Jaime Palter
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
Research Field
Research Interests:
As a postdoctoral researcher in Jorge Sarmiento's group, I am motivated by two main sets of questions:
1. What are the principle patterns of interannual to interdecadal variability in ocean circulation and the formation and destruction of water masses?
2. How does such variability impact the cycling of heat, freshwater, and the nutrients that sustain sea life?
I have often used observational analysis to examine these questions, especially exploiting the large archives of oceanic data collected by ships over the last century, satellites over the last thirty years, and autonomous underwater floats over the last decade. I am now turning as well towards modeling in order to test hypotheses about the basic processes that might be driving these observations.
Publications
Palter JB, Lozier MS, Barber RT. 2005. . The effect of advection on the nutrient reservoir of the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre. Nature. 437, 687-692.
Palter JB, León SD, Ballestero D. 2007. The distribution of nutrients, dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll a in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica. International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation. 55 (2): 427-436.
Hanshaw, MN, Lozier MS, and Palter JB. 2008. Integrated impact of tropical cyclones on sea surface chlorophyll in the North Atlantic, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L01601, doi:10.1029/2007GL031862
Palter JB, Lozier MS, Lavender KL. 2008. How does Labrador Sea Water enter the Deep Western Boundary Current? Journal of Physical Oceanography. 38(5), 968–983.
Palter JB, Lozier MS. 2008. On the source of Gulf Stream nutrients. Journal of Geophysical Research—Ocean Science. 113, C06018, doi:10.1029/2007JC004611
Marshall J, Andersson A, Dewar W, Doney S, Edson J, Ferrari R, Forget G, Fratantoni D, Gregg M, Joyce T, Kelly K, Lozier S, Lumpkin R, Maze G, Palter JB, Samelson R, Silverthorne K, Skyllingstad E, Straneo F, Talley L, Toole J and Weller R. CLIMODE: A Mode Water Dynamics Experiment in Support of CLIVAR. Submitted to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.