Chia, Chin-Swee, 1968-

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-119). / by Chin-Swee Chia. / S.M.

Moffat Varas, Carlos F

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-186). / Observations of current velocity, temperature, salinity and pressure from a 2-year moored array deployment and four hydrographic cruises conducted by the United States Southern Ocean GLOBEC program on the western Antarctic Penin...

Merrifield, Sophia Tiare

Thesis: Ph. D., Joint Program in Physical Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2016. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-134). / The Southern Ocean is one of the most energetic regions of the world ocean due to intense winds and storm forcing, strong currents in the form of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) interacting...

Miller, Michael W. (Michael William)

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-61). / by Michael W. Miller. / M.Eng.

Hendry, Ross MacRae

Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences. / Vita. / Bibliography: leaves 324-329. / Ph.D.

Solomon, Harold

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology, 1969. / Vita. / Includes bibliography. / by Harold Solomon. / Ph.D.

Springmann, Alessondra

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2011. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-34). / In this thesis we investigate the solidification of early magma oceans on the Earth and the formation of a deep dense layer at the core-mantle boundary. We also study the concentrations and densities of the last layers of the solidified magma ocean and how they create a deep dense layer after s...

Walsh, Kevin James Edward

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, 1983. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Bibliography: leaves 38-41. / by Kevin James Edward Walsh. / M.S.

Brett, Genevieve Elizabeth

Thesis: Ph. D., Joint Program in Physical Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2018. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268). / This work investigates how a Lagrangian perspective applies to models of two oceanographic flows: an overturning submesoscale eddy and the Western Alboran Gyre. In the first case, I focus on the im...

Kida, Shinichiro

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2006. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-162). / The oceanic response to overflows is explored using a two-layer is...

Weidner, Donald J., 1945-

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, 1972. / Vita. / Bibliography: leaves 237-253. / by Donald James Weidner. / Ph.D.

Dorfman, Yevgeniy Yakov, 1967-

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 263-280). / by Yevgeniy Yakov Dorfman. / Ph.D.

Gerges, Makram Amin

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Meteorology. Thesis. 1966. M.S. / Bibliography: leaves 73-74. / M.S.

Elkins, Lynne J

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Marine Geology and Geophysics (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2009. / Includes bibliographical references. / To explore the ability of melting mafic lithologies to produce alkaline ocean-island basalts (OIB), an experimental study was carried out measuring clinopyroxene (Cpx)melt and garnet (Gt)-melt partition coefficients during silica-poor garnet pyroxen...

Crowe, John

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1981. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science / Vita. / Includes bibliographies. / by John Crowe. / Ph.D.

Kinzler, Rosamond Joyce

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Rosamond Joyce Kinzler. / Ph.D.

Zhao, Ning, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis: Ph. D., Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2017. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-149). / Significant changes occurred during the last deglaciation (roughly 10-20 thousand years (ka) before present) throughout the climate system. The ocean is a large reservo...

Dell, Rebecca Walsh

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2013. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-163). / Physical oceanographers have known for several decades the total amount of abyssal mixing and upwelling required to balance the deep-water formation, but are still working to understand the mechanisms and location...

Narayanan Subramani, Deepak

Thesis: Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering and Computation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2018. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "Submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Center for Computational Engineering." / Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268). / The coastal ocean is a prime example of multiscale nonlinear fluid dynamics. Ocean fields in such regions are complex, with multiple spatial and temporal scales and...

Shen, Glen T

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1986. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Vita. / Includes bibliographies. / by Glen T. Shen. / Ph.D.

Lee, Jaiyong, 1970-

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-338). / The diffusive nature of shallow water environment limits the fidelity of high performance target sonar systems. The multi-layered ocean waveguide increases the reverberation and the stochastic nature of interface inhomogeneities distorts the target signal. In order to improve the performance in such an environment, an accurate description and a better und...

