Warren White (oceanographer)

Warren White is a professor emeritus, and a former Research Oceanographer at the Marine Biological Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.[1]

White, with 'Buzz' Bernstein, was instrumental in the development and operation of the TRANSPAC XBT Volunteer Observing Ship program.[2][3] Between 1976 and 1984, commercial ships crossing the Pacific Ocean recorded expendable bathythermograph (XBT) data. This data became instrumental in a number of studies, particularly around the Kuroshio Current.[4][5] As well as its direct oceanographic value, this data was also important for determining the scale of features of interest, thus influencing the design of later observational networks.[6][7]

His research interests included:

• Planetary wave dynamics
• Interdecadal oscillations and their relation to El Niño and La Niña[8][9]
• Global climate change
• Coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction

He is known for his work on the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave.[10][11][12][13]

Publications

• White, Warren; Walker, A. E. (1974). "Time and depth scales of anomalous subsurface temperature at Ocean Weather Station P, N and V in the North Pacific". J. Phys. Oceanogr. 1979 (30): 4517–4522. Bibcode:1974JGR....79.4517W. doi:10.1029/JC079i030p04517.
• Bernstein, R.; White, Warren (1974). "Time and length scales of baroclinic eddies in the Central North Pacific". J. Phys. Oceanogr. 4: 613–624. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1974)004<0613:talsob>2.0.co;2.
• White, Warren (1977). "Secular variability in the baroclinic structure of the interior North Pacific from 1950–1970". J. Mar. Res. 35 (3): 587–607.
• Bernstein, R.; White, Warren (1979). "Design of an oceanographic network in the mid-latitude North Pacific". J. Phys. Oceanogr. 9 (3): 592–606. Bibcode:1979JPO.....9..592W. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1979)009<0592:DOAONI>2.0.CO;2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Bernstein, R.; White, Warren (1981). "Stationary and travelling mesoscale perturbations in the Kurushio Extension current". J. Phys. Oceanogr. 11 (5): 692–704. Bibcode:1981JPO....11..692B. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1981)011<0692:satmpi>2.0.co;2.
• White, Warren (1982). "Travelling wave-like mesoscale perturbations in the North Pacific". J. Phys. Oceanogr. 12: 231–243. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1982)012<0231:twlmpi>2.0.co;2.
• White, Warren (1983). "Westward propagation of short term climatic anomalies in the western North Pacific Ocean from 1964–1974". J. Mar. Res. 41: 113–125. doi:10.1357/002224083788223054.
• Mizuno, K.; White, Warren (1984). "Annual and interannual variability in the Kurushio current system". J. Phys. Oceanogr. 13 (10): 1847–1867. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1983)013<1847:aaivit>2.0.co;2.
• White, Warren; Meyers, Gary A.; Donguy, Jean Rene; Pazan, Stephen E. (1985). "Short-Term Climatic Variability in the Thermal Structure of the Pacific Ocean during 1979–82". J. Phys. Oceanogr. 15 (7): 917–935. Bibcode:1985JPO....15..917W. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1985)015<0917:stcvit>2.0.co;2.
• Talley, Lynne D.; White, Warren (1987). "Estimates of Time and Space Scales at 300 Meters in the Midlatitude North Pacific from the TRANSPAC XBT Program". J. Phys. Oceanogr. 17 (12): 2168–2188. Bibcode:1987JPO....17.2168T. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1987)017<2168:EOTASS>2.0.CO;2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• White, Warren; Pazan, Stephen E.; Withee, Gregory W.; Noe, Christopher (1988). "Joint Environment Data Analysis (JEDA) Center". Eos Trans. AGU. 69 (9): 122–131. Bibcode:1988EOSTr..69..122W. doi:10.1029/88EO00079.
• White, Warren (1995). "Design of a global observing system for gyre-scale upper ocean temperature variability". Progr. Oceanogr. 36 (3): 169–217. Bibcode:1995PrOce..36..169W. doi:10.1016/0079-6611(95)00017-8.
• White, Warren; Tai, Chang-Kou (1995). "Inferring interannual changes in global upper ocean heat storage from TOPEX altimetry". J. Geophys. Res. 100 (C12): 24943–24954. Bibcode:1995JGR...10024943W. doi:10.1029/95JC02332.
• White, Warren; Peterson, Ray G. (1996). "An Antarctic circumpolar wave in surface pressure, wind, temperature and sea-ice extent". Nature. 380 (6576): 699–702. Bibcode:1996Natur.380..699W. doi:10.1038/380699a0. S2CID 4312307.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• White, Warren; Shyh-Chin Chen; Peterson, R. (1998). "The Antarctic Circumpolar Wave: A beta-effect in ocean-atmosphere coupling over the Southern Ocean". J. Phys. Oceanogr. 28 (12): 2345–2361. Bibcode:1998JPO....28.2345W. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<2345:TACWAB>2.0.CO;2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• White, Warren (2000). "Influence of the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave upon Australia precipitation from 1958 to 1996". J. Climate. 13: 2125–2141. doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<2125:iotacw>2.0.co;2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• White, Warren; Cayan, D. R. (2000). "A global El Niño-Southern Oscillation wave in surface temperature and pressure and its interdecadal modulation from 1900 to 1997". J. Geophys. Res. 105 (11): 223–11, 242. Bibcode:2000JGR...10511223W. doi:10.1029/1999JC900246.
• White, Warren; Cayan, Daniel R.; Dettinger, Michael; Sharber, James (Jan 9, 2001). "Quantitative Assessment of the Integrated Response in Global Heat and Moisture Budgets to Changing Solar Irradiance". Technical Report. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. 01: 81064. Bibcode:2001STIN...0181064W. 20010081063.
• White, Warren (2001). "Evidence for coupled Rossby waves in the annual cycle of the Indo-Pacific Ocean". J. Phys. Oceanogr. 31 (10): 2944–2957. Bibcode:2001JPO....31.2944W. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(2001)031<2944:EFCRWI>2.0.CO;2.
• White, Warren; Shyh-Chin Chen; Allan, Rob J.; Stone, Roger C. (2002). "Positive feedbacks between the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave and the global El Niño-Southern Oscillation Wave". J. Geophys. Res. 107 (C10, 3165): 3165. Bibcode:2002JGRC..107.3165W. doi:10.1029/2000JC000581.
• White, Warren; McKeon, Greg; Syktus, Jozef (May 2003). "Australian drought: the interference of multi-spectral global standing modes and travelling waves". Int. J. Climatol. 23 (6): 631–662. Bibcode:2003IJCli..23..631W. doi:10.1002/joc.895.
• White, Warren; Gershunov, Alexander; Annis, Jeffrey L.; McKeon, Greg; Syktus, Jozef (2004). "Forecasting Australian Drought Using Southern Hemisphere Modes of Sea-Surface Temperature Variability". Int. J. Climatol. 24 (15): 1911–1927. Bibcode:2004IJCli..24.1911W. doi:10.1002/joc.1091.

