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Overview

Jonathan D. Nash is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with specific expertise in Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. The scholar's work also spans Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, and some intersection with Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Publications by Jonathan D. Nash appear frequently in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Physical Oceanography, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Geophysical Research Letters, and Nature Geoscience.

Notable recent papers include:

  • The Relationship Between Submarine Melt and Subglacial Discharge From Observations at a Tidewater Glacier, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Ocean front detection and tracking using a team of heterogeneous marine vehicles, 2021, Journal of Field Robotics
  • Subglacial Discharge Reflux and Buoyancy Forcing Drive Seasonality in a Silled Glacial Fjord, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Topographic Form Drag on Tides and Low-Frequency Flow: Observations of Nonlinear Lee Waves over a Tall Submarine Ridge near Palau, 2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Rapid vertical exchange at fronts in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 2022, Nature Communications

Collaborations form an important part of Jonathan D. Nash's research profile. Frequent co-authors include Rebecca H. Jackson, David A. Sutherland, J. M. Amundson, R. J. Motyka, and Erin C. Pettit.

Best Publications

  • The formation and fate of internal waves in the South China Sea

    Matthew H. Alford;Matthew H. Alford;Thomas Peacock;Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Jonathan D. Nash

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

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

  • Near-Inertial Internal Gravity Waves in the Ocean

    Matthew H. Alford;Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Harper L. Simmons;Jonathan D. Nash

  • On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

    Dean Roemmich;Matthew H. Alford;Hervé Claustre;Kenneth Johnson

  • 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

  • River plumes as a source of large-amplitude internal waves in the coastal ocean

    Jonathan D. Nash;James N. Moum

  • Internal Tide Reflection and Turbulent Mixing on the Continental Slope

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

  • Energy Flux and Dissipation in Luzon Strait: Two Tales of Two Ridges

    Matthew H. Alford;Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Jonathan D. Nash;Harper Simmons

  • Estimating Internal Wave Energy Fluxes in the Ocean

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

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

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

  • Energy Transport by Nonlinear Internal Waves

    J. N. Moum;J. M. Klymak;J. D. Nash;A. Perlin

  • Shallow Water '06: A Joint Acoustic Propagation/Nonlinear Internal Wave Physics Experiment

    Dajun Tang;James N. Moum;James F. Lynch;Philip A. Abbot

  • Observations of Boundary Mixing over the Continental Slope

    J. N. Moum;D. R. Caldwell;J. D. Nash;G. D. Gunderson

  • River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems: Introduction and synthesis

    B. M. Hickey;R. M. Kudela;J. D. Nash;K. W. Bruland

  • Distributed subglacial discharge drives significant submarine melt at a Greenland tidewater glacier

    Mason J. Fried;Ginny A. Catania;Timothy C. Bartholomaus;D. Duncan

  • Hotspots of deep ocean mixing on the Oregon continental slope

    Jonathan Nash;M. H. Alford;E. Kunze;K. Martini

  • Internal hydraulic flows on the continental shelf: High drag states over a small bank

    Jonathan D. Nash;James N. Moum

  • Structure of the Baroclinic Tide Generated at Kaena Ridge, Hawaii

    Jonathan D. Nash;Eric Kunze;Craig M. Lee;Thomas B. Sanford

  • Geometric Controls on Tidewater Glacier Retreat in Central Western Greenland

    G. A. Catania;L. A. Stearns;D. A. Sutherland;M. J. Fried

Frequent Co-Authors

James N. Moum
James N. Moum Oregon State University
David A. Sutherland
David A. Sutherland University of Oregon
Jennifer MacKinnon
Jennifer MacKinnon University of California, San Diego
Ginny A. Catania
Ginny A. Catania The University of Texas at Austin
Matthew H. Alford
Matthew H. Alford University of California, San Diego
Robert Pinkel
Robert Pinkel University of California, San Diego
Jody M. Klymak
Jody M. Klymak University of Victoria
Eric Kunze
Eric Kunze University of Washington
Harper L. Simmons
Harper L. Simmons University of Alaska Fairbanks
Luc Rainville
Luc Rainville University of Washington

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