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SMITH, JEROME

Research Oceanographer

Degrees:

• B.A., Reed College, Oregon
• Ph.D., Dalhousie University, Canada

Research Interests:

• Kinematics and dynamics of rip currents
• Generation of Langmuir circulation (mixed layer dynamics)
• Interactions between waves, currents, and bottom topography
• Mutual influences between wind stress and directional surface wave characteristics

Honors and Awards:

• Mahlon T. Buell Award in Physics, 1969

Mentoring:

• Brulefert, Coralie (Undergrad; 2008-2008)
• Mitchell, Erica (Undergrad; 2007-2007)
• Nguyen, San (Graduate; 2007-)
• Polton, Jeff (Post Doc; 2007-2008)
• Gerber, Florence (Undergrad; 2006-2006)
• Tejada-Martinez, Andres (Post Doc; 2006-2007)
• Hilmer, Tyson (Undergrad; 2004-2004)
• Stanonic, Kathryn (Undergrad; 2003-2003)
• Berta, Amelia (Undergrad; 2000-2000)
• Thompson, David (Undergrad; 1998-1998)
• Rieder, Karl (Graduate; 1992-1996)
• Bullard, Greg (Graduate; 1991-1995)

Polton, J. A., J. A. Smith, J. A. MacKinnon, and A. E. Tejada-Mart’nez, 2008: Rapid generation of high-frequency internal waves beneath a wind and wave forced oceanic surface mixed layer. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L13602. doi:10.1029/2008GL033856

Smith, J. A, Vorticity and divergence of surface velocities near shore. (pdf 2.6MB). J. Phys. Oceanogr. 38(7), 1450-1468. doi:10.1175/2007/JPO3865.1

Apotsos, A., B. Raubenheimer, S. Elgar, R. T. Guza, and J. A. Smith, Effects of wave rollers and bottom stress on wave setup, (pdf 2.4MB) J. Geophys. Res. (Oceans), 112 (C02003), doi:10.1029/2006JC003549, 2007.

D'Spain, G.L., E. Terrill, C.D. Chadwell, J.A. Smith, and S.D. Lynch, Active control of passive acoustic fields: Passive synthetic aperture/Doppler beamforming with data from an autonomous vehicle (pdf 1.1MB), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120 (6), 3635-3654, 2006.

Smith, J.A., Wave-Current Interactions In Finite-Depth (pdf, 468 kB) vol. 36, no. 7. pp. 1403-1419, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 2006a.

Smith, J.A., Observed variability of ocean wave Stokes drift and the Eulerian response to passing groups (pdf, 2.6 MB) vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 1381-1402, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 2006b.

Smith, J.A., Surface Waves and Forced Group Response Observed with LRPADS (pdf, 412 kB) Proceedings of the international Conference "Underwater Acoustic Measurements: Technologies & Results" Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 28th June - 1st July 2005.

Smith, J.A., Acoustically Observed Bubble Cloud Evolution under Deep-Water Breaking Waves (pdf, 496 kB) Proceedings of the international Conference "Underwater Acoustic Measurements: Technologies & Results" Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 28th June - 1st July 2005.

Smith, J.A., On the Use of Phased-Array Doppler Sonars Near Shore (pdf, 1.1 MB) Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 19(5):725-737, 2002.

Smith, J.A., Continuous Time-Space Sampling of Surface Currents Using Sound (pdf, 584k) Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 19(11):1860-1872, 2002.

Smith, J.A., Observations and theories of Langmuir circulation: a story of mixing (pdf, 176k),in Fluid Mechanics and the Environment: Dynamical Approaches, edited by J.L. Lumley, pp. 295-314, Springer, New York, 2001. (* See errata)

Smith, J.A., Phased-array Doppler sonar measurements of near-surface motion: Langmuir circulation, surface waves, and breaking, (pdf, 420k) in Acoustical Oceanography, edited by G.J.H. T. G. Leighton, H. Griffiths, and G. Griffiths, pp. 163-170, Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, vol. 23, part 2, Southampton, UK, 2001.

Smith, J.A., Observations of Waves and Currents Near the Surf Zone (pdf, 220k) (in "Proceedings of Oceans2000 MTS/IEEE Conference, Providence RI, Sept 11-14 2000")

Smith, J.A., Doppler sonar observations of Langmuir circulation, (pdf, 196k) in Air-sea Fluxes of Momentum, Heat, and Chemicals, Edited by Gary Geernaert, pp. 539-555, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 1999. ISBN 0-7923-5937-2 (* See errata)

Smith, J.A., Observations of wind, waves, and the mixed layer: the scaling of surface motion, (pdf, 84k) in The Wind-Driven Air-Sea Interface: Electromagnetic and Acoustic Sensing, Wave Dynamics, and Turbulent Fluxes. Edited by M. L. Banner. Sydney, Australia, University of New South Wales: 231-238, 1999. ISBN 0-7334-0586-X (* See errata)

Smith, J.A., Synchronous Lagrangian and Eulerian Velocity Measurements (pdf, 76k) in Proceedings of the IEEE Sixth Working Conference On Current Measurement, San Diego, CA, 1999.

Rieder, K.F., and J.A. Smith, Removing wave effects from the wind stress vector, (pdf, 418k)J. Geophys. Res., 103(C1), 1363-1374, 1998.