Publications

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Submitted

McKinley, M.; D. Sun, B. O’Donnell; A. Bracco; K. G. Sabra (2024) Influence of lee waves on ocean acoustic simulations near Atlantis II seamount. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA). Submitted Sept 2024

McKinley, M.; G. Liu, R. X. Touret, B. O’Donnell, A. Bracco; K. G Sabra (2024) Impact of vertical resolution in a regional ocean circulation model of the northern Gulf of Mexico for acoustic predictions in the upper ocean. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA). Submitted July 2024

Novi, L., L. de Medeiros Vieira, A. Bracco (2024) ENSO modulation of coral connectivity in the Wider Caribbean Region. GRL, In revision, August 2024

Lopera, L., A. Bracco, S. Herrera (2024) Physical Connectivity Between Mesophotic Areas in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, JGR – Oceans, Submitted, August 2024

Published

2024

Bracco, A., J. Brajard, H. A. Dijkstra, P. Hassanzadeh, C. Lessing, C. Monteleoni (2024) Machine Learning for the Physics of Climate. Nature Review Physics, 2024. doi:10.1038/s42254-024-00776-3, available freely as view only here

McKinley, M., D. Sun, M. Kelly, K. G. Sabra, A. Bracco (2024) Deep mesoscale and submesoscale circulations around the Atlantis II seamount. JGR – Oceans, 129, e2024JC021233, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021233

Lama, S., L. Lopera, A. Bracco (2024) The role of mesoscale-driven connectivity patterns in coral recovery around Moorea and Tahiti, French Polynesia. Sci. Rep., 14, 22349 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-73185-2

De Falco, C., A. Bracco, F. Desbiolles, C. Pasquero (2024) Kilometer-scale ocean processes behind the variability of the Island Mass Effect in the Maldives. Scientific Reports, 14, 17568, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-63836-9

Novi, L., A. Bracco, T. Ito, Y. Takano (2024) Evolution of oxygen and stratification in the North Pacific Ocean in CMIP6 Earth System Models. Biogeosciences, 21(17), 3985–4005, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-3985-2024

Fearon G., A. Bracco, D.A. Reich (2024) Submesoscale variability enhances shoreline oiling in deepwater blowout simulations in the Agulhas Current. Marine Pollution Bulletin 205, 116526, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116526

Zhou, X, L. Lopera, A. Roa-Varón, A. Bracco (2024) Modeling the Larval Dispersal and Connectivity of Red Snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Progress in Oceanography, 103265, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2024.103265

Zhang, Q., T. Ito, A. Bracco (2024) Modulation of Regional Carbon Uptake by AMOC and Alkalinity Changes in the Subpolar North Atlantic under a Warming Climate. Frontiers Marine Sciences. 11, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1304193

Olivier, E., R. Touret; M. McKinley; J. Jin; A. Bracco; K. G. Sabra (2024) Performance Study of Ray-Based Ocean Acoustic Tomography Methods for Estimating Submesocale Variability in the Upper-Ocean. JASA. 155(2):1315-1335. doi: 10.1121/10.0024819

Liu, G., F. Tagklis, T. Ito, A. Bracco (2024) Drivers of coupled climate model biases in representing Labrador Sea convection, Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-07068-z

2023

Liu, G.,  A. Bracco, J. Brajard (2023) Systematic bias correction in ocean mesoscale forecasting using machine learning. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), 15, e2022MS003426. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003426

Touret, R., G. Liu,  A. Bracco, K. Sabra (2023) On the role of vertical resolution for resolving mesoscale eddy dynamics and the prediction of ocean sound speed variability. JASA Express Letters, 3(11), https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0022166

Carrasco, I., V. Rossi, G. Navarro, A. Turiel, A. Bracco, A. Orfila (2023) Highly coherent flow structures promote diatom blooms in oligotrophic waters.  Geoph. Res. Letters, e2023GL103688 http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103688

Ueno, H., A. Bracco, J. A. Barth; M. V. Budyansky; D. Hasegawa et al. (2023) Review: Oceanic mesoscale processes in the North Pacific: physical and biogeochemical impacts. Progress in Oceanography, 212, 102955, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102955

2022

Novi, L., A. Bracco (2022) Machine Learning prediction of connectivity, biodiversity and resilience in the Coral Triangle. Nature Communications Biology, 5, 1359, https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-04330-8.

