People

Michael G. Brown

Michael G. Brown

Professor, Applied Marine Physics

RSMAS/AMP
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149

Tel: 305.421.4640
mbrown@rsmas.miami.edu

Lab Website

underwater sound propagation, Lagrangian dynamics and transport processes in the ocean and atmosphere, surface gravity wave dynamics.

Udovydchenkov, I. A., I. I. Rypina and M. G. Brown, 2010, Mode filters and energy conservation, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, EL185-EL191.

Beron-Vera, F. J., M. J. Olascoaga, M. G. Brown, H. Kocak and I. I. Rypina, 2010, Invariant-tori-like Lagrangian coherent structures in geophysical flows, Chaos 20, 017514, doi10.1063/1.3271342.

Beron-Vera, F. J., and M. G. Brown, 2009, Underwater acoustic beam dynamics, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 126, 80-91.

Rypina, I. I., M. G. Brown and H. Kocak, 2009, Transport in an idealized three-gyre system with application to the Adriatic Sea, J. Phys. Ocean. 39, 675-690, doi:10.1175/2008JPO3975.1.

Beron-Vera, F. J., M. G. Brown, M. J. Olascoaga, I. I. Rypina, H. Kocak and I. A. Udovydchenkov, 2008, Zonal jets as transport barriers in planetary atmospheres, J. Atmos. Sci. 65, 3316-3326, doi:10.1175/2008JAS2579.1.

Udovydchenkov, I. A., and M. G. Brown, 2008, Modal group time spreads in weakly range-dependent deep ocean environments, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123, 41-50.

Rypina, I. I., and M. G. Brown, 2007, On the width of a ray, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122, 1440-1448.

Rypina, I. I., M. G. Brown, F. J. Beron-Vera, H. Kocak, M. J. Olascoaga and I. A. Udovydchenkov, 2007, Robust transport barriers resulting from strong KAM stability, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 104102, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.104102.

Rypina, I. I., M. G. Brown, F. J. Beron-Vera, H. Kocak, M. J. Olascoaga and I. A. Udovydchenkov, 2007, On the Lagrangian dynamics of atmospheric zonal jets and the permeability of the stratospheric polar vortex, J. Atmos. Sci. 64, 3595-3610.

Olascoaga, M. J., I. I. Rypina, M. G. Brown, F. J. Beron-Vera, H. Kocak, L. E. Brand, G. R. Halliwell and L. K. Shay, 2006, Persistent transport barrier on the West Florida Shelf, Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L22603, doi:10.1029/2006GL027800.

Rypina, I. I., I. A. Udovydchenkov and M. G. Brown, 2006, A transformation of the environment eliminates parabolic equation phase errors, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 1295-1304.

Brown, M. G., F. J. Beron-Vera, I. Rypina and I. Udovydchenkov, 2005, Rays, modes, wavefield structure and wavefield stability, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117, 1607-1610.

Beron-Vera, F. J., and M. G. Brown, 2004, Travel time stability in weakly range-dependent sound channels, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 1068-1077.

Beron-Vera, F. J., M. J. Olascoaga and M. G. Brown, 2004, Passive tracer patchiness and particle trajectory stability in incompressible two-dimensional flows, Nonlin. Processes in Geophys. 11(1), 67-74 (1607-7946/npg/2004-11-67).

Beron-Vera, F. J., and M. G. Brown, 2003, Ray stability in weakly range-dependent sound channels, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114, 122-130.

Beron-Vera, F. J., M. G. Brown, J. A. Colosi, S. Tomsovic, A. L. Virovlyansky, M. A. Wolfson, G. M. Zaslavsky, 2003, Ray dynamics in a long-range acoustic propagation experiment, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114, 1226-1242.

Brown, M. G., J. A. Colosi, S. Tomsovic, A. L. Virovlyansky, M. A. Wolfson, G. M. Zaslavsky, 2003, Ray dynamics in long-range deep ocean sound propagation, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, 2533-2547.

Brown, M. G., and A. Jensen, 2001, Experiments on focusing unidirectional water waves, J. Geophys. Res. 106 , 16917-16928.

Brown, M. G., 2001, Space-time surface gravity wave caustics: Structurally stable extreme wave events, Wave Motion 33, 117-143.

Brown, M. G., 2000, The Maslov integral representation of slowly-varying dispersive wavetrains in inhomogeneous moving media, Wave Motion 32, 247-266.