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COX, CHARLES

Professor of Oceanography, Emeritus

Degrees:

  • B.S., California Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D., UCLA, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Research Interests:

  • Roughness of sea surface
  • Growth of wind waves
  • Thermal microstructure in the ocean
  • Generation of internal waves
  • Electrical conductivity of the ocean lithosphere
  • Electric fields generated by oceanic motions
  • Marine instrumentation



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Home Department:
CASPO

Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: 0213

Email: cscox@ucsd.edu


Scripps Scholars Profile: http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/cscox

Publications:

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1954. Measurement of the roughness of the sea from photographs of the sun’s glitter, J. Opt. Soc. Am., 44, 838 - 850. Cox, C. S. and Mumk, W. H.

1958. Measurements of slopes of high-frequency wind waves, J. Mar. Res., 16, 199 - 225. Cox, C. S.

1962. Coupling of internal and surface waves in water of variable depth. J. Oceanographic Soc. of Japan, 20th Anniversary Volume, 499-513. Cox, C. S. and Sandstrom, H.

1971. Electromagnetic studies of ocean currents and the electrical conductivity below the seafloor, The Sea, 14, Chapter 17, Bullard, E. C. and Maxwell, A. E. editors. Cox, C. S., Filloux, J. and J. C. Larsen.

1972. Oceanic fine structure, Geophys. Fluid Dynamics, 3, 321-345. Osborn, T. and Cox, C. S.

1973. Vertical microstructure measurements in the central North Pacific, J. Physical Oceanography, 3, 458-469. Gregg, M. C., Cox, C. S. and Hacker, P. W.

1978. Electromagnetic fluctuations induced by wind waves on the deep sea floor, J. Geophysical Research, 83,431-441. Cox, C, Kroll, N., Pistek, P. and Watson, K.

1984. A deep-sea differential pressure gauge, J. Atm.and Oceanic Tech., 1, (3), 237-246. Cox, C. S., Deaton, T. and Webb, S.

1986. Controlled source electromagnetic sounding of the oceanic lithosphere. Nature 320:52-54. C. S. Cox, S. C. Constable, A. D. Chave, & S. C. Webb.

1989. Cartesian diver observations of double-frequency pressure fluctuations in the upper levels of the ocean. Geophysical Research Letters 16:807-810. C. S. Cox & D.C. Jacobs

1994. Measuring the two-dimensional structure of a wavy surface optically: A surface gradient detector. Experiments in Fluids 17:225-237. X. Zhang & C. S. Cox


Last Modified: Mar 18, 2009