Papers and Presentations

In addition to producing Eddy Watch charts and reports, Horizon Marine staff are invited to present papers and publish reports in various journals. This is done to keep abreast of changes in technology and to further scientific understanding of our planet.

A Feature Oriented Regional Modeling System for the North Brazil Current Rings Migration after Retroflection
Schmidt, Brickley, Gangopadhyay, Cadwallader, Sharma, Nobre, Coholan, and Feeney, May 2011

When Mother Nature Smiles – Multi-year Analysis of Currents at the Macondo Well Site
Brickley, Coholan, Sharma, Cadwallader, May 2011

Use of Air-deployed Drogued Drifting Buoys for Oil Spill Tracking
Sharma, Brickley, Owen, and Coholan, October 2010

Quantifying the Seasonal and Interannual Variability of the Formation and Migration Pattern of North Brazil Current Rings
Sharma, Anderson, Brickley, Nobre, and Cadwallader, October 2009

Life and Times of Eddy Zorro: A Review of the 2007 Gulf of Mexico Loop Current Activity
Coholan, Feeney and Anderson, May 2008

Satellite-Tracked Drifter Measurements of Inertial Currents in the Gulf of Mexico
Anderson and Sharma, March 2008

Deepwater Hindcast of Hurricane Rita
Anderson and Frolov, May 2006

Forecasting Eddy Ulysses
DP Conference PowerPoint Presentation - Coholan, November 2005

Forecasting Eddy Ulysses
Technical Paper - Anderson, Coholan and Frolov, September 2005

Numerical Ocean Model Nowcast and Forecast Skill Assessment in the Gulf of Mexico
Leben, et.al., September 2005

A Towed 75 kHz ADCP for Operational Deepwater Current Surveys
Anderson and Matthews, CMTC, 2005

EddyNet: A Measurement Program for Collecting Real-Time Current Profiles from the Gulf of Mexico
Anderson, et.al., CMCT, 2002

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