SEMINAR: MPO Seminar:Prof. Di Lorenzo, TOMORROW, at 11:00 a.m., AMP conference room, MSC 125

[Sandrine Apelbaum <sapelbaum@rsmas.miami.edu>]

MPO Seminar

Prof. Emanuele Di Lorenzo

Georgia Institute of Technology

MPO visitor

 

“Understanding the changes in Pacific Ocean climate”

 

Room: AMP conference room, MSC 125

Date: Thursday, May 31, at 11:00 a.m. 

Abstract

Long term observations of physical and biological variability in the central and eastern North Pacific show large-amplitude fluctuations on decadal timescales that are unrelated with well-known changes in the sea surface temperatures associated with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the El Niño Southern Oscillation. By combining these observations with numerical models that simulate the ocean circulation and the ecosystem dynamics, I will present evidence of a new emerging pattern of Pacific climate variability termed the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. This new pattern will provide the basis for an improved and unified view of the Pacific climate dynamics teleconnections and of the mechanisms linking physical climate variability to the marine ecosystem response.

 

Biography

Dr. Di Lorenzo earned a B.S. from the University of Bologna, Italy and a Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He was a postdoctoral researcher with the University of California Los Angeles and the University of California San Diego. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Di Lorenzo’s research interests include: (1) large-scale dynamics of climate variability and change, (2) regional climate dynamics of the coastal ocean and marine ecosystems, and (3) ocean predictability, inverse ocean dynamics and data assimilation.

Sandrine Apelbaum

Meteorology and Physical Oceanography 
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149-1098
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sapelbaum@rsmas.miami.edu