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Baylor Fox-Kemper

Ph.D., 2003, MIT/Woods Hole Joint Program
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

E-mail: bfk@colorado.edu
Office: Ekeley S250B
Phone: 303-492-0532
Fax: fax: 303-492-1149
Web: Fox-Kemper Research Group

Research Interests

Ocean modeling and theory from the global scale to universal models: turbulence, nonlinear systems, parameterizations, toy models.

Current Research Projects [ projects pages ]

Diagnosing the eddy stirring tensor in a global simulation --Wind-driven ocean and its mesoscale eddies --Ocean mixed layer and its submesoscale eddies

Selected Publications [ publications pages ]

• Boccaletti, G., R. Ferrari, & B. Fox-Kemper, 2007: Mixed Layer Instabilities and Restratification. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37, 2228-2250.
• Fox-Kemper, B., 2005: Reevaluating the Roles of Eddies in Multiple Barotropic Wind-Driven Gyres. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 35, 1263-1278.
• Fox-Kemper, B., & J. Pedlosky: 2004, Wind-driven barotropic gyre I: Circulation control by eddy vorticity fluxes to an enhanced removal region. J. Mar. Res., 62, 169-193.

Fox-Kemper is also one of the CIRES Faculty who teach at the University of Colorado at Boulder with teaching loads equivalent to those of CU faculty rostered solely in departments and programs.