Francisco Javier Beron-Vera's Publications

2009

Beron-Vera, F. J. Mixing by high- and low-resolution surface ocean currents. J. Geophys. Res., submitted.

Beron-Vera, F. J., M. J. Olascoaga and G. J. Goni. Surface ocean mixing inferred from multisatellite altimetry measurements. Marine Geodesy, submitted.

Reniers, A. J. H. M., J. H. MacMahan, F. J. Beron-Vera and M. J. Olascoaga (2009). Rip-current pulses tied to Lagrangian coherent structures. Geophys. Res. Lett., submitted.

Beron-Vera, F. J., M. J. Olascoaga, M. G. Brown, H. Kocak and I. I. Rypina. Invariant-tori-like Lagrangian coherent structures in geophysical flows. Chaos, in press. (Invited contribution to Chaos Focus Issue on Lagrangian coherent structures.)

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

Beron-Vera, F. J. and M. J. Olascoaga. An assessment of the importance of chaotic stirring and turbulent mixing in the West Florida Shelf, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 9, 1743-1755.

2008

M. J. Olascoaga, F. J. Beron-Vera, L. E. Brand and H. Kocak. Tracing the early development of harmful algal blooms on the West Florida Shelf with the aid of Lagrangian coherent structures. J. Geophys. Res., 113, C12014, doi:10.1029/2007JC004533.

Beron-Vera, F. J., M. J. Olascoaga and G. J. Goni. Oceanic mesoscale eddies as revealed by Lagrangian coherent structures, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2008GL033957,

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

2007

Rypina, I. I., M. G. Brown, F. J. Beron-Vera, H. Kocak, M. J. Olascoaga and I. A. Udovydchenkov. Robust transport barriers resulting from strong Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser stability, Phys. Rev Lett. 98, 104102

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

2006

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

2005

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

2004

Beron-Vera, F. J., M. J. Olascoaga and J. Zavala-Garay. Linear waves and baroclinic instability in an inhomogeneous layer primitive equations ocean model, ICTAM04 Abstract Book and CD-ROM Proceedings, ISBN 83-89687-01-1, IPPT PAN, Warsaw (e-Print arXiv:physics/0401078).

Beron-Vera F. J. and M. G. Brown. 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. Passive tracer patchiness and particle trajectory stability in incompressible two-dimensional flows, Nonlin. Proc. Geophys. 11: 67-74.

2003

Beron-Vera, F. J. A didactic approach to linear waves in the ocean, inedit (e-Print arXiv:physics/0401035).

Olascoaga, M. J., F. J. Beron-Vera and J. Sheinbaum. Deep ocean influence on upper ocean baroclinic instability saturation, in O. U. Velasco-Fuentes, J. Sheinbaum, and J. L. Ochoa (eds.), Nonlinear Processes in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: A Tribute to the Scientific Work of Pedro Ripa, Kluwer Academic, pp. 15-28.

Beron-Vera, F. J. Constrained Hamiltonian shallow water dynamics on the sphere, in O. U. Velasco-Fuentes, J. Sheinbaum, and J. L. Ochoa (eds.), Nonlinear Processes in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: A Tribute to the Scientific Work of Pedro Ripa, Kluwer Academic, pp. 29-51.

Beron-Vera, F. J., M. G. Brown, J. Colosi, S. Tomsovic, A. L. Virovlyansky, M. A. Wolfson, G. M. Zaslavsky. Ray dynamics in a long-range acoustic propagation experiment, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114: 1,226-1,242.

Beron-Vera F. J. and M. G. Brown. Ray stability in weakly range-dependent sound channels, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114: 123-130.

Beron-Vera, F. J. and M. J. Olascoaga. Spectral, formal, and nonlinear stability in a layered quasigeostrophic model with application to the Atlantic North Equatorial Current, in P. Malanotte-Rizzoli and G. J. Goni (eds.), Interhemispheric Water Exchange in the Atlantic Ocean, Elsevier Oceanographic Series 68, Elsevier Science, pp. 313-334.

2002

Beron-Vera, F. J. and P. Ripa. Seasonal salinity balance in the Gulf of California, J. Geophys. Res., 107(C8): 10.1029/2000JC000769.

2000

Beron-Vera, F. J. and P. Ripa. Three-dimensional aspects of the seasonal heat balance in the Gulf of California, J. Geophys. Res. 105: 11,441-11,457.

Beron-Vera, F. J. and P. Ripa. Three-dimensional aspects of the seasonal heat balance in the Gulf of California, J. Geophys. Res. 105: 11,441-11,457. (Errata.)

1999

Beron-Vera, F. J., J. Ochoa and P. Ripa. A note on boundary conditions for salt and freshwater balances, Ocean Modelling 1: 111-118.

1997

Beron-Vera, F. J. and P. Ripa. Free boundary effects on baroclinic instability, J. Fluid Mech. 352: 245-264.