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Member Since 2010
Jacob O. Wenegrat
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland College Park
Member, Nonlinear Geophysics Fellows Committee
Professional Experience
University of Maryland College Park
Assistant Professor
2020 - Present
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Researcher
2016 - 2019
Education
Doctorate
2015
Publications
A Century of Observed Temperature Change in the Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is warming rapidly, with widespread effects on regional weather and global climate. Sea‐surface temperature records indicate...
July 07, 2022
Slippery Bottom Boundary Layers: The Loss of Energy From the...
October 01, 2021
Response of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer to Submesoscale S...
December 18, 2018
Dynamics of the surface layer diurnal cycle in the equatoria...
January 30, 2015
Wind stress and near-surface shear in the equatorial Atlanti...
February 19, 2014
AGU Abstracts
Submesoscale processes in the high and low potential vorticity bottom boundary layer
COASTAL OCEAN AND SHELF SEA DYNAMICS V ORAL
ocean sciences | 12 december 2024
Jacob O. Wenegrat, Leif N. Thomas
The geometry of the bottom boundary layer over sloping topography, where slope-normal shear projects on both the horizontal and vertical directions, m...
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The turbulent dynamics and energetics of submesoscale anticyclonic headland interactions
COASTAL OCEAN AND SHELF SEA DYNAMICS I POSTER
ocean sciences | 12 december 2024
Tomas Chor, Jacob O. Wenegrat
Flow-bathymetry interactions are thought to be important for dissipation and mixing in the global ocean. Despite this, there are large uncertainties r...
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Observed air-sea thermal feedback at submesoscale fronts
EXPLAINING AND PREDICTING MIDLATITUDE WEATHER, CLIMATE, AND OCEAN VARIABILITY AND CHANGE THROUGH AIR-SEA INTERACTIONS AND TELECONNECTIONS II ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 09 december 2024
Igor Uchoa, Jacob O. Wenegrat, Luc Lenain, Larry W...
Much of our understanding of how ocean variability leads to air-sea interactions is constrained to the ocean mesoscale and larger. At smaller scales i...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2026
Member
Nonlinear Geophysics Fellows Committee
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