Center for Coastal Studies
      CCS Personnel: Academic & Research

      MYRL C. HENDERSHOTT
      Professor of Oceanography

      Physical Oceanography Res. Div.
      Scripps Institution of Oceanography
      University of California, San Diego
      9500 Gilman Drive, Mailcode 0225
      La Jolla, CA 92093-0225

      Email: mhendershott@ucsd.edu
      Office: 321 IGPP Bldg
      Phone: 1-858-534-3643
      Fax: 1-858-534-0704

      Research Interests

      • Solution of Laplace's tidal equations for deep-sea tides including solid earth loading
      • Mean circulation of the Adriatic Sea
      • Continental shelf circulation
      • Two dimensional and quasi-geostrophic turbulence
      • Internal waves and fine structure
      • Tides and ocean normal modes
      • Large scale ocean circulation

      Selected Publications

      • 1993. The fortnightly and monthly tides: resonant Rossby waves or nearly equilibrium gravity waves? Journal of Physical Oceanography 23(5):879-897.
      • 1993. High-frequency internal waves in the strongly sheared currents of the upper equatorial Pacific: observations and a simple spectral model. Journal of Geophysical Research 98(C10):18,089-18,107.
      • 1989. The ventilated thermocline in quasi-geostrophic approximation. Journal of Marine Research 47:33-53.
      • 1981. Long waves and ocean tides. In Evolution of Physical Oceanography, B. Warren and C. Wunsch, Eds., Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 292-341.

      Education

      • B.S. U. of Wyoming
      • Ph.D. Harvard U.

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      Last Revised: February 19, 1999