Peter C. Chu

Distinguished Professor

Department of Oceanography
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA  93943

 

 

LAGRANGIAN DRIFTERS AND DYNAMICS

 

Chu, P.C., and C.W. Fan, 2019: Lagrangian drifter to identify ocean eddy characteristics. MDPI Climate, 7, 137: https://doi.org/10.3390/cli7120137

Ivanov, L.M., and P.C. Chu, 2019: Estimation of turbulent diffusion coefficients from decomposition of Lagrangian trajectories. Ocean Modelling, 137, 114-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2019.03.011

Chu, P.C., and L.R. Cason, 2019: Feasibility study on unmanned aerial vehicle-based undersea acoustic sensing. Journal of Oceanography and Marine Research, 7:192.� https://doi.org/10.4172/2572-3103.1000192

Chu, P.C., 2018: Steepest ascent low/non-low frequency ratio in empirical mode decomposition to separate deterministic and stochastic velocities from a single Lagrangian drifter. Journal of Geophysical Research; Oceans, 123, 1708-1721. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JC013500

Chu, P.C., and C.W. Fan, 2014: Accuracy progressive calculation of Lagrangian trajectory from gridded velocity field. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 31(7), 1615-1627. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00204.1

Fu, H.-L., X.-D. Wang, P.C. Chu, X.-F. Zhang, G.-J. Han, W. Li, 2014: Tropical cyclone footprint in the ocean mixed layer by Argo in the North Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research; Oceans, 119, https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JC010316.

Yuan, D-L, Z-C Zhang, P. C. Chu, and W. K. Dewar, 2014: Geostrophic circulation in the tropical north Pacific Ocean based on Argo profiles. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44, 558-574. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-12-0230.1

Fu, H.-L.,� P. C. Chu, G.-J. Han, Z.-L. He, W. Li, X.-F. Zhang, 2013: Improvement of short-term forecasting in the northwest Pacific through assimilating Argo data into initial fields.� Acta Oceanologica Sinica,� 22 (7), 1-9, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-013-0332-2 .

Zhang, Z.C., D.L. Yuan, and P.C. Chu, 2013: Geostrophic meridional transport in tropical Northwest Pacific based on Argo profiles. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 31 (3), 656-664. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00343-013-2169-0

Chu, P.C., and C.W. Fan, 2011: Maximum angle method for determining mixed layer depth from seaglider data. Journal of Oceanography, 67, 219-230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-011-0019-2

Chu, P.C., and C.W. Fan, 2010: Optimal linear fitting for objective determination of ocean mixed layer depth from glider profiles. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 27 (11), 1893-1898. https://doi.org/10.1175/2010JTECHO804.1

Chu, P.C., and C.W. Fan, 2010: Space-time transformation in flux-form semi-Lagrangian schemes. Terrestrial, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Sciences, 21, 17-26. https://doi.org/10.3319/tao.2009.05.25.01(iwnop)

Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, O.V. Melnichenko, and R.-F. Li, 2008: Argo floats revealing bimodality of large-scale mid-depth circulation in the North Atlantic. Acta Oceanlogica Sinica,� 27 (2), 1-10.

Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, L.H. Kantha, T.M. Margolina, and O.M. Melnichenko, and Y.A, Poberenzhny, 2004: Lagrangian predictabilty of high-resolution regional ocean models. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 11, 47-66. https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-11-47-2004

Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, T.P. Korzhova, T.M. Margolina, and O.M. Melnichenko, 2003: Analysis of sparse and noisy ocean current data using flow decomposition. Part 2: Application to Eulerian and Lagrangian data. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 20 (4), 492-512.

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