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KNOX, ROBERT

Rsrch. Oceanogr., emeritus

SIO Assoc. Director, emer.

Degrees:

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

Research Interests:

  • Equatorial ocean circulation and dynamics
  • Acoustic remote sensing of ocean circulation

Honors and Awards:

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Sigma Xi
  • Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1965-1966
  • Senior Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford, 1983
  • National Associate of the National Research Council (NRC), awarded 2003


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Home Department:
SIO/DO

Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: 0230

Email: rknox@ucsd.edu


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

Publications:

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1984. Recent advances in the study of low-latitude ocean circulation. Progress in Oceanography 14:259-317.

1988. Observations of 20-day period meridional current oscillations in the upper ocean along the Pacific equator. Journal of Physical Oceanography 18(11):1514-1534.

1989. Estimates of equatorial upwelling between 140°W and 110°W during 1984. Journal of Geophysical Research 94(C6):8018-8020.

1989. Ocean acoustic tomography: A primer. Oceanic Circulation Models: Combining Data and Dynamics, D. L. T. Anderson and J. Willebrand, Eds., Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 141-188.

1996. The three-dimensional structure of an upper-ocean vortex in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Nature 383:610-613.


Last Modified: Nov 15, 2008