Sun, D., Ito, A. Bracco, C. A. Deutsch (2022) Control of the oxygen to ocean heat content ratio during deep convection events Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36, e2021GB007063, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB007063

Miller, S., L. Lopera, Bracco (2022) Why are the eastern margins of ocean basins full of fish? Frontiers for Young Minds, Collection: The Ocean, Vol. 10, doi:10.3389/frym.2022.704120

Mura, A., P. Scarica, D. Grassi, A. Adriani, A. Bracco, G. Piccioni et al. (2022) Stability of the Circumpolar Cyclones of Jupiter. J. Geoph. Res. – Planets. 127, e2022JE007241, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JE007241

De Falco, C., F. Desbiolles, A. Bracco, C. Pasquero (2022) Island Mass Effect: physical processes and nutrient fluxes (A Review). Frontiers in Marine Sciences, 9:894860,  https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.894860

Falasca, F., A. Bracco (2022) Exploring the topology of the tropical Pacific manifold. Physical Review X, 12, 021054, https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.12.021054

Sun, D., A. Bracco, G. Liu (2022) The role of freshwater forcing on surface predictability in the Gulf of Mexico J. Geoph. Res. – Oceans, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC018098

Zeng, X., A. Bracco and F. Tagklis (2022) Dynamical impacts of the Mekong River plume in the South China Sea. J. Geoph. Res. – Oceans, e2021JC017572. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017572

Liu, G., A. Bracco, Sun (2022) Offshore freshwater pathways in the northern Gulf of Mexico: impacts of modeling choices. Frontiers Marine Sciences, 9:841900, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.841900

Beaudin, E., A. Bracco (2022) Marine Heat Waves Frontiers for Young Minds, 10:712528. doi: 10.3389/frym.2022.712528

Falasca, F., Cretat, A. Bracco, P. Braconnot, O. Marti (2022) Evolution of the Indo-Pacific dynamical system from mid- to late Holocene, Climate Dyn., https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06153-z

Siegelman, L., P. Klein, A. Ingersoll, S. Ewald, W. Young, A. Bracco, A. Mura, A. Adriani, D. Grassi, C. Plainaki, G. Sindoni (2022) Moist convection drives an upscale energy transfer at Jovian high latitudes Nature Physics, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01458-y

2021

Liu, G., F. Falasca, A. Bracco (2021) Dynamical Characterization of the Loop Current Attractor Geoph. Res. Letters, 48, e2021GL096731, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096731

Liu, G., A. Bracco, A. M Quattrini and S. Herrera (2021) Kilometer-scale larval dispersal processes predict metapopulation connectivity pathways for Paramuricea biscaya in the northern Gulf of Mexico Frontiers in Marine Science, 8:790927. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.790927

Galaska,M.P., G. Liu, D. West, K. Erickson, A. M Quattrini, A. Bracco, S. Herrera (2021) Seascape genomics reveals metapopulation connectivity network of Paramuricea biscaya in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8:790929. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.790929

Justic, D., V. Kourafalou, G. Mariotti, S. He, R. Weisberg, Y. Androulidakis, C. Barker, A. Bracco et al. (2021) A review of transport processes in the Gulf of Mexico along the river-estuary-shelf-ocean continuum: a synthesis of research from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Estuaries and Coasts, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-021-01005-1

Mura, A., A. Adriani, A. Bracco, L. Moriconi, D. Grassi, C. Plainaki et al. (2021) Oscillations and stability of the Jupiter polar cyclones, Geoph. Res. Lett. 48, e2021GL094235, http://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094235

