Daniel Wright

Ocean Circulation Section
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
B2Y 4A2

Phone: (902) 426-3147
Email: wrightdan@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Education Background

• BSc - Mathematics, Laurentian University
• PhD - Mathematics and Oceanography, University of British Columbia

Awards and Honours

• President's Prize of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographical Society - 1992.
• Reviewer of the Year of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society - 1992.

Research Interests

• Global and regional climate dynamics
• Deep ocean circulation and dynamics
• Shelf circulation and dynamics
• Numerical modelling

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

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

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

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

Sheng, J., Greatbatch, R.J., and Wright, D.G. - 2001 - Improving the utility of ocean circulation models through adjustment of the momentum balance. - J. Geophys. Res., 106, 16,711-16,728.

Edwards, A.M., Platt, T. and Wright, D.G. - 2001 - Biologically induced circulation at fronts. - Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 106(C4), 7081-7095.

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.

Sheng, J., Wright, D.G., Greatbatch, R.J., and Dietrich, D.E. - 1998 - CANDIE: A new version of the DieCAST ocean circulation model. - Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology,15, 1414-1432.