Publications

Publications and preprints (* represents a project from a student/postdoc mentee):

2023: 

26. Transition to turbulence in wind-drift layers with Greg Wagner, Luc Lenain and Fabrice Veron. Published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and available here.

25*. Observations of Surface Gravity Wave Spectra from Moving Platforms with Luke Colosi, Luc Lenain, Nick Statom and Laurent Grare. Published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology and available here.

24. Evaluation of ocean currents observed from autonomous surface vehicles with Ben Hodges et al. Published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology and available here.

23. The influence of spectral bandwidth and shape on deep-water wave breaking onset with Mark McAllister,  Sam Draycott, Ton van den Bremer. Published in JFM and available here. 

22. Airborne Remote Sensing of Upper‐Ocean and Surface Properties, Currents and Their Gradients From Meso to Submesoscales with Luc Lenain, Ben Smeltzer et al. published in Geophysical Research Letters may be found here. 

21. Two-dimensional flow on the sphere. Published in a special issue honoring Jack Herring. With Rick Salmon and may be found here. 

20. The role of Lagrangian drift in the geometry, kinematics and dynamics of surface waves with Luc Lenain, Olav Romcke, Ben Smeltzer and Simen Ellingsen. Published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and may be found here.

2022:

19*. Airborne Observations of Shoaling and Breaking Internal Waves with Teodor Vrecica and Luc Lenain. Published in Geophysical Research Letters and may be found here. 

18*. Observations of strongly modulated surface wave and wave breaking statistics at a submesoscale front with Teodor Vrecica and Luc Lenain. Journal of Physical Oceanography and may be found here. 

2021: 

17*. The role of bandwidth in setting the breaking slope threshold of deep-water focusing wave packets with Ethan Murray, David Llewellyn Smith and Luc Lenain. Published in Physics of Fluids and may be found here.

16. How does the Wind Generate Waves? with Luc Deike and Alex Ayet. Published in Physics Today and available here. 

15. The Geometry, Kinematics, and Dynamics of the Two-Way Coupling between Wind, Waves, and Currents with Bia Villas Boas. Published in US CLIVAR VARIATIONS, 19 and available here. 

14*. Laboratory Studies of the Role of Bandwidth in Surface Transport and Energy Dissipation of Deep-Water Breaking Waves with Jimmy Sinnis, Laurent Grare and Luc Lenain. Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics and may be found here.

13. Particle description of the interaction between wave packets and point vortices with Rick Salmon. Published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and may be found here. doi:10.1017/jfm.2021.661

12. Modulation of Surface Gravity Waves by Internal Waves with Luc Lenain. Published in the Journal of Physical Oceanography and may be found here.

11. Instrumented Wave Gliders for Air-Sea Interaction and Upper Ocean Research, with Laurent Grare, Nick Statom and Luc Lenain. Published in Frontiers in Marine Science and may be found here.

2020: 

10. The Contribution of High Frequency Wind-Generated Surface Waves to the Stokes Drift, with Luc Lenain. Published in the Journal of Physical Oceanography and may be found here. 

9. Theory of Deep-Water Surface Gravity Waves Derived from a Lagrangian. Published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and may be found here.

2019: 

8. Laboratory Studies of Lagrangian Transport by Breaking Surface Waves with Luc Lenain and W.K. Melville, Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 

7. Focusing Deep-Water Surface Gravity Wave Packets: Wave Breaking Criterion in a Simplified Model with W.K. Melville. Published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and may be found here. 

6. Lagrangian Transport by Nonbreaking and Breaking Deep-Water Waves at the Ocean Surface, with W.K. Melville and L. Deike. Published in the Journal of Physical Oceanography and may be found here. 

2017: 

5. Lagrangian transport by breaking surface waves, with L. Deike and W.K. Melville. Published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and may be found here.    

4. Surfing surface gravity waves. Published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and may be found here.    

2016: 

3. Wave modulation: the geometry, kinematics, and dynamics of surface-wave packets, with W.K. Melville. Published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and may be found here.    

2. Current generation by breaking deep-water waves, with L. Deike and W.K. Melville.  Published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and may be found here.

2015: 

Properties of nonlinear and breaking deep-water waves. PhD Thesis, may be found here.

2013: 

1. Vortex generation by deep-water breaking waves. Published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and can be found here.