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Farrar, J. Thomas Associate Scientist, Physical Oceanography

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Associate Scientist, Physical Oceanography , Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2016 -

Air-sea interaction and exchange; dynamics and thermodynamics of the upper ocean; tropical dynamics and equatorial waves; oceanic internal waves and eddies; satellite oceanography; ocean observing and instrumentation. These interests are pursued from an observational perspective using in situ observations, satellite observations, and, in some cases, laboratory and numerical models to test hypotheses and test or formulate simplified physical models that aid understanding.

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academic article
- Westward mountain-gap wind jets of the northern Red Sea as seen by QuikSCAT. Remote Sensing of Environment. 209:677-699. 2018
- Submesoscale Processes at Shallow Salinity Fronts in the Bay of Bengal: Observations during the Winter Monsoon. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 48:479-509. 2018
- Evidence for the Maintenance of Slowly Varying Equatorial Currents by Intraseasonal Variability. Geophysical Research Letters. 45:1923-1929. 2018
- An Observing System Simulation Experiment for the Calibration and Validation of the Surface Water Ocean Topography Sea Surface Height Measurement Using In Situ Platforms. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 35:281-297. 2018
- Spectral decomposition of internal gravity wave sea surface height in global models 2017
- Autonomous Multi-Platform Observations During the Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study. Oceanography. 30:38-48. 2017
- Evaluating and Extending the Ocean Wind Climate Data Record.. IEEE J Sel Top Appl Earth Obs Remote Sens. 10:2165-2185. 2017
- Frequency content of sea surface height variability from internal gravity waves to mesoscale eddies 2017
- Challenges and Prospects for Reducing Coupled Climate Model SST Biases in the Eastern Tropical Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: The U.S. CLIVAR Eastern Tropical Oceans Synthesis Working Group. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 97:2305-2328. 2016
- ASIRI: An Ocean–Atmosphere Initiative for Bay of Bengal. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 97:1859-1884. 2016
- Corrigendum to “Formation and erosion of the seasonal thermocline in the Kuroshio Extension Recirculation gyre” [Deep-Sea Res. II 85 (2013) 62–74]. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 132:263-264. 2016
- The characteristics and dynamics of wave-driven flow across a platform coral reef in the Red Sea 2016
- Air-Sea Interaction in the Bay of Bengal. Oceanography. 29:28-37. 2016
- Modification of Upper-Ocean Temperature Structure by Subsurface Mixing in the Presence of Strong Salinity Stratification. Oceanography. 29:62-71. 2016
- Surface gravity wave transformation across a platform coral reef in the Red Sea 2016
- What Controls Seasonal Evolution of Sea Surface Temperature in the Bay of Bengal? Mixed Layer Heat Budget Analysis Using Moored Buoy Observations Along 90°E. Oceanography. 29:202-213. 2016
- Near-inertial kinetic energy budget of the mixed layer and shear evolution in the transition layer in the Arabian Sea during the monsoons 2015
- From Salty to Fresh—Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study-2 (SPURS-2): Diagnosing the Physics of a Rainfall-Dominated Salinity Minimum. Oceanography. 28:150-159. 2015
- Salinity and Temperature Balances at the SPURS Central Mooring During Fall and Winter. Oceanography. 28:56-65. 2015
- Heat and salinity budgets at the Stratus mooring in the southeast Pacific. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS. 119:8162-8176. 2014
- Properties of Red Sea coastal currents. Continental Shelf Research. 78:51-61. 2014
- Ocean–cloud–atmosphere–land interactions in the southeastern Pacific : the VOCALS Program. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 95:357-375. 2014
- Moored surface buoy observations of the diurnal warm layer. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS. 118:4553-4569. 2013
- The Spatial Structure of Tidal and Mean Circulation over the Inner Shelf South of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 43:1940-1958. 2013
- Two spatial scales in a bleaching event: Corals from the mildest and the most extreme thermal environments escape mortality. Limnology and Oceanography. 58:1531-1545. 2013
- Waves in the Red Sea: Response to monsoonal and mountain gap winds. Continental Shelf Research. 65:1-13. 2013
- Structure and surface properties of eddies in the southeast Pacific Ocean. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS. 118:2295-2309. 2013
- Formation and erosion of the seasonal thermocline in the Kuroshio Extension Recirculation Gyre. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 85:62-74. 2013
- The Wavenumber–Frequency Content of Resonantly Excited Equatorial Waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 42:1834-1858. 2012
- Wavenumber–Frequency Spectra of Inertia–Gravity and Mixed Rossby–Gravity Waves in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 42:1859-1881. 2012
- On latency of multiple zonal jets in the oceans. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 686:534-567. 2011
- Barotropic Rossby Waves Radiating from Tropical Instability Waves in the Pacific Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 41:1160-1181. 2011
- Observations of the thermal environment on Red Sea platform reefs: a heat budget analysis. Coral Reefs. 30:25-36. 2011
- Complex mean circulation over the inner shelf south of Martha's Vineyard revealed by observations and a high-resolution model. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS. 116. 2011
- Variations in Ocean Surface Temperature due to Near-Surface Flow: Straining the Cool Skin Layer. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 39:2685-2710. 2009
- Zonal surface wind jets across the Red Sea due to mountain gap forcing along both sides of the Red Sea. Geophysical Research Letters. 36. 2009
- Observations of the Dispersion Characteristics and Meridional Sea Level Structure of Equatorial Waves in the Pacific Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 38:1669-1689. 2008
- The Coupled Boundary Layers and Air–Sea Transfer Experiment in Low Winds. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 88:341-356. 2007
- Correction to “Intraseasonal variability near 10°N in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean”. Journal of Geophysical Research. 112. 2007
- Sea surface temperature signatures of oceanic internal waves in low winds. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS. 112. 2007
- Intraseasonal variability near 10°N in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS. 111. 2006
- Observations and models of the energy flux from the wind to mixed-layer inertial currents. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 53:5-30. 2006
conference paper
- Comparison of high-resolution wind maps from SAR imagery with in situ measurements from the ONR CBLAST experiments. 2004
report
thesis
- Air-sea interaction at contrasting sites in the eastern tropical Pacific : mesoscale variability and atmospheric convection at 10°N 2007
- The evolution of upper ocean thermal structure at 10°N, 125°W during 1997-1998 2003