Publications

2024

Aravind, H.M., V. Verma, S. Sarkar, M.A. Freilich, A. Mahadevan, P.J. Haley Jr., P.F.J. Lermusiaux, and M.R. Allshouse, 2023. Lagrangian Surface Signatures Reveal Upper-Ocean Vertical Displacement Conduits Near Oceanic Density Fronts. Ocean Modelling 181, 102136. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2022.102136

Capó, E., McWilliams, J.C. and Jagannathan, A., 2023. Flow‐topography interaction along the Spanish slope in the Alboran Sea: Vorticity generation and connection to interior fronts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, p.e2022JC019480.

Esposito, G, S. Donnet, M. Berta, A Shcherbina,  M. Freilich,  L. Centurioni, E.  D'Asaro,  T. Farrar, S. Johnston, A. Mahadevan, T. Ozgokmen,  A.  Pascual,  PM Poulain, S. Ruiz,  D. Tarry,  A.  Griffa,  (2023), Inertial Oscillations and Frontal Processes in an Alboran Sea Jet: Effects on Divergence and Vertical Transport, J. Geophys. Res., 128 (3), DOI 10.1029/2022JC019004

Foucart, C., A. Charous, and P.F.J. Lermusiaux, 2023. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Mesh Refinement. Journal of Computational Physics, sub-judice. https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12351

2022

Capó, E. and McWilliams, J.C., 2022. Coherent Lagrangian Pathways Near an East Alboran Front. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127(3), p.e2021JC018022.

Cutolo, E., Pascual, A., Ruiz, S., Shaun Johnston, T. M., Freilich, M., Mahadevan, A., et al. (2022). Diagnosing frontal dynamics from observations using a variational approach. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127, e2021JC018336. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC018336

Garcia-Jove, M., B. Mourre, N. D. Zarokanellos, P. F. J. Lermusiaux, D. L. Rudnick, and J. Tintoré, 2022: Frontal dynamics in the Alboran Sea - Part II: Processes for vertical velocities development. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans; doi: 10.1029/2021JC017428

Huntley H., M. Berta, G. Esposito, A. Griffa, B. Mourre and L. Centurioni (2022). Conditions for Reliable Divergence Estimates from Drifter Triplets. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 39(10), 1499-1523,  https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-21-0161.1

Rudnick, D. L., N. D. Zarokanellos, and J. Tintoré, 2022: A four-dimensional survey of the Almeria-Oran front by underwater gliders: Tracers and circulation. Journal of Physical Oceanography; doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-21-0181.1

Rypina, I., T. Getscher, L. J. Pratt and T. Ozgokmen (2022). Applying dynamics systems techniques to real ocean drifters.. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 25, 345-36. https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-29-345-2022.

Tarry, Daniel R, Simon Ruiz, T. M. Shaun Johnston, Pierre-Marie Poulain, Tamay M. M. Ozgokmen, Luca R. Centurioni, Maristella Berta, Giovanni Esposito, J. Thomas Farrar, Amala Mahadevan, Ananda Pascual, Drifter observations reveal intense vertical velocity in a surface ocean front, Geophysical Research Letters, 2022, doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098969

Verma, V., H. T. Pham and S. Sarkar, “Interaction between upper-ocean submesoscale currents and convective turbulence,“ J. Phys. Oceanogr., 52 (3), 437-458 (2022).

Zarokanellos, N. D., D. L. Rudnick, M. Garcia-Jove, B. Mourre, S. Ruiz, A. Pascual, and J. Tintoré, 2022: Frontal dynamics in the Alboran Sea: Coherent 3D pathways at the Almeria-Oran front using underwater glider observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans; doi: 10.1029/2021JC017405

2021

Capó, E., McWilliams, J.C., Mason, E. and Orfila, A., 2021. Intermittent frontogenesis in the Alboran Sea. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(5), pp.1417-1439.

​​Esposito G.,  M. Berta, L. Centurioni, J. Lodise, T. Ozgokmen, PM. Poulain, A. Griffa, (2021) Submesoscale vorticity and divergence in the Alboran Sea: scale and depth dependence.  Frontiers in Marine Science (8). DOI 10.3389/fmars.2021.678304

Freilich, M. and Mahadevan, A., 2021. Coherent pathways for subduction from the surface mixed layer at ocean fronts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126(5), p.e2020JC017042.

Rypina, I. I., T. Getscher, L. J. Pratt and B. Mourre (2021). Observing and quantifying ocean flow properties using drifters with drogues at different depths. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 51, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0291.1.

Tarry, Daniel R., S. Essink, A. Pascual, S. Ruiz, P-M Poulain, T. Ozgokmen, L.R. Centurioni, J.T. Farrar, A. Shcherbina, A. Mahadevan and E.A. D’Asaro, Frontal convergence and vertical velocity measured from drifters in the Alborán Sea, 2021, J. Geophys. Res. e2020JC016614

V. Verma and S. Sarkar, “Lagrangian three-dimensional transport and dispersion by submesoscale currents at an upper-ocean front,” Ocean Modelling, 165 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2021.101844 (2021).

