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Samuel Philander
Researcher at Princeton University
Publications - 59
Citations - 8564
Samuel Philander is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Thermocline & Equator. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 59 publications receiving 8187 citations. Previous affiliations of Samuel Philander include Harvard University & Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.
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Parameterization of Vertical Mixing in Numerical Models of Tropical Oceans
TL;DR: In this paper, a Richardson-number-dependent model of the mixing process of the equatorial oceans is proposed to simulate the response of the ocean to different wind stress patterns. But the results are relatively insensitive to values assigned to constants in the parameterization formula.
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Interdecadal Climate Fluctuations That Depend on Exchanges Between the Tropics and Extratropics
Daifang Gu,Samuel Philander +1 more
TL;DR: A simple model demonstrates that changes in the properties of the equatorial thermocline arising as a result of an influx of water with anomalous temperatures from higher latitudes can give rise to continual interdecadal oscillations.
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El Niño Southern Oscillation phenomena
TL;DR: The Southern Oscillation El Nino events which devastate the ecology of the coastal zones of Ecuador and Peru, which affect the global atmospheric circulation and which can contribute to severe winters over northern America, often develop in a remarkably predictable manner as mentioned in this paper.
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Why the ITCZ Is Mostly North of the Equator
Samuel Philander,Daifang Gu,G. Lambert,Tim Li,David Halpern,Ngar-Cheung Lau,R. C. Pacanowski +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that climate asymmetries are prominent in the eastern tropical Pacific and Atlantic Oceans where the regions of maximum sea surface temperature, convective cloud cover, and rainfall are north of the equator.
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The Pliocene paradox (mechanisms for a permanent El Niño).
Alexey V. Fedorov,Petra Dekens,Matthew D. McCarthy,Ana Christina Ravelo,Peter B deMenocal,Marcelo Barreiro,R. C. Pacanowski,Samuel Philander +7 more
TL;DR: A future melting of glaciers, changes in the hydrological cycle, and a deepening of the thermocline could restore the warm conditions of the early Pliocene.