Boufadel, M., A. Bracco, E.P. Chassignet, S.S. Chen, E. D’Asaro, W.K. Dewar, O. Carcia-Pineda, D. Justick, J. Katz, V.H. Kourafalou, I.R. MacDonald, T.M. Ozgokmen, C.B. Paris-Limouzy, S.S. Socolofsky, D. Halpern, J.G. Shepherd (2021) Physical Transport Processes affecting the distribution of oil in the Gulf of Mexico: Observations and Modelling, Oceanography, 34(1):58–75, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2021.117

Ikuyajolu, O.J., F. Falasca, A. Bracco (2021) Information entropy as quantifier of potential predictability in the tropical Indo-Pacific basin. Frontiers in Climate, https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2021.675840

Novi, L., A. Bracco, F. Falasca (2021) Uncovering marine connectivity through sea surface temperature, Scientific Reports, 11:8839 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87711-z

Rogener, KM.-K., K. S. Hunter, N.N. Rabalais, B. J. Roberts, A. Bracco, F. J. Stewart, and S. B. Joye (2021) Pelagic Denitrification and Methane Oxidation in Oxygen-Depleted Waters of the Louisiana Shelf. Biogeochemistry, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-021-00778-8

Liu, G., A. Bracco, A. Sitar (2021) Submesoscale mixing across the mixed layer in the Gulf of Mexico Frontiers in Marine Sciences, 8:615066, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.615066

Özgökmen, T.M., A. Bracco; E. P. Chassignet; H. Chang; S. C. Chen; E. D’Asaro; B. Fox-Kemper; A. C. Haza; G. Jacobs; G. Novelli; A. Poje (2021) Basin-Scale and Near-Surface Circulation in the Gulf of Mexico International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2021 (1): 686903. https://doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2021.1.686903

Kourafalou V.; D. Justic; Y. Androulidakis; A. Bracco (2021) From the deep ocean to the coasts and estuaries through the shelf: linking coastal response to a deep blow-out International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2021 (1): 685087. https://doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2021.1.685087

2020

Falasca, F. J. Crétat, P. Braconnot, A. Bracco (2020) Spatiotemporal complexity and time-dependent networks in sea surface temperature from mid- to late Holocene The European Physical Journal Plus, 135:392 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00403-x

Bracco, A., C.B. Paris, A. J. Esbaugh, K. Frasier, S.B. Joye, Liu, K.L. Polzin, A.C. Vaz (2020) Transport, Fate and Impacts of the Deep Plume of Petroleum Hydrocarbons Formed during the Macondo Blowout Frontiers in Marine Sciences, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.542147

De Falco, C., Bracco, C. Pasquero (2020) Climatic and oceanographic controls on coral bleaching conditions in the Maldivian region. Frontiers in Marine Sciences, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.539869

Tagklis, F., A. Bracco, T. Ito and R.M. Castelao (2020) Submesoscale modulation of deep water formation in the Labrador Sea. Scientific Reports, 10, 17489, doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74345-w.

Sun, D., A. Bracco, R. Barkan, M. Berta, D. Dauhajre, J. Molemaker, J. Choi, Liu, A. Griffa, J.C. McWilliams (2020) Diurnal Cycling of Submesoscale Dynamics: Lagrangian Implications in Drifter Observations and Model Simulations of the Northern Gulf of Mexico. J. Phys. Ocean., 50 (6), 1605-1623, doi:https://doi.org/ 10.1175/JPO-D-19-0241.1

Adriani, A., A. Bracco, D. Grassi, M. Moriconi, A. Mura, G. Orton et al. (2020) Two-years observations of the Jupiter polar regions by Jiram on board of Juno.  J. Geoph. Res. – Planets, 125, e2019JE006098, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006098

Tagklis, F., T. Ito, A. Bracco (2020) Modulation of the North Atlantic Deoxygenation by The Slowdown of the Nutrient Stream, Biogeosciences, 17, 231-244, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-231-2020

