Julian P. McCreary, Jr. Director, IPRC Professor of Oceanography University of Hawaii International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

Education

• 1966 - B.S., Pomona College, Pomona, California
• 1968 - M.S., Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
• 1977 - Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.
  Dissertation: "Eastern ocean response to changing wind systems."

Professional Experience

    University of Hawaii, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology

• Director, International Pacific Research Center, 1999 - present
• Professor, Physical Oceanography, Department of Oceanography, 1999 - present

    Nova University Oceanographic Center, Florida

• Dean, 1991 - '99
• Director, 1981-1991
• Acting Director, 1980 - '81
• Professor, 1981 - '99
• Associate Professor, 1979-'81
• Assistant Professor, 1977-'79

• Research Assistant, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, California, 1972 - '77
• Instructor,  Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, 1968 - '72

Editorial Service

• Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research, 1982
• Associate Editor, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 1984
• Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research, 1989-'95; Senior Editor, 1992 - '95
• Science Editor, TOGA Notes, 1989 - '95
• Editor, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 1995 - present

Awards and Honors

• 2001 Henry G. Houghton Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 1999 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
• 1996 Sverdrup Gold Medal from the American Meteorological Society for
  "fundamental contributions to the physical understanding of upper-ocean
  dynamics, including El Niño, the Equatorial Undercurrent, the ocean
  mixed layer, and eastern boundary currents''
• 1987 H. Burr Steinbach Visiting Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
• 1982 - 1984: Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, England
• 1981 Editor's Award from the American Meteorological Society for
  "providing observative, constructive, and thought-provoking reviews on
  numerous manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Physical Oceanography''

Selected Publications

• White, W.B., and J.P. McCreary, 1975: Eastern intensification of ocean
  spin-down: Application to El Niño. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 4, 295-303.
   
• White, W.B., and J.P. McCreary, 1976: On the formation of the Kuroshio meander
  and its relationship to the large-scale ocean circulation. Deep-Sea Res., 23, 33-47.
   
• McCreary, J.P., 1976:  Eastern tropical ocean response to changing wind
  systems: with application to El Niño. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 6, 632-645.
   
• McCreary, J.P., 1978: Eastern ocean response to changing wind systems. Review
  Papers, FINE Workshop Proceedings (held at S.I.O., La Jolla, Calif., Summer 1977)
   
• Moore, D.W., P. Hisard, J.P. McCreary, J. Merle, J.J. O'Brien, J. Picaut, J. Verstraete,
  and C. Wunsch, 1978: Equatorial adjustment in the eastern Atlantic.
  Geophys. Res. Lett., 5, 637-640.
   
• McCreary, J.P., and W.B. White, 1978: On a theory of the Kuroshio meander.
  Deep-Sea Res., 26A, 317-320.
   
• Leetmaa, A., J.P. McCreary, and D.W. Moore, 1980: Equatorial currents:
  observations and theory. In: Evolution of Physical Oceanography:
  Scientific Surveys in Honor of Henry Stommel. B.A. Warren and C. Wunsch,
  Eds., M.I.T., Press, Cambridge, MA, 184-196.
   
• McCreary, J.P., 1980: Modelling wind-driven ocean circulation. JIMAR 80-0029,
  HIG 80-3, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, 64 pp.
   
• McCreary, J.P., 1980: A model of the Equatorial Undercurrent, the Coastal
  Undercurrent and deep equatorial jets. Ocean Modelling, 34, 1-5.
   
• McCreary, J.P., 1981: A linear stratified ocean model of the Equatorial
  Undercurrent. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond., 298A, 603-635.
   
• McCreary, J.P., 1981:  A linear stratified ocean model of the Coastal
  Undercurrent. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond., 302A, 385-413.
   
• McCreary, J.P., D.W. Moore, and J.M. Witte, Eds., 1981: Recent Progress in
  Equatorial Oceanography: A Report of the Final Meeting of SCOR
  Working Group 47 in Venice Italy, April 27-30, 1981. Nova/NYIT Press, Ft.
  Lauderdale, FL, 466 pp.
   
• McCreary, J.P. Modelling deep equatorial jets, 1981:  In Recent Progress in
  Equatorial Oceanography: A Report of the Final Meeting of SCOR
  Working Group 47 in Venice, Italy, April 27-30, 1981. J.P. McCreary, D.W.
  Moore, and J.M. Witte, Eds., Nova/NYIT Press Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 373-380.
   
• McCreary, J.P., 1982: A linear model of tropical ocean-atmosphere coupling.
  Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere Newsletter, 9, 6-7.
   
• Chao, S.-Y., and J.P. McCreary, 1982: A numerical study of the Kuroshio south
  of Japan. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 12, 679-693.
   
• McCreary, J.P., 1983: A model of tropical ocean-atmosphere interaction.
  Mon. Wea. Rev., 3 (2), 370-387.
   
