Dan Kelley

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

Room 5652 LSC

Webpage: http://myweb.dal.ca/kelley/

Graduate Coordinator webpage: http://graduatecoordinator.oceanography.dal.ca/ 

Phone: (902) 494-1694
   Fax: (902) 494-3877
Email: dan.kelley@dal.ca

Education Background

• BSc - Physics and Mathematics, Mount Allison University
• PhD - Physical Oceanography, Dalhousie University

Research Interests

• Dynamics of transport and mixing processes

3001.03: Introduction to Physical Oceanography
4120.03/5120.03: Physical Oceanography
9000.00: MSc Thesis
9530.00: PhD Thesis

Mirshak, R. and D.E. Kelley - 2009 - Inferring propagation direction of nonlinear internal waves in a vertically sheared background flow - Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, doi:10.1175/2008JTEC0632.1

Bourgault, D., D.E. Kelley and P.S. Galbraith - 2008 - Turbulence and boluses on an internal beach - Journal of Marine Research, 66(5), 563-588

Kelley, Dan. E. - 2007 - Review of Muller's The equations of oceanic motions - Limnology and Oceanography 16(2), 29-30

Bourgault, D., and D.E. Kelley - 2007 - On the reflectance of uniform slopes for normally incident interfacial solitary waves - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37, 1156-1162, doi:10.1175/JPO3059.1

Bourgault, D., M.D. Blokhina, R. Mirshak, and D.E. Kelley - 2007 - Evolution of a shoaling internal solitary wavetrain - Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L03601, doi:10.1029/2006GL028462

Schallenberg, C., M. R. Lewis, D. E. Kelley, and J. J. Cullen. - 2008 - Inferred influence of nutrient availability on the relationship between Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and incident irradiance in the Bering Sea - J. Geophys. Res., 113, C07046, doi:10.1029/2007JC004355

Bourgault, D., Kelley, D.E., and Galbraith, P.S. - 2005 - Interfacial Solitary Wave Run-Up in the St. Lawrence Estuary - Journal of Marine Research, 53, 1001-1015.

Bourgault, D. and Kelley, D.E. - 2004 - A laterally-averaged nonhydrostatic ocean model. - Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology,21, 1910-1924.

Suthers, I.M., C.T. Taggart, D.E. Kelley, D. Rissik and J.H. Middleton - 2004 - Entrainment and advection in an island's tidal wake, as revealed by light attenuance, zooplankton and ichtyoplankton. - Limnology and Oceanography, 49, 283-296.

Kelley, D.E., Fernando, H.J.S., Gargett, A.E., Tanny, J., Özsoy, E. - 2003 - The diffusive regime of double-diffusive convection. - Progress in Oceanography, 56, 461-481.

Bourgault, D. and Kelley, D.E. - 2003 - Wave-Induced Boundary Mixing in a Partially Mixed Estuary. - Journal of Marine Research, 61 (5), 553-576.

May, B.D., and Kelley, D.E. - 2002 - Contrasting the interleaving in two baroclinic ocean fronts. - Dynamic Atmosphere and Oceans, 36, 23-42.

Schallenberg, C.,  M.R. Lewis, D.E. Kelley and J.J. Cullen - 2002 - Variability in the quantum yield of sun-induced fluorescence in the Bering Sea: effects of light and nutrients - Ocean Optics XVI, Santa Fe, NM. CD-ROM

May, B.D., and Kelley, D.E. - 2001 - Growth and steady state stages of thermohaline intrusions in the Arctic Ocean - Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 16783-16794.

Kelley, D.E. - 2001 - Six questions about double-diffusive convection - Proc. Hawaiian Winter Workshop, SOEST Special Publications, 191-198.

May, B.D., and Kelley, D.E. - 2000 - Reply to N. Kuzmina's comment on "Effects of Baroclinicity on Double-Diffusive Interleaving" - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 30, 1829-1830.

Kelley, D.E., and VanScoy, K.A. - 1999 - A basin-wide estimate of vertical mixing in the upper pycnocline: spreading of bomb tritium in the North Pacific Ocean - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 29, 1759-1771.

