Research Interests of Andreas Münchow

• I am interested in the dynamics of the coastal ocean which I study primarily with instruments that move. These are drifters and shipboard sensors.
• My goal is to describe and explain observations in concise dynamical terms, i.e., with non-dimensional parameters that result from scaling analyses.
• My interests fall into five broad categories:
  
  • Wind and buoyancy forced motions on shallow shelves
    • Circulation off New Jersey (Hudson River)
    • Circulation off Siberia (Kolyma River)
    • Beaufort Arctic Storms Experiment (Mackenzie River)
    • Alaska Coastal Current and salmon migrations
  • Flows near steeply sloping topography
    • Canyon Dynamics ( Barrow and Mackenzie Canyons)
    • Circulation over the shelfbreak of the Chukchi Sea
  • Impact of fresh water fluxes on climate
    • Flow through the Canadian Archipelago
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Tides

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