GSO’s Thomas Rossby has recently contributed two translations, one from Norwegian and the other from Swedish, to the GSO website.
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Conrad Holmboe’s drift in the Greenland Ice 1923: A first account
The following article describes an expedition Tom Rossby’s father participated exactly 100 years ago, in 1923. About the Translator: Thomas Rossby
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March 9, 2023 – Rhody Today
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URI professor emeritus and oceanographer Tom Rossby used the data the Oleander gathered, with colleagues in URI’s GSO, to produce a report on circulation in the Atlantic Ocean.
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On February 3-4, 2021, the Ocean Decade U.S. National Committee will host a virtual event featuring Ocean-Shots, and several members of the GSO community will share their innovative proposals.
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An international team discovered a previously unrecognized ocean current that transports water to one of the world’s largest “waterfalls” in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow into the deep North Atlantic.
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The University of Rhode Island research vessel Endeavor will depart Thursday morning from Narragansett for a short expedition to Georges Bank to study ocean currents, test a new marine instrument and give local teachers the experience of a lifetime. The 185-foot ship, owned by the National Science Foundation and managed by URI, will be at […]
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URI celebrates retirement of distinguished oceanography professor with ‘Rossby Symposium’
Noted URI Oceanographer Honored On His Retirement
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