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Lorenz Magaard

Emeritus Professor of Oceanography
Director, ICCS
[Past Staff]

International Center for Climate and Society (ICCS),
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
University of Hawaii,
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

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Education

1958 - Vordiplom (B.S.): Major in Mathematics and Minor in Physics, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
1961 - Diplom (M.S.): Major in Mathematics and Minor in Physics, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
1963 - Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), magna cum laude, Major in Mathematics and Minor in Physics and Oceanography, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany.

Current Main Research Interest

Climate and Society

Professional Experience

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Professor, Department of Oceanography, September 1975 – July 2009
Executive Associate Director, International Pacific Research Center, November 1998 – March 2008
Director, International Center for Climate and Society, March 2003 – present
Chairperson, Department of Oceanography, January 2005 – June 2006
Director of Education, Marine Bioproducts Engineering Center, November 2000 – October 2001
Associate Dean, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, January 1992 – December 2000
Acting Dean, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, July 1999 – December 1999
Acting Associate Dean, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, October 1989 – December 1991
Chairman, Department of Oceanography, July 1984 – June 1990
Chairman, Graduate Field of Study in Oceanography, July 1984 – June 1990

Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, Institut fuer Meereskunde Kiel, Germany

Professor, (Associate Professor), March 1972 – August 1975
Dozent, (Associate Professor without tenure), January 1969 – February 1972
Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, (Assistant Professor), April 1964 – December 1968
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, (Assistant Scientist), March 1961 – March 1964

Graduate Oceanography Courses Taught at UH

Ocean Waves, Tides, Oceanic Turbulence, Dimensional Analysis, Ocean Policy Seminar

Awards and Honors

Liege University Medal, Liege, Belgium, April 1973
Docente libre (Grado 5), Seccion Oceanografia, Instituto de Biologia, Facultad de Sciences, Universidad de la Republica del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay, March 1997 – present
International Award, PACON (Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology), June 2000
Fellow, Marine Technology Society, November 2001

Selected Publications

Books

Magaard, L., and G. Rheinheimer (Ed.), 1974: Meereskunde der Ostsee (Oceanography of the Baltic Sea). Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 269.

Articles in Books

Magaard, L., 1974: Wasserstandsschwankungen und Seegang (Sea level oscillations and wind waves). In Magaard, L., and G. Rheinheimer (Eds.), Meereskunde der Ostsee, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 67 – 75.
Magaard, L., 1979: Low frequency motions in the North Pacific and their possible generation by meteorological forces. In Nihoul, J.C.J. (Ed.), Marine Forecasting, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 57 – 60.
Magaard, L., and L.A. Mysak, 1986: Ocean waves: classification and basic features. In Suendermann, J. (Ed.), Landolt-Boernstein, New Series, Vol. V/3c: Oceanography, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 1 – 16
Yun, J.-Y., J.M., Price, and L. Magaard, 1991: Observational characteristics of internal temperature fluctuations in the mid-latitude North Pacific. In Takano, K. (Ed.), Oceanography of Asian Marginal Seas, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 1 – 23.
Lass, H.U., and L. Magaard, 1996: Wasserstandsschwankungen und Seegang (Sea level oscillations and wind waves). In Rheinheimer, G. (Ed.), Meereskunde der Ostsee, 2nd ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 68 – 74.
Verlaan, P.A., L. Magaard, and H.-J. Brosin, 1996: Management der Ostsee (Management of the Baltic Sea). In Rheinheimer, G. (Ed), Meereskunde der Ostsee, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2nd ed., pp. 302 – 312.

