EVALUATING OCEANOGRAPHIC HYPOTHESES: THREE METHODS FOR TESTING IDEAS

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dc.contributor.advisorKalnay, Eugenia Een_US
dc.contributor.advisorWenegrat, Jacob Oen_US
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Benjamin Ken_US
dc.contributor.departmentAtmospheric and Oceanic Sciencesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-25T05:33:39Z
dc.date.available2020-09-25T05:33:39Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.description.abstractThe disciplines of meteorology and oceanography are both vital to understanding the earth system. Throughout most of the last half century, meteorology has largely been a prognostic discipline. Forecasts made by meteorologists have been widely used and scrutinized, allowing for countless opportunities to test and improve ideas about atmospheric circulation and physics. Since weather forecasts involve integrating numerical models and updating the model state via data assimilation, forecasting demands frequent use of the principles of Bayesian inference. This requirement essentially confronts the physics contained within numerical models at recurring intervals and can reveal systematic model bias. In contrast, prognostic applications have been less prevalent in oceanography. Oceanographic forecasts are much rarer than atmospheric forecasts and, perhaps as a consequence of this disparity, many ideas concerning oceanic circulation have not been tested to the same degree as ideas concerning atmospheric circulation. This dissertation presents three methods for testing oceanographic ideas: applying common methodologies to analogous regions of different ocean basins; creating synthetic time series to mimic the properties of oceanographic time series in order to construct null distributions for hypothesis testing; and using water mass census information to interpret the results of water mass transformation analysis.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/iheh-pj9f
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/26426
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPhysical oceanographyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledStatisticsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEquatorial Pacificen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSalinity Budgeten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSouthern Oceanen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSubtropicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTime seriesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledWater Mass Transformationen_US
dc.titleEVALUATING OCEANOGRAPHIC HYPOTHESES: THREE METHODS FOR TESTING IDEASen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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