Lewis Rothstein

Lewis M Rothstein

Professor of Oceanography

lrothstein@gso.uri.edu

http://www.po.gso.uri.edu/Numerical/index.html

Educational Background

Ph.D., Physical Oceanography
M.S., Physical Oceanography
M.S., Ocean Engineering
B.S., Mechanical Engineering

University of Hawaii, Honolulu
University of Hawaii, Honolulu
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Bridgeport

1983
1979
1975
1973

Areas of Specialization

Research

Current research interests include biogeochemical/ecological - physical interactions on climate change scales, and impacts of climate change on tropical cyclones. Other research interests include the large-scale ocean circulation (specifically the subtropical/subpolar gyres), and coupled air-sea interactions on various scales (intraseasonal, interannual and interdecadal).

Teaching

Teaches two graduate courses in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (OCG 610 and 611).

Outreach

Lew Rothstein has served as the Science Director of the Metcalf Institute (http://www.metcalfinstitute.org/) for the past 8 years. The Institute's mission is to promote clear and accurate reporting of scientific news and environmental issues; to strengthen understanding and working relationships between members of the scientific community and members of the news media; and to provide opportunities for beginning journalists to learn, on both a formal and an informal level, how to improve their skills in marine and environmental reporting.

Students

Jeff Proehl
Craig Gilman
Kate Zhang
Dail Rowe
Clark Rowley
Stephanie Dutkiewicz
Alexander Kochurov
Regina Rodrigues
Bronwyn Cahill
Xujing Davis

Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.

1987
1992
1995
1996
1996
1997
2002
2006
2007
2008

Publications:

Last 10 years:

Rodrigues, R.R., L.M. Rothstein, and M. Wimbush, 2007. Seasonal variability of the South Equatorial Current bifurcation in the Atlantic Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37, 16-30.

Rothstein, L.M. and 20 authors, 2006. Modeling Ocean Ecosystems. Oceanography, 19(1), 22-51.

Luo, Y., M.D. Prater, E.G. Durbin and L.M. Rothstein, 2006. Changes in the northwest Atlantic circulation for the 1992-95 high NAO period from a numerical model. Continental Shelf Research, 26, 1617-1635.

Doney, S.C., M.R. Abbott, J.J. Cullen, D.M. Karl and L.M. Rothstein, 2004. From genes to ecosystems; The ocean's new frontier. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2(9), 457-466.

Luo, Y., H.-M. Zhang, M.D. Prater and L.M. Rothstein, 2003. Warm water pathways, transports and transformations in the northwestern North Atlantic and their modification by cold air outbreaks. J. Geophys. Res., 104(C4), 3129.

Sutyrin, G.G., SD. Frolov, G.D. Rowe, L.M. Rothstein, and I. Ginis, 2003. Baroclinic-Eddy interactions with continental slopes and shelves. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 33, 283-291.

Dutkiewicz, S., L.M. Rothstein and T. Rossby, 2001. Pathways of cross-frontal exchanges in the North Atlantic Current. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 26,917-26,928.

Kessler, W.S., L.M. Rothstein and D. Chen, 1999. The annual cycle of SST in the eastern tropical Pacific, diagnosed in an ocean GCM. J. Climate. 11, 777-799.

Zhang, R.H., L.M. Rothstein and A.J. Busalacchi, 1999. Interannual and decadal variability of the subsurface thermal structure in the Pacific Ocean: 1961-90. Climate Dynamics, 15, 703-717.

Richardson. R.A., G.G. Sutyrin, D. Hebert and L.M. Rothstein, 1999. Universality of the small-scale response of the upper tropical ocean to squall wind forcing. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29, 519-529.

Richardson, R.A., I. Ginis and L.M. Rothstein, 1999. A numerical investigation of the local response to westerly wind burst forcing in the western equatorial Pacific. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29, 1334-1352.

Rothstein, L.M., R-H Zhang, A.J. Busalacchi and D. Chen, 1998. A numerical simulation of the mean water pathways in the subtropical and tropical Pacific Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 28, 322-343.

Zhang, R. H., L.M. Rothstein and A.J. Busalacchi, 1998. Origin of upper ocean warming and El Nino change on decadal scale in the tropical Pacific Ocean, Nature, 391, 879-883.

Zhang, R.H. and L.M. Rothstein, 1998. On the phase propagation and relationship of interannual variability in the tropical Pacific climate system, Climate Dynamics, 14, 713-723.

Ginis, I., L.M. Rothstein and R. Richardson, 1998. Design of a nested-grid primitive equation ocean model: Formulation and testing. Mon. Weather Rev., 126, 1054-1079.

Presentations:

I have been invited to deliver numerous seminars at the following institutions: Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, MIT, Scripps, Univ. of Hawaii, Univ. of Miami, Univ. of Washington, Oregon State Univ., Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Nova University, Florida State University, Harvard College, Yale University, Dartmouth College, Univ. of New Hampshire, Johns Hopkins University, Drexel, and State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Selected presentations:

2004, A Regional Intercomparison Between Two Shelf Ecosystems in the North Atlantic: A Diagnosis of the Seasonal Cycle in the Irish Shelf Seas. ASLO/TOS.

2004, Combining subsurface float and historic hydrographic data to obtain absolute transport potential for the Brazil and South Atlantic Currents. ASLO/TOS

1998, Observational and Numerical Evidence for Subtropical/Tropical Ocean Pathways. Fall AGU, San Francisco. Invited.

1998, Regional Ocean Simulations During TOGA-COARE Within the Context of the Basin-Scale Circulation. (with Ray Richardson, Isaac Ginis and Alexander Kochurov). COARE98: A CLIVAR/GEWEX Conference. Boulder, Colorado

1996, Mean and Interannual Variability of Subtropical/Tropical Ocean Pathways in the Pacific. Invited. Symposium on Climate Prediction and Predictability, The 8th Bureau of Meteorology Research Center Modeling Workshop, Melbourne, Australia.

1996, Toward the Construction of a Generalized Inversion of a Primitive Equation Ocean Model and the Assimilation of COARE Ocean Data. (with Ray Richardson, and Isaac Ginis). COARE98: A CLIVAR/GEWEX Conference. Boulder, Colorado.

1996, Numerical Simulations of the Ocean Response to Hurricane Gilbert Using Airborne Field Observations. (with I. Ginis, L. Shay and S. Frolov), 76th American Meteorological Society Meeting, Atlanta.