Grant awarded for study physical & ecological processes in the Gulf Steve Morey has received funding from NOAA/NGI for a project titled "Increasing our Understanding of the Interaction between Physical and Ecological Processes in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean." which consists of biophysical ocean modeling studies with application to regional fisheries.	Ekaterina Maksimova awarded NSF Fellowship Kat Maksimova has been awarded a grant through the NSF Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Her project is entitled "Near-Inertial Oscillations on the West Florida Shelf in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico."	COAPS alum appointed new director of OER Alan Leonardi has been selected as Director of the Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER). Leonardi is a physical oceanographer and meteorologist who previously served as deputy director of NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Lab (AOML). MORE>>

James O'Brien
Invited Talk: PCAs with Physics Illustrating Enso air ocean interactions
8:45-9:00 am
Session: OS41E Equatorial Dynamic of the Atm. and Ocean
Moscone West, 3010

Mark Bourassa
Session Chair: OS51D From QuikSCAT to RapidSCAT: Recent Accomplishments in Air-Sea Interaction and Climate Variability I
8:00-10:00 am

Christopher Holmes
Presentation Title: Where is the equator? A definition based on the atmosphere and its implications for atmospheric chemistry and climate
10:50-11:05 am
Moscone West, 3006

Steve Morey
Presentation Title: Spatio-Temporal Variability in Coastal Upwelling/Downwelling from Scatterometer Winds
9:15-9:30 am
Moscone West, 3009

Poster Session (Friday, December 19, 1:40-6:00pm in Moscone West Poster Hall)
OS53A: From QuikSCAT to RapidSCAT: Recent Accomplishments in Air-Sea Interaction and Climate Variability II

• Mark Bourassa: High Resolution Wind and SST Coupling: Impacts on Ekman Upwelling
• Dmitry Dukhovskoy: Relation Between the Large-Scale Atmospheric Variability and Ocean Circulation in the Nordic Seas
• Yangxing Zheng: Impact of East Asian Winter and Australian Summer Monsoons on the Enhanced Surface Westerlies over the Western Tropical Pacific Ocean Preceding the El Niņo Onset

Tam Nguyen successfully defended her master's thesis, "The variability of cross-slope flows in the De Soto Canyon region." Russell Glazer  successfully defended his master's thesis, "The influence of mesoscale sea surface temperature gradients on tropical cyclones."

John Steffen successfully defended his master's thesis, "The effects of sea surface temperature gradients on surface turbulent fluxes." Paul Hughes successfully defended his Ph.D. work on "The influence of small-scale sea surface temperature gradients on surface vector winds and subsequent impacts on oceanic Ekman pumping."

Heather Holbach has been awarded a grant from FSU to support completion of her dissertation. Holbach is working with NOAA's Hurricane Research Division of the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. Kevin Forney completed his master's in meteorology.

 

Hughes, Paul (2014), The influence of small-scale sea surface temperature gradients on surface vector winds and subsequent impacts on oceanic Ekman pumping. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, (accepted).

 

Li, H., and V. Misra (2014), Global Seasonal Climate Predictability in a Two Tiered Forecast System. Part II: Boreal Winter and Spring Seasons. Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-013-1813-x.

 

Li, H; Kanamitsu, M; Hong, SY; Yoshimura, K; Cayan, DR; Misra, V (2014), A high-resolution ocean-atmosphere coupled downscaling of the present climate over California. Climate Dyn., 42, 701-714.

 

Michael, J-P (2014), On initializing CGCMs for seasonal predictability of ENSO. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, (accepted).

 

Misra, V; DiNapoli, S (2014), The variability of the Southeast Asian summer monsoon. International Journal of Climatology, 34, 893-301, doi:10.1002/joc.3735.

 

Misra, V., H. Li, Z. Wu, and S. Dinapoli (2014), Global Seasonal Climate Predictability in a Two Tiered Forecast System. Part I: Boreal Summer and Fall Seasons. Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-013-1812-y.

 

Nedbor-Gross, R., D.S. Dukhovskoy, M.A. Bourassa, S.L. Morey and E.P. Chassignet (2014), Investigation of the relationship between the Yucatan Channel transport and Loop Current area in a multi-decadal numerical simulation, Marine Technology Society Journal, 48, 15-26, doi:10.4031/MTSJ.48.4.8.

 

Wang, H; Long, L; Kumar, A; Wang, WQ; Schemm, JKE; Zhao, M; Vecchi, GA; Larow, TE; Lim, YK; Schubert, SD (2014), How Well Do Global Climate Models Simulate the Variability of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Associated with ENSO?. Journal of Climate, 27, 5673-5692, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00625.1.

 

Weihs, R. R.; Bourassa, M. A. (2014), Modeled diurnally varying sea surface temperatures and their influence on surface heat fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, doi:10.1002/2013JC009489.

 

Zavala-Hidalgo, J., R. Romero-Centeno, A. Mateos-Jasso, S.L. Morey, and B. Martinez-Lopez (2014), The response of the Gulf of Mexico to wind and heat flux forcing: What has been learned in recent years? Atmosfera, 27, 317-334.

 

Zavala-Romero, O., Ahmed, A., Chassignet, E.P., Zavala-Hidalgo, J., Eguiarte, A.F., Meyer-Base, A. (2014), An open source Java web application to build self-contained web GIS sites. Environmental Modelling & Software 62 (2014), 210-220.