Articles in Refereed Journals

Krauss, W., and L. Magaard, 1961: Zum Spektrum der internen Wellen der Ostsee (Energy spectra of the internal movements of the Baltic Sea). Kieler Meeresforsch., 17, 136 – 147.
Magaard, L., 1962: Zur Berechnung interner Wellen in Meeresraeumen mit nicht-ebenen Boeden bei einer speziellen Dichteverteilung (On computation of internal waves in oceans of variable depth and special density distribution). Kieler Meeresforsch., 18, 161 – 183.
Krauss, W., and L. Magaard, 1962: Zum System der Eigenschwingungen der Ostsee (On the seiches system of the Baltic Sea). Kieler Meeresforsch., 18, 184 – 186.
Magaard, L., 1965: Zur Theorie zweidimensionaler nichtlinear interner Wellen in stetig geschichteten Medien (On the theory of two-dimensional nonlinear internal waves in continuously stratified media). Kieler Meeresforsch., 21, 22 –23.
Magaard, L., and W. Krauss, 1966: Spektren der Wasserstandsschwankungen der Ostee im Jahre 1958 (Spectra of the 1958 sea level records in the Baltic). Kieler Meeresforsch., 22, 155 – 162.
Magaard, L., and W. Krauss (1967): Internal waves at Diamond Stations during the International Iceland-Faroe-Ridge Expedition, May – June1960. Rapp. et Proc. Verb., 157, 173 – 183.
Magaard, L., (1968): Ein Beitrag zur Theorie der internen Wellen als Stoerungen geostrophischer Stroemungen (A contribution to the theory of internal waves as perturbations of geostrophic currents). Dt. hydrogr. Z., 21, 241 –278.
Kielmann, J., W. Krauss, and L. Magaard, 1969: Ueber die Verteilung der kinetischen Energie im Bereich der Traegheits-und Seichesfrequenczen der Ostsee im August 1964 (Internationales Ostseeprogramm) [On the energy distribution in the range of the inertial- and seiches-period motions in the Baltic Sea in August 1964 (International Baltic Sea Programme)]. Kieler Meeresforsch., 25, 245 – 254.
Magaard, L., 1971: Zur Berechnung von luftdruck- und windbedingten Bewegungen eines stetig geschichteten seitlich unbegrenzten Meeres (On the computation of motions due to air pressure and wind in a continuously stratified horizontally unbounded ocean). Dt. hydrogr. Z., 24, 145 – 158.
Magaard, L., 1973: On the generation of internal gravity waves by a fluctuating buoyancy flux at the sea surface. Geophys. Fluid. Dyn., 5, 101 – 111.
Magaard, L., and W.D. McKee, 1973: Semi-diurnal tidal currents at "site-D". Deep-Sea Res., 20, 997 – 1009.
Magaard, L., 1974: On the generation of internal gravity waves by meteorological forces. Mem. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liege, 6, 79 – 84.
Magaard, L., 1974: On the generation of internal movements of the sea by meteorological forces. Mem. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liege, 6, 85 – 91.
Keunecke, K. H., and L. Magaard, 1975: Measurements by means of towed thermistor cables and problems of their interpretation with respect to mesoscale processes. Mem. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liege, 7, 147 – 160.
Wyrtki, K., L. Magaard, and J. Hager, 1976: Eddy energy in the oceans. J. Geophys. Res., 81, 2641 – 2646.
Emery, W.J., and L. Magaard, 1976: Baroclinic Rossby waves as inferred from temperature fluctuations in the Eastern Pacific. J. Mar. Res., 34, 365 – 385.
Magaard, L., 1977: On the generation of baroclinic Rossby waves in the ocean by meteorological forces. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 7, 359 – 364.
Magaard, L., and J.M. Price, 1977: Note on the significance of a previous Rossby wave fit to internal temperature fluctuations in the Eastern Pacific. J. Mar. Res., 35, 649 – 651.
Kang, Y.Q., and L. Magaard, 1979: Stable and unstable Rossby waves in the North Pacific Current as inferred from the mean stratification. Dyn. Atmos. Oceans, 3, 1 – 14.
Price, J.M., and L. Magaard, 1980: Rossby wave analysis of the baroclinic potential energy in the upper 500 meters of the North Pacific. J. Mar. Res., 38, 249 – 264.