Hoffmann, Sharon Susanna

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2009. / Includes bibliographical references. / The radionuclides ²³¹Pa and ²³⁰Th, produced in the water column and removed from the ocean by particle scavenging and burial in sediments, offer a means for paleoceanographers to examine past dynamics of both water column and sedimentary processes. I show for the fi...

Pálsson, Sigurjón

Thesis (M. Eng. in Logistics)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-83). / How can financial tools like real options and hedging mitigate and create value from uncertainty in transportation? This paper describes these concepts and identifies research on them that has relevance to transportation. It then gives historical background of the containerized ocean transportation industry, uses Porter's five forces to...

Schudlich, Rebecca R

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1991. / Vita. Title as it appears in the M.I.T. Graduate List, Sept. 1991: Stratification and upper ocean dynamics. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-153). / by Rebecca R. Schudlich. / Ph.D.

Campbell, Jeffrey William

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Jeffrey William Campbell. / M.S.

Gong, Cuiling, 1964-

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-125). / by Cuiling Gong. / M.S.

Cane, Mark Alan

Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Meteorology. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Vita. / Bibliography: leaves 320-325. / by Mark A. Cane. / Ph.D.

Sirkin, David Michael

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 40-41). / by David Michael Sirkin. / S.M.

Braun, Camrin Donald

Thesis: Ph. D., Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2018. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-154). / Highly migratory marine fishes support valuable commercial fisheries worldwide. Yet, many target species have proven difficult to study due to long-distance migrations and regular d...

Fan, Henry

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 175-182). / by Henry Fan. / Ph.D.

Black, Erin E

Thesis: Ph. D., Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2018. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references. / The biological carbon pump (BCP) helps to moderate atmospheric carbon dioxide levels by bringing carbon to the deep ocean, where it can be sequestered on timescales of centuries to mil...

Gustafsson, Örjan

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Örjan Gustafsson. / Ph.D.

Marchitto, Thomas Mathew

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), February 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. / Benthic foraminiferal δ13C, Cd/Ca, and Ba/Ca are important tools for reconstructing nutrient distributions, and thus ocean circulation, on glacial-interglacial timescales. However, each tracer has its own "artifacts" that can complicate paleoceanographic in...

Carrizo, Carlos

<p> Hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging of the ocean, both below and above the water surface, has increased the interest of the Ocean Color (OC) scientific community for decades in an attempt to answer questions related to climate change, monitoring of water quality, assessment of the impact of anthropogenic activities on marine life and underwater ecosystems, detection and characterization of underwater targets. These needs are recognized by worldwide efforts devoted to acquiring accurate ti...

Mbugua, Moore

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Kilpin, Geoffrey

Includes bibliographical references. / This study presents various aspects of the development of an autonomous sailboat for ocean observation, with specific focus on modelling and simulation. The potential value of such platforms for ocean observation is well established, with there being a number of expected advantages over existing solutions. A comprehensive literature review is presented, revealing that the modelling of sailboats is an existing field but that the modelling of small autonomous...

Giddy, Isabelle Sindiswa

Includes bibliographical references. / The South Atlantic Ocean acts as a key region of ocean teleconnections and water mass transformation, directly transporting waters from the Southern, Pacific and Indian Oceans towards the North Atlantic and feeding the upper branch of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. To date, this region remains under sampled over long time periods. Models form useful platforms for the wholistic study of such regions where long term datasets are not availabl...

Cooper, Kyle Francis

Includes bibliographical references. / Operational oceanography aims to accurately hindcast and forecast the state of the ocean. An international initiative, the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE), developed and increased the capacity for global operational oceanography. However, the products from the global initiatives were regionally inapplicable due to low spatial resolutions, and have recently improved through GODAE OceanView. A number of local operational oceanographic initia...

Chang, Nicolette

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-158). / Includes abstract. / The oceanic structure and circulation of the Agulhas Bank, the very wide continental shelf area off South Africa, has been explored in this thesis. The Agulhas Bank is a complex ocean region influenced by shelf processes as well as a nearby western boundary current, the Agulhas Current on its eastern margin and the Benguela Upwelling system on its western margin. In addition, a cold water feature, known as the cool ridge,...

