Publications
2017-now
2016
Ferrari, R., Mashayek, A., McDougall, T., Nikurashin, M., Campin, J.-M., Turning ocean mixing upside down, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 46, 2239-2261 (2016) [pdf]
2015
Watson, A., J., Vallis, G., K., Nikurashin, M., Southern Ocean buoyancy forcing of ocean ventilation and glacial atmospheric CO2, Nature Geoscience, 8, 861-864 (2015) [pdf]
Mashayek, A., R. Ferrari, M. Nikurashin, W. R. Peltier. Influence of enhanced abyssal diapycnal mixing on stratification and the ocean overturning circulation, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 45, 2580-2597 (2015) [pdf]
Melet, A., Hallberg, R., Adcroft, A., Nikurashin, M., Legg, S. Energy flux into internal lee waves: sensitivity to future climate changes using linear theory and a climate model, Journal of Climate, 28, 2365-2384 (2014) [pdf]
2014
Nikurashin, M., Ferrari, R., Grisouard, N., Polzin, K., The impact of finite amplitude bottom topography on internal wave generation in the Southern Ocean, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44, 2938-2950 (2014) [pdf]
Melet, A., Hallberg, R., Legg, S., Nikurashin, M. Sensitivity of the ocean state to lee wave driven mixing, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44, 900-921 (2014) [pdf]
2013
Melet, A., Nikurashin, M., Muller, C., Falahat, S., Nycander, J., Timko, P., Arbic, B., Goff, J., Internal tide generation by abyssal hills using analytical theory, Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 6303-6318, DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009212 (2013) [pdf]
Nikurashin, M. and Ferrari, R. Overturning circulation driven by breaking internal waves in the deep ocean, Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 3133-3137 (2013) [pdf]
Nikurashin, M., Vallis, G., Adcroft, A. Routes to energy dissipation for geostrophic flows in the Southern Ocean, Nature Geoscience, 6, 48-51 (2013) [pdf]
2012
Nikurashin, M. and Vallis, G. A theory of the interhemispheric meridional overturning circulation and associated stratification, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 42, 1652-1667 (2012) [pdf]
2011
Nikurashin, M. and Ferrari, R. Global energy conversion rate from geostrophic flows into internal lee waves in the deep ocean, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L08610 (2011) [pdf]
Nikurashin, M. and Vallis, G. A theory of deep stratification and overturning circulation in the ocean, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 41, 485-502 (2011) [pdf]
Nikurashin, M. and Legg, S. A mechanism for local dissipation of internal tides generated at rough topography, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 41, 378-395 (2011) [pdf]
2010
Ferrari, R. and Nikurashin, M. Suppression of eddy diffusivity across jets in the Southern Ocean, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 40, 1501-1519 (2010) [pdf]
Griffies, S. M. et al. Problems and Prospects in Large-Scale Ocean Circulation Models, Proceedings of the OceanObs'09 Conference: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society, Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Volume 2, Eds. J. Hall, D.E. Harrison and D. Stammer, ESA Publication WPP-306 (2010) (non-refereed)
Nikurashin, M. and Ferrari, R. Radiation and dissipation of internal waves generated by geostrophic motions impinging on small-scale topography: Application to the Southern Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 40, 2025-2042 (2010) [pdf]
Nikurashin, M. and Ferrari, R. Radiation and dissipation of internal waves generated by geostrophic motions impinging on small-scale topography: Theory. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 40, 1055-1074 (2010) [pdf]
2009
Nikurashin, M. Radiation and dissipation of internal waves generated by geostrophic motions impinging on small-scale topography, PhD dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program, 171 pages (2009) [pdf]