Keith R. Thompson

Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
1355 Oxford Street
PO BOX 15000
Halifax NS  B3H 4R2

Room 5634 LSC

Phone: (902) 494-3491
   Fax: (902) 494-3877
Email: keith.thompson@dal.ca
Webpage: http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/people/po/Thompson/Thompson_Keith.html

Education Background

• BSc - Mathematics, Manchester University
• MSc - Fluid Mechanics, Manchester University
• PhD - Oceanography, Liverpool University

Research Interests

• Four dimensional data assimilation
• Shelf circulation
• Climate variability of the North Atlantic
• Time series and extremal analysis

4210.03/5210.03: Time Series Analysis in Oceanography and Meteorology
5240.03 04: Special Topics in Oceanography: Time Series
5240.03 07: Special Topics in Oceanography: Data Assimilation

Oliver, E.C.J., and K.R. Thompson - 2011 - Sea level and circulation variability of the Gulf of Carpentaria: Influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and the adjacent deep ocean - Journal Geophysical Research, 116, C02019, doi:10.1029/2010JC006596

Berreville, O. F., A.F. Vezina, K.R. Thompson and B. Klien - 2008 - Integrated Analysis of Physical, Chemical and Ecological Interactions in Two Arctic polynyas - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 65, 1036-1046

Bernier, N., Thompson, K.R., Ou, J., Ritchie, H. - 2007 - Mapping the return periods of extreme sea levels: Allowing for short sea level records, seasonality, and climate change - Global and Planetary Change, 57, 139-150

Thompson, K.R. and Demirov, E. - 2006 - Skewness of Sea-Level variability of the World’s Oceans - Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, C05005, doi:10.1029/2004JC002839

Thompson, K.R., Wright, D.G., Lu, Y., Demirov, E. - 2006 - A Simple Method for Reducing Seasonal Bias and Drift in Eddy Resolving Ocean Models - Ocean Modelling, 13, 190-125

Bobanovic, J., Thompson, K.R., Desjardins, S., Ritchie, H. - 2006 - Forecasting Storm Surges along the East Coast of Canada and Northeastern US: The Storm of 21 January 2000 - Atmosphere-Ocean, 44, 151-161

Bernier, N., Thompson, K.R. - 2006 - Predicting the Frequency of Storm Surges and Extreme Sea Levels in the Northwest Atlantic - Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, C10009, doi:10.1029/2005JC003168

Thompson, K.R., and Shen Yingshuo - 2004 - Coastal Flooding and the Bivariate Skew-t. Chapter 5 of Skew-Elliptical Distributions and their Applications: A Trip Beyond Normality. - CRC Press, Chapman and Hall.

Book, J.W., Pistek, P., Perkins, H., Thompson, K.R., Teague, W.J., Jacobs, G.A., Suk, M.-S., Chang, K.I., Lee, J.-C., Choi, B.H. - 2004 - Data Assimilation Modeling of the Barotropic Tides in the Korea/Tsushima Strait. - Journal of Oceanography, 60, 977-993.

Oliver, E., Sheng, J., Thompson, K., and Urrego Blanco, J. - 2012 - Extreme surface and Near Bottom Currents in the northwest Atlantic. - Natural Hazards, In press.

Higginson, S., K.R. Thompson, J. Huang, M. Véronneau, and D.G. Wright - 2011 - The mean surface circulation of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre: A comparison of estimates derived from new gravity and oceanographic measurements - J. Geophys. Res., 116, C08016, doi:10.1029/2010JC006877

Liu, Y. and K.R. Thompson - 2009 - Predicting mesoscale variability of the North Atlantic using a physically motivated scheme for assimilating altimeter and Argo observations - Monthly Weather Review, 137, 2223-2237

Higginson, S., K.R. Thompson and Y. Liu - 2009 - Estimating ocean climatologies for short periods: A simple technique for removing the effect of eddies from temperature and salinity profiles - Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L19602, doi:10.1029/2009GL039647

Bernier, N., Thompson, K.R., Ou, J., Ritchie, H. - 2007 - Mapping the Return Periods of Extreme Sea Levels: Allowing for Short Sea Level Records, Seasonality, and Climate Change - Global and Planetary Change, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.11.027

Bobanovic, J., Thompson, K.R., Desjardins, S., Ritchie, H. - 2006 - Forecasting Storm Surges along the East Coast of Canada and Northeastern US: The Storm of 21 January, 2000 - Atmosphere-Ocean,(2), 151-161

Losa, S., Vezina, A., Wright, D.G., Lu, Y., Thompson, K.R., Dowd, M.G. - 2006 - Three-Dimensional Ecosystem Modelling in the North Atlantic: Relative Impacts of Physical and Biological Parameterization - Journal of Marine Systems, 61, 230-245

