John M. Bane, Jr   Physical Oceanography   Professor and Chairman Department of Marine Sciences   Joint Appointment Department of Geological Sciences

Education | Contact Information | Research Interests | Research Activities | Research Publications

Education

Ph.D., Florida State University, 1975.

Contact Information

Department of Marine Sciences
12-5 Venable Hall, CB#3300
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3300

email: bane@unc.edu

telephone: (919) 962-0172

fax: (919) 962-1254

Research Interests

Air-sea interaction processes and the dynamics of the Gulf Stream, focusing on the mesoscale fluctuations which occur in the Stream on weekly and longer time scales. Of primary importance in this class of oceanic motions are wavelike disturbances called Gulf Stream meanders.

Research Activities

Gulf Stream meanders which propagate into the deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean northeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and their interactions with the surrounding circulations; the strong wintertime air-sea interaction processes that occur along the Gulf Stream. Both observational and theoretical approaches are used in these studies.

A schematic depicting the passage of a cold front over the Gulf Stream off the east coast of the United States and the ocean-to-atmosphere heat fluxes that result. This process is responsible for modification of the Gulf Stream and coastal waters, and it causes winter storm intensification, sometimes resulting in dramatic snow and ice storms.

Selected Research Publications

Luther, M.E., and Bane, J.M., 1985, Mixed Instabilities in the Gulf Stream over the Continental Slope: Journal of Physical Oceanography, 15, p. 3-23. 

 

Bane, J.M., and Dewar, W.K., 1988, Gulf Stream Bimodality and Variability Downstream of the Charleston Bump: Journal of Geophysical Research, 93, p. 6695-6710. 

 

Bane, J.M., Brown, O.B., Evans, R.H., and Hamilton, P., 1988, Remote Forcing of Shelfbreak Currents by the Gulf Stream in the Mid- Atlantic Bight: Geophysical Research Letters, 15, p. 405- 407. 

 

Dewar, W.K., and Bane, J.M., 1989: Gulf Stream Dynamics, Part I: Mean Flow Dynamics at 73 W; Part II: Eddy Energetics at 73 W: Journal of Physical Oceanography, 19, p. 1558-1587. 

 

Bane, J.M., and Osgood, K.E., 1989, Wintertime Air-Sea Interaction Processes across the Gulf Stream: Journal of Geophysical Research, 94, p. 10,755-10,772. 

 

Bane, J.M., O'Keefe, L.M., and Watts, D.R., 1989, Mesoscale Eddies and Submesoscale, Coherent Vortices: Their Existence near and Interactions with the Gulf Stream, in Nihoul, J.C.J., and Jamart, B.M., eds., Mesoscale/Synoptic Coherent Structures Geophysical Turbulence: Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, p. 501-518. 

 

Bane, J.M., 1989, Results from the Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment Physical Oceanographic Studies: Introduction: Journal of Geophysical Research, 94, p. 10,685. 

 

Bane, J.M., Winant, C.D., and Overland, J.E., 1990, Planning for Coastal Air-Sea Interaction Studies in CoPO: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 71, p. 514-519. 

 

Wang, W., Bane, J.M., and Thompson, J.D., Gulf Stream Variability from Cape Hatteras to the Grand Banks: Model/Data Comparisons: Journal of Geophysical Research (accepted). 

 

Xue, H.J., Bane, J.M., and Goodman, L.M., Modification of the Gulf Stream through Strong Air-Sea Interactions in Winter: Journal of Physical Oceanography (accepted). 

 

Bane, J.M., The Gulf Stream System: An Observational Perspective, in Majumdar, S.K., Miller, E.W., Forbes, G.S., and Schmalz, R.F., eds, The Oceans: Physio-chemical Dynamics and Resources: The Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences (in press). 

 

Bane, J.M., 1997, Airflow and Stratification in Propagating Southerly Surges within the Summertime Marine Layer off California and Oregon. Proceedings, 12th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Amer. Meteorol. Soc., Boston, p. 346-347.

Dorman, C.E., Armi, L., Bane, J.M., and Rogers, D., 1998: Sea Surface Mixed Layer During the June 10-11, 1994, California Coastally Trapped Event. Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, p. 600-619.

Ralph, F.M., Armi, L., Bane, J.M., Dorman, C., Neff, W.D., Neiman, P.J. Nuss, W., and Persson, P.O.G., 1998: Observations and Analysis of the 10-11 June 1994 Coastally Trapped Disturbance. Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, p. 2435-2465.

Rogers, D.P., Dorman, C., Edwards, K., Brooks, I. , Melville, K., Burk, S., Thompson, W., Holt, T. , Strom, L. ., Tjernstrom, M. , Grisogono, B., Bane, J., Nuss, W. , Morley, B., and Schanot, A., 1998: Highlights of Coastal Waves 1996. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 79, p. 1307-1326.

Thompson, W.T., and Bane, J.M., 1998: Modeling and Observations of Coastally Trapped Wind Reversals. Proc. of the 78th AMS Annual Meeting. 11-16 January, 1998, Phoenix AZ, Amer. Meteorol. Soc., Boston, p. 194-201.

Xue, H.J., and Bane, J.M., 1997: A Numerical Investigation of the Gulf Stream and its Meanders in Response to Cold Air Outbreaks. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, p. 2606-2629.