Professor

Education BS 1973- Dept of Earth and Planetary Science, Mass. Inst. of Technology Ph.D. 1978- Mass Inst. of Technology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Joint Program in Oceanorgrpahy Research Interests Equatorial Circulation General Circulation Physical Oceanographic Technology Teaching Activities OCN 620-Physcial Oceanography OCN 622- Marine Hydrodynamics OCN 760- Topics in Physical Oceanography

Ten Selected Publications

1999

Kashino, Y., E. Firing, P. Hacker, A. Sulaiman, and Lukiyanto. Direct current measurements in and around Celebes Sea in  February 1999. Submitted to Geophys. Res. Letters.

1999

Rowe, G, D., E. Firing, and G. C. Johnson. The velocity, transport, and potential vorticity of the Pacific Equartorial Subsurface Countercurrents. J. Phys. Oceanogr., accepted.

1999

Firing, E., B. Qiu, and W. Miao. Time-dependent island rule and its application to the time-varying north Hawaiian ridge current. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29,2671-2688.

1998

Firing, E., S. Wijffels, and P. Hacker. Equatorial Subthermocline currents across the Pacific. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 413-21, 423.

1998

Wijffels, S., M. Hall, T. Joyce, D.J. Torres, P. Hacker, and E. Firing. The multiple gyres of the western North Pacific: a WOCE section along 149^°E. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 12,985-13,009.

1998

Hacker, P., E. Firing, J. Hummon, L. L. Gordon, and J. Kindle. Bay of Bengal currents during the northeast monsoon. Geophys. Res. Letters, 25,2769-2772.

1998

Feng, M., M.A. Merrifield, R. Pinkel, P. Hacker, A. J. Plueddemann, E. Firing, R. Lukas, and C. Eriksen. Semidiurnal tides observed in the western equatorial Pacific during the Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 10,253-10,272.

1997

Firing, E., R-C. Lien, and P. Muller, Observations of strong inertial oscillations after the passage of tropical cyclone Ofa. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 3317-3322.

1996

Hacker, P., E. Firing, W. Wilson, and R. Molinari. Direct Observations of the current structure east of the Bahamas. Geophys. Res. Letters, 23, 1127-1130.

1996

Firing, E. Currents observed north of Oahu during the first 5 years of HOT. Deep-Sea Res., 43, 281-303.