Publications


McBride, K., Mackinnon, J., Franks, P. J. S., McSweeney, J. M., Waterhouse, A. F., Palóczy, A., Colosi, J., & MacMahan, J. (2024). A juvenile journey: Using a highly resolved 3D mooring array to investigate the roles of wind and internal tide forcing in across‐shore larval transport. Limnology and Oceanography, lno.12675. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12675
McKie, T., Lucas, A. J., & Mackinnon, J. (2024). Submesoscale Dynamics in the Bay of Bengal: Inversions and Instabilities. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(3), e2023JC020563. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020563
Marques, O. B., Alford, M. H., Pinkel, R., Mackinnon, J. A., Voet, G., Klymak, J. M., & Nash, J. D. (2024). Observations of Tidally Driven Turbulence over Steep, Small-Scale Topography Embedded in the Tasman Slope. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 54(2), 601–615. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0038.1
Ballard, M. S., Sagers, J. D., Poulain, P.-M., Mackinnon, J., Lucas, A. J., & Sanchez-Rios, A. (2023). Out-of-plane arrivals recorded by drifting hydrophones during the Northern Ocean Rapid Surface Evolution Experiment. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(5), 2757–2768. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0022052
Cimoli, L., Mashayek, A., Johnson, H. L., Marshall, D. P., Naveira Garabato, A. C., Whalen, C. B., Vic, C., de Lavergne, C., Alford, M. H., Mackinnon, J. A., & Talley, L. D. (2023). Significance of Diapycnal Mixing Within the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. AGU Advances, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022AV000800
Qu, L., Thomas, L. N., Wienkers, A. F., Hetland, R. D., Kobashi, D., Taylor, J. R., Hsu, F. H. W., Mackinnon, J. A., Shearman, R. K., & Nash, J. D. (2022). Rapid vertical exchange at fronts in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Nature Communications, 13(1), 5624. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33251-7
Waterhouse, A. F., Hennon, T., Kunze, E., Mackinnon, J. A., Alford, M. H., Pinkel, R., Simmons, H., Whalen, C. B., Fine, E. C., Klymak, J., & Hummon, J. M. (2022). Global Observations of Rotary-With-Depth Shear Spectra. Journal of Physical Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0015.1
Yu, X., Naveira Garabato, A. C., Vic, C., Gula, J., Savage, A. C., Wang, J., Waterhouse, A. F., & Mackinnon, J. A. (2022). Observed Equatorward Propagation and Chimney Effect of Near‐Inertial Waves in the Midlatitude Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(13). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098522
Fine, E. C., Mackinnon, J. A., Alford, M. H., Middleton, L., Taylor, J., Mickett, J. B., Cole, S. T., Couto, N., Le Boyer, A., & Peacock, T. (2022). Double Diffusion, Shear Instabilities, and Heat Impacts of a Pacific Summer Water Intrusion in the Beaufort Sea. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52(2), 189–203. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-21-0074.1
Boury, S., Supekar, R., Fine, E. C., Musgrave, R., Mickett, J. B., Voet, G., Odier, P., Peacock, T., Mackinnon, J. A., & Alford, M. H. (2022). Observations of Double Diffusive Staircase Edges in the Arctic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127(11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC018906
Zeiden, K. L., Rudnick, D. L., Mackinnon, J. A., Hormann, V., & Centurioni, L. (2022). Vorticity in the Wake of Palau from Lagrangian Surface Drifters. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52(9), 2237–2255. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-21-0252.1
Wynne‐Cattanach, B. L., Alford, M. H., Mackinnon, J. A., & Voet, G. (2022). Measurements of Turbulence Generated by Wake Eddies Near a Steep Headland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127(8). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC018674
Franks, P. J. S., Inman, B. G., Mackinnon, J. A., Alford, M. H., & Waterhouse, A. F. (2021). Oceanic turbulence from a planktonic perspective. Limnology and Oceanography, 16. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11996
