A selection of publications from researchers with the Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University. Publications listed here are either copyright of the ODU author, open access, or those for which publishers allow a version to be available in an institutional repository.

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Submissions from 2017

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On the Predictability of High Water Level Along the U.S. East Coast: Can the Florida Current Measurement Be an Indicator for Flooding Caused by Remote Forcing?, Tal Ezer and Larry P. Atkinson

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Observations and Operational Model Simulations Reveal the Impact of Hurricane Matthew (2016) on the Gulf Stream and Coastal Sea Level, Tal Ezer, Larry P. Atkinson, and Robert Tuleya

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Comment on "Using an ADCP to Estimate Turbulent Kinetic Energy Dissipation Rate in Sheltered Coastal Waters", Ann E. Gargett

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Separating Decadal Global Water Cycle Variability from Sea Level Rise, B. D. Hamlington, J. T. Reager, M.-H. Lo, K. B. Karnauskas, and R. R. Leben

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Spatial Patterns of Sea Level Variability Associated with Natural Internal Climate Modes, Weiqing Han, Gerald A. Meehl, Detlef Stammer, Aixue Hu, Benjamin Hamlington, Jessica Kenigson, Hindumathi Palanisamy, and Philip Thompson

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Climate Change Impacts on Southern Ross Sea Phytoplankton Composition, Productivity, and Export, Daniel E. Kaufman, Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs, Walker O. Smith Jr., Eileen E. Hofmann, Michael S. Dinniman, and John C. P. Hemmings

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Management Strategy Evaluation for the Atlantic Surfclam (Spisula solidissima) Using a Spatially Explicit, Vessel-Based Fisheries Model, Kelsey M. Kuykendall, Eric N. Powell, John M. Klink, Paula T. Moreno, and Robert T. Leaf

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Robustness of Observation-Based Decadal Sea Level Variability in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, A. G. Nidheesh, M. Lengaigne, J. Vialard, T. Izumo, A. S. Unnikrishnan, B. Meyssignac, B. Hamlington, and C. de Boyer Montegut

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Editorial-The 6th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO 2014), Lie-Yauw Oey, Tal Ezer, Jinyu Sheng, Fei Chai, Jianping Gan, and Kevin Lamb

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Editorial—The 7th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO 2015), Lie-Yauw Oey, Xiao Hua Wang, Tal Ezer, Yign Noh, and Andrew McC. Hogg

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Development of an Age-Frequency Distribution for Ocean Quahogs Arctica islandica on Georges Bank, Sara M. Pace, Eric N. Powell, Roger Mann, M. Chase Long, and John M. Klinck

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Pathways and Supply of Dissolved Iron in the Amundsen Sea (Antarctica), P. St-Laurent, P. L. Yager, R. M. Sherrell, S. E. Stammerjohn, and M. S. Dinniman

Submissions from 2016

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Marine Infectious Disease Dynamics and Outbreak Thresholds: Contact Transmission, Pandemic Infection, and the Potential Role of Filter Feeders, Gorka Bidegain, Eric N. Powell, John M. Klinck, Tal Ben-Horin, and Eileen E. Hofmann

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Sea Level Acceleration in the China Seas, Yongcun Cheng, Tal Ezer, and Benjamin D. Hamlington

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Developing Priority Variables (“ecosystem Essential Ocean Variables” — eEOVs) for Observing Dynamics and Change in Southern Ocean Ecosystems, Andrew J. Constable, Daniel P. Costa, Oscar Schofield, Louise Newman, Edward R. Urban Jr., Elizabeth A. Fulton, Jessica Melbourne-Thomas, Tosca Ballerini, Philip W. Boyd, Angelika Brandt, and Eileen E. Hofmann

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Modeling Ice Shelf/Ocean Interaction in Antarctica: A Review, Michael S. Dinniman, Xylar S. Asay-Davis, Benjamin K. Galton-Fenzi, Paul R. Holland, Adrian Jenkins, and Ralph Timmerman

