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:

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

  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 978-0-387-33152-2.
  4. ^ Talley & White (1987).
  5. ^ Jae-Yul Yun; Price, James M.; Magaard, Lorenz (1991). "Observational Characteristics of Internal Temperature Fluctuations in the Mid-Latitude North Pacific". In Takano, K. (ed.). Oceanography of Asian Marginal Seas. pp. 1–23. ISBN 978-0-08-087092-2.
  6. ^ The Argo Science Team (1998). "On The Design and Implementation of Argo: A Global Array of Profiling Floats" (PDF). p. 9.
  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 978-0-521-52822-1.
  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)