Warren White (oceanographer) explained

Warren White is a professor emeritus, and a former Research Oceanographer at the Marine Biological Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.^[1]

White, with 'Buzz' Bernstein, was instrumental in the development and operation of the TRANSPAC XBT Volunteer Observing Ship program.^[2] Between 1976 and 1984, commercial ships crossing the Pacific Ocean recorded expendable bathythermograph (XBT) data. This data became instrumental in a number of studies, particularly around the Kuroshio Current.^[3] As well as its direct oceanographic value, this data was also important for determining the scale of features of interest, thus influencing the design of later observational networks.^{[4] [5]}

His research interests included:

• Planetary wave dynamics
• Interdecadal oscillations and their relation to El Niño and La Niña^{[6] [7]}
• Global climate change
• Coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction

He is known for his work on the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave.^[8]

Publications

• . Time and depth scales of anomalous subsurface temperature at Ocean Weather Station P, N and V in the North Pacific . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . Walker . A. E. . 1974 . 1979 . 30 . 4517–4522. 10.1029/JC079i030p04517 . 1974JGR....79.4517W .
• . Time and length scales of baroclinic eddies in the Central North Pacific . Bernstein . R. . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . 1974 . 4 . 613–624 . 10.1175/1520-0485(1974)004<0613:talsob>2.0.co;2. free .
• . Secular variability in the baroclinic structure of the interior North Pacific from 1950–1970 . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . 35 . 3 . 587–607 . 1977.
• . Design of an oceanographic network in the mid-latitude North Pacific . Bernstein . R. . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . 1979 . 9 . 3 . 592–606 . 10.1175/1520-0485(1979)009<0592:DOAONI>2.0.CO;2 . 1979JPO.....9..592W . free .
• . Stationary and travelling mesoscale perturbations in the Kurushio Extension current . Bernstein . R. . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . 1981 . 11 . 5 . 692–704 . 10.1175/1520-0485(1981)011<0692:satmpi>2.0.co;2. 1981JPO....11..692B . free .
• . Travelling wave-like mesoscale perturbations in the North Pacific . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . 1982 . 12 . 231–243 . 10.1175/1520-0485(1982)012<0231:twlmpi>2.0.co;2. free .
• . Westward propagation of short term climatic anomalies in the western North Pacific Ocean from 1964–1974 . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . 1983 . 41 . 113–125 . 10.1357/002224083788223054.
• . Annual and interannual variability in the Kurushio current system . Mizuno . K. . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . 1984 . 13 . 10 . 1847–1867 . 10.1175/1520-0485(1983)013<1847:aaivit>2.0.co;2. free .
• Short-Term Climatic Variability in the Thermal Structure of the Pacific Ocean during 1979–82 . . 15 . 7 . 917–935 . 1985 . 10.1175/1520-0485(1985)015<0917:stcvit>2.0.co;2 . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . Gary A. . Meyers . Jean Rene . Donguy . Stephen E. . Pazan. 1985JPO....15..917W . free .
• Estimates of Time and Space Scales at 300 Meters in the Midlatitude North Pacific from the TRANSPAC XBT Program . Talley . Lynne D. . Lynne Talley . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . 1987 . . 2168–2188 . 17 . 12 . 10.1175/1520-0485(1987)017<2168:EOTASS>2.0.CO;2 . 1987JPO....17.2168T . free .
• White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . Pazan . Stephen E. . Withee . Gregory W. . Noe . Christopher . Joint Environment Data Analysis (JEDA) Center . . 69 . 9 . 10.1029/88EO00079 . 122–131 . 1988. 1988EOSTr..69..122W .
• White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . 1995 . Design of a global observing system for gyre-scale upper ocean temperature variability . . 36 . 3 . 10.1016/0079-6611(95)00017-8 . 169–217. 1995PrOce..36..169W .
• White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . Chang-Kou . Tai . 1995 . Inferring interannual changes in global upper ocean heat storage from TOPEX altimetry . . 100 . C12 . 10.1029/95JC02332 . 24943–24954. 1995JGR...10024943W .
