Seminar by Prof. Carl Wunsch: Altimetric spectra, trends, and low frequency ocean variability

Prof. Carl Wunsch to speak in the EAPS-PAOC Sack Lunch Seminar. Abstract: Evaluation of the significance of apparent long-term trends in the ocean circulation and sea level, as well as the testing of the skill of time-varying models, requires a description of the background variability. As a step toward that end, the longest available truly global records (15 years of satellite altimetry plus fragmentary other bits) are examined in an effort to generalize about oceanic behavior below one cycle/year.