2019

Stammer, D., A. Bracco and co-authors (2019) Ocean climate observing requirements in support of Climate Research and Climate Information In Oceanobs19: An Ocean of Opportunity. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 444. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00444

Bracco, A., Liu, M. Galaska, A. Quattrini, S. Herrera (2019) Integrating physical circulation models and genetic approaches to investigate population connectivity in deep-sea corals Marine Systems, 198, 103189, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2019.103189

Falasca, F., Bracco, A. Nenes, I. Fountalis (2019) Dimensionality reduction and network inference for climate data using class-MAPS: application to the CESM Large Ensemble sea surface temperature. JAMES, 11, 1479-1515, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001654

Castelao, R., H. Luo, H. Oliver, A. Rennermalm, M. Tedesco, A. Bracco, P. Yager, T. Mote, P. Medeiros (2019) Controls on the transport of meltwater from the southern Greenland ice sheet in the Labrador Sea. J. Geoph. Res. – Oceans, 124, 3551–3560

Pearson, J., B. Fox-Kemper, R. Barkan, Choi, A. Bracco, J.C. McWilliams (2019) Impacts of convergence on Lagrangian statistics in the Gulf of Mexico J. Phys. Ocean., 49(3):675-690

Bracco, A., Liu, D. Sun (2019) Mesoscale-submesoscale interactions in the Gulf of Mexico: From oil dispersion to climate, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 119, 63-72

2018

Stammer, D., A. Bracco, P. Braconnot, G. Brasseur, S.M. Griffies, E. Hawkins (2018) Science in a world of transient climate change: enabling regional to local predictions in support of reliable climate information. Earth’s Future, 6, 1498-1507

Rogener, M.K., A. Bracco, K.S. Hunter, M.A. Saxton, S.B. Joye, S.B. (2018) Impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout on methane oxidation dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 6: 73. doi:10.1525/elementa.332

Fountalis, I., Dovrolis, A. Bracco, B. Dilkina, S. Keilholz (2018) d-MAPS: From spatio-temporal data to a weighted and lagged network between functional domains Applied Network Science, doi:10.1007/s41109-018-0078-z

Liu, G., Bracco, A., Passow, U. (2018) The influence of mesoscale and submesoscale circulation on sinking particles in the northern Gulf of Mexico Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 6(1):36,  http://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.292

Bracco A., Falasca, F., Nenes, A., Fountalis, I., Dovrolis, C. (2018) Advancing climate science with Knowledge-Discovery through Data mining. NPJ Climate and Atmosph. Science, 4, doi:10.1038/s41612-017-0006-4 (GaTech and COS news item highlighted by DOE web site, Phys.org, Science Newsline, EurekAlert!, R&D Magazine)

Bracco, A., Choi, J., Kurian, J., Chang, P. (2018) Vertical and horizontal resolution dependency in the model representation of tracer dispersion in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Ocean Modell., 122, 13-25

2017

Barkan, R., McWilliams, J.C., Shchepetkin, A.F., Molemaker, J., Renault, L., Bracco, A., Choi, (2017) Submesoscale dynamics in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Part I: Regional and seasonal characterization, and the role of river outflow. J. Phys. Ocean., 47, 2325-2346

Barkan, R., McWilliams, J.C., Molemaker, J., Choi, J., Srinivasan, K., Shchepetkin, A.F., Bracco, A.(2017) Submesoscale dynamics in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Part II: Temperature-Salinity Relations and Cross Shelf Transport processes.  J. Phys. Ocean., 47, 2347-2360

Choi, J., Bracco, A., Barkan, R., Shchepetkin, A.F., McWilliams, J.C., Molemaker, J. (2017) Submesoscale dynamics in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Part III: Lagrangian implications J. Phys. Ocean., 47, 2361-2376

Sun, D., Ito, T., Bracco, A.,(2017) Oceanic uptake of oxygen during deep convection events through diffusive and bubble mediated gas exchange. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 31, https://doi.org/10/1002/2017GB005716

