Joe Gradone

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | Rutgers · Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences

The Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS) is operated in 26 regions of the United States including New York/New Jersey Harbor. This system provides observations and predictions of water level, currents, salinity and meteorological parameters that are used by mariners to safely navigate the coastal waters. HF radar surface current measurem...

The pelagic Southern Ocean is a high‐nutrient, low‐chlorophyll ecosystem. Here, phytoplankton growth is colimited by iron supply and light availability. This creates a general expectation that when light is available in the austral summer (shallow mixing depths), phytoplankton concentrations may be high or low depending on the delivery of iron to t...

The satellite sea surface temperature (SST) measurement is based on the detection of ocean radiation using microwave or infrared wavelengths within the electromagnetic spectrum. The radiance of individual wavelengths can be converted into brightness temperatures for using in SST determination. The calibration and validation of the determined SST da...

A growing number of increasingly complex instruments have been integrated into autonomous underwater vehicles over the past two decades. While these newly glider integrated sensors provide unprecedented insight into ocean processes, the large data volumes collected by these instruments cannot be efficiently telemetered to shore. Shoreside processin...

Caribbean through-flow accounts for up to two-thirds of the Florida Current and consequently is an important conduit of heat and salt fluxes in the Atlantic branch of the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC). While high-latitude sinking and interior mixing processes have a first order control on the magnitude of the MOC, low-latitude wind-drive...