Kang, Y. Q., and L. Magaard, 1980: Annual baroclinic Rossby waves in the Central North Pacific. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 10, 1159 – 1167.
Gallagher, B., L. Magaard, and E. Gutteling, 1981: Closure for velocity/pressure gradient correlations in turbulent shear flow. Phys. Fluids, 24, 1605 – 1610.
Gallegos-Garcia, A., W.J. Emery, R.O. Reid, and L. Magaard, 1981: Frequency-wavenumber spectra of sea surface temperature and wind stress curl in the eastern North Pacific. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 11, 1059 – 1077.
Kang, Y.Q., and L. Magaard, 1982: Annual temperature fluctuations at the Subtropical and Subarctic Fronts in the Central North Pacific. J. Geophys. Res., 87, 5663 – 5665.
Kang, Y.Q., Price, J.M. and L. Magaard, 1982: On stable and unstable Rossby waves in non-zonal oceanic shear flow. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 12, 528 – 537.
Magaard, L., 1983: On the potential energy of baroclinic Rossby waves in the North Pacific. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 13, 38 – 42.
Price, J. M., and L. Magaard, 1983: Rossby wave analysis of subsurface temperature fluctuations along the Honolulu-San Francisco great circle. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 13, 258 – 268.
Mysak, L.A., and L. Magaard, 1983: Rossby wave driven Eulerian mean flows along non-zonal barriers, with application to the Hawaiian Ridge. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 13, 1716 – 1725.
Emery, W.J., W.G. Lee, and L. Magaard, 1984: Geographic and seasonal distributions of Brunt-Vaisala frequency and Rossby radii in the North Pacific and North Atlantic. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 14, 294 – 317.
Oh, I.S., and L. Magaard, 1984: Rossby wave induced secondary flows near barriers, with application to the Hawaiian Ridge. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 14, 1510 – 1513.
Price, J.M., and L. Magaard, 1986: Interannual baroclinic Rossby waves in the mid-latitude North Atlantic. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 16, 2061 – 2070.
Sun, L.C., J.M. Price, L. Magaard, and G. Roden, 1988: The North Hawaiian Ridge Current, a comparison between an analytical theory and some prior observations. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 18, 384 – 388.
Takahashi, P.K., K.R. McKinley, V.D. Phillips, L. Magaard, and P. Koske, 1993: Marine macrobiotechnology systems. J. Mar. Biotechnol., 1, 9 – 15.
Smith, C., R. Pope, D.J. DeMaster, and L. Magaard, 1993: Age-dependent mixing in deep-sea sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 57, 1473 – 1488.
Graef, F., and L. Magaard, 1994: Reflection of nonlinear baroclinic Rossby waves and the driving of secondary mean flows. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 24, 1867 – 1894.
Yun, J.-Y., J.M. Price, and L. Magaard, 1995: Radiating instability of non-zonal oceanic shear flows with application to the Kuroshio Extension Current. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 1788 – 1804.
Yun, J.-Y., J.M. Price, and L. Magaard, 2000: Recalculated radiating instabilities using the correct matching and boundary conditions. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 1788 – 1804.
Yun, J.-Y., L. Magaard, K. Kim, C.-W. Shin, C. Kim, and S.-Y. Byun, 2004: Spatial and temporal variability of the North Korean Water leading to the near-bottom dole water intrusion in Korea Strait. Progr. in Oceanography, 60, 99 – 131.
Grossmann, W.D., J.B. Marsh, L. Magaard, and H. von Storch: Two-region analysis of changing economic and environmental risks. Climatic Change (submitted).

Other Unpublished Work

Magaard, L., 1963: Zur Einbettung Riemannscher Raeume in Einstein-Raeume und konform-euklidische Raeume. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universitaet Kiel, pp. 46. (English Title: On the imbedding of Riemannian spaces into Einstein spaces and conformally-euclidean spaces.)