Suaria, G.; Berta, M.; Griffa, A.; Molcard, A.; Özgökmen, T.M.; Zambianchi, E.; Aliani, S. Dynamics of Transport, Accumulation, and Export of Plastics at Oceanic Fronts. In The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry; Springer: Cham, Switzerland, 2021; pp. 1–51.

2020

Mahadevan, A., A. Pascual, D.L. Rudnick, S. Ruiz, J. Tintoré, E. D’Asaro,  Coherent pathways for vertical transport from the surface ocean to interior, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2020) doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0305.1.

Dever, Mathieu, Mara Freilich, J. Thomas Farrar, Benjamin Hodges, Tom Lanagan and Amala Mahadevan,  EcoCTD for profiling oceanic physical-biological properties from an underway ship, 2020,  J. Oceanic & Atmos. Technology, doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-19-0145.1

2019

Freilich, Mara and Amala Mahadevan, 2019, Decomposition of vertical velocity for nutrient transport in the ocean, J. Phys. Oceanogr. 49(6), 1561-1575.

Kulkarni, C.S. and P.F.J. Lermusiaux, 2019. Advection without Compounding Errors through Flow Map Composition. Journal of Computational Physics, 398, 108859. doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2019.108859

Ruiz, Simón, Mariona Claret, Ananda Pascual, Antonio Olita, Charles Troupin, Arthur Capet, Antonio Tovar-Sánchez, John T. Allen, Pierre-Marie Poulain, Joaquín Tintoré, Amala Mahadevan, 2019, Effects of oceanic meso- and submeso-scale frontal processes on the vertical transport of phytoplankton, J. Geophys. Res. doi: 10.1029/2019JC015034

V. Verma, H. T. Pham and S. Sarkar, “The submesoscale, the finescale and their interaction at a mixed layer front,” Ocean Modelling, 140, 101400 (2019).

Unrefereed

Ali, W.H., Y. Gao, C. Foucart, M. Doshi, C. Mirabito, P.J. Haley, and P.F.J. Lermusiaux, 2022. High-Performance Visualization for Ocean Modeling. In: OCEANS '22 IEEE/MTS Hampton Roads, 17–20 October 2022, pp. 1–10. doi:10.1109/OCEANS47191.2022.9977075

Foucart, C., C. Mirabito, P.J. Haley, Jr., and P.F.J. Lermusiaux, 2021. High-order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Nonhydrostatic Ocean Processes with a Free Surface. In: OCEANS '21 IEEE/MTS San Diego, 20-23 September 2021, pp. 1-9. doi:10.23919/OCEANS44145.2021.9705767

Lermusiaux, P.F.J., M. Doshi, C.S. Kulkarni, A. Gupta, P.J. Haley, Jr., C. Mirabito, F. Trotta, S.J. Levang, G.R. Flierl, J. Marshall, T. Peacock, and C. Noble, 2019. Plastic Pollution in the Coastal Oceans: Characterization and Modeling. In: OCEANS '19 MTS/IEEE Seattle, 27-31 October 2019, doi: 10.23919/OCEANS40490.2019.8962786

Doshi, M.M., C.S. Kulkarni, W.H. Ali, A. Gupta, P.F.J. Lermusiaux, P. Zhan, I. Hoteit, and O.M. Knio, 2019. Flowmaps and Coherent Sets for Characterizing Residence Times and Connectivity in Lagoons and Coral Reefs: The Case of the Red Sea. In: OCEANS '19 MTS/IEEE Seattle, 27-31 October 2019, doi:10.23919/OCEANS40490.2019.8962643

Ali, W.H., M.H. Mirhi, A. Gupta, C.S. Kulkarni, C. Foucart, M.M. Doshi, D.N. Subramani, C. Mirabito, P.J. Haley, Jr., and P.F.J. Lermusiaux, 2019. SeaVizKit: Interactive Maps for Ocean Visualization. In: OCEANS '19 MTS/IEEE Seattle, 27-31 October 2019, doi:10.23919/OCEANS40490.2019.8962794

THESES

Tarry, Daniel, 2023, Submesoscale fronts and vertical velocities at the sea surface from a Lagrangian perspective in the Western Mediterranean, Ph.D., IMEDEA, CSIC, Spain.

Gkirgkis, K.A., 2021. Stochastic Ocean Forecasting with the Dynamically Orthogonal Primitive Equations. SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, June 2021.

Kulkarni, C.S., 2021. Prediction, Analysis, and Learning of Advective Transport in Dynamic Fluid Flows. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Center for Computational Science and Engineering, February 2021.

Doshi, M., 2021. Energy-Time Optimal Path Planning in Strong Dynamic Flows. SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Computational Science and Engineering, February 2021.

Freilich, Mara, 2021, Vertical fluxes in the upper ocean, PhD, MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography

Foucart, C., 2019. Efficient Matrix-Free Implementation and Automated Verification of Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods. SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, June 2019.