Publications:
Books
Samelson, R. M., and S. Wiggins, 2006. Lagrangian Transport in Geophysical Jets and Waves. Springer-Verlag, New York, 147 pp. Description and Errata
Samelson, R. M., 2009. An Introduction to the Theory of Large-Scale Ocean Circulation. Draft manuscript available from the author on request.
Submitted Manuscripts
Early, J. J., J. Pohjanpelto, and, R. M. Samelson. Group foliation for equations in geophysical fluid dynamics. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Series A, submitted. pdf file
Kelly, K. A., R. J. Small, R. M. Samelson, B. Qiu, T. M. Joyce, Y.-O. Kwon, and M. F. Cronin. Western boundary currents and frontal air-sea interaction: Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extension. J. Climate, submitted. pdf file
Rivas, D., and R. M. Samelson. A numerical modeling study of the upwelling source waters along the Oregon coast during 2005. J. Phys. Oceanogr., submitted. pdf file
Samelson, R. M. An effective-beta vector for linear planetary waves on a weak mean flow. Ocean Modelling, submitted. pdf file
Shaman, J., R. M. Samelson, and E. Skyllingstad. Air-sea fluxes over the Gulf Stream region: atmospheric controls and trends. Journal of Climate, submitted. pdf file
Refereed Publications
Kim, S., R. M. Samelson, and C. Snyder, 2009. Ensemble-based estimates of the predictability of wind-driven coastal ocean flow over topography. Monthly Weather Review, 137, 2515-2537, DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2631.1. pdf file
Marshall, J., A. Andersson, N. Bates, W. Brown, W. Dewar, S. Doney, J. Edson, R. Ferrari, G. Forget, D. Fratantoni, M. Gregg, T. Joyce, K. Kelly, S. Lozier, R. Lumpkin, G. Maze, J. Palter, A. Plueddemann, R. Samelson, K. Silverthorne, E. Skyllingstad, F. Straneo, L. Talley, L. Thomas, J. Toole, and R. Weller, 2009. Observing the cycle of convection and restratification over the Gulf Stream and the subtropical gyre of the North Atlantic Ocean: preliminary results from the CLIMODE field campaign. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90, 1337-1350. pdf file
O'Neill, L., S. K. Esbensen, N. Thum, R. M. Samelson, and D. B. Chelton, 2009. Dynamical analysis of the boundary layer and surface wind responses to small-scale SST perturbations. Journal of Climate, in press, DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2662.1
Samelson, R. M., 2009. A simple dynamical model of the warm-water branch of the mid-depth meridional overturning cell. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39, 1216-1230. pdf file
Springer, S. R., R.M. Samelson, J. S. Allen, G. D. Egbert, A. L. Kurapov, R. N. Miller and J. C. Kindle, 2009. A Nested Grid Model of the Oregon Coastal Transition Zone: Simulations and Comparisons with Observations During the 2001 Upwelling Season. J. Geophys. Res., 114, C02010, doi:10.1029/2008JC004863. pdf file
Wilkinson, J.P, P. Gudmandsen, S. Hanson, R. Saldo, and R.M. Samelson, 2009. Hans Island: meteorological data from an international borderline. EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 90, 190-191. pdf file
Durski, S. D., R. M. Samelson, J. S. Allen, and G. D. Egbert, 2008. Normal-mode instabilities of a time-dependent coastal upwelling jet. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38, 2056–2071. pdf file
Samelson, R. M., J. S. Allen, and P. MacCready, 2008. Progress in coastal ocean modeling during CoOP. Oceanography, 21, 136-147. Note: Due to a production error, the printed version of this article contains several errors that should have been corrected in proof; please download the Oceanography on-line version or this pdf file.
Samelson, R. M., and P. L. Barbour, 2008. Low-level jets, orographic channeling, and extreme events in Nares Strait: a model-based mesoscale climatology. Monthly Weather Review, 136, 4746-4759, doi: 10.1175/2007MWR2326.1. pdf file
Wolfe, C. L., and R. M. Samelson, 2008. Singular vectors and time-dependent normal modes of a baroclinic wave-mean oscillation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, 875-894.
