Oleg Melnichenko

Postdoctoral Fellow

International Pacific Research Center
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii  96822

Phone: (808) 956-0747
Fax: (808) 956-9425
Email:

Education

  • 2006 - Ph.D. (Physical Oceanography), Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sevastopol, Ukraine.
    Thesis title: Reconstruction and analysis of coastal ocean currents using Helmholtz decomposition"
  • 1987- M.Sc. (Physical Oceanography), Leningrad Hydrometeorological Institute, Leningrad, Russia

Research Interests

  • Oceanic large-scale circulation
  • Alternating zonal jets
  • Meso-scale currents and eddy statistics

Professional Experience

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2007–present
  • Research Scientist: Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sevastopol, Ukraine, 2005–2006
  • Research Assistant: Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sevastopol, Ukraine, 1992–2005
  • Oceanographer: Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sevastopol, Ukraine, 1989–1992
  • Specialist, Air Force Weather Prediction Center, Ukraine, 1987–1989

Scientific Visits

  • Visiting Scientist: Naval postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA , 2003–2006

Selected Publications

  • Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, O.V. Melnichenko, and N. Wells: On long baroclinic Rossby waves in the Tropical North Atlantic observed from profiling floats. J. Geophys. Res., in press.
  • Maximenko, N.A., O.V. Melnichenko, P.P. Niiler, and H. Sasaki, 2008: Stationary mesoscale jet-like features in the ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08603, doi:10.1029/2008GL033267.
  • Melnichenko, O.V., and N.A. Maximenko, 2007: Stationary alternating zonal jets in hydrographic data of the eastern North Pacific. Proceedings of PACON 2007: Ocean Observing Systems and Marine Environment, 55-63.
  • Maximenko, N.A., P. P. Niiler, and O. V. Melnichenko: Global mean dynamic ocean topography reveals new coherent features of surface circulation. Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference "Fluxes and Structures in Fluid", Moscow, Russia.
  • Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, and O.V. Melnichenko, 2005: Fall–Winter current reversals on the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 35, 902–910.
  • Ivanov, L.M., and O.V. Melnichenko, 2005: Nowcast of mesoscale surface currents from HF radar data. Mar. Hydrophys. J., No. 2, 30–46 (in Russian).
  • Collins, C.A., L.M. Ivanov, O.V. Melnichenko, and N. Garfield, 2004: California Undercurrent variability and eddy transport estimated from RAFOS float observations. J. Geophys. Res., 109 (C5), doi: 10.1029/2003JC002191.
  • Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, L.H. Kantha, T.M. Margolina, O.V. Melnichenko, and Y.A. Poberezhny, 2003: Lagrangian predictability of high-resolution regional model: the special case of Gulf of Mexico. Non. Proc. Geophys., No. 20, 1–20.
  • Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, T.P. Korzhova, T.M. Margolina, and O.V. Melnichenko, 2003: Analysis of sparse and noisy ocean current data using flow decomposition: Part I: Theory. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 20, 478–491.
  • Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, T.P. Korzhova, T.M. Margolina, and O.V. Melnichenko, 2003: Analysis of sparse and noisy ocean current data using flow decomposition: Part.2: Applications to Eulerian and Lagrangean data. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 20, 492–512.
  • Collins, C.A., Ivanov L.M. and O. V. Melnichenko, 2003: Seasonal variability of California Undercurrent explored from RAFOS floats, 1992-2001. Mar. Hydrophys. J., No. 3, 9–23 (in Russian).
  • Chu, P.C., Ivanov L.M., Margolina T.M. and O.V. Melnichenko, 2002: Probabilistic stability of a simple atmospheric model to differently scales perturbations. J. Atmos. Sci., 59 (19), 2860–2873.
  • Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, L. Kantha, O.V. Melnichenko, and Yu. A. Poberezhny, 2002: Power decay law in model forecast skill. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29 (15), 38-1–38-4.
  • Ivanov, L.M., T.M. Margolina, and O.V. Melnichenko, 1999: Prediction and Management of Extreme Events Based on a Simple Probabilistic Model of the First-Passage Boundary. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (and Solar System), 1 (2), 73–79.
  • Kirwan, A.D., L.M. Ivanov, and O.V. Melnichenko, 1994: Prediction of the Stochastic Behavior of Nonlinear Systems by Deterministic Models as a Classical Time-Passage Probabilistic Problem. Non. Proc. Geophys., No. 1, 224–233.
  • Eremeev, V.N., A.D. Kirwan, L.M. Ivanov, S.V. Kochergin, O.V. Melnichenko, and R.R. Stanichnaja, 1992: Reconstruction of oceanic flow characteristics from Quasi-Lagrangian data. Part 2: Characteristics of the large-scale circulation in the Black Sea. J. Geophys. Res., 97 (C6), 9743–9753.
  • Eremeev, V.N., L.M. Ivanov, S.V. Kochergin, and O.V. Melnichenko, 1992: Seasonal variability and types of currents in the upper layer of the Black Sea. Sov. J. Phys. Oceanogr., No. 3, 193–208.
  • Gertman N.F., V.N. Eremeev, L.M. Ivanov, S.V. Kochergin, and O.V. Melnichenko, 1991: Some types of the Black Sea surface currents. Dokladi Akademii Nayk USSR, 320, No. 1, 199–203 (in Russian).
  • Eremeev, V.N., L.M. Ivanov, and O.V. Melnichenko, 1991: On detection of the normal mode decomposition of three-dimensional thermo-dynamical field. Dokladi Akademii Nayk USSR, 319 (6), 1453–1456 (in Russian).