Publications


Lumpkin, R. and S. Elipot, 2009: Surface drifter pair spreading in the North Atlantic. J. Fluid Mech., submitted.

Lumpkin, R. and S. L. Garzoli, 2009: Interannual to decadal variability in the Southwestern Atlantic's surface circulation. Geophys. Res. Letters, in revision.

Marshall, J. et al., 2009: CLIMODE: a mode water dynamics experiment in support of CLIVAR. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, submitted.

Casal, T., L. Beal, R. Lumpkin and W. Johns, 2009: The structure and downstream evolution of the Agulhas Current System during a quasi-synoptic survey in February-March 2003. J. Geophys. Res., accepted.

Zhang, H.-M. et al., 2009: An integrated global ocean observing system for sea surface temperature using satellites and in-situ data: research-to-operations. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, accepted.

Sallee, J.-B., K. Speer, R. Morrow and R. Lumpkin, 2008: An estimate of Lagrangian eddy statistics and diffusion in the mixed layer of the Southern Ocean. J. Marine Res., 66(4), 441-463.

Bourles, B. et al., 2008: The PIRATA program: History, Accomplishments and Future Directions. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 89(8), doi:10.1175/2008BAMS2462.1.

Lumpkin, R. and G. Goni, 2008: State of the ocean in 2007: surface currents. In "State of the Climate in 2007", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 89.

Elipot, S. and R. Lumpkin, 2008: Spectral description of oceanic near-surface variability. Geophys. Res. Letters, 35, L01608, doi:10.1029/2007GL032100.

Lumpkin, R., K. Speer and K. P. Koltermann, 2008: Transport across 48N in the North Atlantic Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 38 (4), 733-752.

Lumpkin, R. and G. Goni, 2007: State of the ocean in 2006: surface currents. In "State of the Climate in 2006", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88 (6), S30-S45.

Lumpkin, R. and K. Speer, 2007: Global Ocean Meridional Overturning J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37 (10), 2550-2562.

Lumpkin, R. and M. Pazos, 2007: Measuring surface currents with SVP drifters: the instrument, its data, and some recent results. Chapter 2 of Lagrangian Analysis and Prediction of Coastal and Ocean Dynamics, Ed. A. Griffa, A. D. Kirwan, A. J. Mariano, T. Ozgokmen and T. Rossby, Cambridge University Press.

Morris, V. et al., 2007: Measuring Trans-Atlantic Aerosol Transport from Africa. EOS, 87 (50), 12 Dec.

Casal, T., L. Beal and R. Lumpkin, 2006: A North Atlantic deep-water eddy in the Agulhas Current System. Deep-Sea Res. I, 53 (10), 1718-1728.

Lumpkin, R. and G. Goni, 2006: State of the ocean in 2005: surface currents. In "State of the Climate in 2005", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87 (6).

Lumpkin, R. and Z. Garraffo, 2005: Evaluating the Decomposition of Tropical Atlantic Drifter Observations. J. Atmos. Ocean. Technolog. 22 (9), 1403-1415.

Lumpkin, R. and S. L. Garzoli, 2005: Near-surface Circulation in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Res. I 52, 495-518.

Lumpkin, R., 2003: Decomposition of surface drifter observations in the Atlantic Ocean. Geophys. Res. Letters 30(14), 1753, 10.1029/2003GL017519.

Lumpkin, R. and K. Speer, 2003: Large-scale vertical and horizontal circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean. J. Phys. Ocean. 33(9), 1902-1920.

Seki, M., R. Lumpkin and P. Flament, 2002: Hawaiian Cyclonic Eddies and Blue Marlin Catches: The Case Study of the 1995 Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament. J. Oceanogr. 58(5), 739-745.

Lumpkin, R., A.-M. Treguier and K. Speer, 2002: Lagrangian eddy scales in the northern Atlantic Ocean. J. Phys. Ocean. 32, 2425-2440.

Chavanne, C., P. Flament, R. Lumpkin, B. Dousset and A. Bentamy, 2002: Scatterometer Observations of Wind Variations Induced by Oceanic Islands: Implications for Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation. Can. J. Remote Sens. 28, 466-474.

Flament, P., R. Lumpkin, J. Tournadre and L. Armi, 2001: Vortex pairing in an unstable anticyclonic shear flow: discrete subharmonics of one pendulum day. J. Fluid Mech. 440, 401-409.

Lumpkin, R. and P. Flament, 2001: Lagrangian statistics in the central North Pacific. J. Marine Systems 29, 141-155.

Lumpkin, R., P. Flament, R. Kloosterziel and L. Armi, 2000: Vortex merging in a 1.5-layer ocean on an f-plane. J. Phys. Ocean. 30, 233-242.

Qui, B., D. Koh, R. Lumpkin and P. Flament, 1997: Existence and Formation Mechanism of the North Hawaiian Ridge Current. J. Phys. Ocean. 27, 431-444.