Tagklis, F., Bracco, A., Ito, T. (2017) Physically driven patchy O2 changes in the North Atlantic Ocean simulated by the CMIP5 Earth System Models. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, doi:10.1002/2016GB005617

Zhong, Y., Bracco A., Tian J., Dong J., Zhao W., Zhang Z. (2017) Observed and simulated vertical pump of an anticyclonic eddy in the South China Sea. Scientific Reports 7, Article #: 44011, doi:10.1038/srep44011

Stammer, D., Bracco A., Detemmerman (2017) Climate and ocean science builds for the future. EOS, 98, doi:10.1029/2017EO073225

Barimalala, R., Bracco A., Zhuo, L., (2017) Indian Ocean sea surface partial pressure CO2 and air-sea CO2 flux interannual variability in the CMIP5-ESM models; CLIVAR EXCHANGES, March 2017.

2016

Joye, S.B., Bracco, A., Ozgokmen, T., Chanton, J.P., Grosell M., MacDonald I., Cordes E.E., Montoya, J.P., Passow U. (2016) The Gulf of Mexico ecosystem, six years after the Macondo oil well blowout Deep Sea Res. II, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.04.018

Cardona Y., Ruiz-Ramos, D.V., Baums I.B., Bracco A. (2016) Potential connectivity of coldwater black coral communities in the northern Gulf of Mexico PLOS One, 11(5): e0156257. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156257

Cardona, Y., Bracco A., Villareal, T. A., Subramaniam, A., Weber, S., Montoya, J. P. (2016) Highly variable nutrient concentrations in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Deep-Sea Research II, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.04.010.

Cardona, Y., Bracco A., (2016) Predictability and mesoscale circulation throughout the water column in the Gulf of Mexico, Deep Sea Res. IITopical studies in Oceanography, Available on-line, Jan 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.01.008

Luo, H., Castelao, R., Asa K. Rennermalm A. K., Marco Tedesco, M., Bracco A., Yager, P.L., Mote, T. L. (2016) Fate of Freshwater from Greenland Ice Sheet Melting in the Ocean, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/NGEO2708

Dovrolis, C., Bracco A., Dilkina B., Fountalis I., (2016) From Climate Data to a Weighted Network Between Functional Domains (2016); in A. Banerjee, W. Ding, J. Dy, V. Lyubchich, A. Rhines (Eds.), I. Ebert-Uphoff, C. Monteleoni, D. Nychka (Series Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Climate Informatics: CI 2016. NCAR Technical Note NCAR/TN-529+PROC, pp.85-88, doi: 10.5065/D6K072N6.

Bracco A., Choi J., Joshi K., Luo H., McWilliams J. (2016) Submesoscale currents in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Deep phenomena and dispersion over the continental slope. Ocean Modelling, 01, 43-58, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2016.03.002

Luo, H., Bracco A., Cardona Y., McWilliams, J.C., (2016) The submesoscale circulation in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Surface processes and the impact of the freshwater river input. Ocean Modelling, 101, 68-82, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2016.03.003

2015

Kleindienst, S., Grim, S., Sogin,, Bracco, A., Crespo-Medina, M., JoyeS.B.(2015) Diverse, rare microbial taxa responded to the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea hydrocarbon plume The ISME Journal, doi:10.1038/ismej.2015.121

Ito, T., Bracco, A., Deutsch, C., Frenzel, H., Long, M., Takano (2015) Sustained growth of the Southern Ocean carbon storage in a warming climate, Geoph. Res. Letters, 42, 4516-4522

Bracco A., Long M. Levine N., Thomas Q., Deutsch C., McKinley G., (2015) The NCAR Advanced Study Program Summer Colloquium on Carbon-climate connections in the Earth system: Capacity Building in cross-disciplinary research, Amer. Meteor. Soc., http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00246.1.

