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Buoy Lunch Presentation – PO Administration Station

The Buoy Lunch is a seminar hosted by the PO Department every month featuring different topics of interest to its members. April’s Buoy Lunch was called Administration Station, and it focused on the administrative side of PO: who they are, who they work with, who does what, and, most importantly, what exactly is the “what”!…

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Past and future modulation of the ENSO teleconnection to Southeast Asian rainfall by interbasin interactions

Le Roy, E. J., & Ummenhofer, C. C. (2025). Past and Future Modulation of the ENSO Teleconnection to Southeast Asian Rainfall by Interbasin Interactions. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL111916. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111916   ENSO’s teleconnection with rainfall in mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) indicates a large degree of variability on decadal timescales. This study uses the Community Earth System Model version 2 Large Ensemble (LENS2) to…

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Why Is the monsoon coastal upwelling signal subdued in the Bay of Bengal?

Abbott, K., Mahadevan, A. (2024). Why Is the Monsoon Coastal Upwelling Signal Subdued in the Bay of Bengal?; Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(12), e2024JC022023. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC022023 A conceptual schematic of how the surface signature of upwelling differs in the western coastal Arabian Sea (left) and Bay of Bengal (BoB) (right). In the AS, alongshore winds are typically upwelling-favorable…

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Momme Hell

Faculty
Research Keywords: Air-Sea Interaction, Surface Waves, Earth System Predictability

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Is the regime shift in Gulf Stream warm core rings detected by satellite altimetry? An inter-comparison of eddy identification and tracking products

Perez, E., Andres, M., Gawarkiewicz, G. (2024). Is the Regime Shift in Gulf Stream Warm Core Rings Detected by Satellite Altimetry? An Inter-Comparison of Eddy Identification and Tracking Products; Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(10), e2023JC020761. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020761 The evolution of a warm core ring (WCR)-like eddy from the META2.0 data product (matched to a July 1995…

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Hojung You

Hojung You

Postdoc
Research Keywords: Turbulence, Microplastic and larvae transport, Particle-sediment interaction

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Observing the Monsoon Onset on the Bay of Bengal

As part of the EKAMSAT collaboration between the US and India, WHOI researcher Alex Kinsella and engineers Emerson Hasbrouck and Benjamin Greenwood were aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson during April-June 2024 to study the onset of the Indian summer monsoon. Pictured above is a Seaglider instrument, operated by scientists from University of Washington, painted by a…

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