Welcome to the home page for the "RAFOS Float Group" in the Physical Oceanography Department at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography. Members of the group, headed by Dr. Tom Rossby, are listed below. Our research activities focus on the dynamics and kinematics of ocean currents, mainly in the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current (NAC) regions and Nordic Seas, and on instrumentation development. Learn more about our research activities by clicking below. This page is currently under construction, so is continually being revised. For comments or questions, please contact Sandra Anderson-Fontana (sfontana@gso.uri.edu).

General Information

• The evolution of the Swallow float to today's RAFOS float
• Acoustic signaling and sound sources for RAFOS navigation Signaling
• Isopycnal floats as platforms for in-situ studies
• Early Evidence for the Iceland-Faroe Front?
• The Merchant Marine and Marine Research

Research activities

• The Oleander Project
• The Norrona Project
• The North Atlantic Current Project
• MODAS Sea Surface Height Time Series
• The Subpolar Front Project
• Dynamical Adjustment of the Gulf Stream
• A Matlab version of the Price, Weller, Pinkel upper-ocean model

Members of the group

• Dr. Tom Rossby
• Sandra Anderson-Fontana
• Jim Fontaine
• George Schwartze

Other related URI sites

• P.O. Seminar Series for the Graduate School of Oceanography
• University of Rhode Island
• Graduate School of Oceanography
• Numerical Modeling Lab

Other Web sites of interest

• Other Oceanographic and Earth Science Web sites
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Oceanography