Posted by: dissertationhaiku | September 29, 2008

Physical Oceanography

Wind blows, water moves.
Ellipse and circle, their paths,
noose-like, strangle me.

Dr. Catherine Edwards

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In the Georgia Bight, near 30 degrees North, the local inertial period is close to 24 hours, and sea breeze/land breeze wind forcing and the forced response in the coastal ocean come into resonance.  My dissertation work examined the structure and variability of both sea breeze/land breeze and the coastal ocean response, as well as the processes that control the horizontal and vertical structures of the near-resonant diurnal/inertial currents.


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