• Kundu, P.K., S.-Y. Chao, and J.P. McCreary, 1983: Coastal currents and
  inertio-gravity waves. Deep-Sea Res., 30, 1059-1082.
   
• McCreary, J.P., J. Picaut, and D.W. Moore, 1984: Effects of remote annual
  forcing in the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean. J. Mar. Res., 42 (2), 45-81.
   
• McCreary, J.P., 1984: Equatorial Beams. J. Mar. Res., 42, 395-430.
   
• McCreary, J.P., and D.L.T. Anderson, 1984: A simple model of El Niño and
  the Southern Oscillation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 112, 934-946.
   
• McCreary, J.P. and S-Y. Chao, 1985: Three-dimensional shelf circulation along
  an eastern ocean boundary. J. Mar. Res., 43, 13-76.
   
• Anderson, D.L.T., and J.P. McCreary, 1985: Slowly propagating disturbances in
  a simple coupled ocean-atmosphere system. J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 615-629.
   
• Kundu, P.K., and J.P. McCreary, 1985: Western boundary circulation driven by
  an alongshore wind: with application to the Somali Current system.
  J. Mar. Res., 43, 493-516.
   
• McCreary, J.P., 1985: Modeling equatorial ocean circulation. Ann. Rev.
  Fluid Mech., 17, 359-409.
   
• McCreary, J.P., and D.L.T. Anderson, 1985: Simple models of El Niño and the
  Southern Oscillation. In: Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Models, Proc.
  Int. Liege Colloq. Ocean Hydrodyn., J.C.J. Nihoul, Ed., 16th, Amsterdam:
  Elsevier, 345-370.
   
• Rothstein, L., D.W. Moore, and J.P. McCreary, 1985: Interior reflections of a
  periodically forced equatorial Kelvin wave. J. Phys.Oceanogr., 15, 985-996.
   
• Anderson, D.L.T., and J.P. McCreary, 1985: A note on the role of the Indian
  Ocean in a coupled atmosphere-ocean model of El Niño and the Southern
  Oscillation. J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 2439-2442.
   
• McCreary, J.P., and P.K. Kundu, 1986: Thermohaline forcing of eastern
  boundary currents: with application to the circulation off the west coast of
  Australia. J. Mar. Res., 44, 71-92.
   
• McCreary, J.P., and R. Lukas, 1986: The response of the equatorial ocean to a
  moving wind field. J. Geophys. Res., 91, 11,691-11,705.
   
• McCreary, J.P. 1986: Coupled ocean-atmosphere model of El Niño and the
  Southern Oscillation. In: Large-scale Transport Processes in Oceans
  and Atmospheres, J. Willebrand and D.L.T. Anderson, Eds., Dordrecht,
  Holland: D. Reidel, 247-280.
   
• McCreary, J.P., 1987:  A model of deep equatorial jets. In: Further
  Progress in Equatorial Oceanography, E.J. Katz and J.M. Witte, Eds., Nova
  Univ. Press, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 385-396.
   
• McCreary, J.P., and P.K. Kundu, 1987: On the dynamics of the throughflow from
  the Pacific into the Indian Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 16, 2191-2198.
   
• McCreary, J.P., P.K. Kundu, and S.-Y. Chao, 1988: On the dynamics of the
  California Current system. J. Mar. Res., 45, 1-32.
   
• McCreary, J.P., and P.K. Kundu, 1988: A numerical investigation of the Somali
  Current during the Southwest Monsoon. J. Mar. Res., 46, 25-58.
   
• McCreary, J.P., H.S. Lee, and D.B. Enfield, 1989: The response of the coastal
  ocean to strong offshore winds: with application to circulations in the
  Gulfs of Tehuantepec and Papagayo. J. Mar. Res., 47, 81-109.
   
• McCreary, J.P., and P.K. Kundu, 1989: A numerical investigation of sea
  surface temperature variability in the Arabian Sea. J. Geophys. Res., 94, 16,097-16,114.
   
• Moore, D.W., and J.P. McCreary, 1990: Excitation of intermediate-frequency
  equatorial waves at a western boundary: with application to observations
  from the western Indian Ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 95, 5219-5231.
   
• McCreary, J.P., Y. Fukamachi, and P.K. Kundu,1991: A numerical investigation
  of jets and eddies near an eastern ocean boundary. J. Geophys. Res., 96, 2515-2534.
   
• McCreary, J.P., and D.L.T. Anderson, 1991. An overview of coupled models of
  El Niño and the Southern Oscillation. J. Geophys. Res., 96, 3125-3150.
   
• McCreary, J.P., and Z. Yu, 1992: Equatorial dynamics in a 2½-layer model.
  Prog. Oceanogr., 29, 61-132.
   
• McCreary, J.P., Y. Fukamachi, and P. Lu, 1992: A nonlinear mechanism for maintaining
  coastally trapped eastern boundary currents. J. Geophys. Res., 97, 5677-5672.
   
