/Ca, and Ba/Ca are important tools for reconstructing nutrient distributions, and thus ocean circulation, on glacial-interglacial timescales. However, each tracer has its own "artifacts" that ...
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 southern ocean meridional overturning circulation as diagnosed from an eddy permitting state estimate
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
A modern general circulation model of the Southern Ocean with one-sixth of a degree resolution is optimized to the observed ocean in a weighted least squares sense. Convergence to the state estimate solution is carried out ...
Stability of large-scale oceanic flows and the importance of non-local effects
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
My thesis covers two general circulation problems that involve the stability of largescale oceanic flows and the importance of non-local effects. The first problem examines the stability of meridional boundary currents, ...
Slope/shelf circulation and cross-slope/shelf transport out of a bay driven by eddies from the open ocean
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Interaction between the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the continental slope/shelf in the Marguerite Bay and west Antarctic Peninsula is examined as interaction between a wind-driven channel flow and a zonally uniform ...