Michael J. McPhaden, Ph.D. (Univ. of California at San Diego), Affiliate Professor. mcphaden@pmel.noaa.gov. Large-scale tropical ocean dynamics, ocean-atmosphere interaction, climate variability associated with El Niño, sea-going measurement programs, modeling, and theoretical studies. Senior Research Scientist at Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory/NOAA, Director of Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean Array (TAO), participant in Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) and other international climate programs, and Senior Fellow of the Joint Institute for Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO).
Johnson, G.C., M.J. McPhaden, G.D. Rowe and K.E. McTaggart (submitted) Upper equatorial Pacific Ocean current and salinity variability during the 1996-98 El Niño-La Niña cycle. Journal of Geophysical Research.
Bennett, A.F., B.S. Chua, D.E. Harrison and M.J. McPhaden (submitted) Generalized inversion of Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean (TAO) data and a coupled model of the tropical Pacific. II. La Niña, error statistics and assessment. Journal of Climate.
Johnson, G.C. and M.J. McPhaden (in press) Interior pycnocline flow from the subtropical to the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography.
McPhaden, M.J. (1999) El Niño: The child prodigy of 1997-98. Nature 398: 559-562.
McPhaden, M.J. (1999) Genesis and evolution of the 1997-98 El Niño. Science 283: 950-954.
McPhaden, M.J., et al. (1998) The Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) observing system: A decade of progress. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 103: 14,169-14,240.
Cronin, M.F. and M.J. McPhaden (1998) Upper ocean salinity balance in the western equatorial Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research 103: 27,567–27,589.
Chavez, F.P., P.G. Strutton and M.J. McPhaden (1998) Biological-physical coupling in the central equatorial Pacific during the onset of the 1997-98 El Niño. Geophysical Research Letters 25: 3543-3546.
Bennett, A.F., B.S. Chua, D.E. Harrison and M.J. McPhaden (1998) Generalized inversion of Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean (TAO) data and a coupled model of the tropical Pacific. Journal of Climate 11: 1768–1792.
Ando, K. and M.J. McPhaden (1997) Variability of surface layer hydrography in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research 102: 23,063-23,078.
Cronin, M.F. and M.J. McPhaden (1997) Upper ocean heat balance in the western equatorial Pacific Warm Pool during September-December 1992. Journal of Geophysical Research 102: 8533-8553.
Foley, D.G., T.D. Dickey, M.J. McPhaden, et al. (1997) Longwaves and primary productivity variations in the equatorial Pacific Ocean at 0°, 140°W. Deep-Sea Research II 44: 1801-1812.