Publications

  • Andres, M., Donohue, K. A., & Toole, J. M. (2020). The Gulf Stream’s path and time-averaged velocity structure and transport at 68.5° W and 70.3° W. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 156,103179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103179
  • Andres, M. 2016. On the recent destabilization of the Gulf Stream path downstream of Cape Hatteras. Geophysical Research Letters, 43. (doi:10.1002/2016GL069966)
  • Cornillon, P. and K.-A. Park. 2001. Warm core ring velocities inferred from NSCAT. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(4):575–578. (doi:10.1029/2000GL011487)
  • Dong, S., S.L. Hautala, and K.A. Kelly. 2007. Interannual variations in upper-ocean heat content and heat transport convergence in the western North Atlantic. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37(11):2682–2697. (doi:10.1175/2007JPO3645.1)
  • Ezer, T. 2015. Detecting changes in the transport of the Gulf Stream and the Atlantic overturning circulation from coastal sea level data: The extreme decline in 2009-2010 and estimated variations for 1935-2012. Global and Planetary Change, 129: 23-36. (doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.03.002)
  • Flagg, C.N., G. Schwartze, E. Gottlieb, and T. Rossby. 1998. Operating an acoustic doppler current profiler aboard a container vessel. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 15:257–271. (doi:10.1175/1520-0426(1998)015<0257:OAADCP>2.0.CO;2)
  • Flagg, C.N., M. Dunn, D.-P. Wang, H.T. Rossby, and R.L. Benway. 2006. A study of the currents of the outer shelf and upper slope from a decade of shipboard ADCP observations in the Middle Atlantic Bight. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 111(C6). (doi:10.1029/2005JC003116)
  • Forsyth, J.S.T., M. Andres, and G.G. Gawarkiewicz. 2015. Recent accelerated warming of the continental shelf off New Jersey: Observations from the CMV Oleander expendable bathythermograph line. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120: 2370-2384. (doi:10.1002/2014JC010516)
  • Gawarkiewicz G, Chen K, Forsyth J, Bahr F, Mercer AM, Ellertson A, Fratantoni P, Seim H, Haines S and Han L (2019). Characteristics of an Advective Marine Heatwave in the Middle Atlantic Bight in Early 2017.  Front. Mar. Sci. 6:712. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00712
  • Levin, J., J.Wilkin, N. Fleming, J. Zavala-Garay, 2019.  Mean circulation of the Mid-Atlantic Bight from a climatological data assimilative model, Ocean Modelling, 128, pp 1-14.   doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2018.05.003
  • Lillibridge, J.L. and A.J. Mariano. 2013. A statistical analysis of Gulf Stream variability from 18+ years of altimetry data. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 85:127-146. (doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.07.034)
  • Luce, D.L. and T. Rossby. 2008. On the size and distribution of rings and coherent vortices in the Sargasso Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 113(C5). (doi:10.1029/2007JC004171)
  • Rossby, T. 2001. Sustained ocean observations from merchant marine vessels. Marine Technology Society Journal, 35(3):38–42. (doi:10.4031/002533201788057873)
  • Rossby, T. and R.L. Benway. 2000. Slow variations in mean path of the Gulf Stream east of Cape Hatteras. Geophysical Research Letters, 27(1):117–120. (doi:10.1029/1999GL002356)
  • Rossby, T. and E. Gottlieb. 1998. The Oleander Project: Monitoring the variability of the Gulf Stream and adjacent waters between New Jersey and Bermuda. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 79(1):5-18. (doi:10.1175/1520-0477(1998)079<0005:TOPMTV>2.0.CO;2)
  • Rossby, T. and H.-M. Zhang. 2001. The near-surface velocity and potential vorticity structure of the Gulf Stream. Journal of Marine Research, 59(6):949–975. (doi:10.1357/00222400160497724)
  • Rossby, T., C.N. Flagg, and K. Donohue. 2005. Interannual variations in upper-ocean transport by the Gulf Stream and adjacent waters between New Jersey and Bermuda. Journal of Marine Research, 63(1):203–226. (doi:10.1357/0022240053693851)
