Reviewed papers
Barimalala R., A. Bracco and F. Kucharski
(2011)
The representation of the South Tropical Atlantic teleconnection t
o the Indian Ocean in the AR4
coupled models
Luo H., A. Bracco and E. Di Lorenzo
(2011)
The interannual variability of the surface eddy kinetic energy in the Labrador Sea
Progress in Oceanography, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2011.01.006 [pdf file]
Neelin J. D., A. Bracco, H. Luo,
J.C. McWilliams and J.E. Meyerson (2010)
Considerations for parameter optimization and sensitivity in
climate models
Proc. Nat. Acad. Science, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1015473107 [pdf file]
Di Lorenzo E., K.M. Cobb, J.C. Furtado, N. Schneider, A. Bracco, M.A. Alexander and D.J. Vimont (2010)
Central Pacific El Nino and decadal climate change in the North Pacific Ocean
Nature Geosciences, doi: 10.1038/NGEO984 [pdf file]
Kucharski F., A. Bracco, R. Barimalala and J.H. Yoo
(2010)
Contribution of the east-west thermal heating contrast to the South Asian Monsoon and
consequences for its variability
Climate Dyn., doi: 10.1007/s00382-010-0858-3 [pdf file]
Bracco A. and J. C. McWilliams (2010)
Reynolds-number dependency in homogeneous, stationary two-dimensional turbulence.
Koszalka I., L. Ceballos and A. Bracco
Vertical mixing and coherent anticyclones in the ocean:
The role of stratification (2010)
NonLinear Processes in Geosciences, 17, 37-47 [pdf file]
Koszalka I., A. Bracco, J. C. McWilliams and A. Provenzale (2009)
Dynamics of wind-forced coherent anticyclones in the open ocean.
J. Geophysical Research -Oceans, 114, C08011, doi:10.1029/2009JC005388 [pdf file]
Di Lorenzo E., J. Fiechter, N. Schneider, A. Bracco, A. J. Miller, P. J. S. Franks, S. J. Bograd , A. M. Moore, A. Thomas, W. Crawford A. Pena and A. Herman (2009)
Nutrient and Salinity Decadal Variations in the central and eastern North Pacific.
Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2009GL038261. [pdf file]
Wang C., F. Kucharski, R. Barimalala and A. Bracco (2009)
Teleconnections of the Tropical Atlantic to the Tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans: A Review of Recent Findings
Special Issue of Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 18, 445-454, doi:10.1127/0945 [pdf file]
Furtado J.C., E. Di Lorenzo, K.M. Cobb and A. Bracco (2009)
Paleoclimate
reconstructions of tropical seas surface temperatures from
precipitation proxies: Methods, uncertainties and nonstationarity.
J. Climate, 22(5),1104-1123, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2415.1 [pdf file]
Kucharski F., A. Bracco, J.H. Yoo, A. Tompkins, L. Feudale, P. Ruti and A. dell'Aquila (2009)
A Gill-Mastuno-type mechanism explains the Tropical Atlantic influence on African and Indian Monsoon rainfall
Quart. J. Royal Meteor. Soc. - doi:10.1002/qj.406, 135, 569-579 [pdf file]
Bracco A., S. Clayton and C. Pasquero (2009)
Horizontal advection, diffusion and plankton spectra at the sea surface.
J. Geophysical Research - Oceans, 114, C02001, doi:10.1029/2007JC004671 [pdf file]
Bracco A., J. Pedlosky, R. S. Pickart (2008)
Eddy formation near the West coast of Greenland
J. Physical Oceanography, 38(9), 1992-2002 [pdf file]
Kucharski F., A. Bracco, J.H. Yoo and F. Molteni (2008)
The Atlantic forced component of the Indian Monsoon interannual variability
Geophysical Research Letters, L04706, doi:10129/2007GL033037 [pdf file]
Koszalka I., A. Bracco, C. Pasquero and A. Provenzale (2007)
Plankton cycles disguised by turbulent advection
Theoretical Population Biology, doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2007.03.007. [pdf file]
Kucharski F., A. Bracco, J.H. Yoo and F. Molteni (2007)
Low-frequency variability of the Indian monsoon - ENSO relation and the Tropical Atlantic:
The 'weakening' of the '80s and '90s.
Bracco A., F. Kucharski, F. Molteni, W. Hazeleger and C. Savierijns (2007)
A recipe for simulating the interannual variability of the Asian summer monsoon and its relation with ENSO
Climate Dynamics doi: 10.1007/s000382-006-0190-0 [pdf file]
Kucharski F., F. Molteni F. and A. Bracco (2006)
Decadal interactions between the Western tropical Pacific and the North Atlantic Oscillation
Climate Dynamics, 26(1), 79-91, doi 10.1007/s000382-005-0085-5 [pdf file]
Bracco A., F. Kucharski, F. Molteni, W. Hazeleger and C. Severijns (2005)
Internal and forced modes of variability in the Indian Ocean.
Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L12707, doi: 10.1029/2005GL023154. [pdf file]
Pasquero C., A. Bracco and A. Provenzale (2005)
Impact of the spatio-temporal variability of the nutrient flux on primary productivity in the ocean.
J. Geophysical Research - Oceans, 110, C07005, doi:10.129/2004JC002738. [pdf file]
Kucharski F., F. Molteni F. and A. Bracco (2005)
A western tropical Pacific relation to the NAO.
Bull. American Meteor. Soc., 86(10), 1418-1419
Bracco A., F. Kucharski, R. Kallummal and F. Molteni (2004)
Internal variability, external forcing and climate trends in multi-decadal AGCM ensembles
Climate Dynamics, 23(6), 659-678, doi: 10.1007/s00382-004-0465-2 [pdf file]
Bracco A., J von Hardenberg, A. Provenzale, J. Weiss and J.C. McWilliams (2004)
Dispersion and mixing in quasigeostrophic turbulence.
Physical Review Letters, 92 (8), 084501-1 - 4 [pdf file]
Bracco A., E. P. Chassignet, Z. Garraffo and A. Provenzale (2003)
Lagrangian velocity distributions in a high resolution numerical simulation of the North Atlantic.
J. Atmospheric and Oceanic Techn., 8, 1212-1220 [pdf file]
Bracco A. and J. Pedlosky (2003)
Local baroclinic instabilities over variable topography in channel flows.
Martin A., J. K. Richards, A. Bracco and A. Provenzale (2002)
Patchy productivity in the open ocean.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, doi:10.1029/2001GB001449
Also in Editor's Choice: Biogeosciences, July 2002.
Berloff P., J. C. McWilliams and A. Bracco (2002)
Material Transport in Oceanic Gyres. Part I: Phenomenology.
J. Physical Oceanography, 32, 764-796.
Bracco A., J. C. McWilliams, G. Murante, A. Provenzale and J. B. Weiss (2000)
Revisiting 2D turbulence at millennial resolution.
Bracco A., J. LaCasce, C. Pasquero and A. Provenzale (2000)
Velocity PDFs in barotropic turbulence,
Bracco A., A. Provenzale, I. Scheuring, (2000)
Mesoscale vortices and the paradox of the plankton.
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B., 267 (1454), 1795-1800. [pdf file]
Bracco A., J. LaCasce, A. Provenzale (2000)
Velocity probability density functions for oceanic floats.
Bracco A. (2000)
Boundary layer separation in the Surface Quasi-Geostrophic equations.
Nuovo Cimento C, 23(5), 487-506.
Bracco A. (2000)
Transport of passive tracers by monopoles on the beta-plane.
Nuovo Cimento C, 23 (6), 597-609.
Bracco A., P. Chavanis, A. Provenzale and E. A Spiegel (1999)
Particle aggregation in a turbulent keplerian flow.
Reports and volumes
Bracco A., F. Kucharski and B. E. Rosenheim
Commentary: Challenges in the Tropical Atlantic: Understanding its interannual to decadal variability.
To be published in "The Atlantic Ocean: New Oceanographic Research", Nova Science Publishers, Inc. NY [pdf file]
Provenzale, A. Babiano, A. Bracco, C. Pasquero and J. Weiss (2008)
Coherent vortices and tracer transport.
In Lecture Notes Phys. 744,pp. 101-116,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin [pdf file]
Pasquero C., A. Bracco and A. Provenzale (2004)
Coherent vortices, Lagrangian particles and the marine ecosystem
In Shallow Flows, pp. 399-412, edited by G.H. Jirka and W.S.J. Uijttewaal, Balkema Publishers,Leiden, NL. [pdf file]
Hazeleger W., F. Molteni, C. Severijns, R. Haarsma, A. Bracco and F. Kucharski (2003)
SPEEDO: A flexible coupled model for climate studies.
Clivar Exchanges N. 28 - Coupled Modelling. [pdf file]
Bracco A., J. von Hardenberg, A. Provenzale, J. B. Weiss (2003)
Modeling planetary turbulence at very high Reynolds number.
In Science and Supercomputing at CINECA. [pdf file]
Bracco A., A. Provenzale, E. A Spiegel, P. A. Jecko (1999)
Spotted disks.
In Theory of Black Hole Accretion Disks, ed. M. Abramowicz, G. Bjornson, J. Pringle. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press [pdf file]
Bracco A. (1998)
Statistical properties of subsurface float trajectories in the Atlantic Ocean.
TAO Exchange Grant Technical Report.
Bracco A. (1997)
Boundary layer separation in the Surface Quasi-Geostrophic equations.
In "WHOI 1997 -
Course Lectures, Abstracts of Partecipants, Program Notes'', Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution Technical Report, WHOI-98-09.
Bracco A. (2000)
Dynamics of coherent vortices in geophysical flows.
PhD thesis.
Publications Submitted
Cardona Y., and A. Bracco
(2011)
Enhanced vertical mixing within mesoscale eddies due to high freqnecy winds in the South China Sea
Zhong Y., A. Bracco and T. Villareal (2011)