Peter Rhines

Email: rhines@ocean.washington.edu

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Web Site: http://www.ocean.washington.edu/people/faculty/rhines/rhines.html

Department: Oceanography

Position: Professor

Research Interests: Theory of the general circulation of the ocean and its waves and eddies; atmospheric and climate dynamics , particularly in the subpolar oceans; sea-going projects in high-latitude climate change; laboratory experiments and numerical models in oceanography and geophysical fluid dynamics; and computer data atlases and not least, understanding and teaching global environmental studies, from the sun (the mother of most energy) to climate to indigenous populations.

Events:

• Rhines on "Atlantic Ocean/atmosphere multidecadal variability"
• WUN Seminar- Peter Rhines, UW
• PCC 586 : Peter Rhines

Courses:

• Experimenting with Fluids (OCEAN 569a)
• Geophysical Fluid Dynamics I (OCEAN 512/ ATM S 509)
• Introduction to Energy and Environment (H A&S 222 D)
• Stiring and Mixing in Atmosphere and Ocean (ATM 591/OCN 569a)