Member Since 1991
Janet Sprintall
Research Oceanographer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography UCSD
Professional Experience
Scripps Institution of Oceanography UCSD
Research Oceanographer
1993 - Present
Education
University of Sydney
Doctorate
1992
Current Roles
Section President-Elect
Council
Member
Jerome Paros Scholarships in Geophysical Instrumentation
Publications
Quantifying the Contribution of Salinity Effect to the Seasonal Variability of the Makassar Strait T...
The Makassar Strait throughflow (MST) constitutes a significant component of the Indonesian throughflow (ITF) and plays a pivotal role in the inter...
October 31, 2023
Controls on Wintertime Ventilation in Southern Drake Passage
February 28, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Cold Wake Recovery in Cyclone Biparjoy's Aftermath: Observations of a restratifying Submesoscale Filament in the Arabian Sea forced with South-westerly Monsoon Winds
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
air-sea interactions | 23 february 2024
Siddhant Kerhalkar, Ankitha Kannad, Alex Kinsella,...
Tropical cyclones traversing oceans often leave behind cold and salty water wakes due to increased vertical mixing from high wind stress. However, com...
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Diurnal variability of the Arabian Sea during the Indian Summer Monsoon
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
air-sea interactions | 23 february 2024
Ankitha Kannad, Janet Sprintall, Jennifer A. MacKi...
Daily solar heating of the ocean surface in low wind conditions forms stable, stratified layers known as diurnal warm layers (DWLs). During the day, w...
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Compensating trends across the Drake Passage frontal regions yield no acceleration in net transport
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
high latitude environments | 22 february 2024
Manuel O. Gutierrez-Villanueva, Teresa K. Chereski...
Although the westerly winds that drive the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) have increased over the past several decades, the ACC response remains ...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2025
President
Ocean Sciences Executive Committee
2024 - 2024
Chair
Jerome Paros Scholarships in Geophysical Instrumentation
2023 - 2024
Chair
Ocean Sciences Fellows Committee
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