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.

Richardson, T.L., Cullen, J.J., Kelley, D.E., and Lewis, M.R. - 1998 - Potential contributions of vertically-migrating Rhizosolenia to nutrient cycling and new production in the open ocean. - Journal of Plankton Research, 20, 219-241.

Kelley, D.E. - 1997 - Convection in ice-covered lakes: Effects on algal suspension - J. Plankton Res., 19(12), 1859-1880.

May, B.D. and Kelley, D.E. - 1997 - Effect of baroclinicity on double-diffusive interleaving - J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 1997-2008.

Kelley, D. and Bourque, M.-C. - 1997 - Inferring coastal upwelling dynamics from a thermistor array - J. Geophys. Res., 102, 3439-3449.

Galbraith, P. and Kelley, D. - 1996 - Identifying overturns in CTD profiles - J. Atm. Ocean. Tech., 13, 688-702.

Bourque, M.-C. and Kelley, D. - 1995 - Evidence of wind-driven upwelling in Jacques-Cartier Strait - Atmosphere-Ocean, 33, 359-387.

Brickman, D. and Kelley, D. - 1995 - Onset of convection in a rotating semi-infinite fluid: Theory and experiment - Atmosphere-Ocean, 33, 163-185.

Trela, P., Sathyendranath, S., Moore, R.M., and Kelley, D.E. - 1995 - Effect of the non-linearity of the carbonate system on partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the ocean - J. Geophys. Res., 100, 6829-6844.

Carr, M.-E., Lewis, M.R., Kelley, D., and Jones, B. - 1995 - A physical estimate of the new production in the equatorial Pacific along 150W - Limnology and Oceanography, 40, 138-147.

Kelley, D. - 1994 - Temperature-salinity criterion for inhibition of deep convection - J. Phys. Oceanogr., 24, 2424-2433.

Muelbert, Z.H., Lewis, M.L., and Kelley, D.E. - 1994 - The importance of small-scale turbulence in the feeding of herring larvae - J. Plankton Res., 16 927-944.

Brickman, D. and Kelley, D. - 1993 - Development of convection in a rotating fluid: Scales and patterns of motion - Dynamics of Atm and ocean, 19, 389-405.

Hamilton, J., Oakey, N., and Kelley, D. - 1993 - Salt-finger signature in microstructure measurements - J. Geophys. Res., 98, 2453-2460.

Brickman, D. and Kelley, D. - 1992 - Rotating convection: scales and regimes. - Ocean Modelling, 94, 5-8.

Brickman, D. and Kelley, D. - 1991 - Rotating convection: scales and regimes. - CMOS Newsletter, 19(5), 6-7.

Kelley, D. - 1991 - Hydrography and deep convection in the Labrador Sea. - CMOS Newsletter, 19(4), 2-3.

Brickman, D. and Kelley, D. - 1991 - Models of deep convection. - CMOS Newsletter, 19(4), 4.

Kelley, D. - 1990 - Fluxes through diffusive staircases: A new formulation - J. Geophys. Res., 95, 3365-3371.

Kelley, D. - 1990 - Reply to Fernando's comment on "Interfacial migration in thermohaline staircases" - J. Phys. Oceanogr., 20, 1997.

Kelley, D. - 1990 - Review of "Mesoscale/synoptic coherent structures in geophysical turbulence." - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 71, 582-585.

Kelley, D. - 1988 - Explaining effective diffusivities within diffusive oceanic staircases - Small-scale turbulence and mixing in the ocean, ed. J.C.J. Nihoul and B.M. Jamart. Elsevier. New York.

Kelley, D. - 1987 - The influence of planetary rotation on oceanic double-diffusive fluxes - Journal of Marine Res., 45, 829-841.

Kelley, D. - 1987 - Interface migration in thermohaline staircases - J. Phys. Oceanogr., 17, 1633-1639.

Kelley, D. - 1984 - Effective diffusivities in oceanic thermohaline staircases - J. Geophys. Res., 89, 10484-10488.