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Joseph H. LaCasce

Joseph H. LaCasce

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
37
Citations
4836
World Ranking
8946
National Ranking
113

Overview

Joseph H. LaCasce is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and has a research portfolio focused primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with substantial contributions to Environmental Science. Their work encompasses key subfields such as Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of areas within oceanographic and atmospheric sciences. Notable themes in their work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate Variability and Models, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Geological Formations and Processes, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

LaCasce's publication record includes contributions to prominent scientific journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Joseph H. LaCasce include:

  • Baroclinic Modes over Rough Bathymetry and the Surface Deformation Radius, 2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Full-Depth Global Estimates of Ocean Mesoscale Eddy Mixing From Observations and Theory, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Gateway-driven Weakening of Ocean Gyres Leads to Southern Ocean Cooling, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Surface Currents in Operational Oceanography: Key Applications, Mechanisms, and Methods, 2021, Journal of Operational Oceanography
  • Relative Dispersion in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, 2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography

Collaborations are significant in LaCasce's career, with frequent co-authors including Pål Erik Isachsen, Sjoerd Groeskamp, Andreas Klocker, Gaurav Madan, and André Palóczy. These partnerships reflect an interdisciplinary and collaborative scientific approach.

Best Publications

  • Statistics from Lagrangian observations

    J.H. LaCasce

  • Relative dispersion at the surface of the Gulf of Mexico

    J. H. Lacasce;C. Ohlmann

  • Reconstructing the Ocean's Interior from Surface Data

    Jinbo Wang;Glenn R. Flierl;Joseph H. LaCasce;Julie L. McClean

  • Relative dispersion in the subsurface North Atlantic

    J. H. Lacasce;A. Bower

  • Estimating subsurface horizontal and vertical velocities from sea-surface temperature

    J. H. LaCasce;A. Mahadevan

  • Surface circulation in the Nordic Seas from clustered drifters

    Inga Monika Koszalka;J. H. LaCasce;M. Andersson;K. A. Orvik

  • Estimating Suppression of Eddy Mixing by Mean Flows

    Andreas Klocker;Raffaele Ferrari;Joseph H. LaCasce

  • The Prevalence of oceanic surface modes

    Joseph Henry Lacasce

  • Statistics of Simulated and Observed Pair Separations in the Gulf of Mexico

    Francisco J. Beron-Vera;J. H. LaCasce

  • The Instability of Rossby Basin Modes and the Oceanic Eddy Field

    J. H. LaCasce;J. Pedlosky

  • Relative dispersion in the Nordic Seas

    Inga Monika Koszalka;J. H. LaCasce;K. A. Orvik

  • Wind-Driven Variability of the Large-Scale Recirculating Flow in the Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean

    Pål E. Isachsen;J. H. LaCasce;C. Mauritzen;S. Häkkinen

  • Velocity Probability Density Functions for Oceanic Floats

    Annalisa Bracco;J. H. LaCasce;Antonello Provenzale

  • Reconciling float-based and tracer-based estimates of lateral diffusivities

    Andreas Klocker;Raffaele Ferrari;Joseph H. Lacasce;Sophia T. Merrifield

  • On the Obscurantist Physics of “Form Drag” in Theorizing about the Circumpolar Current

    Bruce A. Warren;Joseph H. LaCasce;Paul E. Robbins

  • Photoluminescence and electronic structure of thallium(1+) dicyanoaurate(1-): evidence for relativistic effects in thallium-gold and gold-gold interactions

    Zerihun. Assefa;Frank. DeStefano;Mohammad A. Garepapaghi;Joseph H. LaCasce

  • The velocity distribution of barotropic turbulence

    Annalisa Bracco;Joe LaCasce;Claudia Pasquero;Antonello Provenzale

  • Changes in the Extratropical Storm Tracks in Response to Changes in SST in an AGCM

    Lise Seland Graff;J. H. LaCasce

  • A Geostrophic Vortex over a Slope

    Joseph H. LaCasce

  • Direct Estimate of Lateral Eddy Diffusivity Upstream of Drake Passage

    Ross Tulloch;Raffaele Ferrari;Oliver Jahn;Andreas Klocker

  • Floats and f/H

    J. H. Lacasce

  • Full‐depth global estimates of ocean mesoscale eddy mixing from observations and theory

    Sjoerd Groeskamp;Joseph Henry Lacasce;Trevor J. McDougall;Marine Rogé

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Speer
Kevin Speer Florida State University
Carmen Gaina
Carmen Gaina University of Oslo
Joseph Pedlosky
Joseph Pedlosky Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Sarah T. Gille
Sarah T. Gille University of California, San Diego
Ilker Fer
Ilker Fer University of Bergen
John M. Toole
John M. Toole Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Andrew J. Watson
Andrew J. Watson University of Exeter
Mathew E. Maltrud
Mathew E. Maltrud Los Alamos National Laboratory

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