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Robert Pinkel
Associate Director, MPL
Professor of Oceanography
LJ, OAR, 356
534-2056



Website: http://opg1.ucsd.edu/

Degrees:
B.A., University of Michigan
M.S., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego-Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Research Interest:
Small-scale mixing in the ocean
Oceanic internal waves
Arctic oceanography
Tropical oceanography

Publications:
1997. Shear, strain and Richardson number variations in the thermocline. Part I: Statistical description., Journal of Physical Oceanography, 27(2):264-281.

1997. Shear, strain and Richardson number variations in the thermocline. Part II: Modeling mixing., Journal of Physical Oceanography, 27(2):282-290.

1992. Toward a statistical description of fine scale strain in the thermocline., Journal of Physical Oceanography, 22(7):773-795.

1991. Estimates of the vertical wavenumber?frequency spectra of vertical shear and strain., Journal of Physical Oceanography, 21(2):292-303.

1991. Strain, observations of the vertical derivative of isopycnal vertical displacement., Journal of Physical Oceanography, 21(4):527-540.


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