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Can the Gulf Stream Induce Coherent Short-Term Fluctuations in Sea level along the US East Coast?: A Modeling Study, Tal Ezer

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Revisiting the Problem of the Gulf Stream Separation: On the Representation of Topography in Ocean Models with Different Types of Vertical Grids, Tal Ezer

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Is the Detection of Accelerated Sea Level Rise Imminent?, J. T. Fasullo, R. S. Nerem, and B. Hamlington

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Impact of Model Resolution for On-Shelf Heat Transport along the West Antarctic Peninsula, Jennifer A. Graham, Michael S. Dinniman, and John M. Klinck

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Modelling the Response of Ice Shelf Basal Melting to Different Ocean Cavity Environmental Regimes, David E. Gwyther, Eva A. Cougnon, Benjamin K. Galton-Fenzi, Jason L. Roberts, John R. Hunter, and Michael S. Dinniman

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An Ongoing Shift in Pacific Ocean Sea Level, B. D. Hamlington, S. H. Cheon, P. R. Thompson, M. A. Merrifield, R. S. Nerem, R. R. Leben, and K.-Y. Kim

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Assessing the Impact of Vertical Land Motion on Twentieth Century Global Mean Sea Level Estimates, B. D. Hamlington, P. Thompson, W. C. Hammond, G. Blewitt, and R. D. Ray

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IMBeR 2016-2025: Science Plan and Implementation Strategy, Eileen Hofmann, Edward Allison, Javier Aristegui, Bernard Avril, Laurent Bopp, Alida Bundy, Claudio Campagna, Ratana Chuenpagdee, Daniel Costa, Kenneth Drinkwater, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Marion Glaser, Julie Hall, Alistair Hobday, Raleigh Hood, Koon-Kee Liu, Su Mei Liu, Lisa Maddison, Oliver Maury, Eugene Murphy, Hiroshi Ogawa, Andreas Oschlies, Ian Perry, Alberto Piola, Carol Robinson, Tatiana Rynearson, Svein Sundby, Einar Svendsen, Geraint Tarling, Ingrid van Putten, Francisco Werner, Yi Xu, Sinjae Yoo, and Jing Zhang

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Mechanism of Seasonal Arctic Sea Ice Evolution and Arctic Amplification, Kwang-Yul Kim, Benjamin D. Hamlington, Hanna Na, and Jinju Kim

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Marine Disease Impacts, Diagnosis, Forecasting, Management and Policy, Kevin D. Lafferty and Eileen E. Hofmann

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Understanding the Structure and Functioning of Polar Pelagic Ecosystems to Predict the Impacts of Change, E. E. Murphy, R. D. Cavanagh, K. F. Drinkwater, S. M. Grant, J. J. Heymans, E. E. Hofmann, G. L. Hunt Jr., and N. M. Johnston

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Are Long Tide Gauge Records in the Wrong Place to Measure Global Mean Sea Level Rise?, P. R. Thompson, B. D. Hamlington, F. W. Landerer, and S. Adhikari

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Impact of Upper-Tropospheric Temperature Anomalies and Vertical Wind Shear on Tropical Cyclone Evolution Using an Idealized Version of the Operational GFDL Hurricane Model, Robert E. Tuleya, Morris Bender, Thomas R. Knutson, Joseph R. Sirutis, Biju Thomas, and Isaac Ginis

Submissions from 2015

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The Effect of Atmospheric Forcing Resolution on Delivery of Ocean Heat to the Antarctic Floating Ice Shelves, Michael S. Dinniman, John M. Klinck, Le-Sheng Bai, David H. Bromwich, Keith M. Hines, and David M. Holland

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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, Tal Ezer

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ODU-European Collaborations on Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Reserach, Tal Ezer

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Sea Level Rise in Virginia – Causes, Effects and Response, Tal Ezer and Larry P. Atkinson

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Nonlinear Sea-Level Trends and Long-Term Variability on Western European Coasts, Tal Ezer, I. D. Haigh, and P. L. Woodworth