• White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . Peterson . Ray G. . An Antarctic circumpolar wave in surface pressure, wind, temperature and sea-ice extent . . 1996 . 380 . 6576 . 699–702 . 10.1038/380699a0 . 1996Natur.380..699W . 4312307 .
• White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . Shyh-Chin Chen . R. . Peterson . The Antarctic Circumpolar Wave: A beta-effect in ocean-atmosphere coupling over the Southern Ocean . . 12 . 2345–2361 . 1998 . 28 . 10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<2345:TACWAB>2.0.CO;2 . 1998JPO....28.2345W . free .
• Influence of the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave upon Australia precipitation from 1958 to 1996 . . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . 13 . 2125–2141 . 2000 . 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<2125:iotacw>2.0.co;2. free .
• White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . D. R. . Cayan . A global El Niño-Southern Oscillation wave in surface temperature and pressure and its interdecadal modulation from 1900 to 1997 . . 105 . 11 . 223–11,242 . 2000. 10.1029/1999JC900246 . 2000JGR...10511223W . free .
• Quantitative Assessment of the Integrated Response in Global Heat and Moisture Budgets to Changing Solar Irradiance . Jan 9, 2001 . 20010081063 . Technical Report . . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . Cayan . Daniel R. . Dettinger . Michael . Sharber, James . 01 . 81064 . 2001STIN...0181064W .
• Evidence for coupled Rossby waves in the annual cycle of the Indo-Pacific Ocean . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . . 10 . 2944–2957 . 2001. 31 . 10.1175/1520-0485(2001)031<2944:EFCRWI>2.0.CO;2 . 2001JPO....31.2944W . free .
• Positive feedbacks between the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave and the global El Niño-Southern Oscillation Wave . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . Shyh-Chin Chen . Rob J. . Allan . Roger C. . Stone . . 107 . C10, 3165 . 10.1029/2000JC000581 . 2002. 3165 . 2002JGRC..107.3165W . free .
• . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . McKeon . Greg . Syktus . Jozef . 23 . 6 . May 2003 . 631–662 . Australian drought: the interference of multi-spectral global standing modes and travelling waves . 10.1002/joc.895. 2003IJCli..23..631W . 128907721 .
• . 24 . 1911–1927 . 10.1002/joc.1091 . Forecasting Australian Drought Using Southern Hemisphere Modes of Sea-Surface Temperature Variability . White . Warren . Warren White (oceanographer) . Alexander . Gershunov . Jeffrey L. . Annis . McKeon . Greg . Syktus . Jozef . 2004. 15 . 2004IJCli..24.1911W . 7394683 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: WHITE, WARREN Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego . scripps.ucsd.edu . 2017-08-09.
2. Book: Physical Oceanography: Developments Since 1950 . Markus . Jochum . Raghu . Murtugudde . Springer . 2006 . 978-0-387-33152-2 . 54 .
3. Book: Oceanography of Asian Marginal Seas . Takano, K. . 1991 . Observational Characteristics of Internal Temperature Fluctuations in the Mid-Latitude North Pacific . Jae-Yul Yun . Price . James M. . Magaard . Lorenz . 1–23 . 978-0-08-087092-2 .
4. Web site: On The Design and Implementation of Argo: A Global Array of Profiling Floats . The Argo Science Team . 1998 . 9 .
5. . Autonomous Profiling Floats: Workhorse for Broad-scale Ocean Observations . Spring 2004 . 38 . 1 . 31–39 .
6. . Natural Oscillations Explain El Niño . 23 June 1988 . John Gribbin .
7. Book: Burroughs , William James . Weather Cycles: Real Or Imaginary? . 2003 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-52822-1 . 5.5 Modelling El Niño and El Niña . https://books.google.com/books?id=NmHPNAVLcmsC&pg=PA153 . 153.
8. Prabhu . Amita . Role of Antarctic circumpolar wave in modulating the extremes of Indian summer monsoon rainfall . . 2010 . 37 . 14 . L14106 . 10.1029/2010GL043760 . 2010GeoRL..3714106P . The influence of the southern polar climate variability on the lower latitudes through the variability of Antarctic circumpolar wave (ACW) was first brought out by White and Peterson [1996]. (etc). free .