Bracco A., Archibald, R.K., Dovrolis, C., Fountalis, I., Luo H., Neelin, J.D. (2015) The parameter optimization problem in state-of-the-art climate models and network analysis for systematic data mining in model intercomparison projects in “The Fluid Dynamics of Climate”, CISM Courses and Lectures Vol. 564, Edited by A. Provenzale, E. Palazzi and K. Fraedrich pp 121-141, Springer, doi 10.1007/978-3-7091-1893-1

Fountalis, I., Bracco, A., Dovrolis, C. (2015) ENSO in CMIP5 simulations: network connectivity from the recent past to the twenty-third century, Climate Dynamics, 45, 511-538, DOI 10.1007/s00382-014-2412-1

Ito, T, Bracco A., Deutsch, C. (2015) The future of the Southern Ocean carbon storage in CMIP5 models, U.S. CLIVAR Variations, Spring 2015, vol. 13(2), 24-28

Di Lorenzo, E., Combes V., Keister J. E., Strub T. P., Thomas A. C., Franks P. J. S., Ohman M. D., Furtado J., Bracco A., Bograd S. J., Peterson W. T., Schwing F. B., Chiba S., Taguchi B., Hormazabal S., and Parada C. (2015) Synthesis of Pacific Ocean climate and ecosystem dynamics. Oceanography 26(4), 68–81, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2013.76

2014

Luo, H., Bracco A., Zhang, F. (2014), The seasonality of convective events in the Labrador Sea, J. Climate, 27, 6456–6471. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00009.148

Crespo-Medina M., Meile C., Hunter K., Diercks A., Asper V., Chanton J., Orphan V., Shiller A., Joung D., Battles J., Amon R., Bracco A., Montoya J., Villareal T., Vossmeyer A., Wood M., Joye S. (2014) The rise and fall of methanotrophy following a deepwater oil-well blowout. Nature Geoscience, 7, 423–427 (see also News and Views: Ocean biogeochemistry: Bacterial bloom and crash in Nature Geoscience 7, 394–395, 2014)

Foudalis I., Bracco A. Dovrolis C. (2014) Spatio-temporal network analysis for studying climate patterns Climate Dyn., 42, 879-899, doi:10.1007/s00382-013-1729-5

2013

Bracco A., Neelin J. D., Luo, H., McWilliams, J., Meyerson, J. E. (2013) High dimensional decision dilemmas in climate models, Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) 6, 2731-2767, doi:10.5194/gmdd-6-2731-2013.

Zhong, Y., Bracco A., (2013), Submesoscale impacts on horizontal and vertical transport in the Gulf of Mexico, J. Geoph. Res. – Oceans, 118, 5651–5668, doi:10.1002/jgrc.20402.

Barimalala R., Bracco A.,  Kucharski, F., McCreary J. P., Crise  (2013) Arabian ecosystem response to the south tropical Atlantic teleconnection J. Marine Systems, 117-118, 14-30.

2012

Luo H., Bracco A., Yashayaev I., Di Lorenzo E. (2012) The interannual variability of potential temperature in the central Labrador Sea.  J. Geoph. Research – Oceans, 117, C10, DOI: 10.1029/2012JC007988

Zhong Y., Bracco A., Villareal T. (2012) Pattern formation at the ocean surface: Sargassum distribution and the role of the eddy field Limnology&Oceanography Fluid and Environments, 2, 12-27, doi:10.1215/21573689-1573372

Cardona Y, Bracco A. (2012) Enhanced vertical mixing within mesoscale eddies due to high frequency winds in the South China Sea. Ocean Modeling, doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.11.004

Barimalala R, Bracco A, Kucharski F. (2012) The representation of the South Tropical Atlantic teleconnection to the Indian Ocean in the AR4 coupled models. Climate Dynamics, 38, Numbers 5-6, 1147-1166, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1082-5

2011

Luo H., Bracco A., Di Lorenzo E., (2011) The interannual variability of the surface eddy kinetic energy in the Labrador Sea. Progress in Oceanography, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2011.01.006.

2010

Neelin, J. D. Bracco A., Luo H., McWilliams J.C., Meyerson J. E. (2010) Consideration for parameter optimization and sensitivity in climate models, PNAS, 107, 21349-21354.

