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Energy pathways and structures of oceanic eddies from the ECCO2 State Estimate and Simplified Models
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Studying oceanic eddies is important for understanding and predicting ocean circulation and climate variability. The central focus of this dissertation is the energy exchange between eddies and mean ow and banded structures ...
The production of temperature and salinity variance and covariance : implications for mixing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Large-scale thermal forcing and freshwater fluxes play an essential role in setting temperature and salinity in the ocean. A number of recent estimates of the global oceanic freshwater balance as well as the global oceanic ...
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 ...
Moored observations of shelfbreak processes at the inflow to and outflow from the Arctic Ocean
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Two high-resolution mooring arrays extending from the outer shelf to the mid continental slope are used to elucidate shelf-basin exchange at the inflow to and the outflow from the Arctic Ocean. Pacific Water entering the ...
Physical controls on copepod aggregations in the Gulf of Maine
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
This thesis explores the role that the circulation in the Gulf of Maine (GOM) plays in determining the distribution of dense aggregations of copepods. These aggregations are an important part of the marine ecosystem, ...