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Overview

Tom Rossby is affiliated with the University of Rhode Island in the United States and conducts research within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Oceanography and Atmospheric Science.

Their research covers several main topics including Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, and Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics.

Among the recent papers published by Tom Rossby are:

  • A Double-Thermostad Warm-Core Ring of the Gulf Stream, 2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Rethinking Oceanic Overturning in the Nordic Seas, 2021, Eos

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Igor M. Belkin
  • Annie Foppert
  • Sandra Fontana
  • C. R. Kincaid
  • Léon Chafik

Rossby's publications have appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Eos

Their work involves the study of various oceanographic phenomena such as warm-core rings and oceanic overturning circulation, topics which relate both to regional ocean processes and broader climatological and environmental conditions.

Best Publications

  • The RAFOS System

    T. Rossby;D. Dorson;J. Fontaine

  • Evidence of Cross-Frontal Exchange Processes in the Gulf Stream Based on Isopycnal RAFOS Float Data

    A. S. Bower;T. Rossby

  • The Structure and Transport of the Gulf Stream at 73°W

    Daniel Halkin;T. Rossby

  • Ocean circulation causes the largest freshening event for 120 years in eastern subpolar North Atlantic

    N. Penny Holliday;Manfred Bersch;Barbara Berx;Leon Chafik

  • Directly measured mid-depth circulation in the northeastern North Atlantic Ocean

    A. S. Bower;B. Le Cann;T. Rossby;W. Zenk

  • The Cape Cauldron: A regime of turbulent inter-ocean exchange

    Olaf Boebel;Olaf Boebel;Olaf Boebel;Johann Lutjeharms;Claudia Schmid;Walter Zenk

  • The North Atlantic Current and surrounding waters: At the crossroads

    T. Rossby

  • The history and decay of a Mediterranean salt lens

    Laurence Armi;Dave Hebert;Neil Oakey;James Price

  • Slow variations in mean path of the Gulf Stream east of Cape Hatteras

    T. Rossby;R. L. Benway

  • The Average Distribution of Volume Transport and Potential Vorticity with Temperature at Three Sections across the Gulf Stream

    K. D. Leaman;E. Johns;T. Rossby

  • Atlantic circulation change still uncertain

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  • Path and variability of the Agulhas Return Current

    Olaf Boebel;Olaf Boebel;Olaf Boebel;Tom Rossby;Johann Lutjeharms;Walter Zenk

  • Volume, Heat, and Freshwater Divergences in the Subpolar North Atlantic Suggest the Nordic Seas as Key to the State of the Meridional Overturning Circulation

    Léon Chafik;T. Rossby

  • On the long‐term stability of Gulf Stream transport based on 20 years of direct measurements

    T. Rossby;C. N. Flagg;K. Donohue;A. Sanchez-Franks

  • Pathways of inflow and dispersion of warm waters in the Nordic seas

    T. Rossby;M. D. Prater;H. Søiland

  • Kinematics and Dynamics of a Mediterranean Salt Lens

    K. Schultz Tokos;T. Rossby

  • An isopycnal view of the Nordic Seas hydrography with focus on properties of the Lofoten Basin

    T. Rossby;Vladimir Ozhigin;Victor Ivshin;Sheldon Bacon

  • Numerical experiments with a fluid heated non-uniformly from below

    T. Rossby

  • Entrainment and mixing of shelf/slope waters in the near‐surface Gulf Stream

    J. L. Lillibridge;G. Hitchcock;T. Rossby;E. Lessard

  • On gyre interactions

    T. Rossby

  • Isopycnal Lagrangian statistics from the North Atlantic Current RAFOS float observations

    Huai-Min Zhang;Mark D. Prater;Tom Rossby

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles N. Flagg
Charles N. Flagg Stony Brook University
Walter Zenk
Walter Zenk Kiel University
Johann R. E. Lutjeharms
Johann R. E. Lutjeharms University of Cape Town
Philip L. Richardson
Philip L. Richardson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Amy S. Bower
Amy S. Bower Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Gilles Reverdin
Gilles Reverdin Sorbonne University
D. Randolph Watts
D. Randolph Watts University of Rhode Island
Svein Østerhus
Svein Østerhus Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Russ E. Davis
Russ E. Davis University of California, San Diego
Joaquin Trinanes
Joaquin Trinanes National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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