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FOSTER, THEODORE

Research Associate/

Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Cruz

Degrees:

  • Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
  • M.S., University of Colorado, Boulder
  • M.A., University of Colorado, Boulder

Research Interests:

  • Geophysical fluid dynamics
  • Physical oceanography, particularly of polar regions
  • Geophysics


Home Department:
GRD

Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: 0220

Email: tfoster@ucsd.edu


Publications:

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1969. The effect of initial conditions and lateral boundaries on convection. Journal of Fluid Mechanics: 37:81-94.

1972. An analysis of the cabbeling instability in sea water. Journal of Physical Oceanography: 2:294-301.

1987. Mixing and bottom water formation in the shelf break region of the southern Weddell Sea. Deep-Sea Research: 34:1771-1794.

1995. Abyssal water mass formation off the eastern Wilkes Land coast of Antarctica. Deep-Sea Research I: 42:501-522.


Last Modified: Dec 15, 2004