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Overview

Sonya Legg is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and conducts research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses several key subfields, including oceanography, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, and gender studies.

Legg's research largely focuses on oceanographic and atmospheric processes, climate variability and models, and geological formations and processes. Additional areas of interest include marine and coastal ecosystems, geology and paleoclimatology research, as well as aspects related to gender diversity, inequality, and career development within scientific fields.

Frequent publication venues for Legg's work include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Oceanography
  • Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • Annual Review of Marine Science

Legg has contributed to several scientific papers. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Mixing by Oceanic Lee Waves," 2020, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Mixing and Transformation in a Deep Western Boundary Current: A Case Study," 2021, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • "Gender Equity in Oceanography," 2022, Annual Review of Marine Science
  • "Changing the Culture of Coastal, Ocean, and Marine Sciences: Strategies for Individual and Collective Actions," 2021, Oceanography
  • "Parameterization of Submesoscale Symmetric Instability in Dense Flows Along Topography," 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Legg's research activities. Frequent coauthors include Caixia Wang, Ellen Kappel, LuAnne Thompson, Mona Behl, and Yang Wang, reflecting a broad collaborative network within oceanographic and earth science research communities.

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

  • The GFDL Global Ocean and Sea Ice Model OM4.0: Model Description and Simulation Features

    Alistair Adcroft;Whit Anderson;V. Balaji;Chris Blanton

  • Climate Process Team on Internal Wave–Driven Ocean Mixing

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

  • Rapidly rotating turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

    K. Julien;S. Legg;J. Mcwilliams;J. Werne

  • Challenges and Prospects in Ocean Circulation Models

    Baylor Fox-Kemper;Alistair Adcroft;Alistair Adcroft;Claus W. Böning;Eric P. Chassignet

  • The Labrador Sea Deep Convection Experiment

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

  • Comparison of entrainment in overflows simulated by z-coordinate, isopycnal and non-hydrostatic models☆

    Sonya Legg;Sonya Legg;Robert W. Hallberg;James B. Girton

  • Improving Oceanic Overflow Representation in Climate Models: The Gravity Current Entrainment Climate Process Team

    Sonya Legg;Bruce Briegleb;Yeon Chang;Eric P. Chassignet

  • Internal Wave Breaking at Concave and Convex Continental Slopes

    Sonya Legg;Alistair Adcroft

  • Internal Hydraulic Jumps and Overturning Generated by Tidal Flow over a Tall Steep Ridge

    Sonya Legg;Jody Klymak

  • Sensitivity of the Ocean State to the Vertical Distribution of Internal-Tide-Driven Mixing

    Angelique Melet;Robert Hallberg;Sonya Legg;Kurt L. Polzin

  • Preliminary simulations of internal waves and mixing generated by finite amplitude tidal flow over isolated topography

    Sonya Legg;Sonya Legg;Karin M.H. Huijts

  • Double-Ridge Internal Tide Interference and Its Effect on Dissipation in Luzon Strait

    Maarten C. Buijsman;Sonya Legg;Jody Klymak

  • A heton model of the spreading phase of open-ocean deep convection

    Sonya Legg;John Marshall

  • Climatic Impacts of Parameterized Local and Remote Tidal Mixing

    Angélique Melet;Sonya Legg;Robert Hallberg

  • A Mechanism for Local Dissipation of Internal Tides Generated at Rough Topography

    Maxim Nikurashin;Sonya Legg

  • Three-Dimensional Double-Ridge Internal Tide Resonance in Luzon Strait

    Maarten C. Buijsman;Jody M. Klymak;Sonya Legg;Matthew H. Alford

  • Localization of Deep Ocean Convection by a Mesoscale Eddy

    Sonya Legg;James McWilliams;Jianbo Gao

  • A Parameterization of Shear-Driven Turbulence for Ocean Climate Models

    L. Jackson;R. Hallberg;S. Legg

  • Rapid mixing and exchange of deep-ocean waters in an abyssal boundary current.

    Alberto C Naveira Garabato;Eleanor E Frajka-Williams;Carl P Spingys;Sonya Legg

  • A simple mixing scheme for models that resolve breaking internal waves

    Jody M. Klymak;Sonya M. Legg

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Hallberg
Robert Hallberg Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
James C. McWilliams
James C. McWilliams University of California, Los Angeles
Alistair Adcroft
Alistair Adcroft Princeton University
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jody M. Klymak
Jody M. Klymak University of Victoria
Keith Julien
Keith Julien University of Colorado Boulder
Robert Pinkel
Robert Pinkel University of California, San Diego
Gokhan Danabasoglu
Gokhan Danabasoglu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Maarten C. Buijsman
Maarten C. Buijsman University of Southern Mississippi
Simon J. Marsland
Simon J. Marsland Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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