Publications


McKie, T., Lucas, A. J., & MacKinnon, J. (2024). Submesoscale Dynamics in the Bay of Bengal: Inversions and Instabilities. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(3), e2023JC020563. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020563
Stokes, I. A., Kelly, S. M., Lucas, A. J., Waterhouse, A. F., Whalen, C. B., Klenz, T., Hormann, V., & Centurioni, L. (2024). A Generalized Slab Model. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 54(3), 949–965. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0167.1
Ballard, M. S., Sagers, J. D., Poulain, P.-M., Mackinnon, J., Lucas, A. J., & Sanchez-Rios, A. (2023). Out-of-plane arrivals recorded by drifting hydrophones during the Northern Ocean Rapid Surface Evolution Experiment. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(5), 2757–2768. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0022052
Zheng, B., Lucas, A. J., Franks, P. J. S., Schlosser, T. L., Anderson, C. R., Send, U., Davis, K., Barton, A. D., & Sosik, H. M. (2023). Dinoflagellate vertical migration fuels an intense red tide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(36), e2304590120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2304590120
DeFilippis, J. P., Cornuelle, B. D., Lucas, A. J., Hodgkiss, W. S., Lenain, L., Kuperman, W. A., & Alford, M. H. (2023). Observations and simulations of caustic formation due to oceanographic fine structure. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(3), 1372–1388. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0020830
Pinkel, R., Nguyen, S., Smith, J. A., Lucas, A. J., Reineman, B. D., & Waterhouse, A. F. (2023). Vertical Momentum Transport by Internal Gravity Waves Above the Equatorial Undercurrent at 140°W. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(14), e2022GL101630. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101630
Masunaga, E., Alford, M. H., Lucas, A. J., & Freudmann, A. R.-M. (2023). Numerical Simulations of Internal Tide Dynamics in a Steep Submarine Canyon. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 53(11), 2669–2686. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0040.1
Schlosser, T. L., Lucas, A. J., Jones, N. L., Nash, J. D., & Ivey, G. N. (2022). Local winds and encroaching currents drive summertime subsurface blooms over a narrow shelf. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12043
Lucas, A. J., & Pinkel, R. (2022). Observations of coherent transverse wakes in shoaling nonlinear internal waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-21-0059.1
Zheng, B. F., Lucas, A. J., Pinkel, R., & Le Boyer, A. (2022). Fine-Scale Velocity Measurement on the Wirewalker Wave-Powered Profiler. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 39(2), 133–147. https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-21-0048.1
Wang, J., Fu, L.-L., Haines, B., Lankhorst, M., Lucas, A. J., Farrar, J. T., Send, U., Meinig, C., Schofield, O., Ray, R., Archer, M., Aragon, D., Bigorre, S., Chao, Y., Kerfoot, J., Pinkel, R., Sandwell, D., & Stalin, S. (2022). On the Development of SWOT In Situ Calibration/Validation for Short-Wavelength Ocean Topography. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 39(5), 595–617. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-21-0039.1
Shroyer, E., Tandon, A., Sengupta, D., Fernando, H. J. S., Lucas, A. J., Farrar, J. T., Chattopadhyay, R., de Szoeke, S., Flatau, M., Rydbeck, A., Wijesekera, H., McPhaden, M., Seo, H., Subramanian, A., Venkatesan, R., Joseph, J., Ramsundaram, S., Gordon, A. L., Bohman, S. M., … Subrahmanyam, B. (2021). Bay of Bengal intraseasonal oscillations and the 2018 monsoon onset. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(10), E1936–E1951. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-20-0113.1
McPherson, R. A., Stevens, C. L., O’Callaghan, J. M., Lucas, A. J., & Nash, J. D. (2021). Mechanisms of lateral spreading in a near-field buoyant river plume entering a fjord. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.680874