Chelton, D. B., M. G. Schlax and R.M. Samelson, 2007. Summertime coupling between sea surface temperature and wind stress in the California Current System. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37, 495-517. pdf file
Chelton, D. B., M. G. Schlax, R.M. Samelson, and R. A. de Szoeke, 2007. Global observations of large oceanic eddies. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L15606, doi:10.1029/2007GL030812. pdf file
Durski, S., J. S. Allen, G. D. Egbert, and R. M. Samelson, 2007. Scale evolution of finite amplitude instabilities on a coastal upwelling front. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37, 837-854. pdf file
Perlin, N, E. Skyllingstad, R. Samelson, and P. Barbour, 2007. Numerical simulation of air-sea coupling during coastal upwelling. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37, 2081-2093. pdf file
Samelson, R., R. Temam, C. Wang, and S. Wang, 2007. A fourth order numerical method for the planetary geostrophic equations with inviscid geostrophic balance. Numerische Mathematik, , 107(4), 669-705.
Wolfe, C. L., and R. M. Samelson, 2007. An efficient method for recovering Lyapunov vectors from singular vectors. Tellus, 59A, 355-366.
Liu, J.-G., R. Samelson, and C. Wang, 2006. Global weak solutions of planetary geostrophic equations with inviscid geostrophic balance. Applicable Analysis, 85, 593-605, doi: 10.1080/00036810500328299. article
Samelson, R. M., T. Agnew, H. Melling, and A. Münchow, 2006. Evidence for atmospheric control of sea-ice motion through Nares Strait. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L02506, doi:10.1029/2005GL025016. pdf file
Samelson, R. M., E. D. Skyllingstad, D. B. Chelton, S. K. Esbensen, L. W. O'Neill, and N. Thum, 2006. A note on the coupling of wind stress and sea surface temperature. Journal of Climate, 19, 1557-1566. article
Skyllingstad, E., D. Vickers, L. Mahrt, and R. Samelson, 2006. Effects of mesoscale sea-surface temperature fronts on the marine boundary layer. Boundary Layer Meteorology, DOI 10.1007/s10546-006-9127-8. article
Wolfe, C. L., and R. M. Samelson, 2006. Normal-mode analysis of a baroclinic wave-mean oscillation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 63, 2795-2812. pdf file
Bane, J. M., M. D. Levine, R. M. Samelson, S. M. Haines, M. F. Meaux, N. Perlin, P. M. Kosro, and T. Boyd, 2005. Atmospheric forcing of the Oregon coastal ocean during the 2001 upwelling season. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 110, C10S02, doi:10.1029/2004JC002653. pdf file
Choboter, P. F., R. M. Samelson, and J. S. Allen, 2005. A new solution of a nonlinear model of upwelling. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 35, 532-544. article
Dewar, W. K., R. M. Samelson, and G. K. Vallis, 2005. The ventilated pool: A model of subtropical mode water. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 35, 137-150. article preprint
Gan, J., J. S. Allen, and R. M. Samelson, 2005. On open boundary conditions for a limited-area coastal model off Oregon. Part II: Response to wind forcing from a regional mesoscale atmospheric model. Ocean Modelling, 8, 155-173, 10.1016/j.ocemod.2003.12.007. pdf file
Lyman, J., D. Chelton, R. de Szoeke, and R. M. Samelson, 2005. Tropical instability waves as a resonance between equatorial Rossby waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 35, 232-254. article
Skyllingstad, E., R. Samelson, L. Mahrt, and P. Barbour, 2005. A numerical modeling study of warm offshore flow over cool water. Monthly Weather Review, 133, 345-361. article
Kuebel Cervantes, B. T., J. S. Allen, and R. M. Samelson, 2004. Lagrangian characteristics of continental shelf flows forced by periodic wind stress. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 11, 3-16. pdf file
Perlin, N., R. M. Samelson, and D. B. Chelton, 2004. Scatterometer and model wind and wind stress in the Oregon - northern California coastal zone. Monthly Weather Review, 132, 2110-2129. article
Samelson, R. M., 2004. Simple mechanistic models of mid-depth meridional overturning. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 34, 2096-2103. article
Kuebel, B. T., J. S. Allen, and R. M. Samelson, 2003. A modeling study of Eulerian and Lagrangian aspects of shelf circulation off Duck, North Carolina. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 33, 2070-2092.