Couchman, M. M. P., Wynne-Cattanach, B., Alford, M. H., Caulfield, C. C. P., Kerswell, R. R., Mackinnon, J. A., & Voet, G. (2021). Data-driven identification of turbulent oceanic mixing from observational microstructure data. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(23), 10. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gl094978
Haney, S. R., Simpson, A. J., McSweeney, J. M., Waterhouse, A. F., Haller, M. C., Lerczak, J. A., Barth, J. A., Lenain, L., Paloczy, A., Adams, K., & Mackinnon, J. A. (2021). Lifecycle of a submesoscale front birthed from a nearshore internal bore. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(11), 3477–3493. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-21-0062.1
Lele, R., Purkey, S. G., Nash, J. D., Mackinnon, J. A., Thurnherr, A. M., Whalen, C. B., Mecking, S., Voet, G., & Talley, L. D. (2021). Abyssal heat budget in the southwest Pacific basin. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(11), 3317–3333. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-21-0045.1
Shroyer, E., Tandon, A., Sengupta, D., Fernando, H. J. S., Lucas, A. J., Farrar, J. T., Chattopadhyay, R., de Szoeke, S., Flatau, M., Rydbeck, A., Wijesekera, H., McPhaden, M., Seo, H., Subramanian, A., Venkatesan, R., Joseph, J., Ramsundaram, S., Gordon, A. L., Bohman, S. M., … Subrahmanyam, B. (2021). Bay of Bengal intraseasonal oscillations and the 2018 monsoon onset. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(10), E1936–E1951. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-20-0113.1
Becherer, J., Moum, J. N., Calantoni, J., Colosi, J. A., Barth, J. A., Lerczak, J. A., McSweeney, J. M., Mackinnon, J. A., & Waterhouse, A. F. (2021). Saturation of the internal tide over the inner continental shelf. Part ii: Parameterization. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(8), 2565–2582. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-21-0047.1
Becherer, J., Moum, J. N., Calantoni, J., Colosi, J. A., Barth, J. A., Lerczak, J. A., McSweeney, J. M., Mackinnon, J. A., & Waterhouse, A. F. (2021). Saturation of the internal tide over the inner continental shelf. Part i: Observations. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(8), 2553–2563. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-20-0264.1
Middleton, L., Fine, E. C., Mackinnon, J. A., Alford, M. H., & Taylor, J. R. (2021). Estimating dissipation rates associated with double diffusion. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(15), 13. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gl092779
Kumar, N., Lerczak, J. A., Xu, T. T., Waterhouse, A. F., Thomson, J., Terrill, E. J., Swann, C., Suanda, S. H., Spydell, M. S., Smit, P. B., Simpson, A., Romeiser, R., Pierce, S. D., de Paolo, T., Paloczy, A., O’Dea, A., Nyman, L., Moum, J. N., Moulton, M., … Ahn, S. (2021). The Inner-Shelf Dynamics Experiment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(5), E1033–E1063. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-19-0281.1
Mackinnon, J. A., Simmons, H. L., Hargrove, J., Thomson, J., Peacock, T., Alford, M. H., Barton, B. I., Boury, S., Brenner, S. D., Couto, N., Danielson, S. L., Fine, E. C., Graber, H. C., Guthrie, J., Hopkins, J. E., Jayne, S. R., Jeon, C., Klenz, T., Lee, C. M., … Wood, K. R. (2021). A warm jet in a cold ocean. Nature Communications, 12(1), 2418. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22505-5
Paloczy, A., Mackinnon, J. A., & Waterhouse, A. F. (2021). Subtidal to supertidal variability of Reynolds stresses in a midlatitude stratified inner shelf. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(4), 1091–1111. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-20-0140.1
Zeiden, K. L., Mackinnon, J. A., Alford, M. H., Rudnick, D. L., Voet, G., & Wijesekera, H. (2021). Broadband submesoscale vorticity generated by flow around an island. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(4), 1301–1317. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-20-0161.1
