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Publications 2020-Present

Rypina, I., M. Dotzel, and L. J. Pratt, 2021.  Exploring interannual variability in potential spawning habitat for Atlantic Bluefin Tuna in the Slop Sea. Prog. in Oceanography, 192, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2021.102514.

Pratt, l. J., E. J. Albright, I. Rypina, and H. Jiang 2020. Eulerian and Lagrangian Comparison of Wind Jets in the Tokar Gap Region. Fluids, 5, 193: doi:10.3390/fluids5040193.

Lin, P. R. S. Pickart, K. Jochumsen, G. W. K. Moore, H. Valdimarsson, T. Fristedt and L. J. Pratt. 2-2-.  Kinematic Structure and Dynamics of the Denmark Strait Overflow from Ship-based Observations. J.  Phys. Oceangr., 3234-3251. DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-20-0095.1.

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.

Wang, J., F. Wang, Y. Lu, Qiang MA, L. J. Pratt and Z. Zhang (2021) Pathways, Volume Transport, and Seasonal Variability of the Deep Limb of the Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation at the Yap-Mariana Junction. Frontiers in Marine Science, https://doi.org./10.3389/fmars.2021.672199.

*Tan, S., L. J. Pratt, G. Voet, J. M. Cusack, K. R. Helfrich, M. H. Alford, J. B. Girton, G. S. Carter (2022)  Hydraulic control in a multi-passage system connecting two basins. J. Fluid Mech., 940, A8, doi:10.1017/jfm.2022.212.

Yuan, D., 19 other authors, and L. J. Pratt (2022) A Maluku Sea intermediate western boundary current connecting Pacific Ocean circulation to the Indonesian Throughflow. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29617-6.

Kaiser, B.,  L. J. Pratt and J. Callies (2022) Direct numerical simulations of low Reynolds number oscillating boundary layers on adiabatic slopes. J. Fluid Mech., 950, https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.794.

Rypina, I., T. Getscher, L. J. Pratt and T. Ozgokmen (2022)  Applying dynamical systems techniques to real ocean drifters. Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 29, 345-361, https://doi.org/10.5194/png-29-345-2022.

Saberi, A., L. J. Pratt, T. Haine and K. R. Helfrich (2022).  Using hydraulic theory to monitor dense overflows in a parabolic channel. J. Phys. Oceanogr., https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22_0103.1.

Kaiser, B. and L. J. Pratt. Linear gravitational instability of Boussinesq, oscillating boundary layers on adiabatic slopes J. Fluid Mich., accepted.

Wang, J., F. Wang, Y. Lu, Q. Ma,  L. J. Pratt, H. Zhang, and Zhixiang Zhang.  Lower Deep Limb of the Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation from the Yap-Mariana Junction to the Northern Philippine Basin.  Submitted to JGR-Oceans.

Critical Conditions and composite Froude Numbers for Layered flow with Transverse Variations in Velocity. J. Fluid Mech., 605, 281-291.

Kaiser, B. E., & Pratt, L. J. (2022). Floquet stability analyses of stratified oscillating boundary layers on adiabatic slopes. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 953, A29. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.975

Wang, J., F. Wang, Y. Lu, H. Zhang, Q. Ma,  H. Zhang, L. Pratt and Zhixiang Zhang.  Abyssal Circulation from the Yap-Mariana Junction to the Northern Philippine Basin.  Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 50 (6), DOI: 10.1029/2022GL100601.

Rypina, I., L. J. Pratt, M. Dotzel (2024)  Aggregation of microplastics in 3D vortex flow. Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 31, 25-44, https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-31-25-2024.

Kontoyiannis, H., L. J. Pratt, V. Zervakis, M. H. Alford, S. Sofianos and A. Theocharis (2024). Current and density observations on a flow through a contraction and over a bottom elevation at the southern edge of the Cycladic Plateau in the Agean Sea – East Mediterranean. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, Vol. 106, htpps://doi.org/10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2024.101460.

Dotzel, M., I. R. Rypina, P. Poulin and L. J. Pratt. Multi-level, drifter-based analysis of a coherent submesoscale eddy in the Balearic Sea. Submitted to J. Phys. Oceanogr.

Dias, S., S. Surasinghe, K.G.D. Sulalitha Priyankara, M. Budišić, L. Pratt, J.C. Sanchez-Garrido, E. M. Bollt.  Analysis of tidal flows through the Strait of Gibraltar using Dynamic Mode Decomposition. Submitted to J. Phys. Oceanogr.