Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
In this webinar, Dr. Elizabeth Thompson discussed how learning about weather can also teach us a lot about the ocean - it's the same but backwards. She finds this amusing and fascinating.
The oceans impact weather across the entire world, but these invisible interactions are some of the most difficult to measure or predict.
She also talked about her team's recent attempts to collect needed measurements of ocean-atmosphere interaction in extremely remote tropical locations: off the coast of Barbados, in the Philippine Sea between Palau and Taiwan, the region most remote (furthest from land) of all tropical oceans: between California and Hawaii in the 'Doldrums' of the Intertropical Convergence Zone, and along the equator of the Indian Ocean. She's also done one experiment that was much closer to home, much colder, but still very far from land: across the Great Lakes.
This webinar is part of the CIRES/NOAA Science-At-Home series.
In this webinar, Dr. Elizabeth Thompson discussed how learning about weather can also teach us a lot about the ocean - it's the same but backwards. She finds this amusing and fascinating.
The oceans impact weather across the entire world, but these invisible interactions are some of the most difficult to measure or predict.
She also talked about her team's recent attempts to collect needed measurements of ocean-atmosphere interaction in extremely remote tropical locations: off the coast of Barbados, in the Philippine Sea between Palau and Taiwan, the region most remote (furthest from land) of all tropical oceans: between California and Hawaii in the 'Doldrums' of the Intertropical Convergence Zone, and along the equator of the Indian Ocean. She's also done one experiment that was much closer to home, much colder, but still very far from land: across the Great Lakes.
This webinar is part of the CIRES/NOAA Science-At-Home series.
