LAKSHMI H. KANTHA Professor B.E. 1967, Bangalore University (India) M.E. 1969, Indian Institute of Science Ph.D. 1973, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office: ECAE 117 Phone: (303) 492-3014 Email: kantha@colorado.edu

Current Research

Research Interests:

• Numerical models of the oceans and related physical processes
• Real time nowcasting and forecasting in marginal seas
• Coupled regional models of ice-ocean-atmosphere interactions
• Turbulence and mixing in the oceans and the atmosphere
• Wave motions
• Tides
• Altimetry

Selected Publications (from 1993):

Kantha, L. H., and C. A. Clayson, 1999, Small Scale Processes in Geophysical Flows, Academic Press (textbook in press)

Kantha, L. H., and C. A. Clayson, 1999, Numerical Models of Oceans and Oceanic Processes, Academic Press (textbook in press)

Kantha, L. H., 1998, Tides - a modern perspective, Marine GEODESY (in press).

Clayson, C. A., and L. H. Kantha, 1998: Turbulent kinetic energy and dissipation rate in the equatorial mixed layer. J. Phys. Oceanogr. (in press).

Overland, J. E., S. Solo, L. H. Kantha, and C. A. Clayson, 1998: Thermal stratification and mixing on the Bering Shelf. PICES Bering Sea Volume (in press).

Kantha, L. H., and C. C. Tierney, 1998. Global baroclinic tides, Prog. Oceanogr., David Cartwright anniversary volume (in press).

Clifford, M., C. Horton, J. Schmitz, and L. Kantha, 1997: An oceanographic nowcast/forecast system for the Red Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 25,101-25,122.

Horton, C., M. Clifford, J. Schmitz, and L. Kantha, 1997: A real-time oceanographic nowcast/forecast system for the Mediterranean Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 25,123-25,156.

Kantha, L. H., I.- K. Bang, J.- K. Choi, and M.- S. Suk, 1996, Shallow water tides in the Yellow Sea. J. Korean Soc. Oceanography, 31, 123-133.

Bang, I.-K., J.-K. Choi, L. H. Kantha, C. Horton, M. Clifford, M.-S. Suk, K.-I. Chang, S.-Y. Nam and H.-J. Lie, 1996, A hindcast experiment in the East Sea (Sea of Japan). La Mer, 34, 108-130.

Kantha, L. H., 1996, A simple empirical model of the transport and decay of aircraft wake vortices between parallel runways. AIAA J. Aircraft, 33, 752-760.

Kantha, L. H., and S. Piacsek, 1996. Computational ocean modeling in The Computer Science and Engineering Handbook, ed. A. B. Tucker, Jr., 934-958, CRC Press, Florida

Kantha, L. H. and C. A. Clayson, 1994. An improved mixed layer model for geophysical applications. J. Geophys. Res., 99, 25235-25266.

Multimedia Documents:

Kantha, L. H., D. M. Beitzell, S. L. Harper and R.R. Leben, 1994. Altimetry in marginal, semi-enclosed and coastal seas. Part I: Marginal and semi-enclosed seas. Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research Report, University of Colorado, Boulder [Altimetry]

Kantha, L. H., P. E. Pontius and V. Anantharaj, 1994. Tidal models of marginal, semi-enclosed and coastal seas. Part I: Sea surface height. Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research Report, University of Colorado, Boulder [Tides]

Piacsek, S. and L. H. Kantha, 1993. Ocean Models. In Computational Science Education Project. Dept. of Energy Electronic Book, 273-361 [E-Book]

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