Burls, Natalie

Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-180). / Capitalising on the vast knowledge gained in the tropical Pacific, tropical Atlantic variability is viewed from an energetics perspective and contrasted against the Pacific at both seasonal and inter-annual timescales. The character of remotely forced thermocline depth variability is evaluated using available potential energy which succinctly quantifies the response of the upper equatorial ocean to large scale wind forcing. To facilitate the At...

Smart, Sandi

Includes bibliographical references. / We provide the first data on wintertime patterns of the nitrogen (N) and oxygen (O) isotopes of seawater nitrate for the region south of Africa. Water column profile and underway surface samples collected in July 2012 span a range of latitudes from the subtropics to 57.8?S, just beyond the Antarctic winter sea-ice edge (56.7?S). The data are used in the context of simple models of nitrate consumption (including the Rayleigh model) to estimate the isotope ef...

Prabhakar, Gouri

Atmospheric aerosols impact the quality of our life in many direct and indirect ways. Inhalation of aerosols can have harmful effects on human health. Aerosols also have climatic impacts by absorbing or scattering solar radiation, or more indirectly through their interactions with clouds. Despite a better understanding of several relevant aerosol properties and processes in the past years, they remain the largest uncertainty in the estimate of global radiative forcing. The uncertainties arise be...

Woolfe, Katherine F.

In the ocean, changes in the speed of sound can be related to changes in water temperature. By leveraging this relationship, acoustic methods – namely acoustic tomography- have been used to monitor temperature changes in the deep ocean for the purposes of providing inputs to climate change models. Traditionally, these acoustic methods involve loud, active sound sources which can be logistically challenging to operate and have been criticized for potentially disturbing marine animals. Therefore, ...

Swanson, Richard, Dimsdle, Jeff, Petersen, Tom, Pasquale, Regina, Bracht, Roger

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 21, 2002 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / A series of RF channel flight characterization tests were recently run to benchmark multi-path performance of high-speed quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) over the ocean surface. The modulation format was differential-phase/absolute-amplitude two level polar 16 QAM. The bit rate was 100 Megabits per second with a symbol period of 40nS. An aircraft radi...

Friman, Sonja

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Graaff, Simon

Thesis (MScEng) -- Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa has a signi cant potential resource for electrical power generation in the Agulhas Current on the southeast coast. The Ocean Current Energy Convertor studied in this project was designed to generate power from this current. The feasibility of this device was investigated by analysing the dynamic stability and controllability of the convertor, when acted upon by hydrodynamic forces while harvesting energy from...

Reinecke, Josh

Thesis (MScEng (Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011. / Please refer to full text to view abstract.

Louw, Abraham Johannes Petrus

Mini-study project (MBA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The processes of regionalism and regionalisation, of which a relatively high level is evident in the Indian Ocean Rim (lOR), that characterise today's global economy offer opportunities for economic growth and development to the mainly developing countries in the Indian Ocean Rim. The lOR has achieved the status of regional society which contributes towards the region actively articulating the interests of the ...

Shillington, Frank Alan

Ocean gravity waves have been recorded near Melkbosstrand with a Wemelsfelder float type wave recorder on a sea tower situated in water 13m deep and one Kilometre offshore. The half hour records, taken twice daily between July 1972 - June 1973, have been analysed in a format uniform with that of Draper (1966). Measurements have been made from the wave records to check the value of the statistical ratios of Longuet- Higgins (1952) and Draper (1963). Ratios of maximum wave height to root mean squa...

Oviedo Sabogal, Angela María

Este trabajo se desarrolló en el marco del proyecto Europeo Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a changing climate (MedSeA) (http://medsea-project.eu) con el fin de estudiar los efectos de la limitación por fósforo (P) y el incremento en la presión parcial de dióxido de carbono (pCO2) sobre diferentes aspectos de la biología y ecología de los cocolitóforos. Esta tesis consta de una introducción al tema de estudio donde se presenta el problema de la acidificación oceánica y la limitación por nutr...