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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1992 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Eric Kunze is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly work focuses largely on Oceanography, with additional interests in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Computational Mechanics, and Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design.

The scientist's research topics encompass a broad range of subjects related to oceanic and atmospheric phenomena. Major themes include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Climate Variability and Models, Underwater Acoustics Research, 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis, and Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques.

Eric Kunze has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed journals, with frequent publications appearing in the Journal of Physical Oceanography, which accounts for the majority of their published work. Other venues include Oceanography, arXiv (Cornell University), Geophysical Research Letters, and the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Ren-Chieh Lien, B. Barry, James B. Girton, Anda Vladoiu, and Ryuichiro Inoue.

Representative recent papers demonstrate a focus on physical oceanographic phenomena and turbulence dynamics. These include:

  • "Near-Inertial Wave Interactions and Turbulence Production in a Kuroshio Anticyclonic Eddy" (2022, Journal of Physical Oceanography)
  • "Energetic Stratified Turbulence Generated by Kuroshio-Seamount Interactions in Tokara Strait" (2023, Journal of Physical Oceanography)
  • "Submarine Canyon Oxygen Anomaly Caused by Mixing and Boundary-Interior Exchange" (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • "Global Observations of Rotary-With-Depth Shear Spectra" (2022, Journal of Physical Oceanography)
  • "Reabsorption of Lee-Wave Energy in Bottom-Intensified Currents" (2022, Journal of Physical Oceanography)

In recognition of professional contributions, Eric Kunze was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1992.

Best Publications

  • Near-Inertial Wave Propagation In Geostrophic Shear

    Eric Kunze

  • Internal Tide Generation in the Deep Ocean

    Chris Garrett;Eric Kunze

  • Global Patterns of Diapycnal Mixing from Measurements of the Turbulent Dissipation Rate

    Amy F. Waterhouse;Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Jonathan D. Nash;Matthew H. Alford

  • Global Abyssal Mixing Inferred from Lowered ADCP Shear and CTD Strain Profiles

    Eric Kunze;Eric Firing;Julia M. Hummon;Teresa K. Chereskin

  • Mixing Efficiency in the Ocean

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

  • From tides to mixing along the Hawaiian ridge.

    Daniel L. Rudnick;Timothy J. Boyd;Russell E. Brainard;Glenn S. Carter

  • Climate Process Team on Internal Wave–Driven Ocean Mixing

    Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Zhongxiang Zhao;Caitlin B. Whalen;Amy F. Waterhouse

  • Internal Tide Reflection and Turbulent Mixing on the Continental Slope

    Jonathan D. Nash;Eric Kunze;John M. Toole;Ray W. Schmitt

  • Estimating Internal Wave Energy Fluxes in the Ocean

    Jonathan D. Nash;Matthew H. Alford;Eric Kunze

  • Tidally Driven Vorticity, Diurnal Shear, and Turbulence atop Fieberling Seamount

    Eric Kunze;John M. Toole

  • An Estimate of Tidal Energy Lost to Turbulence at the Hawaiian Ridge

    Jody M. Klymak;James N. Moum;Jonathan D. Nash;Eric Kunze

  • Internal-Wave-Driven Mixing: Global Geography and Budgets

    Eric Kunze

  • Shear and strain in Santa Monica Basin

    M. C. Gregg;E. Kunze

  • Near‐boundary mixing above the flanks of a midlatitude seamount

    John M. Toole;Raymond W. Schmitt;Kurt L. Polzin;Eric Kunze

  • Observations of biologically generated turbulence in a coastal inlet

    Eric Kunze;John F. Dower;Ian Beveridge;Richard Dewey

  • The Energy Balance in a Warm-Core Ring's Near-Inertial Critical Layer

    Eric Kunze;Raymond W. Schmitt;John M. Toole

  • Limits on growing, finite-length salt fingers: A Richardson number constraint

    Eric Kunze

  • Observations of Near-Inertial Waves in a Front

    Eric Kunze;Thomas B. Sanford

  • Abyssal Mixing: Where It Is Not

    Eric Kunze;Thomas B. Sanford

  • The Finescale Response of Lowered ADCP Velocity Profiles

    Kurt Polzin;Eric Kunze;Jules Hummon;Eric Firing

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas B. Sanford
Thomas B. Sanford University of Washington
Jonathan D. Nash
Jonathan D. Nash Oregon State University
Matthew H. Alford
Matthew H. Alford University of California, San Diego
Michael C. Gregg
Michael C. Gregg University of Washington
Craig M. Lee
Craig M. Lee University of Washington
John M. Toole
John M. Toole Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Robert Pinkel
Robert Pinkel University of California, San Diego
Raymond W. Schmitt
Raymond W. Schmitt Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Kurt L. Polzin
Kurt L. Polzin Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Mark A. Merrifield
Mark A. Merrifield University of California, San Diego

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