Di Lorenzo E., Cobb K. M. Furtado J. C., Schneider N., Anderson B. T., Bracco A., Alexander M. A., Vimont D. J. (2010) Central Pacific El Nino and decadal climatic change in the North Pacific Ocean, Nature Geoscience, 3 (11), 762-765, doi: 10.1038/NGEO984

Kuckarski F., Bracco A., Barimalala R., Yoo J.-H. (2010) Contribution of the east-west thermal heating contrast to the South Asian Monsoon and consequences for its variability. Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-010-0858-3

Bracco A., McWilliams, J.C (2010) Reynolds number dependency in equilibrium two-dimensional turbulence. Fluid Mechanics, 646, 517-526.

Koszalka, I., Ceballos, L., Bracco A. (2010) Vertical mixing and coherent anticyclones in the ocean: The role of stratification. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 17, 37-47.

2009 and earlier

Koszalka I., Bracco A., McWilliams, J.C., Provenzale A. (2009) Dynamics of wind-forced coherent anticyclones in the open ocean. J. Geophys. Research – Oceans, doi:10.1029/2009JC005388, 114, C08011, doi:10.1029/2009JC005388.

Di Lorenzo, E., Fiechter J., Schneider N., Bracco A., Miller A. J., Franks P. J. S., Bograd S. J., Moore A. M., Thomas A., Crawford , Pena A., Herman A., (2009) Nutrient and Salinity Decadal Variations in the central and eastern North Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2009GL038261.

Kucharski F., Bracco A., Yoo J.H., Tompkins A., Feudale L., Ruti P., dell’Aquila (2009) A Gill-Mastuno-type mechanism explains the Tropical Atlantic influence on African and Indian Monsoon rainfall. Quart. J. Royal Meteor. Soc., 135, 569-579, doi:10.1002/qj.406.

Wang C., Kucharski F., Barimalala R., Bracco A. (2009) Teleconnections of the Tropical Atlantic to the Tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans:A Review of Recent Findings. Special Issue of Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 18, 445-454, doi 10.1127/0941.

Bracco A, Clayton S., Pasquero C. (2009) Horizontal advection, diffusion and plankton spectra at the sea surface. Journal of Geophysical Research – Ocean, 114, C02001, doi:10.1029/2007JC004671

Furtado J. C., Di Lorenzo E., Cobb K., Bracco A. (2009) Paleoclimate reconstructions of tropical seas surface temperatures from precipitation proxies: Methods, uncertainties and nonstationarity. J. Climate 22(5),1104-1123, doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2415.1

Bracco, A., Pedlosky J., Pickart R. S. (2008) Eddy formation near the West coast of Greenland  J. Physical Oceanography,  38(9), 1992-2002

Kucharski F., Bracco A.,  Yoo J.H.,  Molteni F. (2008)  The Atlantic forced component of the Indian Monsoon interannual variability Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 35 L04706, DOI:10129/2007GL033037. Also American Geophysical Union Editor Highlights, March 19 2008, EOS Highlights (89(16), April 15 2008, pg. 154 and Global Change collection Highlights)

Koszalka I., Bracco A., Pasquero C., Provenzale A. (2007) Plankton cycles disguised by turbulent advection. Theoretical Population Biology. doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2007.03.007

Kucharski F., Bracco A., Yoo J. H. and Molteni F. (2007) Low frequency variability of the Indian Monsoon – ENSO relation and the Tropical Atlantic. The ‘weakening’ of the ‘80s and ‘90s. J. Climate, 20(16), 4255-4266

Provenzale A., Babiano A., Bracco A., Pasquero C. and Weiss J.B. (2008) Coherent vortices and tracer transport, in “Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows”, Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 744, edited by J.B. Weiss and A. Provenzale, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-540-75214-1.

Pasquero C., Bracco A., Provenzale A., Weiss J. (2007) Particle motion in a sea of eddies, in Lagrangian Analysis and Prediction of Coastal and Ocean Dynamics, pg. 89-118, edited by A. Griffa, A. D. Kirwan, A. J. Mariano, T. Ozgokmen, and T. Rossby, Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521870184.