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Chesapeake Bay Nitrogen Fluxes Derived From a Land-Estuarine Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling System: Model Description, Evaluation, and Nitrogen Bonds, Yang Feng, Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs, John Wilkin, Hanqin Tian, Qichun Yang, and Eileen E. Hofmann

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Acclimation, Adaptation, Traits and Trade-Offs in Plankton Functional Type Models: Reconciling Terminology for Biology and Modelling, Kevin J. Flynn, Michael St. John, John A. Raven, David O. F. Skibinski, J. Icarus Allen, Aditee Mitra, and Eileen E. Hofmann

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Effects of Climate Oscillations on Wind Resource Variability in the United States, B. D. Hamlington, P. E. Hamlington, S. G. Collins, S. R. Alexander, and K.-Y. Kim

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The Effect of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation on U.S. Regional and Coastal Sea Level, B. D. Hamlington, R. R. Leben, K. -Y. Kim, R. S. Nerem, L. P. Atkinson, and P. R. Thompson

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A Southern Hemisphere Sea Level Pressure-Based Precursor for ENSO Warm and Cold Events, B. D. Hamlington, R. F. Milliff, H. Van Loon, and K.-Y. Kim

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Considerations for Estimating the 20th Century Trend in Global Mean Sea Level, B. D. Hamlington and P. R. Thompson

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IMBER- Research for Marine Sustainability: Synthesis and the Way Forward, Eileen Hofmann, Alida Bundy, Ken Drinkwater, Alberto R. Piola, Bernard Avril, and Carol Robinson

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Theoretical Foundation of Cyclostationary EOF Analysis for Geophysical and Climatic Variables: Concepts and Examples, Kwang-Yul Kim, Benjamin Hamlington, and Hanna Na

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Global Projections of Intense Tropical Cyclone Activity for the Late Twenty-First Century from Dynamical Downscaling of CMIP5/RCP4.5 Scenarios, Thomas R. Knutson, Joseph J. Sirutis, Ming Zhao, Robert E. Tuleya, Morris Bender, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Gabriele Villarini, and Daniel Chavas

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Iron Supply and Demand in Antarctic Shelf Ecosystem, D. J. McGillicuddy Jr., Peter N. Sedwick, Michael S. Dinniman, K. R. Arrigo, T. S. Bibby, B. J. W. Greenan, Eileen E. Hofmann, John M. Klinck, W. O. Smith Jr., S. L. Mack, C. M. Marsay, B. M. Sohst, and G. L. van Dijken

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Outcomes of Asymmetric Selection Pressure and Larval Dispersal on Evolution of Disease Resistance: A Metapopulation Modeling Study With Oysters, Daphne M. Munroe, Eric N. Powell, Susan E. Ford, Eileen E. Hofmann, and John M. Klinck

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The Value of Captains’ Behavioral Choices in the Success of the Surfclam (Spisula solidissima) Fishery on the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Coast: A Model Evaluation, Eric N. Powell, John M. Klinck, Daphne M. Munroe, Eileen E. Hofmann, Paula Moreno, and Roger Mann

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Dissolved Oxygen Dynamics During a Phytoplankton Bloom in the Ross Sea Polyna, Bastien Y. Queste, Karen J. Heywood, Walker O. Smith Jr., Daniel E. Kaufman, Timothy D. Jickells, and Michael S. Dinniman

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Impact of Local Winter Cooling on the Melt of Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica, P. St-Laurent, J. M. Klinck, and M. S. Dinniman

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Sea Level Trends in Southeast Asian Seas, M. W. Strassburg, B. D. Hamlington, R. R. Manrung, J. Lumban-Gaol, B. Nababan, and K.-Y. Kim

Submissions from 2014

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Editorial-The 5th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO 2013), Jarle Berntsen, Lie-Yauw Oey, Tal Ezer, Richard Greatbatch, Huijie Xue, and Yasumasa Miyazawa

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Accelerated Flooding Along the U.S. East Coast: On the Impact of Sea-Level Rise, Tides, Storms, the Gulf Stream, and the North Atlantic Oscillations, Tal Ezer and Larry P. Atkinson

