Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives

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Summary Information

Biographical Note

Scope and Contents

Administrative Information

Controlled Access Headings

Collection Inventory

Summary Information

Repository

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives

Creator

Peterson, Ray G., 1952-2001

Title

Ray G. Peterson Papers

ID

2010-43

Date

1559-2004

Extent

1.71 Cubic feet : 4 manuscript boxes, 1/2 legal manuscript box, 1 map folder

Language

English

Language of Materials

Materials are in English and German.

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Biographical Note

After working as a meteorologist for the US Navy, Ray Peterson received his Ph.D. at Texas A&M University in 1987 under Worth Nowlin, measuring the transport and dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current through Drake Passage. His research was based on observations from the cruises and moorings of the International Southern Ocean Studies (ISOS) program. His postdoctoral work was done from 1988-1990 at the Institut fur Meereskunde in Kiel, Germany, under Gerold Siedler, measuring the circulation in the South Atlantic Basin from R/V Polarstern.

Peterson came to SIO in 1991 as an assistant research oceanographer and was promoted to associate research oceanographer in 1997. While at SIO he continued his studies of the circulation in the Southern Ocean, collaborating with Warren White on the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave, an oceanic/atmospheric wave circling the Southern Ocean which was considered controversial at the time of his research.

Peterson also worked with Janet Sprintall on establishing high-resolution XBT sections across Drake Passage and started a program of repeated temperature measurements from the US Antarctic supply vessel to Palmer Station. He also collaborated with Argentine scientists Alberto Piola and Ricardo Matano, and with German scientists aboard Polarstern. He published what was probably the earliest work using ALACE (Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer) floats in the Southern Ocean.

Teresa Chereskin and Peterson began a time series in the California Current using a free falling Conductivity, Temperature and Density (CTD) profiler called the "Fast Fish,” which was developed by WHOI engineers under WOCE (World Ocean Circulation Experiment.) He also worked with Russ Davis on the Lagrangian drifter measurements of the Malvinas Current. Peterson passed away at the age of 49 on December 6, 2001 after a long illness. He was survived by his wife, Dorothy Nowroozian-Peterson.

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Scope and Contents

The Ray Peterson Papers consist of correspondence, field reports, proposals, manuscripts, and reprints documenting his research on ocean currents, the Southern Ocean, and the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave. The collection also contains teaching materials for Oceanography 608, and copies of historical maps, charts, and texts used by Peterson for a paper on early concepts of ocean circulation.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives 2011

University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive #0219
La Jolla, California, 92093-0219

Provenance

Ray Peterson's papers were found in Nierenberg Hall and donated to SIO Archives by Lynne Talley on 18 November 2010.

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Controlled Access Headings

Subject(s)

• Ocean currents.
• Oceanography--History
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography--History

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Collection Inventory

Antarktis X/5 Cruise Report 1992      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 1
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South Atlantic Review 1991      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 2
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Bottom Press - Tide Gauge 1988      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 3
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Wind-Transport 1988      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 4
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Boundary Currents - Originals 1992      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 5
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Ring Paper 1982      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 6
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Whitworth and Peterson 1985      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 7
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Drifter Paper 1985      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 8
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Abyssal Boundary Cruise Studies (ABCS) Cruise Paper 1986      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 9
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Fronts Paper 1989      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 10
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South Atlantic Current 1990      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 11
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Agulhas History 1992      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 12
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Arnold Gordon 1987      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 13
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South Pacific Current 1995      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 14
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Indian Ocean Cruise 1995      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 15
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Peterson, Ray G., Publications
1992-1995      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 16
1996-1997      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 17
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Oceanography 608, Spring 1985
1981-1985      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 18-19
Slides 1981-1985      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 20
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Pressure Gauge Papers 1991      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 21
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Pressure Gauges - Viewgraphs n.d.      Box Folder Mixed materials   1 22
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Southern Ocean Data - Viewgraphs n.d.      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 1
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Lagrangian - Malvinas 1996      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 2
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Benguela Current 1989      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 3
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SWAP in Oceanography (Southwest Atlantic Ocean) 1995      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 4
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Fahrbach, et al, Weddell Sea 1994      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 5
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FRAM (Fine Resolution Antarctic Model) 1990      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 6
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Dissertation Defense Viewgraphs n.d.      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 7
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Southern Ocean Atlas Maps 1989      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 8
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Tides and Sea Level
1951-1975      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 9
1976-1986      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 10
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Mundus Subterraneus, Athanassi Kircheri 1665      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 11
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Historical Illustrations 1559-1937      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 12
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Progress in Oceanography 1996      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 13
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Early Concepts and Charts of Ocean Circulation 1996      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 14
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Dissertation
Negatives of Figures for Dissertation Papers in JGR n.d.      Box Folder Graphic materials   2 15
December 1987      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 16
1985-1987      Box Folder Mixed materials   2 17
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Malvinas Paper
1972-1996      Box Folder Mixed materials   3 1
1995      Box Folder Mixed materials   3 2
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Reports, Proposals 1998-2001      Box Folder Mixed materials   3 3
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Peterson, Ray 1997-1998      Box Folder Mixed materials   3 4
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Notes 1997-2001      Box Folder Mixed materials   3 5
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Proposals
1998-2004      Box Folder Mixed materials   3 6
1997-2001      Box Folder Mixed materials   3 7
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Marine Research 1999      Box Folder Mixed materials   3 8
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Reprints
n.d.      Box Folder Mixed materials   3 9
1971-1989      Box Folder Mixed materials   3 10
1990-1993      Box Folder Mixed materials   3 11
1994-1995      Box Folder Mixed materials   4 1
1996-1997      Box Folder Mixed materials   4 2
1998-1999      Box Folder Mixed materials   4 3
2000-2001      Box Folder Mixed materials   4 4
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Progress in Oceanography
1989      Box Folder Mixed materials   4 5
1996      Box Folder Mixed materials   4 6
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Aspects of the Thermohaline Circulation in a Simple Model 19 September 2000      Box Folder Mixed materials   4 7
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On the World Ocean Circulation, Volume I June 1996      Box Folder Mixed materials   4 8
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South Western Atlantic Circulation Experiment 1 January 2000      Box Folder Mixed materials   4 9
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Western South Atlantic Circulation Experiment 1 January 1999      Box Folder Mixed materials   5 1
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South Atlantic Climate Change October 1996      Box Folder Mixed materials   5 2
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Inter-American Institute for Global Climate Change - IAI 12-14 August 1996      Box Folder Mixed materials   5 3
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Berichte zur Polarforschung/Reports on Polar Research 1992      Box Folder Mixed materials   5 4
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Figures for 2 Dissertation Papers 1988-1989      Box Folder Graphic materials   5 5
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Maps and Charts
				Oversize
Peterson-Whitworth (1989) Fronts Paper 1989				1
Oceanographic Atlas of the North Atlantic Ocean. Section II: Physical Properties. Publ. No. 700 1967				2
Deutsches Hydrographisches Institut 1989				3
Versuch Einer Karte zur Ubersicht der Fluthwellen 1838				4-5
Warme Meeresstrom des Atlantischen und der Kalte Strom des Grossen Oceans 1852				6-8
Karte vom Grossen Ocean (Mare Pacifico) 1837				9-10
Karte vom Atlantischen Ocean 1837				11-12
Physikalische Karte vom Indischen Meere 1840				13-14
Kieler Forde 1988-1990				15
Argentine Basin/Scotia Sea/Mid-Atlantic Ridge n.d.				16
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