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ROEMMICH, DEAN

Professor

Degrees:

• B.A., Swarthmore College, Pennsylvannia
• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Research Interests:

• Role of the oceans in climate and climate variability
• General circulation of the oceans
• The California Current System

Courses Recently Taught:

• SIO 220: Observatns/Lg Scale Ocean Cir
• SIO219: Spec Topics/Physical Oceanogra
• SIO220: Observatns/Lg Scale Ocean Cir

Honors and Awards:

• Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 2010
• Sverdrup Gold Medal, American Meteorological Society, 2008
• National Oceanographic Partnership Program Excellence in Partnering Award (presented to US Argo), 2004

Mentoring:

• Zilberman, Nathalie (Post Doc; 2010-)
• Giglio, Donata (Graduate; 2009-)
• Ray, Timothy (Graduate; 2009-)
• Zhang, Xuebin (Post Doc; 2008-2010)
• Douglass, Elizabeth (Graduate; 2001-2007)
• Willis, Joshua (Graduate; 1998-2004)
• Hautala, Susan (Post Doc; 1994-1996)
• Gilson, John (Graduate; 1993-1997)
• Sprintall, Janet (Post Doc; 1993-1995)
• Johnson, Christina (Graduate; 1992-1996)
• Morris, Michele (Graduate; 1989-1996)

Roemmich, D., W.J. Gould and J. Gilson, 2012: 135 years of global ocean warming from the Challenger Expedition to the Argo Program Nature Climate Change, DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1461.

Auad, G., D. Roemmich, and J. Gilson, 2011: The California Current System in relation to the Northeast Pacific Ocean circulation. Progress in Oceanography, 91, 576-592.

Roemmich, D., and J. Gilson (2011), The global ocean imprint of ENSO, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L13606, doi:10.1029/2011GL047992.

Zhang, X., B. Cornuelle, and D. Roemmich (2011) Adjoint sensitivity of the Niño-3 surface temperature to wind forcing. Journal of Climate, 24, doi: 10.1175/2011JCLI3917.1.

Sutton, P., and D. Roemmich, (2011). Decadal steric and sea surface height changes in the Southern Hemisphere, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L08604, doi:10.1029/2011GL046802.

Douglass, E.M., D. Roemmich and D. Stammer, 2010. Interannual variability in North Pacific heat and freshwater budgets. Deep-Sea Research II 57, 1127-1140.

Roemmich, D. and Co-authors. 2010. Integrating the ocean observing system: Mobile platforms. In Proceedings of OceanObs’09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society (Vol. 1), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Hall, J., Harrison, D.E. & Stammer, D., Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306.

J. Church, D. Roemmich and 13 co-authors, 2010. Ocean temperature and salinity contributions to global and regional sea-level change. Ch. 6 in “Understanding Sea-Level Rise and Variability” J. Church, P. Woodworth, T. Aarup, and S. Wilson eds., Wiley-Blackwell, pp 143-176.

Roemmich, D. and the Argo Steering Team, 2009. Argo: The challenge of continuing 10 years of progress. Oceanography, 22(3), 26-35.

Roemmich, D., G.C. Johnson, S. Riser, R. Davis, J. Gilson, W.B. Owens, S.L. Garzoli, C. Schmid, and M. Ignaszewski, 2009. The Argo Program: Observing the global ocean with profiling floats. Oceanography, 22(2), 34-43.

Cai, W., A. Pan, D. Roemmich, T. Cowan, and X. Guo, 2009. Argo profiles a rare occurrence of three consecutive positive Indian Ocean Dipole events, 2006–2008, Geophysical Research Letters., 36, L08701, doi:10.1029/2008GL037038.

Douglass, E.M., D. Roemmich, and D. Stammer, 2009. Data sensitivity of the ECCO state estimate in a regional setting Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 26, 2420-2443.

Roemmich D. and J. Gilson, 2009. The 2004–2008 mean and annual cycle of temperature, salinity, and steric height in the global ocean from the Argo Program. Progress in Oceanography, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2009.03.004.

Uehara, H., S. Kizu, K. Hanawa, Y. Yoshikawa, and D. Roemmich, 2008. Estimation of heat and freshwater transports in the North Pacific using high-resolution expendable bathythermograph data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, C02014, doi:10.1029/2007JC004165.

Freeland, H., D. Roemmich, W.J. Gould, and M. Belbeoch, 2007. Argo – a global ocean observing system for the 21st Century. In: The Full Picture, Paris, Group on Earth Observations (GEO). Edited by the GEO Secretariat, pp 67-71.

Roemmich, D., 2007. Super spin in the southern seas. Nature, 449, 34-35.

Ueno, H., E. Oka, T. Suga, H. Onishi and D. Roemmich, 2007. Formation and variation of temperature inversions in the eastern subarctic North Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L05603, doi:10.1029/2006GL028715.

Roemmich, D., J. Gilson, R. Davis, P. Sutton, S. Wijffels, S. Riser, 2007. Decadal spin-up of the South Pacific subtropical gyre. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37(2), 162-173.