MacKinnon, J. A., Simmons, H. L., Hargrove, J., Thomson, J., Peacock, T., Alford, M. H., Barton, B. I., Boury, S., Brenner, S. D., Couto, N., Danielson, S. L., Fine, E. C., Graber, H. C., Guthrie, J., Hopkins, J. E., Jayne, S. R., Jeon, C., Klenz, T., Lee, C. M., … Wood, K. R. (2021). A warm jet in a cold ocean. Nature Communications, 12(1), 2418. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22505-5
Stokes, I. A., & Lucas, A. J. (2021). Wave-slope soaring of the brown pelican. Movement Ecology, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-021-00247-9
Hamann, M. M., Alford, M. H., Lucas, A. J., Waterhouse, A. F., & Voet, G. (2021). Turbulence driven by reflected internal tides in a supercritical submarine canyon. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(2), 591–609. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-20-0123.1
Le Boyer, A., Alford, M. H., Couto, N., Goldin, M., Lastuka, S., Goheen, S., Nguyen, S., Lucas, A. J., & Hennon, T. D. (2021). Modular, Flexible, Low-Cost Microstructure Measurements: The Epsilometer. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 38(3), 657–668. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-20-0116.1
Lekha, J. S., Lucas, A. J., Sukhatme, J., Joseph, J. K., Ravichandran, M., Kumar, N. S., Farrar, J. T., & Sengupta, D. (2020). Quasi-biweekly mode of the Asian summer monsoon revealed in Bay of Bengal surface observations. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 125(12). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jc016271
Garwood, J. C., Lucas, A. J., Naughton, P., Roberts, P. L. D., Jaffe, J. S., DeGelleke, L., & Franks, P. J. S. (2020). Larval cross-shore transport estimated from internal waves with a background flow: The effects of larval vertical position and depth regulation. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11632
Jaeger, G. S., MacKinnon, J. A., Lucas, A. J., Shroyer, E., Nash, J., Tandon, A., Farrar, J. T., & Mahadevan, A. (2020). How spice is stirred in the Bay of Bengal. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50(9), 2669–2688. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-19-0077.1
Garwood, J. C., Musgrave, R. C., & Lucas, A. J. (2020). Life in internal waves. Oceanography, 33(3), 38–49. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2020.301
Fearon, G., Herbette, S., Veitch, J., Cambon, G., Lucas, A. J., Lemarie, F., & Vichi, M. (2020). Enhanced vertical mixing in coastal upwelling systems driven by diurnal-inertial resonance: Numerical experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 125(9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jc016208
McPherson, R. A., Stevens, C. L., O’Callaghan, J. M., Lucas, A. J., & Nash, J. D. (2020). The role of turbulence and internal waves in the structure and evolution of a near-field river plume. Ocean Science, 16(4), 799–815. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-799-2020
Jaeger, G. S., Lucas, A. J., & Mahadevan, A. (2020). Formation of interleaving layers in the Bay of Bengal. Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.104717
Johnston, T. M. S., MacKinnon, J. A., Colin, P. L., Haley, P. J., Lermusiaux, P. F. J., Lucas, A. J., Merrifield, M. A., Merrifield, S. T., Mirabito, C., Nash, J. D., Ou, C. Y., Siegeiman, M., Terrill, E. J., & Waterhouse, A. F. (2019). Energy and momentum lost to wake eddies and lee waves generated by the north equatorial current and tidal flows at Peleliu, Palau. Oceanography, 32(4), 110–125. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.417
Franks, P. J. S., Garwood, J. C., Ouimet, M., Cortes, J., Musgrave, R. C., & Lucas, A. J. (2019). Stokes drift of plankton in linear internal waves: Cross-shore transport of neutrally buoyant and depth-keeping organisms. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11389
Garwood, J. C., Lucas, A. J., Naughton, P., Alford, M. H., Roberts, P. L. D., Jaffe, J. S., DeGelleke, L., & Franks, P. J. S. (2019). A novel cross-shore transport mechanism revealed by subsurface, robotic larval mimics: Internal wave deformation of the background velocity field. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11400
