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School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
Eric Firing

Professor

Department of Oceanography, 
University of Hawai`i at Manoa, 
1000 Pope Road, 
Marine Sciences Building, 
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: (808) 956-7894
Fax: (808) 956-9225

E-mail: efiring@soest.hawaii.edu

Education

  • BS 1973 - Dept of Earth and Planetary Science, Mass. Inst. of Technology
  • Ph.D. 1978 - Mass.Inst. of Technology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography
Research Interests
  • Equatorial Circulation
  • General Circulation
  • Physical Oceanographic Technology

Teaching Activities

  • OCN 620 - Physical 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 the 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 Equatorial 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, 21,413-21,423.
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, Pl 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.
 
Department of Oceanography
Last modified: October 2003 
ocean@soest.hawaii.edu