Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Philip Sura

Dr. Philip G. Sura

9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0230

Phone: 1-858-822-5051, Fax: 1-858-534-9820

New affiliation:
NOAA-CIRES, Climate Diagnostics Center, R/CDC1
325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305-3328
Phone: (303) 497-4426
Fax: (303) 497-6449
E-Mail: psura@cdc.noaa.gov
URL: http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~psura

Research Interests

Decadal climate variability
Dynamics of atmospheric and oceanic large-scale flow regimes
Dynamics of the wind-driven ocean circulation
Stochastic climate models

Publications

Sura, P., 2000: Der Einfluß externen Rauschens auf die Klimavariabilität in vereinfachten Modellen. Ph.D.-Thesis, University of Hamburg. [pdf reprint (in german)]
Sura, P. , F. Lunkeit, and K. Fraedrich, 2000: Decadal variability in a simplified wind-driven ocean model. J. Phys. Oceanogr., Vol. 30, 1917-1930. [pdf reprint]
Sura, P., K. Fraedrich, and F. Lunkeit, 2001: Regime transitions in a stochastically forced double-gyre model. J. Phys. Oceanogr., Vol. 31, 411-426. [pdf reprint]
Sura, P., 2002: Noise-induced transitions in a barotropic beta-plane channel. J. Atmos. Sci ., Vol. 59, 97-110. [pdf reprint]
Sura, P., and C. Penland, 2002: Sensitivity of a double-gyre model to details of stochastic forcing. Ocean Modelling, Vol. 4, 327-345. [pdf reprint]
Sura, P., 2003: Stochastic analysis of Southern and Pacific Ocean sea surface winds. J. Atmos. Sci ., Vol. 60, in press. [pdf preprint]
Sura, P., and S. T. Gille, 2002: Interpreting wind-driven Southern Ocean variability in a stochastic framework, J. Mar. Res., submitted. [pdf preprint]
Sura, P., and J. J. Barsugli, 2002: A note on estimating drift and diffusion parameters from timeseries. Phys. Lett. A, in press. [pdf preprint]

Education and professional experience

1992-1997: Diploma (M.S.) student in physical oceanography with subsidiary subjects theoretical physics, theoretical meteorology and mathematics at the University of Hamburg; Diploma awarded 1997.
1998-2000: Ph.D. student and research scientist at the Department of Theoretical Meteorology at the University of Hamburg (Prof. Fraedrich); Ph.D. awarded 2000.
3/2001-6/2002: Post Graduate Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.
7/2002-present: Research Scientist, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center.

Observation to an Oceanographer

What you do is really boring. You work on the same problem for years and the best you can do is an approximate answer. You are not even sure it's right.

Jacob Cane, age 11, to his father

( M.A. Cane, 1986: Introduction to Ocean Modeling; Advanced Physical Oceanographic Numerical Modelling, edited by J.J. O'Brien, NATO ASI Series C, Vol. 186 )

Last modification: October 2002