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Advances in the Analysis and Prediction of Turbulent Viscoelastic Flows, T. B. Gatski, L. Thais, and G. Mompean

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Cyclostationary Empirical Orthogonal Function Sea-Level Reconstruction, B. D. Hamlington, R. R. Leben, M. W. Strassburg, and K.-Y. Kim

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A Collaborative International Research Program on the Coupled North Atlantic-Arctic System: Science Plan, Eileen E. Hoffmann, Mike St. John, and Heather M. Benway

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Estimating the Benthic Efflux of Dissolved Iron on the Ross Sea Continental Shelf, C. M. Marsay, P. N. Sedwick, M. S. Dinniman, P. M. Barrett, S. L. Mack, and D. J. McGillicuddy Jr.

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Krill, Climate, and Contrasting Future Scenarios for Arctic and Antarctic Fisheries, Margaret M. Mcbride, Padmini Dalpadado, Kenneth F. Drinkwater, Olav Rune Godø, Alistair J. Hobday, Anne B. Hollowed, Trond Kristiansen, Eugene J. Murphy, Patrick H. Ressler, Sam Subbey, Eileen E. Hofmann, and Harald Loeng

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Diuron From Maui Sugarcane Field Runoff is Potentially Harmful to Local Coral Reefs, Thomas C. Royer, Patricia A. Tester, and Thomas N. Stewart

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The Effects of Changing Winds and Temperatures on the Oceanography of the Ross Sea in the 21st Century, Walker O. Smith, Michael S. Dinniman, Eileen E. Hofmann, and John M. Klinck

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Multiplatform, Multidisciplinary Investigations of the Impacts of Modified Circumpolar Deep Water in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, Walker O. Smith, Kimberly T. Goetz, Daniel E. Kaufman, Bastien Y. Queste, Vernon Asper, Daniel P. Costa, Michael S. Dinniman, Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs, Eileen E. Hofmann, Karen J. Heywood, John M. Klinck, Josh T. Kohut, and Craig M. Lee

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Estimating Sustainable Harvests of Eastern Oysters, Crassostrea Virginica, Thomas M. Soniat, Nathan Cooper, Eric N. Powell, John M. Klinck, Mahdi Abdelguerfi, Shengru Tu, Roger Mann, and Patrick D. Banks

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A Comparative Study of Sea Level Reconstruction Techniques Using 20 Years of Satellite Altimetry Data, M. W. Strassburg, B. D. Hamlington, R. R. Leben, and K.-Y. Kim

Submissions from 2013

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Processes That Affect Stratification in Shelf Waters, Larry P. Atkinson and Jackson O. Blanton

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Sea Level Rise and Flooding Risk in Virginia, Larry P. Atkinson, Tal Ezer, and Elizabeth Smith

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Updating Maryland's Sea-level Rise Projections, Donald F. Boesch, Larry P. Atkinson, William C. Boicourt, John D. Boon, Donald R. Cahoon, Robert A. Dalrymple, Tal Ezer, Benjamin P. Horton, Zoe P. Johnson, Robert E. Kopp, Ming Li, Richard H. Moss, Adam Parris, and Christopher K. Sommerfield

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Advances in Marine Ecosystem Dynamics from US GLOBEC: The Horizontal-Advection Bottom-up Forcing Paradigm, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, David Mountain, Harold Batchelder, Nicholas Bond, and Eileen E. Hofmann

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Sea Level Rise, Spatially Uneven and Temporally Unsteady: Why the U.S. East Coast, the Global Tide Gauge Record and the Global Altimeter Data Show Different Trends, Tal Ezer

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Sea Level Rise, Spatially Uneven and Temporally Unsteady: Why the U.S. East Coast, the Global Tide Gauge Record, and the Global Altimeter Data Show Different Trends, Tal Ezer

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The Connection Between Local Sea Level Rise, Climate Change and Ocean Circulation, Tal Ezer and Larry P. Atkinson

