December 2019

Special Issue on FLEAT: Flow Encountering Abrupt Topography

Oceanography | Vol.32, No.4

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SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITORS

• T.M. SHAUN JOHNSTON

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

• THERESA PALUSZKIEWICZ

Octopus Ocean Consulting LLC

• MARTHA SCHÖNAU

Applied Ocean Sciences

• LOUIS ST. LAURENT

University of Washington

ON THE COVER

The microstructure glider used for turbulent wake studies is in

the foreground, with Pat Colin aboard the Coral Reef Research

Foundation’s catamaran Kemedukl in the background. Photo

credit: Steve Lindfield, CRRF. Bottom left: Mika Siegelman

(University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) cradling a conductivity

and temperature recorder that is covered with gooseneck

barnacles. Photo credit: Kristin Zeiden, Scripps Institution

of Oceanography. Middle: Shoreline of Palau. Photo credit:

Hans C. Graber, University of Miami. Right: Simulation of the

eddying currents surrounding the islands of the Republic of

Palau, showing salinity (color) and velocity at 400 m resolution

(see Harper et al., 2019, in this issue for model details). Image

credit: Harper Simmons, University of Alaska Fairbanks

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146 Connecting Process Models of Topographic Wave Drag to Global Eddying

General Circulation Models

By B.K. Arbic, O.B. Fringer, J.M. Klymak, F.T. Mayer, D.S. Trossman, and P. Zhu

156 Tropical Western Pacific Thermal Structure and its Relationship to

Ocean Surface Variables: A Numerical State Estimate and Forereef

Temperature Records

By T.A. Schramek, B.D. Cornuelle, G. Gopalakrishnan, P.L. Colin, S.J. Rowley,

M.A. Merrifield, and E.J. Terrill

164 Ngaraard Pinnacle, Palau: An Undersea “Island” in the Flow

By P.L. Colin, T.M.S. Johnston, J.A. MacKinnon, C.Y. Ou, D.L. Rudnick, E.J. Terrill,

S.J. Lindfield, and H. Batchelor

174 Radar Observations of Ocean Surface Features Resulting from

Underwater Topography Changes

By L. Nyman, B. Lund, H.C. Graber, R. Romeiser, and J. Horstmann

184 Flow-Topography Interactions in the Samoan Passage

By J.B. Girton, J.B. Mickett, Z. Zhao, M.H. Alford, G. Voet, J.M. Cusack, G.S. Carter,

K.A. Pearson-Potts, L.J. Pratt, S. Tan, and J.M. Klymak

194 A Spatial Geography of Abyssal Turbulent Mixing in the Samoan Passage

By G.S. Carter, G. Voet, M.H. Alford, J.B. Girton, J.B. Mickett, J.M. Klymak, L.J. Pratt,

K.A. Pearson-Potts, J.M. Cusack, and S. Tan

DEPARTMENTS

05

QUARTERDECK. Talking to Local Communities About Climate Change

By E.S. Kappel

06

FROM THE PRESIDENT. Observing the Ocean: From Niche to Norm

By M. Visbeck

08

RIPPLE MARKS. Bioluminescent, Biofluorescent Species Light the Way

to New Biomedical Discoveries

By C.L. Dybas

204 THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM. How to Help Your Students Ask

More and Better Questions

By M. Zrada, K.A. Kastens, and M. Turrin

207 BOOK REVIEW. Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of

Marine Disease

Reviewed by T.M. Hill

209 BOOK REVIEW. The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last

Untamed Frontier

Reviewed by D.J. Baker

211 CAREER PROFILES. Marley Jarvis, Outreach and Education Specialist,

Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington

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