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  • 2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Laurence Armi is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering, with significant work in subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Computational Mechanics, Oceanography, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Ecology.

Their scholarly output includes a range of publications focused on fluid dynamics and related processes. Frequent topics in their research are fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, meteorological phenomena and simulations, hydraulic flow and structures, hydrology and sediment transport processes, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, aeolian processes and effects, as well as plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Laurence Armi include:

  • "Stationary internal hydraulic jumps", 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Raco Wind at the Exit of the Maipo Canyon in Central Chile: Climatology, Special Observations, and Possible Mechanisms", 2020, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • "The effect of a strong density step on blocked stratified flow over topography", 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Hydraulic Analysis and Cold-Air Pool Interaction of the Raco Gap Wind", 2024, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • "Gravitational wave luminosity distance-weighted anisotropies", 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Ricardo C. Muñoz
  • Gregory A. Lawrence
  • Arjun Jagannathan
  • Kraig B. Winters
  • José A. Rutllant

Laurence Armi often publishes in venues such as the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, and arXiv (Cornell University).

They have also been recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), an award granted in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Maximal two-layer exchange over a sill and through the combination of a sill and contraction with barotropic flow

    D. M. Farmer;L. Armi

  • Structure and Generation of Turbulence at Interfaces Strained by Internal Solitary Waves Propagating Shoreward over the Continental Shelf

    J. N. Moum;David Farmer;W. D. Smyth;L. Armi

  • Some evidence for boundary mixing in the deep Ocean

    Laurence Armi

  • Spirals on the sea

    Walter Munk;Laurence Armi;Kenneth Fischer;F. Zachariasen

  • Two Years in the Life of a Mediterranean Salt Lens

    Laurence Armi;Dave Hebert;Neil Oakey;James F. Price

  • The evolving structure of an upwelling filament

    Pierre Flament;Laurence Armi;Libe Washburn

  • Large Lenses of Highly Saline Mediterranean Water

    Laurence Armi;Walter Zenk

  • The flow of Atlantic water through the Strait of Gibraltar

    David M. Farmer;Laurence Armi

  • The generation and trapping of solitary waves over topography

    David Farmer;Laurence Armi

  • Stratified flow over topography: the role of small-scale entrainment and mixing in flow establishment

    David Farmer;Laurence Armi

  • Tracking Three Meddies with SOFAR Floats

    P. L. Richardson;D. Walsh;L. Armi;Michael Schröder

  • Lagrangian Observations of Meddy Formation during A Mediterranean Undercurrent Seeding Experiment

    Amy S. Bower;Laurence Armi;Isabel Ambar

  • Four Views of a Portion of the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre

    Laurence Armi;Henry Stommel

  • The bottom boundary layer of the deep ocean

    Laurence Armi;Robert C. Millard

  • The internal hydraulics of the Strait of Gibraltar and associated sills and narrows

    L. Armi;D. Farmer

  • The breakup of immiscible fluids in turbulent flows

    C. D. Eastwood;L. Armi;J. C. Lasheras

  • The history and decay of a Mediterranean salt lens

    Laurence Armi;Dave Hebert;Neil Oakey;James Price

  • Flow Structures of the Benthic Ocean

    Laurence Armi;Eric A. D'Asaro

  • Stratified flow over topography: upstream influence and generation of nonlinear internal waves

    Patrick F. Cummins;Svein Vagle;Laurence Armi;David M. Farmer

  • Vortex dynamics in a spatially accelerating shear layer

    G. Pawlak;L. Armi

  • Gap flows: Results from the Mesoscale Alpine Programme

    Georg J. Mayr;Laurence Armi;Alexander Gohm;Günther Zängl

  • Effects of variations in eddy diffusivity on property distributions in the oceans

    Laurence Armi

  • Mixing and entrainment in developing stratified currents

    G. Pawlak;L. Armi

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Farmer
David M. Farmer University of Rhode Island
Philip L. Richardson
Philip L. Richardson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
James F. Price
James F. Price Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Libe Washburn
Libe Washburn University of California, Santa Barbara
Amy S. Bower
Amy S. Bower Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Rick Lumpkin
Rick Lumpkin Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Walter Munk
Walter Munk University of California, San Diego
Clive E. Dorman
Clive E. Dorman University of California, San Diego
Cyrille Flamant
Cyrille Flamant Sorbonne University
William D. Smyth
William D. Smyth Oregon State University

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