Adams, K., MacKinnon, J., Lucas, A. J., Nash, J., Shroyer, E., & Farrar, J. T. (2019). Multi-platform observations of small-scale lateral mixed layer variability in the northern Bay of Bengal. Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.07.017
Subramanian, A. C., Balmaseda, M. A., Centurioni, L., Chattopadhyay, R., Cornuelle, B. D., DeMott, C., Flatau, M., Fujii, Y., Giglio, D., Gille, S. T., Hamill, T. M., Hendon, H., Hoteit, I., Kumar, A., Lee, J. H., Lucas, A. J., Mahadevan, A., Matsueda, M., Nam, S., … Zhang, C. D. (2019). Ocean observations to improve our understanding, modeling, and forecasting of subseasonal-to-seasonal variability. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00427
Tamara L. Schlosser, Nicole L. Jones, Cynthia E. Bluteau, Matthew H. Alford, Gregory N. Ivey, & Andrew J. Lucas. (2019). Generation and propagation of near-inertial waves in a baroclinic current on the Tasmanian Shelf. Journal of Physical Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-18-0208.1
Schlosser, T. L., Jones, N. L., Musgrave, R. C., Bluteau, C. E., Ivey, G. N., & Lucas, A. J. (2019). Observations of diurnal coastal-trapped waves with a thermocline-intensified velocity field. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49(7), 1973–1994. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-18-0194.1
Ramachandran, S., Tandon, A., Mackinnon, J., Lucas, A. J., Pinkel, R., Waterhouse, A. F., Nash, J., Shroyer, E., Mahadevan, A., Weller, R. A., & Farrar, J. T. (2018). Submesoscale processes at shallow salinity fronts in the Bay of Bengal: Observations during the winter monsoon. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48(3), 479–509. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-16-0283.1
Sinnett, G., Feddersen, F., Lucas, A. J., Pawlak, G., & Terrill, E. (2018). Observations of nonlinear internal wave run-up to the surfzone. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48(3), 531–554. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-17-0210.1
Alberty, M. S., Billheimer, S., Hamann, M. M., Ou, C. Y., Tamsitt, V., Lucas, A. J., & Alford, M. H. (2017). A reflecting, steepening, and breaking internal tide in a submarine canyon. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 122(8), 6872–6882. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016jc012583
Lucas, A. J., Pinkel, R., & Alford, M. (2017). Ocean wave energy for long endurance, broad bandwidth ocean monitoring. Oceanography, 30(2), 126–127. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2017.232
Centurioni, L. R., Hormann, V., Talley, L. D., Arzeno, I., Beal, L., Caruso, M., Conry, P., Echols, R., Fernando, H. J. S., Giddings, S. N., Gordon, A., Graber, H., Harcourt, R. R., Jayne, S. R., Jensen, T. G., Lee, C. M., Lermusiaux, P. F. J., L’Hegaret, P., Lucas, A. J., … Wang, H. (2017). Northern Arabian Sea Circulation Autonomous Research (NASCar): A research initiative based on autonomous sensors. Oceanography, 30(2), 74–87. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2017.224
Omand, M. M., Cetinic, I., & Lucas, A. J. (2017). Using Bio-Optics to Reveal Phytoplankton Physiology from a Wirewalker Autonomous Platform. Oceanography, 30(2), 128–131. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2017.233
Lucas, A. J., & Kudela, R. M. (2017). The fine-scale vertical variability of a wastewater plume in shallow, stratified coastal waters. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 186, 183–197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2015.08.010
Kudela, R. M., Lucas, A. J., Hayashi, K., Howard, M., & McLaughlin, K. (2017). Death from below: Investigation of inhibitory factors in bloom development during a wastewater effluent diversion. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 186, 209–222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2013.07.021