Thomson, J., Lund, B., Hargrove, J., Smith, M. M., Horstmann, J., & Mackinnon, J. A. (2021). Wave-driven flow along a compact marginal ice zone. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl090735
Marques, O. B., Alford, M. H., Pinkel, R., Mackinnon, J. A., Klymak, J. M., Nash, J. D., Waterhouse, A. F., Kelly, S. M., Simmons, H. L., & Braznikov, D. (2021). Internal tide structure and temporal variability on the reflective continental slope of southeastern Tasmania. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(2), 611–631. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-20-0044.1
Fine, E. C., Alford, M. H., Mackinnon, J. A., & Mickett, J. B. (2021). Microstructure mixing observations and finescale parameterizations in the Beaufort Sea. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(1), 19–35. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-19-0233.1
Whalen, C. B., de Lavergne, C., Garabato, A. C. N., Klymak, J. M., Mackinnon, J. A., & Sheen, K. L. (2020). Internal wave-driven mixing: governing processes and consequences for climate. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 1(11), 606–621. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-020-0097-z
McSweeney, J. M., Lerczak, J. A., Barth, J. A., Becherer, J., Mackinnon, J. A., Waterhouse, A. F., Colosi, J. A., MacMahan, J. H., Feddersen, F., Calantoni, J., Simpson, A., Celona, S., Haller, M. C., & Terrill, E. (2020). Alongshore variability of shoaling internal bores on the inner shelf. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50(10), 2965–2981.
Jaeger, G. S., Mackinnon, J. A., Lucas, A. J., Shroyer, E., Nash, J., Tandon, A., Farrar, J. T., & Mahadevan, A. (2020). How spice is stirred in the Bay of Bengal. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50(9), 2669–2688. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-19-0077.1
Sukhatme, J., Chaudhuri, D., Mackinnon, J., Shivaprasad, S., & Sengupta, D. (2020). Near-surface ocean kinetic energy spectra and small-scale intermittency from ship-based ADCP data in the Bay of Bengal. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50(7), 2037–2052. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-20-0065.1
Boury, S., Pickart, R. S., Odier, P., Lin, P. G., Li, M., Fine, E. C., Simmons, H. L., Mackinnon, J. A., & Peacock, T. (2020). Whither the Chukchi Slope Current? Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50(6), 1717–1732. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-19-0273.1
Voet, G., Alford, M. H., Mackinnon, J. A., & Nash, J. D. (2020). Topographic form drag on tides and low-frequency flow: Observations of nonlinear lee waves over a tall submarine ridge near Palau. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50(5), 1489–1507. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-19-0257.1
Couto, N., Alford, M. H., Mackinnon, J., & Mickett, J. B. (2020). Mixing rates and bottom drag in Bering Strait. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50(3), 809–825. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-19-0154.1
McSweeney, J. M., Lerczak, J. A., Barth, J. A., Becherer, J., Colosi, J. A., Mackinnon, J. A., MacMahan, J. H., Moum, J. N., Pierce, S. D., & Waterhouse, A. F. (2020). Observations of shoaling nonlinear internal bores across the central California inner shelf. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50(1), 111–132. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-19-0125.1
Andres, M., Siegelman, M., Hormann, V., Musgrave, R. C., Merrifield, S. T., Rudnick, D. L., Merrifield, M. A., Alford, M. H., Voet, G., Wijesekera, H. W., Mackinnon, J. A., Centurioni, L., Nash, J. D., & Terrill, E. J. (2019). Eddies, topography, and the abyssal flow by the Kyushu-Palau Ridge near Velasco Reef. Oceanography, 32(4), 46–55. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.410
Merrifield, S. T., Colin, P. L., Cook, T., Garcia-Moreno, C., Mackinnon, J. A., Otero, M., Schrnmek, T. A., Siegeman, M., Simmons, H. L., & Terrill, E. J. (2019). Island wakes observed from high-frequency current mapping radar. Oceanography, 32(4), 92–101. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.415