  • Rossby, T., C. Flagg, and K. Donohue. 2010. On the variability of Gulf Stream transport from seasonal to decadal timescales. Journal of Marine Research, 68(3-4):503–522. (doi:10.1357/002224010794657128)
  • Rossby, T., C.N. Flagg, K. Donohue, S. Fontana, R. Curry, M. Andres, and J. Forsyth. 2019. Oleander is more than a flower: Twenty-five years of oceanography aboard a merchant vessel. Oceanography 32(3):126–137, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.319
  • Rossby, T., C.N. Flagg, K. Donohue, A. Sanchez-Franks, and J. Lillibridge. 2014. On the long-term stability of Gulf Stream transport based on 20 years of direct measurements. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(1):114-120. (doi:10.1002/2013GL058636)
  • Ryan, J.P., J.A. Yoder, J.A. Barth, and P.C. Cornillon. 1999. Chlorophyll enhancement and mixing associated with meanders of the shelf break front in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 104(C10):23479–23493. (doi:10.1029/1999JC900174)
  • Sanchez-Franks, A., C.N. Flagg, and T. Rossby. 2014. A comparison of transport and position between the Gulf Stream east of Cape Hatteras and the Florida Current. Journal of Marine Research, 72(4):291-306. (doi:10.1357/002224014815460641)
  • Sato, O.T. and T. Rossby. 1995. Seasonal and low frequency variations in dynamic height anomaly and transport of the Gulf Stream. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 42(1):149–164.
  • Scharffenberg, M.G. and D. Stammer. 2010. Seasonal variations of the large-scale geostrophic flow field and eddy kinetic energy inferred from the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 tandem mission data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 115(C2). (doi:10.1029/2008JC005242)
  • Schloesser, F., et al. 2016. Evaluation of thermosalinograph and VIIRS data for the characterization of near-surface temperature fields. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 33(9):1843-1859. (doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0180.1)
  • Schollaert, S.E., T. Rossby, and J.A. Yoder. 2003. Inter-annual variability of phytoplankton chlorophyll: Monitoring slope waters linked to the Gulf Stream. Earth System Monitor, 13(3). (PDF)
  • Schollaert, S.E., T. Rossby, and J.A. Yoder. 2004. Gulf stream cross-frontal exchange: possible mechanisms to explain interannual variations in phytoplankton chlorophyll in the Slope Sea during the SeaWiFS years. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 51(1–3):173–188. (doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2003.07.017)
  • Smith, S.R., et al. 2016. Applying automated underway ship observations to numerical model evaluation. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 33(3):409-428. (doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0052.1)
  • Stammer, D. and J. Theiss. 2004. Velocity statistics inferred from the TOPEX/Poseidon-Jason-1 Tandem Mission Data. Marine Geodesy, 27(3-4):551–575. (doi:10.1080/01490410490902052)
  • Stoermer, S.A. 2002. Ekman flow and transports in the Northwest Atlantic from acoustic doppler current profiler data. Master’s thesis, University of Rhode Island.
  • Wang, D.-P., C.N. Flagg, K. Donohue, and H.T. Rossby. 2009. Wavenumber spectrum in the Gulf Stream from shipboard ADCP observations and comparison with altimetry measurements. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 40(4):840–844. (doi:10.1175/2009JPO4330.1)
  • Wei, J. and D.-P. Wang. 2008. A numerical study of stability and propagation of warm core rings in a continuously stratified ocean. Continental Shelf Research.

  • Wei, J., D.-P. Wang, and C.N. Flagg. 2008. Mapping Gulf Stream warm core rings from shipboard ADCP transects of the Oleander Project. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 113(C10). (doi:10.1029/2007JC004694)
  • Worst, J.S., K.A. Donohue, and T. Rossby. 2014. A comparison of vessel-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler and satellite altimeter estimates of sea surface height and transports between New Jersey and Bermuda along the CMV Oleander route. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 31(6):142:1433. (doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00122.1)