Hemantha W. Wijesekera, Emily Shroyer, Amit Tandon, M. Ravichandran, Debasis Sengupta, S. U. P. Jinadasa, Harindra J. S. Fernando, Neeraj Agrawal, K. Arulananthan, G. S. Bhat, Mark Baumgartner, Jared Buckley, Luca Centurioni, Patrick Conry, J. Thomas Farrar, Arnold L. Gordon, Verena Hormann, Ewa Jarosz, Tommy G. Jensen, … Caitlin B. Whalen. (2016). ASIRI: An Ocean–Atmosphere Initiative for Bay of Bengal. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97(10), 1859–1884. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-14-00197.1
Jinadasa, S. U. P., Lozovatsky, I., Planella-Morato, J., Nash, J. D., MacKinnon, J. A., Lucas, A. J., Wijesekera, H. W., & Fernando, H. J. S. (2016). Ocean turbulence and mixing around Sri Lanka and in adjacent waters of the northern Bay of Bengal. Oceanography, 29(2), 170–179. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.49
Lucas, A. J., Nash, J. D., Pinkel, R., MacKinnon, J. A., Tandon, A., Mahadevan, A., Omand, M. M., Freilich, M., Sengupta, D., Ravichandran, M., & Le Boyer, A. (2016). Adrift upon a salinity-stratified sea: A view of upper-ocean processes in the Bay of Bengal during the southwest monsoon. Oceanography, 29(2), 134–145. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.46
MacKinnon, J. A., Nash, J. D., Alford, M. H., Lucas, A. J., Mickett, J. B., Shroyer, E. L., Waterhouse, A. F., Tandon, A., Sengupta, D., Mahadevan, A., Ravichandran, M., Pinkel, R., Rudnick, D. L., Whalen, C. B., Alberty, M. S., Lekha, J. S., Fine, E. C., Chaudhuri, D., & Wagner, G. L. (2016). A tale of two spicy seas. Oceanography, 29(2), 50–61. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.38
Lotliker, A. A., Omand, M. M., Lucas, A. J., Laney, S. R., Mahadevan, A., & Ravichandran, M. (2016). Penetrative radiative flux in the Bay of Bengal. Oceanography, 29(2), 214–221. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.53
Pitcher, G. C., Probyn, T. A., du Randt, A., Lucas, A. J., Bernard, S., Evers-King, H., Lamont, T., & Hutchings, L. (2014). Dynamics of oxygen depletion in the nearshore of a coastal embayment of the southern Benguela upwelling system. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 119(4), 2183–2200. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013jc009443
Berdalet, E., McManus, M. A., Ross, O. N., Burchard, H., Chavez, F. P., Jaffe, J. S., Jenkinson, I. R., Kudela, R., Lips, I., Lips, U., Lucas, A., Rivas, D., Ruiz-de la Torre, M. C., Ryan, J., Sullivan, J. M., & Yamazaki, H. (2014). Understanding harmful algae in stratified systems: Review of progress and future directions. Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 101, 4–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.09.042
Lucas, A. J., Pitcher, G. C., Probyn, T. A., & Kudela, R. M. (2014). The influence of diurnal winds on phytoplankton dynamics in a coastal upwelling system off southwestern Africa. Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 101, 50–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.01.016
Dupont, C. L., Larsson, J., Yooseph, S., Ininbergs, K., Goll, J., Asplund-Samuelsson, J., McCrow, J. P., Celepli, N., Allen, L. Z., Ekman, M., Lucas, A. J., Hagstrom, A., Thiagarajan, M., Brindefalk, B., Richter, A. R., Andersson, A. F., Tenney, A., Lundin, D., Tovchigrechko, A., … Bergman, B. (2014). Functional tradeoffs underpin salinity-driven divergence in microbial community composition. PLOS ONE, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089549
Omand, M. M., Leichter, J. J., Franks, P. J. S., Guza, R. T., Lucas, A. J., & Feddersen, F. (2011). Physical and biological processes underlying the sudden surface appearance of a red tide in the nearshore. Limnology and Oceanography, 56(3), 787–801. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2011.56.3.0787
Lucas, A. J., Franks, P. J. S., & Dupont, C. L. (2011). Horizontal internal-tide fluxes support elevated phytoplankton productivity over the inner continental shelf. Limnology & Oceanography: Fluids & Environments, 1, 56–74. https://doi.org/10.1215/21573698-1258185