Bracco A., Kucharski F., Molteni F., Hazeleger W., Severijns C., (2007) A recipe for simulating the interannual variability of the Asian summer monsoon and its relation with ENSO. Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s000382-006-0190-0.

Kucharski F., Molteni F., Bracco A. (2006) Decadal interactions between the Western tropical Pacific and the North Atlantic Oscillation Climate Dynamics, 26(1), 79-91, doi:10.1007/s000382-005-0085-5

Bracco A., Kucharski F., Molteni F., Hazeleger W., Severijns C., (2005) Internal and forced modes of variability in the Indian Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L12707, doi: 10.1029/2005GL023154.

Pasquero C., Bracco A., Provenzale A. (2005) Impact of the spatio-temporal variability of the nutrient flux on primary productivity in the ocean. J. Geophysical Research – Oceans, 110, C07005, doi:10.129/2004JC002738.

Kucharski, F. Molteni F., Bracco A. (2005). A western tropical Pacific relation to the NAO. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86(10),  1418-1419

Bracco A., Kucharski F., Kallummal R., Molteni F. (2004) Internal variability, external forcing and climate trends in multi-decadal AGCM ensembles Climate Dynamics, 23(6), 659-678, doi: 10.1007/s00382-004-0465-2

Pasquero C., Bracco A., Provenzale A.(2004) Coherent vortices, Lagrangian particles and the marine ecosystem. In Shallow Flows, pag. 399-412, edited by G.H. Jirka and W.S.J. Uijttewaal, Balkema Publishers,Leiden, NL.

Hazeleger W., Molteni F., Severijns C., Haarsma R., Bracco A., Kucharski F. (2003) SPEEDO: A flexible coupled model for climate studies. Clivar Exchanges N. 28 – Coupled Modelling

Bracco A., von Hardenberg J., Provenzale A., Weiss J., McWilliams J.C. (2004) Dispersion and mixing in quasigeostrophic turbulence. Physical Review Letters, 92 (8), 084501-1-4

Bracco A., Chassignet E. P., Garraffo Z., Provenzale A. (2003) Lagrangian velocity distributions in a high resolution numerical simulation of the North Atlantic. J. Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 8, 1212-1220

Bracco A., Pedlosky J. (2003) Local baroclinic instabilities over variable topography in channel flows. J. Physical Oceanography, 33, 207-219

Martin A., Richards J. K., Bracco A., Provenzale A. (2002) Patchy productivity in the open ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 16(2) 10.1029/2001GB001449 Also in Editor’s Choice: Biogeosciences, July 2002.

Berloff P., McWilliams J. C., Bracco A. (2002) Material Transport in Oceanic Gyres. Part I: Phenomenology. Physical Oceanography, 32, 764-796.

Bracco A., McWilliams J. C., Murante G., Provenzale A., Weiss J. B. (2000) Revisiting 2D turbulence at millennial resolution. Physics of Fluids, 12(11), 2931-2941

Bracco A., LaCasce J., Pasquero C., Provenzale (2000) Velocity PDFs in barotropic turbulence, Physics of Fluids, 12, 2478-2488.

Bracco A., LaCasce J., Provenzale A. (2000) Velocity probability density functions for oceanic floats. J. Physical Oceanography, 30, 461-474.

Bracco A., Provenzale, I. Scheuring, (2000) Mesoscale vortices and the paradox of the plankton. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 267 (1454), 1795-1800.

Bracco A., Chavanis P., Provenzale A, Spiegel E. A (1999) Particle aggregation in a turbulent keplerian flow. Physics of Fluids, 11, 2280-2291.

Bracco A., Provenzale A., Spiegel E. A, Jecko P. A. (1999) Spotted disks. In “Theory of Black Hole Accretion Disks”, ed. M. Abramowicz, G. Bjornson, J. Pringle. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.