Samelson, R. M., and C. L. Wolfe, 2003. A nonlinear baroclinic wave-mean oscillation with multiple normal-mode instabilities. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 60, 1186-1199. article
Samelson, R. M., R. Temam, C. Wang, and S. Wang, 2003. Surface pressure Poisson equation formulation of the primitive equations: numerical schemes. SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis, 41, 1163-1194.
Bielli, S., P. Barbour, R. Samelson, E. Skyllingstad, and J. Wilczak, 2002. Numerical simulations of the diurnal cycle along the Oregon coast during summertime northerly flow. Monthly Weather Review, 130, 992-1008. pdf file
de Szoeke, R. A., and R. M. Samelson, 2002. The duality between the Boussinesq and non-Boussinesq hydrostatic equations of motion. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 32, 2194-2203.
Samelson, R. M., P. Barbour, J. Barth, S. Bielli, T. Boyd, D. Chelton, P. Kosro, M. Levine, E. Skyllingstad, and J. Wilczak, 2002. Wind stress forcing of the Oregon coastal ocean during the 1999 upwelling season. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 107 (C5), 10.1029/2001JC000900. pdf file
Samelson, R. M., 2001. Lyapunov, Floquet, and singular vectors for baroclinic waves. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 8, 439-448. pdf file
Samelson, R. M., 2001. Periodic orbits and disturbance growth for baroclinic waves. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 58, 436-450.
Samelson, R. M., and E. Tziperman, 2001. Instability of the chaotic ENSO: the growth-phase predictability barrier. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 58, 3613-3625.
Samelson, R. M., R. Temam, and S. Wang, 2000. Smooth solutions and attractor dimension bounds for planetary geostrophic ocean models. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 126, 1977-1981.
Nuss, W., J. Bane, W. Thompson, T. Holt, C. Dorman, F. M. Ralph, R. Rotunno, J. Klemp, W. Skamarock, R. Samelson, A. Rogerson, C. Reason, and P. Jackson, 2000. Coastally trapped wind reversals: progress toward understanding. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 81(4), 719-743.
Samelson, R. M., R. Temam, and S. Wang, 2000. Remarks on the planetary geostrophic model of gyre scale ocean circulation. Differential and Integral Equations, 13, 1-14.
Samelson, R. M., 1999. Geostrophic circulation in a rectangular basin with a circumpolar connection. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 29, 3175-3184.
Samelson, R. M., 1999. Internal boundary layer scaling in 'two-layer' solutions of the thermocline equations. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 29, 2099-2102.
Burk, S., T. Haack, and R. M. Samelson, 1999. Mesoscale simulation of supercritical, subcritical, and transcritical flow along coastal topography. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 56, 2780-2795.
Samelson, R. M., 1999. Note on a baroclinic analog of vorticity defects in shear. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 382, 367-373.
Samelson, R. M., 1999. The vertical structure of linear coastal-trapped disturbances. Monthly Weather Review, 127, 201-213.
Samelson, R. M., 1998. Large-scale circulation with locally enhanced vertical mixing. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 28, 712-726.
Samelson, R. M., R. Temam, and S. Wang, 1998. Some mathematical properties of the planetary geostrophic equations for large-scale ocean circulation. Applicable Analysis, 70, 147-173.
Brink, K. H., and Samelson, R. M., 1998. Comments on "Direct atmospheric forcing of geostrophic eddies. Part II: Coherence maps." Journal of Physical Oceanography, 28, 1003-1009.
