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64
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1490
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Eric A. D'Asaro is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Oceanography, which constitutes the majority of their scholarly output. Other subfields include Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics covered in their work encompass Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Climate Variability and Models, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Andrey Shcherbina, Amala Mahadevan, Ananda Pascual, Simón Ruíz, and J. Thomas Farrar.

They have regularly published in the following venues:

  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Notable recent papers include:

  • Coherent Pathways for Vertical Transport from the Surface Ocean to Interior, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • An operational overview of the EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing (EXPORTS) Northeast Pacific field deployment, 2021, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Frontal Convergence and Vertical Velocity Measured by Drifters in the Alboran Sea, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Enhanced mixing across the gyre boundary at the Gulf Stream front, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Advances in Observing and Understanding Small-Scale Open Ocean Circulation During the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Era, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

Eric A. D'Asaro has also contributed to book publications, including the "CALYPSO 2019 Cruise Report: field campaign in the Mediterranean," published by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution eBooks in 2020.

This scientist has received recognition in their field as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2014 and as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union since 2010.

Best Publications

  • Available potential energy and mixing in density-stratified fluids

    Kraig B. Winters;Peter N. Lombard;James J. Riley;Eric A. D'Asaro

  • Air–Sea Exchange in Hurricanes: Synthesis of Observations from the Coupled Boundary Layer Air–Sea Transfer Experiment

    Peter G. Black;Eric A. D'Asaro;William M. Drennan;Jeffrey R. French

  • Eddy-driven stratification initiates North Atlantic spring phytoplankton blooms.

    Amala Mahadevan;Eric D’Asaro;Craig Lee;Mary Jane Perry

  • Enhanced Turbulence and Energy Dissipation at Ocean Fronts

    Eric D’Asaro;Craig Lee;Luc Rainville;Ramsey Harcourt

  • The Energy Flux from the Wind to Near-Inertial Motions in the Surface Mixed Layer

    Eric A. D'Asaro

  • Eddy-driven subduction exports particulate organic carbon from the spring bloom

    Melissa M. Omand;Eric A. D’Asaro;Craig M. Lee;Mary Jane Perry

  • Mixing Efficiency in the Ocean

    M.C. Gregg;E.A. D'Asaro;J.J. Riley;E. Kunze

  • The Labrador Sea Deep Convection Experiment

    J. Marshall;F. Dobson;K. Moore;P. Rhines

  • Ocean convergence and the dispersion of flotsam.

    Eric A. D’Asaro;Andrey Y. Shcherbina;Jody M. Klymak;Jeroen Molemaker

  • Cold wake of Hurricane Frances

    Eric A. D'Asaro;Thomas B. Sanford;P. Peter Niiler;Eric J. Terrill

  • High-resolution observations of aggregate flux during a sub-polar North Atlantic spring bloom

    Nathan Briggs;Mary Jane Perry;Ivona Cetinić;Craig Lee

  • Generation of submesoscale vortices: A new mechanism

    Eric A. D'Asaro

  • Prediction of the Export and Fate of Global Ocean Net Primary Production: The EXPORTS Science Plan

    David A. Siegel;Ken O. Buesseler;Michael J. Behrenfeld;Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson

  • An ocean coupling potential intensity index for tropical cyclones

    I.-I. Lin;I.-I. Lin;Peter G. Black;James F. Price;C.-Y. Yang

  • Upper-Ocean Inertial Currents Forced by a Strong Storm. Part I: Data and Comparisons with Linear Theory

    Eric A. D'Asaro;Charles C. Eriksen;Murray D. Levine;Clayton A. paulson

  • Statistics of vertical vorticity, divergence, and strain in a developed submesoscale turbulence field

    Andrey Y. Shcherbina;Eric A. D'Asaro;Craig M. Lee;Jody M. Klymak

  • Particulate organic carbon and inherent optical properties during 2008 North Atlantic Bloom Experiment

    Ivona Cetinić;Mary Jane Perry;Nathan T. Briggs;Emily Kallin

  • Observations of the Labrador Sea eddy field

    Jonathan M. Lilly;Peter B. Rhines;Friedrich Schott;Kara Lavender

  • Turbulence in the Upper-Ocean Mixed Layer

    Eric A D'Asaro

  • Diascalar flux and the rate of fluid mixing

    Kraig B. Winters;Eric A. D'Asaro

  • Energy of nonlinear internal waves in the South China Sea

    R.-C. Lien;T. Y. Tang;M. H. Chang;E. A. D'Asaro

  • Observations of Persistent Mixing and Near-Inertial Internal Waves

    M. C. Gregg;E. A. D'Asaro;T. J. Shay;N. Larson

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig M. Lee
Craig M. Lee University of Washington
Ren-Chieh Lien
Ren-Chieh Lien University of Washington
Mary Jane Perry
Mary Jane Perry University of Maine
Thomas B. Sanford
Thomas B. Sanford University of Washington
Amala Mahadevan
Amala Mahadevan Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Luca Centurioni
Luca Centurioni University of California, San Diego
Jody M. Klymak
Jody M. Klymak University of Victoria
James C. McWilliams
James C. McWilliams University of California, Los Angeles
Shuyi S. Chen
Shuyi S. Chen University of Washington
I-I Lin
I-I Lin National Taiwan University

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