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Overview

Uwe Send is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego, in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable specialization in Oceanography and associated subfields. Their scientific contributions encompass topics such as oceanographic and atmospheric processes, marine and coastal ecosystems, ocean waves and remote sensing, climate variability and models, arctic and antarctic ice dynamics, marine biology and ecology research, and tropical and extratropical cyclones research.

The scientist has published extensively in prominent venues, with frequent contributions to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, Geophysical Research Letters, and Nature Geoscience.

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Chemistry

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Climate variability and models
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Recent publications by Uwe Send include the following:

  • Rapid transfer of oxygen to the deep ocean mediated by bubbles, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Dinoflagellate vertical migration fuels an intense red tide, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Bay of Bengal Intraseasonal Oscillations and the 2018 Monsoon Onset, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Satellite detection of dinoflagellate blooms off California by UV reflectance ratios, 2021, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Global Oceans, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Uwe Send has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Matthias Lankhorst, Andrew J. Lucas, J. Thomas Farrar, Jinbo Wang, and Scott Stalin.

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, including a work published by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution eBooks titled "CALYPSO 2019 Cruise Report: field campaign in the Mediterranean" from 2020.

Best Publications

  • High-Frequency Dynamics of Ocean pH: A Multi- Ecosystem Comparison

    Gretchen E. Hofmann;Jennifer E. Smith;Kenneth S. Johnson;Uwe Send

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • The Labrador Sea Deep Convection Experiment

    J. Marshall;F. Dobson;K. Moore;P. Rhines

  • Argo profiling floats bring new era of in situ ocean observations

    John Gould;Dean Roemmich;Susan Wijffels;Howard Freeland

  • Relaxation from upwelling in the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment

    Uwe Send;Robert C. Beardsley;Clinton D. Winant

  • Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Observed Transport and Variability

    Eleanor Frajka-Williams;Isabelle J. Ansorge;Johanna Baehr;Harry L. Bryden

  • Observations of the Labrador Sea eddy field

    Jonathan M. Lilly;Peter B. Rhines;Friedrich Schott;Kara Lavender

  • Integral Effects of Deep Convection

    Uwe Send;John Marshall

  • Observations of Deep Convection in the Gulf of Lions, Northern Mediterranean, during the Winter of 1991/92

    Friedrich Schott;Martin Visbeck;Uwe Send;Jürgen Fischer

  • Argo: The Global Array of Profiling Floats

    Dean Roemmich;Olaf Boebel;Yves Desaubies;Howard Freeland

  • The Southwest Pacific Ocean circulation and climate experiment (SPICE)

    Alexandre Ganachaud;Sophie Cravatte;A. Melet;A. Melet;A. Schiller

  • Recent advances in observing the physical oceanography of the western Mediterranean Sea

    Uwe Send;Jordi Font;Gerd Krahmann;Claude Millot

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • The seasonal pCO2 cycle at 49°N/16.5°W in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and what it tells us about biological productivity

    A. Körtzinger;U. Send;R. S. Lampitt;S. Hartman

  • The ocean takes a deep breath.

    Arne Körtzinger;Jens Schimanski;Uwe Send;Douglas W.R. Wallace

  • Interannual changes in the overflow from the Nordic Seas into the Atlantic Ocean through Denmark Strait

    Andreas Macrander;Uwe Send;Uwe Send;H. Valdimarsson;S. Jonsson

  • The Atlantic Deep Western Boundary Current: Water masses and transports near the equator

    Monika Rhein;Lothar Stramma;Uwe Send

  • Objective analyses of hydrographic data for referencing profiling float salinities in highly variable environments

    Lars Böhme;Uwe Send

  • Meridional overturning circulation observations in the North Atlantic Ocean

    M.O. Barringer;D.A. Smeed;J. Willis;M. Lankhorst

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes Karstensen
Johannes Karstensen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Torsten Kanzow
Torsten Kanzow Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Friedrich Schott
Friedrich Schott Kiel University
Pierre Testor
Pierre Testor Sorbonne University
Richard S. Lampitt
Richard S. Lampitt National Oceanography Centre
Monika Rhein
Monika Rhein University of Bremen
Arne Körtzinger
Arne Körtzinger GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Robert A. Weller
Robert A. Weller Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Martin Visbeck
Martin Visbeck GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Christopher S. Meinen
Christopher S. Meinen Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory

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