• McCreary, J.P., P.K. Kundu, and R. Molinari, 1993: A numerical investigation of dynamics,
  thermodynamics and mixed-layer processes in the Indian Ocean. Prog. Oceanogr., 31, 181-244.
   
• Kessler, W.S., and J.P. McCreary, 1993. The annual wind-driven Rossby wave
  in the subthermocline equatorial Pacific. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 23, 1192-1207.
   
• McCreary, J.P., and P. Lu,1994: On the interaction between the subtropical
  and equatorial ocean circulation: the Subtropical Cell. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 24, 466-497.
   
• Fukamachi, Y., J.P. McCreary, and J.A. Proehl, 1995: Instability of density
  fronts in layered and continuously stratified models. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 2559-2577.
   
• Yu, Z., J.P. McCreary, and J.A. Proeh,1995: On the meridional asymmetry and
  energetics of tropical instability waves. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 2998-3007.
   
• Lukas, R., J.P. McCreary and T. Yamagata, 1996: Pacific low-latitude western boundary
  currents and the Indonesian Throughflow. J. Geophys. Res., 101, 12,209-12,216.
   
• Lu, P., and J.P. McCreary, 1996: Influence of the ITCZ on the flow of thermocline water
  from the subtropical to the equatorial Pacific Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 3076-3088.
   
• Shankar, D.,  J.P. McCreary, W. Han and S.R. Shetye, 1996: Dynamics of the East
  India Coastal Current: Part 1, analytic solutions forced by interior Ekman
  pumping and local alongshore winds. J. Geophys. Res., 101, 13,975-13,991.
   
• McCreary, J.P., W. Han, D. Shankar and S.R. Shetye, 1996: Dynamics of the East
  India Coastal Current: Part 2, numerical solutions. J. Geophys. Res., 101, 13,993-14,010.
   
• McCreary, J.P., K.E. Kohler, R.R. Hood and D.B. Olson, 1996: A four-component
  ecosystem model of biological activity in the Arabian Sea. Prog. Oceanogr., 37, 117-165.
   
• Yu, Z., P.S. Schopf and J. P. McCreary, 1997: On the annual cycle in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
  J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 309-324.
   
• McCreary, J.P., S. Zhang and S. R. Shetye, 1997: Coastal circulations driven
  by river outflow in a variable-density 1½-layer model. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 15,535-15,554.
   
• Lu, P., J.P. McCreary and B. A. Klinger, 1998: Meridional circulation cells
  and the source waters of the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 28, 62-84.
   
• Servain, J., I. Wainer, J.P. McCreary, and A. Dessier, 1999: Relationship
  between the equatorial and meridional modes of climatic variability in the
  tropical Atlantic. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 485-488.
   
• Han, W., J. P. McCreary, D. L. T. Anderson, and A. J. Mariano, 1999: Dynamics
  of the eastward surface jets in the equatorial Indian Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29, 2191-2209.
   
• Kleeman, R., J. P. McCreary, and B. A. Klinger, 1999: A mechanism for
  generating ENSO decadal variability. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 1743-1746.
   
• Murtugudde, R., J. P. McCreary, and A. J. Busalacchi, 2000: Oceanic processes
  associated with anomalous events in the Indian Ocean with relevance to
  1997-1998. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 3295-3306.
   
• Yu, Z., J. P. McCreary, W. S. Kessler, and K. A. Kelly, 2000: Influence of
  equatorial dynamics of the Pacific North Equatorial Countercurrent.
  J. Phys. Oceanogr. 30, 3179-3190.
   
• McCreary, J. P., and P. Lu, 2001: Influence of the Indonesian Throughflow on
  the circulation of intermediate water in the Pacific Ocean. J. Phys.
  Oceanogr., 31, 932-942.
   
• Han, W., and J. P. McCreary, 2001: Modelling salinity distributions in
  the Indian Ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 859-877.
   
• Han, W., J. P. McCreary, and K. E. Kohler, 2001: Influence of precipitation
  minus evaporation and Bay of Bengal rivers on dynamics, thermodynamics,
  and mixed-layer physics in the upper Indian Ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 6895-6916.
   
• McCreary, J. P., K. E. Kohler, R. R. Hood, S, Smith, J. Kindle, A. S.
  Fischer, and R. A. Weller, 2001: Influences of diurnal and intraseasonal forcing
  on mixed-layer and biological variability in the central Arabian Sea.
  J. Geophys. Res., 106, 7139-7155.
   
• Schott,F., and J.P. McCreary, 2001: The monsoon circulation of the Indian Ocean.
  Prog. Oceanogr. , in press.
   
• McCreary, J.P., P. Lu, Z. Yu, 2001: Dynamics of the Pacific subsurface countercurrents.
  J. Phys. Oceanogr., submitted.
   

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