Research Interests:

1. Small-scale mixing in the ocean, 2. Oceanic internal waves, 3. Arctic oceanography, 4. Tropical oceanography.

Courses:

Observational Oceanography SIO 222

Selected 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.

Additional Information:

Number of 299 students: 3/Qtr.

Sea time planned: 30 days

E-mail address: rpinkel@ucsd.edu