The Official Magazine of The Oceanography Society
Volume 37 | Number 4 | December 2024
NISKINe: The Near-Inertial Shear and Kinetic Energy in the North Atlantic Experiment
On the Cover: Photo of a Wirewalker deployment from R/V Armstrong taken during a 2018 cruise supporting the Near-Inertial Shear and Kinetic Energy in the North Atlantic Experiment (NISKINe). Photo credit: San Nguyen, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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Welcome to the December 2024 special issue of Oceanography on NISKINe: The Near-Inertial Shear and Kinetic Energy in the North Atlantic Experiment. This issue is in progress and articles will be posted as they are available. Please check back for new articles.
SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES
Why Near-Inertial Waves Are Less Affected by Vorticity in the Northeast Pacific Than in the North Atlantic
By
Leif N. Thomas,
Samuel M. Kelly,
Thilo Klenz,
William R. Young,
Luc Rainville,
Harper Simmons,
Verena Hormann, and
Ian Stokes
Blocked Drainpipes and Smoking Chimneys: Discovery of New Near-Inertial Wave Phenomena in Anticyclones
By
Leif N. Thomas,
James N. Moum,
Lixin Qu,
James P. Hilditch,
Eric Kunze,
Luc Rainville, and
Craig M. Lee
Near-Inertial Energy Variability in a Strong Mesoscale Eddy Field in the Iceland Basin
By
Gunnar Voet,
Amy F. Waterhouse,
Anna Savage,
Eric Kunze,
Jennifer A. MacKinnon,
Matthew H. Alford,
John A. Colosi,
Harper L. Simmons,
Thilo Klenz,
Samuel M. Kelly,
James N. Moum,
Caitlin B. Whalen,
Ren-Chieh Lien, and
James B. Girton
Observations of the Upper Ocean from Autonomous Platforms During the Passage of Extratropical Cyclone Epsilon (2020)
By
Michael T. Zimmerman,
Steven R. Jayne,
Luc Rainville,
Craig M. Lee,
John M. Toole,
James B. Edson,
Carol Anne Clayson,
Alexander K. Ekholm, and
Casey R. Densmore
Coherent Float Arrays for Near-Inertial Wave Studies
By
James B. Girton,
Caitlin B. Whalen,
Ren-Chieh Lien, and
Eric Kunze
DEPARTMENTS
WORKSHOP REPORT • Observing Ocean Boundary Currents: Lessons Learned from Six Regions with Mature Observational and Modeling Systems
By
Nadia K. Ayoub,
María Paz Chidichimo,
Edward Dever,
Xinyu Guo,
Sung Yong Kim,
Marjolaine Krug,
Belén Martín Míguez,
Tamaryn Morris,
Moninya Roughan,
Janet Sprintall,
Kiyoshi Tanaka,
Robert E. Todd,
John Wilkin,
Enrique Álvarez-Fanjul,
Magdalena Andres,
Anthony Bosse,
Christopher A. Edwards,
Jonathan Gula,
Colette G. Kerry,
Yasumasa Miyazawa,
Paolo Oddo,
Eitarou Oka, and
Katherine D. Zaba
CAREER PROFILES • OPTIONS AND INSIGHTS. Emma R. Ozanich
By
Emma R. Ozanich
Special Issue Guest Editors
Harper Simmons, University of Washington
Emily Shroyer, Office of Naval Research
Leif Thomas, Stanford University
Sponsors
Support for production of this special issue was provided by the Office of Naval Research.