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Oleg Melnichenko

Assistant Researcher

International Pacific Research Center
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

Phone: (808) 956-0747
Fax: (808) 956-9425
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Education

2006 - Ph.D. (Physical Oceanography), Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sevastopol, Ukraine.
Thesis title: Reconstruction and analysis of coastal ocean currents using Helmholtz decomposition"
1987- M.Sc. (Physical Oceanography), Leningrad Hydrometeorological Institute, Leningrad, Russia

Research Interests

Ocean general circulation
Alternating zonal jet-like structures
Mesoscale eddies and their impact on the general circulation
Air-sea interaction, ocean surface salinity, upper-ocean heat and salt balances

Professional Experience

Assistant Researcher, International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2011-present
Visiting Assistant Researcher, International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, September 2010-November 2011
Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2007–August 2010
Assistant Researcher, Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sevastopol, Ukraine, 1992-2006
Oceanographer, Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sevastopol, Ukraine, 1989-1992
Operational Meteorologist, Air Force Weather Prediction Center, Ukraine, 1987-1989

Synergistic Activity

Co-convener for the special session “Anisotropic Mesoscale Coherent Structures in the Ocean”, 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland OR, February 2010
Co-convener for the special session “Anisotropic Mesoscale Structure of Basin-Wide Ocean Circulation”, 2008 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco CA, December 2008

Refereed Publications

Melnichenko, O.V., N. Maximenko, N. Schneider, and H. Sasaki, 2010: Quasi-stationary striations in basin-scale oceanic circulation: Vorticity balance from observations and eddy-resolving model. Ocean Dynamics, 60 (3), 653-666.
Maximenko, N., P. Niiler, M.-H. Rio, O.V. Melnichenko, L. Centurioni, D. Chambers, V. Zlotnicki, and B. Galperin, 2009: Mean dynamic topography of the ocean derived from satellite and drifting buoy data using three different techniques. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 26, 1910-1919.
Maximenko, N.A., O.V. Melnichenko, P.P. Niiler, and H. Sasaki, 2008: Stationary mesoscale jet-like features in the ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08603, doi:10.1029/2008GL033267.
Ivanov, L.M., O.V. Melnichenko, C.A. Collins, V.N. Eremeev, and S.V. Motyzhev, 2007: Wind induced oscillator dynamics in the Black Sea revealed by Lagrangian drifters. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L13609, doi:10.1029/2007GL030263.
Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, O.V. Melnichenko, and N. Wells, 2007: On long baroclinic Rossby waves in the Tropical North Atlantic observed from profiling floats. J. Geophys. Res., 112, C05032, doi: 10.1029/2006JC003698.
Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, and O.V. Melnichenko, 2005: Fall–Winter current reversals on the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 35, 902-910.
Ivanov, L.M., and O.V. Melnichenko, 2005: Determination of Mesoscale Surface Currents in Shallow Water Regions According to the Data of High-Frequency Radar Measurements. Phys. Oceanogr., 15 (2), 92–104, doi: 10.1007/s11110-005-0032-2.
Collins, C.A., L.M. Ivanov, O.V. Melnichenko, and N. Garfield, 2004: California Undercurrent variability and eddy transport estimated from RAFOS float observations. J. Geophys. Res., 109 (C5), doi: 10.1029/2003JC002191.
Collins, C.A., L.M. Ivanov, and O.V. Melnichenko, 2003: Seasonal Variability of the California Undercurrent: Statistical Analysis Based on Trajectories of Floats with Neutral Buoyancy. Phys. Oceanogr., 13 (3), 135-147, doi:10.1023/A:1025090801764.
Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, L.H. Kantha, T.M. Margolina, O.V. Melnichenko, and Y.A. Poberezhny, 2003: Lagrangian predictability of high-resolution regional model: the special case of Gulf of Mexico. Non. Proc. Geophys., 20, 1-20.
Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, T.P. Korzhova, T.M. Margolina and O.V. Melnichenko, 2003: Analysis of sparse and noisy ocean current data using flow decomposition: I: Theory. II: Applications to Eulerian and Lagrangean data. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 20, 478-512.
Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, T.M. Margolina, and O.V. Melnichenko, 2002: Probabilistic stability of a simple atmospheric model to differently scales perturbations. J. Atmos. Sci., 59 (19), 2860-2873.
Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, L. Kantha, O.V. Melnichenko, and Yu. A. Poberezhny, 2002: Power decay law in model forecast skill. Geophys. Res. Let., 29 (15), 38-1–38-4.
Ivanov, L.M., T.M. Margolina, and O.V. Melnichenko, 1999: Prediction and Management of Extreme Events Based on a Simple Probabilistic Model of the First-Passage Boundary. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (and Solar System), 1 (2), 73–79.
Kirwan, A.D., L.M. Ivanov, and O.V. Melnichenko, 1994: Prediction of the Stochastic Behavior of Nonlinear Systems by Deterministic Models as a Classical Time-Passage Probabilistic Problem. Non. Proc. Geophys., No. 1, 224-233.
Eremeev, V.N., A.D. Kirwan, L.M. Ivanov, S.V. Kochergin, O.V. Melnichenko, and R.R. Stanichnaja, 1992: Reconstruction of oceanic flow characteristics from Quasi-Lagrangian data. Part 2: Characteristics of the large-scale circulation in the Black Sea. J. Geophys. Res., 97 (C6), 9743-9753.
Eremeev, V.N., L.M. Ivanov, S.V. Kochergin, and O.V. Melnichenko, 1992: Seasonal variability and types of currents in the upper layer of the Black Sea. Phys. Oceanogr., 3 (3), 193-208, doi: 10.1007/BF02197068.