Samelson, R. M., and G. K. Vallis, 1997. A simple friction and diffusion scheme for planetary geostrophic basin models. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 27, 186-194.
Samelson, R. M., and G. K. Vallis, 1997. Large-scale circulation with small diapycnal diffusion: the two-thermocline limit. Journal of Marine Research, 55, 223-275.
Samelson, R. M., 1997. Coastal boundary conditions and the baroclinic structure of wind-driven continental shelf currents. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 27, 2645-2662. article
Samelson, R. M., and A. M. Rogerson, 1996. Life-cycle of a linear coastal trapped disturbance. Monthly Weather Review, 124(8), 1853-1863.
Samelson, R. M., and D. C. Chapman, 1995. Evolution of the instability of a mixed-layer front. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100(C4), 6743-6759.
Rogerson, A. M., and R. M. Samelson, 1995. Synoptic forcing of coastal-trapped disturbances in the marine atmospheric boundary layer. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 52(11), 2025-2040.
Brown, M. G., and R. M. Samelson, 1994. Particle motion in vorticity-conserving, two-dimensional, incompressible flows. Physics of Fluids, 6(9), 2875-2876.
Samelson, R. M., and S. J. Lentz, 1994. The horizontal momentum balance in the marine atmospheric boundary layer during CODE-2. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 51(24), 3745-3757.
Samelson, R. M., 1993. Linear instability of a mixed-layer front. Journal of Geophysical Research, 98(C6), 10,195-10,204.
Niiler, P. P., J. Filloux, W. T. Liu, R. M. Samelson, J. D. Paduan, and C. A. Paulson, 1993. Wind-forced variability of the deep eastern North Pacific: observations of seafloor pressure and abyssal currents. Journal of Geophysical Research, 98(C12), 22,589-22,602.
Oh, S. P., J. Pedlosky, and R. M. Samelson, 1993. Linear and finite-amplitude localized baroclinic instability. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 50(16), 2772-2784.
Samelson, R. M., 1992. Surface-intensified Rossby waves over rough topography. Journal of Marine Research, 50(3), 367-384; Corrigendum, Journal of Marine Research, 56(1), 293 (1998).
Samelson, R. M., 1992. Supercritical marine layer flow along a smoothly-varying coastline. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 49, 1571-1584.
Samelson, R. M., 1992. Fluid exchange across a meandering jet. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 22(4), 431-440.
Samelson, R. M., and B. Shrayer, 1991. Currents forced by stochastic winds with meridionally-varying amplitude. Journal of Geophysical Research, 96(C10), 18,425-18,429.
Pedlosky, J., and R. M. Samelson, 1991. Radiation-induced baroclinic instability. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 58, 243-262.
Allen, J. S., R. M. Samelson, and P. A. Newberger, 1991. Chaos in a model of forced quasi-geostrophic flow over topography: An application of Melnikov's method. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 226, 511-547.
Samelson, R. M., and J. Pedlosky, 1990. Local baroclinic instability of flow over variable topography. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 221, 411-436.
Samelson, R. M., 1990. Evidence for wind-driven current fluctuations in the eastern North Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research, 95(C7), 11,359-11,368; correction, Journal of Geophysical Research, 97(C1), 821-822 (1992).
Pedlosky, J., and R. M. Samelson, 1989. Wind forcing and the zonal structure of the equatorial undercurrent. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 19(9), 1244-1254.
Samelson, R. M., 1989. Stochastically forced current fluctuations in vertical shear and over topography. Journal of Geophysical Research, 94(C6), 8207-8215.
Samelson, R. M., and R. A. de Szoeke, 1988. Semigeostrophic wind-driven thermocline upwelling at a coastal boundary. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 18(10), 1372-1383.
Samelson, R. M., and C. A. Paulson, 1988. Towed thermistor chain observations of fronts in the subtropical North Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research, 93(C3), 2237-2246.
Samelson, R. M., and J. S. Allen, 1987. Quasi-geostrophic topographically generated mean flow over the continental margin. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 17(11), 2043-2064.
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