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Gulf Stream's Induced Sea Level Rise and Variability along the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Coast, Tal Ezer, Larry P. Atkinson, William B. Corlett, and Jose L. Blanco

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Looking Forward Transdisciplinary Modeling, Environmental Forecasting, and Management, D. B. Haidvogel, E. Turner, E. N. Curchitser, and E. E. Hofmann

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Contribution of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation to Global Mean Sea Level Trends, B. D. Hamlington, R. R. Leben, M. W. Strassburg, R. S. Nerem, and K-Y. Kim

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Dynamical Downscaling Projections of Twenty-First-Century Atlantic Hurricane Activity: CMIP3 and CMIP5 Model-Based Scenarios, Thomas R. Knutson, Joseph J. Sirutis, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Stephen Garner, Ming Zhao, Hyeong-Seog Kim, Morris Bender, Robert E. Tuleya, Isaac M. Held, and Gabriele Villarini

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Extracting Tidal Variability of Sea Ice Concentration from AMSR-E Passive Microwave Single-Swath Data: A Case Study of the Ross Sea, Stefanie Mack, Laurie Padman, and John M. Klinck

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How Do Shellfisheries Influence Genetic Connectivity in Metapopulations? A Modeling Study Examining the Role of Lower Size Limits in Oyster Fisheries, Daphne M. Munroe, Eileen E. Hofmann, Eric N. Powell, and John M. Klinck

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Editorial-The 4th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO 2012), Lie-Yauw Oey, Yasumasa Miyazawa, Hidenori Aiki, Yukio Masumoto, Tal Ezer, and Takuji Waseda

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Modeling the Remote and Local Connectivity of Antarctic Krill Populations Along the Western Antarctic Peninsula, Andrea Pinones, Eileen E. Hofmann, Kendra L. Daly, Michael S. Dinniman, and John M. Klinck

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Analysis of Energy Flow in US GLOBEC Ecosystems Using End-to-End Models, J. J. Ruzicka, J. H. Steele, S. K. Gaichas, T. Ballerini, D. J. Gifford, R. D. Brodeur, and E. E. Hofmann

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Intrusion of Warm Surface Water Beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica, A. A. Stern, M. S. Dinniman, V. Zagorodnov, S. W. Tyler, and D. M. Holland

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On the Role of Coastal Troughs in the Circulation of Warm Circumpolar Deep Water on Antarctic Shelves, Pierre St-Laurent, John M. Klinck, and Michael S. Dinniman

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John H. Steele, 1926–2013, Elizabeth Turner, Eileen E. Hofmann, Dian J. Gifford, and Dale B. Haidvogel

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US GLOBEC: Program Goals, Approaches, and Advances, Elizabeth Turner, Eileen E. Hofmann, Dale B. Haidvogel, Harold P. Batchelder, Michael J. Fogarty, and Thomas Powell

Submissions from 2012

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Does Large-Scale Ocean Circulation Structure Life History Connectivity in Antarctic Toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni)?, Julian Ashford, Michael S. Dinniman, Cassandra Brooks, Allen H. Andrews, Eileen E. Hofmann, Gregor Cailliet, Christopher Jones, and Nakul Ramanna

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Sensitivity of Circumpolar Deep Water Transport and Ice Shelf Basal Melt along the West Antarctic Peninsula to Changes in the Winds, Michael S. Dinniman, John M. Klinck, and Eileen E. Hofmann

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Analysis of Relative Sea Level Variations and Trends in the Chesapeake Bay: Is There Evidence for Acceleration in Sea Level Rise?, Tal Ezer and William B. Corlett

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Is Sea Level Rise Accelerating in the Chesapeake Bay? A Demonstation of a Novel New Approach for Analyzing Sea Level Data, Tal Ezer and William Bryce Corlett

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Could Satellite Altimetry Have Improved Early Detection and Warning of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami?, B. D. Hamlington, R. R. Leben, O. A. Godin, E. Gica, V. V. Titov, B. J. Haines, and S. D. Desai