References

1. "WHITE, WARREN Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego". scripps.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
2. Bernstein & White (1979).
3. Jochum, Markus; Murtugudde, Raghu (2006). Physical Oceanography: Developments Since 1950. Springer. p. 54. ISBN 9780387331522.
4. Talley & White (1987).
5. Jae-Yul Yun; Price, James M.; Magaard, Lorenz (1991). Takano, K. (ed.). Observational Characteristics of Internal Temperature Fluctuations in the Mid-Latitude North Pacific. Oceanography of Asian Marginal Seas. Elsevier Oceanography Series. pp. 1–23. ISBN 9780080870922.
6. The Argo Science Team (1998). "On The Design and Implementation of Argo: A Global Array of Profiling Floats" (PDF). p. 9.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
7. "Autonomous Profiling Floats: Workhorse for Broad-scale Ocean Observations". Marine Technology Society Journal. 38 (1): 31–39. Spring 2004.
8. John Gribbin (23 June 1988). "Natural Oscillations Explain El Niño". New Scientist.
9. Burroughs, William James (2003). "5.5 Modelling El Niño and El Niña". Weather Cycles: Real Or Imaginary?. Cambridge University Press. p. 153. ISBN 9780521528221.
10. White & Peterson (1996).
11. White, Shyh-Chin Chen & Peterson (1998).
12. White (2000).
13. Prabhu, Amita (2010). "Role of Antarctic circumpolar wave in modulating the extremes of Indian summer monsoon rainfall". Geophys. Res. Lett. 37 (14): L14106. Bibcode:2010GeoRL..3714106P. doi:10.1029/2010GL043760. The influence of the southern polar climate variability on the lower latitudes through the variability of Antarctic circumpolar wave (ACW) was first brought out by White and Peterson [1996]. (etc)

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