Dr Shane Elipot

Research Interest

My general research interest in physical oceanography is to use observational data to infer the physical processes taking place in the world ocean. In particular I am interested in characterizing the nature of oceanic velocities in the upper ocean and their relationship to atmospheric forcing, and this at wide ranges of spatial and temporal scales. I am also currently involved in the RAPID-WAVE program aiming at monitoring the Meridional Overturning Circulation from mooring and bottom pressure measurements on the western boundary of the Ocean Atlantic Bassin.

Education & Award

• Postdoctoral research award from the U.S. National Research Council Associateship Program with tenure at NOAA/AOML, Miami, Fl, 2007
• Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 2006.
• E.N.S.I.E.T.A, Brest, France. Diplôme d'ingénieur (Master degree in engineering), 2001.
• Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, Université de Bretagne Occidentale , Brest, France. D.E.A. (Master degree) Oceanology, Meteorology and Marine Environment, 2001.

Publications

Submitted articles
7. R. Lumpkin and S. Elipot (2010), Surface Drifter Pair Spreading in the North Atlantic, submitted to J. Geophys. Res., April 2010

Journal articles
6. S. Elipot, R. Lumpkin and G. A. prieto (2009), Inertial oscillation modification by mesoscale vorticity, accepted for publication in J. Geophys. Res., preprint.
5. S. Elipot and S. Gille (2009), Estimates of wind energy input to the Ekman layer in the Southern Ocean from Surface Drifter Data, J. Geophys. Res.,114, C06003, doi:10.1029/2008JC005170.
4. S. Elipot and S. T. Gille (2009), Ekman layers in the Southern Ocean: spectral models and observations, vertical viscosity and boundary layer depth, Ocean Sci., 5, 115-139. (url link)
3. S. Elipot and R. Lumpkin (2008), Spectral description of oceanic near-surface variability, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L05606, doi:10.1029/2007GL032874.
2. Lisa M. Beal, Teresa K. Chereskin, Yueng D. Lenn, and Shane Elipot (2006), The sources and mixing characteristics of the Agulhas Current, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 36(11), pp. 2060-2074, doi:10.1175/JPO2964.1.

Conference article (Peer-reviewed)
1. MacKinnon, J.A., Alford, M.,Bouruet-Aubertot, P.,Bindoff, N.,Elipot, S., Gille, S., Girton, J., Gregg, M.C., Hallberg, R., Kunze, E.,Naveira Garabato, A., Phillips, H., Pinkel, R., Polzin, K., Sanford, T., Simmons, H., and Speer, K., ”Using global arrays to investigate internal-waves and mixing ”, in Proceedings of the OceanObs09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society Conference (Vol. 1), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Hall, J., Harrison D.E. and Stammer, D., Eds.,ESA Publication WPP-306, 2010.<\br>

Others
S. Elipot (2006), Spectral characterization of Ekman velocities in the Southern Ocean based on surface drifter trajectories, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego. sio library link

Further selection of author's POL publications.