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Improving Sea Level Reconstructions Using Non-Sea Level Measurements, B. D. Hamlington, R. R. Leben, and K.-Y. Kim

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An Introduction to Ecology of Infectious Diseases - Oysters and Estuaries, Eileen E. Hofmann and Susan E. Ford

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Impact of Tide-Topography Interactions on Basal Melting of Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica, R. D. Mueller, Laurie Padman, Michael S. Dinniman, S. Y. Erofeeva, Helen A. Fricker, and M. A. King

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Predicting the Influence of Seed and Commercial Oyster Fisheries on Metapopulation Genetic Connectivity Using Model Simulations, Daphne Munroe, Eileen E. Hofmann, Eric N. Powell, and John M. Klinck

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The Role of Larval Dispersal in Metapopulation Gene Flow: Local Population Dynamics Matter, Daphne M. Munroe, John M. Klinck, Eileen E. Hofmann, and Eric N. Powell

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How Do Marine Protected Area Strategies Influence Metapopulation Genetic Connectivity? A Modeling Study with Oysters, Daphne Munroe, Eric N. Powell, John M. Klinck, and Eileen E. Hofmann

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Developing Integrated Models of Southern Ocean Food Webs: Including Ecological Complexity, Accounting for Uncertainty and the Importance of Scale, E. J. Murphy, R. D. Cavanagh, E. E. Hofmann, S. L. Hill, A. J. Constable, D. P. Costa, M. H. Pinkerton, N. M. Johnston, P. N. Trathan, J. M. Klinck, D. A. Wolf-Gladrow, K. L. Daly, O. Maury, and S. C. Doney

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Circulation and Behavior Controls on Dispersal of Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Larvae in Delaware Bay, Diego A. Narvaez, John M. Klinck, Eric N. Powell, Eileen E. Hofmann, John Wilkin, and Dale B. Haidvogel

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Modeling the Dispersal of Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) larvae in Delaware Bay, Diego A. Narvaez, John M. Klinck, Eric N. Powell, Eileen E. Hofmann, John Wilkin, and Dale B. Haidvogel

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Oceanic Controls on the Mass Balance of Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Laurie Padman, Daniel P. Costs, M. S. Dinniman, Helen A. Fricker, Michael E. Goebel, Luis A. Huckstadt, Angelika Humbert, Ian Joughin, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, Stefan R. M. Ligtenberg, Ted Scambos, and Michiel R. van den Broeke

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The Rise and Fall of Crassostrea Virginica Oyster Reefs: The Role of Disease and Fishing in Their Demise and a Vignette on Their Management, Eric N. Powell, John M. Klinck, Kathryn Ashton-Alcox, Eileen E. Hofmann, and Jason Morson

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Can Oysters Crassostrea virginica Develop Resistance to Dermo Disease in the Field: The Impediment Posed by Climate Cycles, Eric N. Powell, John M. Klinck, Ximing Guo, Eileen E. Hofmann, Susan E. Ford, and David Bushek

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A Retrospective Analysis of Sustainable Oyster Harvest from the Louisiana State Primary Seed Grounds, 1999-2010: A Shell-Neutral Modeling Approach, Thomas M. Soniat, Mahdi Abdelguerfi, Eric N. Powell, John M. Klinck, Eileen E. Hofmann, Shengru Tu, Nathan Cooper, Janak Dahal, John Finigan, Benjamin S. Eberline, Jerome F. La Peyre, Megan K. La Peyre, Keith B. Ibos, Brian Lezina, and Patrick Banks

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A Shell-Neutral Modeling Approach Yields Sustainable Oyster Harvest Estimates: A Retrospective Analysis of the Louisiana State Primary Seed Grounds, Thomas M. Soniat, John M. Klinck, Eric N. Powell, Nathan Cooper, Mahdi Abdelguerfi, Eileen E. Hofmann, Janak Dahal, Shengru Tu, John Finigan, Benjamin S. Eberline, Jerome F. La Peyre, Megan K. La Peyre, and Fareed Qaddoura