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Bibliography - Sonya Legg

  1. Wang, Yang, and Sonya Legg, October 2023: Enhanced dissipation of internal tides in a mesoscale baroclinic eddy. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 53(10), DOI:10.1175/JPO-D-23-0045.12293-2316.
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  2. Legg, Sonya, January 2021: Mixing by oceanic lee waves. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 53, DOI:10.1146/annurev-fluid-051220-043904.
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  3. Nazarian, Robert, Christian M Burns, Sonya Legg, Maarten C Buijsman, Harpreet Kaur, and Brian K Arbic, November 2021: On the magnitude of canyon-induced mixing. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126(11), DOI:10.1029/2021JC017671.
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  4. Spingys, Carl P., Alberto C Naveira Garabato, and Sonya Legg, et al., April 2021: Mixing and transformation in a deep western boundary current: A case study. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(4), DOI:10.1175/JPO-D-20-0132.11205-1222.
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  5. Yankovsky, Elizabeth, Sonya Legg, and Robert Hallberg, June 2021: Parameterization of submesoscale symmetric instability in dense flows along topography. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13(6), DOI:10.1029/2020MS002264.
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  6. Adcroft, Alistair, Whit G Anderson, V Balaji, Chris Blanton, Mitchell Bushuk, Carolina O Dufour, John P Dunne, Stephen M Griffies, Robert Hallberg, Matthew J Harrison, Isaac M Held, Malte Jansen, Jasmin G John, John P Krasting, Amy R Langenhorst, Sonya Legg, Zhi Liang, Colleen McHugh, Aparna Radhakrishnan, Brandon G Reichl, Anthony Rosati, Bonita L Samuels, Andrew Shao, Ronald J Stouffer, Michael Winton, Andrew T Wittenberg, Baoqiang Xiang, Niki Zadeh, and Rong Zhang, October 2019: The GFDL Global Ocean and Sea Ice Model OM4.0: Model Description and Simulation Features. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11(10), DOI:10.1029/2019MS001726.
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  7. Fox-Kemper, Baylor, Alistair Adcroft, C Böning, Eric P Chassignet, Enrique N Curchitser, Gokhan Danabasoglu, C Eden, Matthew H England, R Gerdes, R J Greatbatch, Stephen M Griffies, Robert Hallberg, E Hanert, P Heimbach, Helene T Hewitt, C Hill, Y Komuro, and Sonya Legg, et al., February 2019: Challenges and Prospects in Ocean Circulation Models. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 65, DOI:10.3389/fmars.2019.00065.
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  8. Naveira Garabato, Alberto C., Eleanor E Frajka-Williams, Carl P Spingys, Sonya Legg, Kurt L Polzin, A Forryan, E Povl Abrahamsen, Christian E Buckingham, and Stephen M Griffies, July 2019: Rapid mixing and exchange of deep-ocean waters in an abyssal boundary current. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(27), DOI:10.1073/pnas.1904087116.
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  9. Yankovsky, Elizabeth, and Sonya Legg, January 2019: Symmetric and Baroclinic Instability in Dense Shelf Overflows. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49(1), DOI:10.1175/JPO-D-18-0072.1.
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  10. Mouw, Colleen, S Clem, Sonya Legg, and J Stockard, December 2018: Meeting Mentoring Needs in Physical Oceanography: An Evaluation of the Impact of MPOWIR. Oceanography, 31(4), DOI:10.5670/oceanog.2018.405.
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  11. Wang, He, Sonya Legg, and Robert Hallberg, July 2018: The Effect of Arctic Freshwater Pathways on North Atlantic Convection and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Journal of Climate, 31(13), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0629.1.
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  12. MacKinnon, J A., M H Alford, Joseph K Ansong, Brian K Arbic, A Barna, B P Briegleb, F O Bryan, Maarten C Buijsman, Eric P Chassignet, Gokhan Danabasoglu, S Diggs, Stephen M Griffies, Robert Hallberg, S R Jayne, M Jochum, J Klymak, E Kunze, William G Large, Sonya Legg, B Mater, and Angelique Melet, et al., November 2017: Climate Process Team on Internal-Wave Driven Ocean Mixing. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98(11), DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0030.1.