Stacey, M., J. Shore, D.G. Wright, and K.R. Thompson - 2006 - Modelling events of sea-level variability using spectral nudging in an eddy-permitting model of the northeast Pacific Ocean - Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, C06037, doi:10.1029/2005JC003278

Wright, D.G., K.R. Thompson, and Y. Lu - 2006 - Assimilating long-term hydrographic information into an eddy-permitting model of the North Atlantic - Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, C09022, doi:10.1029/2005JC003200

Genton, M.G., Thompson, K.R. - 2004 - Skew-elliptical time series with application to flooding risk. - Time Series Analysis and Applications to Geophysical Systems. Eds, D. R. Brillinger, E. A. Robinson, F. P. Schoenberg (eds), IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications, No. 139, Springer, 169-186.

Book, J.W., Pistek, P., Perkins, H., Thompson, K.R., Teague, W.J., Jacobs, G.A., Suk, M.-S., Chang, K.I., Lee, J.-C., Choi, B.H. - 2004 - Data Assimilation Modeling of the Barotropic Tides in the Korea/Tsushima Strait. - Journal of Oceanography, 60, 977-993.

Thompson, K.R., and Shen Yingshuo - 2004 - Coastal Flooding and the Bivariate Skew-t. Chapter 5 of Skew-Elliptical Distributions and their Applications: A Trip Beyond Normality. - CRC Press, Chapman and Hall.

Thompson, K.R., Sheng, J., Smith, P.C., Cong, L - 2003 - Prediction of Surface Currents and Drifter Trajectories on the Inner Scotian Shelf. - J. Geophys. Res., 108, No. C9, 3287.

Zakardjian, B., Sheng, J., Runge, J., McLaren, I., Plourde, S., Thompson, K.R., and Gratton, Y. - 2003 - Effects of Temperature and Circulation on the Population Dynamics of Calanus Finmarchicus in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Scotian Shelf:  Study with a Coupled, Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamic, Stage-Based Life History Model. - J. Geophys. Res., 108, No. C11, 8016.

Greatbatch, R.J., Bobanovic, J., Sheng and Thompson, K. - 2002 - Oceanography. - Encyclopedia of Envirometrics, P.C. Chatwin and P. Sullivan, Editors, John Wiley and Sons.

Thompson, K.R., Dowd, M., Shen, Y. and Greenberg, D. - 2002 - Probabilistic Characterization of Tidal Mixing in a Coastal Embayment: A Markov Chain Approach. - Continental Shelf Research, 22, 1603-1614.

Lu, Y., Thompson, K.R., and Wright, D.G. - 2001 - Tidal Currents and Mixing in the Gulf of St. Lawrence:  An Application of the Incremental Approach to Data Assimilation. - Special issue of Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 58, 723-735.

Yaremchuk, M.I., Nechaev, D.A., and Thompson, K.R. - 2001 - Seasonal Variation of the North Atlantic Current. - J. Geophys. Res., 106, C4, 6835-6851.

Bobanovic, J., and Thompson, K.R. - 2001 - The influence of Local and Remote Winds on the Sea Level and Circulation of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. - Continental Shelf Research, 21, 129-144.

Sheng, J., Thompson, K.R., Cong, L., Smith, P., and Lawrence, D. - 2001 - Effect of Wind and Local Density on the Subtidal Circulation on the Inner Scotian Shelf. - Continental Shelf Res., 21(1), 1-19.

Ruddick, B.R., Anis, A., and Thompson, K.R. - 2000 - Maximum Likelihood Spectral Fitting:  The Batchelor Spectrum. - Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 17, 1541-1555.

Thompson, K.R., Dowd, M.G., Lu, Y., and Smith, B. - 2000 - Oceanographic Data Assimilation and Regression Analysis. - Environmetrics, 11, 183-196.

Drinkwater, K., Lochman, S., Taggart, C., Thompson, K.R., and Frank, K. - 2000 - Entrainment of Redfish (Sebastes Sp.) Larvae off the Scotian Shelf. - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 57, 372-382.

Thompson, K., Kelley, D.E., Sturley, D., Topliss, B., and Leal, R. - 1998 - Nearshore circulation and synthetic aperature radar: an exploratory study. - International Journal of Remote Sensing, 19, 1161-1178.

Bowen, A.J., Griffin, D.A., Hazen, D.G., Matheson, S.A., and Thompson, K.R. - 1995 - Ship-board nowcasting of shelf circulation. - Continental Shelf Research, 15(1), 115-128.