Maes C., K. Ando, T. Delcroix, W. S. Kessler, M. J. McPhaden, D. Roemmich, 2006. Observed correlation of surface salinity, temperature and barrier layer at the eastern edge of the western Pacific warm pool, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L06601, doi:10.1029/2005GL024772.

Douglass, E., D. Roemmich, and D. Stammer, 2006. Interannual variability in northeast Pacific circulation, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, C04001, doi:10.1029/2005JC003015.

Bowen M. M., P. J. H. Sutton, D. Roemmich, 2006. Wind-driven and steric fluctuations of sea surface height in the southwest Pacific, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L14617, doi:10.1029/2006GL026160.

Sutton, P., M. Bowen and D. Roemmich, 2005. Decadal temperature changes in the Tasman Sea. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 39, 1321-1329.

Roemmich, D., J. Gilson, J. Willis, P. Sutton, and K. Ridgway, 2005. Closing the time-varying mass and heat budgets for large ocean areas: The Tasman Box. Journal of Climate, 18 (13), 2330–2343.

Willis, J., D. Roemmich, and B. Cornuelle, 2004. Interannual variability in upper-ocean heat content, temperature and thermosteric expansion on global scales. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, C12036, doi:10.1029/2003JC002260.

Roemmich, D., S. Riser, R. Davis, and Y. Desaubies, 2004. Autonomous profiling floats: Workhorse for broadscale ocean observations. Marine Technology Society Journal, 38(2), 21 – 29.

Willis, J., D. Roemmich and B. Cornuelle 2003. Combining altimetric height with broadscale profile data to estimate steric height, heat storage, subsurface temperature and SST variability. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(C9), 3292, doi:10.1029/2002JC001755.

Roemmich, D and W J Gould, 2003. The future of climate observations in the global ocean. Sea Technology, 44(8), pp 10-15.

Gilson, J. and D. Roemmich, 2002. Mean and temporal variability in Kuroshio geostrophic transport south of Taiwan (1993-2001). Journal of Oceanography, 58, 183-195.

Bograd, S., T.Chereskin and D. Roemmich, 2001. Transport of mass, heat, salt, and nutrients in the southern California Current System: Annual cycle and interannual variability. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106 , 9255.

Sutton, P. and D. Roemmich, 2001. Ocean temperature climate off north-east New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 35, 553-565.

Nowlin, W.D. Jr., M. Briscoe, N. Smith, M.J. McPhaden, D. Roemmich, P. Chapman, J.F. Grassle, 2001: Evolution of a Sustained Ocean Observing System. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Vol. 82, No. 7, pp. 1369–1376.

Stanton, B., D. Roemmich and M. Kosro, 2001. A shallow zonal jet south of Fiji. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31, 3127-3130.

Roemmich, D., J. Gilson, B. Cornuelle and R. Weller, 2001. The mean and time-varying meridional heat transport at the tropical/subtropical boundary of the North Pacific Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 8957-8970.

Roemmich, D. and J. Gilson, 2001. Eddy transport of heat and thermocline waters in the North Pacific: A key to interannual/decadal climate variability. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31, 675-687.

McCarthy, M., L. Talley and D. Roemmich, 2000. Seasonal to interannual variability from expendable bathythermograph and TOPEX/Poseidon altimetric data in the South Pacific subtropical gyre. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 19535-19550.

Roemmich, D. and W.B. Owens, 2000. The Argo Project: Global ocean observations for understanding and prediction of climate variability. Oceanography, 13, 45-50.

Sprintall, J. and D. Roemmich, 1999. Characterizing the structure of the surface layer in the Pacific Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 23297-23311.

Roemmich, D. and 11 others (The Argo Science Team), 1999. Argo, the globalarray of profiling floats. Proceedings of the OCEANOBS99 Conference, Saint Raphael,France, October 18-22, 1999. Republished in Observing the Oceans in the 21st Century. C. Koblinsky and N. Smith eds, Melbourne, Bureau of Meteorology, November 2001.

Hautala, S. and D. Roemmich, 1998. Subtropical Mode Water in the Northeast Pacific Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 13055-13066.

Roemmich, D. and P. Sutton, 1998. The mean and variability of ocean circulation past northern New Zealand: Determining the representativeness of hydrographic climatologies. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 13041-13054.

Morris, M., D. Roemmich, G. Meyers and R. Weisberg, 1998. Upper ocean heat and freshwater advection in the western Pacific Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 13023-13039.

Gilson, J, D. Roemmich, B. Cornuelle and L.-L. Fu, 1998. Relationship of TOPEX/Poseidon altimetric height to the steric height and circulation in the North Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 27947-27965.

Chiswell, S. and D. Roemmich, 1998. The East Cape Current and two eddies: a mechanism for larval retention? New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 32, 385-397.

Rintoul, S. J.R. Donguy and D. Roemmich, 1997. Seasonal evolution of upper ocean thermal structure between Tasmania and Antarctica. Deep-Sea Research, 44, 1185-1202.