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Mark Wimbush

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Mark Wimbush
Emeritus Professor of Oceanography
120 Watkins
401-874-6515

Educational Background

Ph.D., Physical Oceanography
M.A., Physics
M.A., Mathematics
B.A., Physics
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
Oxford University (U.K.)
University of Hawaii
Oxford University (U.K.)
1969
1964
1963
1957

Areas of Specialization

Research

Mark Wimbush studies ocean variability on scales from seconds to years. Current research is on the Kuroshio in the East China Sea .

Teaching

Courses Mark Wimbush has taught include OCG 501, OCG 613, OCG 614.

Students

Magdalena Andres
Jeffrey Book
Regina Rodrigues
Douglas Mitchell
Jeffrey Book
Corrie Modell Aljian
Charles James
Kathleen Donohue
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
M.S.
M.S.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Candidate
2007
2004
2003
1998
1998
1996
1996

Publications:

Mitchell, D.A., W.J. Teague, M.Wimbush, D.R. Watts and G.G. Sutyrin, 2005. The Dok Cold Eddy. J. Phys. Oceanog., 35, 273-288.

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

Teague, W.J., G.A. Jacobs, D.A. Mitchell, M. Wimbush and D.R. Watts, 2004. Decadal current variations in the southwestern Japan/East Sea. J. Oceanog., 60, 1023-1033.

Salisbury, J.I., and M. Wimbush, 2002. Using modern time series analysis techniques to predict ENSO events from the SOI time series. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 9, 341-345.

James, C., M. Wimbush and H. Ichikawa, 1999. Kuroshio meanders in the East China Sea. J. Phys. Oceanog. 29, 259-272.

Presentations:

Book, J., and M. Wimbush, 2003. Data-assimilation modeling of tides in the Ulleung Basin of the Japan/East Sea. IUGG 23rd General Assembly, Sapporo, Japan.

Mitchell, D., D.R. Watts, M. Wimbush and W.J. Teague, 2001. Determining Gravest Empirical Modes from hydrographic data from the Japan/East Sea. International Symposium on Circulation Research of the East Asian Marginal Seas (CREAMS), Honolulu, Hawaii.

Wimbush, M., H. Ichikawa, J. Book, H. Uchida, and H. Kinoshita, 1997. Separating barotropic and baroclinic sea-surface height components in the ASUKA region, by combining altimeter and inverted echo sounder measurements. Symposium on Ocean-Earth Dynamics and Satellite Altimetry, Tokyo, Japan.