Johnston, T. M. S., Mackinnon, J. A., Colin, P. L., Haley, P. J., Lermusiaux, P. F. J., Lucas, A. J., Merrifield, M. A., Merrifield, S. T., Mirabito, C., Nash, J. D., Ou, C. Y., Siegeiman, M., Terrill, E. J., & Waterhouse, A. F. (2019). Energy and momentum lost to wake eddies and lee waves generated by the north equatorial current and tidal flows at Peleliu, Palau. Oceanography, 32(4), 110–125. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.417
Johnston, T. M. S., Schonau, M. C., Paluszkiewicz, T., Mackinnon, J. A., Arbic, B. K., Colin, P. L., Alford, M. H., Andres, M., Centurioni, L., Graber, H. C., Helfrich, K. R., Hormann, V., Lermusiaux, P. F. J., Musgrave, R. C., Powell, B. S., Qiu, B., Rudnick, D. L., Simmons, H. L., St Laurent, L., … Zeiden, K. L. (2019). Flow Encountering Abrupt Topography (Fleat): A multiscale observational and modeling program to understand how topography affects flows in the western North Pacific. Oceanography, 32(4), 10–21. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.407
Colin, P. L., Johnston, T. M. S., Mackinnon, J. A., Ou, C. Y., Rudnick, D. L., Terrill, E. J., Lindfield, S. J., & Batchelor, H. (2019). Ngaraard Pinnacle, Palau: An Undersea “Island” in the Flow. Oceanography, 32(4), 164–173. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.422
Rudnick, D. L., Zeiden, K. A., Ou, C. Y., Johnston, T. M. S., Mackinnon, J. A., Alford, M. H., & Voet, G. (2019). Understanding vorticity caused by flow passing an island. Oceanography, 32(4), 66–73. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.412
Siegelman, M., Merrifield, M. A., Firing, E., Mackinnon, J. A., Alford, M. H., Voet, G., Wijesekera, H. W., Schramek, T. A., Zeiden, K. L., & Terrill, E. J. (2019). Observations of near-inertial surface currents at Palau. Oceanography, 32(4), 74–83. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.413
Adams, K., Mackinnon, J., Lucas, A. J., Nash, J., Shroyer, E., & Farrar, J. T. (2019). Multi-platform observations of small-scale lateral mixed layer variability in the northern Bay of Bengal. Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.07.017
Alberty, M., Sprintall, J., Mackinnon, J., Germineaud, C., Cravatte, S., & Ganachaud, A. (2019). Moored observations of transport in the Solomon Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jc015143
Zeiden, K. L., Rudnick, D. L., & Mackinnon, J. A. (2019). Glider observations of a mesoscale oceanic island wake. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49(9), 2217–2235. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-18-0233.1
Mackinnon, J. A., Alford, M. H., Voet, G., Zeiden, K., Johnston, T. M. S., Siegelman, M., Merrifield, S., & Merrifield, M. (2019). Eddy wake generation from broadband currents near Palau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jc014945
Whalen, C. B., Mackinnon, J. A., & Talley, L. D. (2018). Large-scale impacts of the mesoscale environment on mixing from wind-driven internal waves. Nature Geoscience, 11(11), 842-+. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0213-6
Fine, E. C., Mackinnon, J. A., Alford, M. H., & Mickett, J. B. (2018). Microstructure Observations of Turbulent Heat Fluxes in a Warm-Core Canada Basin Eddy. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48(10), 2397–2418. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-18-0028.1
Amy F. Waterhouse, Samuel M. Kelly, Zhongxiang Zhao, Jennifer A. Mackinnon, Jonathan D. Nash, Harper Simmons, Dmitry Brahznikov, Luc Rainville, Matthew Alford, & Rob Pinkel. (2018). Observations of the Tasman Sea internal tide beam. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48(6), 1283–1297. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-17-0116.1
Ramachandran, S., Tandon, A., Mackinnon, J., Lucas, A. J., Pinkel, R., Waterhouse, A. F., Nash, J., Shroyer, E., Mahadevan, A., Weller, R. A., & Farrar, J. T. (2018). Submesoscale processes at shallow salinity fronts in the Bay of Bengal: Observations during the winter monsoon. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48(3), 479–509. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-16-0283.1