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| Current Projects | Completed Projects |
| Western Boundary Current Working Group | Impact of Scatterometer Winds |
| North Atlantic Upper Ocean Heat Budget | Heat Transport and Storage in the North Atlantic |
| CLIMODE | Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Seas |
| Impact of Currents in the North Atlantic |
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| This is a hands-on class in methods to analyze the increasingly large data sets that are being collected in the ocean. Class is conducted using MATLAB (Mathworks, Inc.) with an emphasis on applications. Students apply basic data analysis techniques and derive error estimates using a variety of data types. Students will complete two or more group projects demonstrating their ability to apply and adapt the methods creatively to answer a scientific question. Types of data include 1) fixed time series measurements (such as at a mooring), 2) Lagrangian measurements (float or glider), and 3) satellite measurements. More... ...class webpage |
 Annual mean net surface heat flux over the (top) Kuroshio Extension and (bottom) the Gulf Stream (W/m2), based on the climatology from the Southampton Oceanography Centre. |
Western Boundary Current Working Group. Kathie Kelly and Bo Qiu (University of Hawaii) chair a US-CLIVAR sponsored Working Group on Air-Sea Interaction over Western Boundary Currents. The goal of the group is to focus research efforts on the mechanisms and causes of variability in the large fluxes of heat from the ocean to the atmosphere over these warm energetic current systems, to improve our understanding of climate processes and predictability. Link to web site |
| Model evaluation in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. A column mixed layer model is compared with observed SST tendency to assess the impact of various forcing fields. Although spatial resolution in forcing is clearly a factor, model accuracy appears to increase for microwave SST compared with infrared SST, showing the importance of accurate comparison data ...read more |  |
| Wind Data, a Promise in Peril. Although scientists knew that more wind data over the oceans was needed to improve weather forecasts and ocean models, they were completely unprepared for the wealth of new information provided by the high-resolution satellite-mounted radars called scatterometers. ...read more |  |
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The influence of western boundary current heat transport and storage. As these currents separate from the coastal boundaries they flux some of their heat to the atmosphere and store some of their heat in the recirculation gyres south of the current core. ...read more |
| Heat Transport vs. Surface Fluxes in Northwest Pacific Ocean. Heat content and surface flux are negatively correlated, demonstrating the dominance of oceanic feedback over atmospheric forcing. ...read more. |  |
| Kathie is featured in "Remarkable Careers in Oceanography"
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