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  13. Nazarian, Robert, and Sonya Legg, October 2017: Internal Wave Scattering in Continental Slope Canyons, Part 1: Theory and Development of a Ray Tracing Algorithm. Ocean Modelling, 118, DOI:10.1016/j.ocemod.2017.07.002.
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  14. Nazarian, Robert, and Sonya Legg, October 2017: Internal Wave Scattering in Continental Slope Canyons, Part 2: A Comparison of Ray Tracing and Numerical Simulations. Ocean Modelling, 118, DOI:10.1016/j.ocemod.2017.07.005.
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  15. Ummenhofer, C, A Subramanian, and Sonya Legg, November 2017: Maintaining Momentum in Climate Model Development. EOS, 98, DOI:10.1029/2017EO086501.
  16. Yi, Y R., Sonya Legg, and Robert Nazarian, October 2017: The Impact of Topographic Steepness on Tidal Dissipation at Bumpy Topography. Fluids, 2(4), 55, DOI:10.3390/fluids2040055.
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  17. Melet, Angelique, Sonya Legg, and Robert Hallberg, May 2016: Climatic impacts of parameterized local and remote tidal mixing. Journal of Climate, 29(10), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0153.1.
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  18. Subramanian, A, C Ummenhofer, A Giannini, Marika M Holland, Sonya Legg, A Mahadevan, D Perovich, J Small, João Teixeira, and L Thompson, August 2016: Translating process understanding to improve climate models, A US CLIVAR white paper, Report 2016-3, DOI:10.5065/D63X851Q 48pp.
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  19. Turnewitsch, R, Matthew Dumont, K Kiriakoulakis, and Sonya Legg, et al., December 2016: Tidal influence on particulate organic carbon export fluxes around a tall seamount. Progress in Oceanography, 149, DOI:10.1016/j.pocean.2016.10.009.
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  20. Alford, M H., S L Peacock, J A MacKinnon, J D Nash, Maarten C Buijsman, L R Centuroni, Shenn-Yu Chao, Ming-Huei Chang, D M Farmer, O B Fringer, Ke-Hsien Fu, P C Gallacher, H C Graber, K R Helfrich, S M Jachec, C R Jackson, J Klymak, D-S Ko, T M Shaun Johnston, and Sonya Legg, et al., May 2015: The formation and fate of internal waves in the South China Sea. Nature, 521(7550), DOI:10.1038/nature14399.
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  21. Melet, Angelique, Robert Hallberg, Alistair Adcroft, M Nikurashin, and Sonya Legg, March 2015: Energy flux into internal lee waves: sensitivity to future climate changes using linear theory and a climate model. Journal of Climate, 28(6), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00432.1.
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  22. Wang, He, Sonya Legg, and Robert Hallberg, February 2015: Representations of the Nordic Seas overflows and their large scale climate impact in coupled models. Ocean Modelling, 86, DOI:10.1016/j.ocemod.2014.12.005.
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  23. Buijsman, Maarten C., J Klymak, and Sonya Legg, et al., March 2014: Three Dimensional Double Ridge Internal Tide Resonance in Luzon Strait. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44(3), DOI:10.1175/JPO-D-13-024.1.
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  24. Clem, S, Sonya Legg, S Lozier, and Colleen Mouw, December 2014: The Impact of MPOWIR: A Decade of Investing in Mentoring Women in Physical Oceanography. Oceanography, 27(4), DOI:10.5670/oceanog.2014.113.
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  25. Ilicak, M, Alistair Adcroft, and Sonya Legg, October 2014: A framework for parameterization of heterogeneous ocean convection. Ocean Modelling, 82, DOI:10.1016/j.ocemod.2014.07.002.
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  26. Legg, Sonya, January 2014: Scattering of low-mode internal waves at finite isolated topography. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44(1), DOI:10.1175/JPO-D-12-0241.1.
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  27. Melet, Angelique, Robert Hallberg, Sonya Legg, and M Nikurashin, March 2014: Sensitivity of the Ocean State to Lee Wave Driven Mixing. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44(3), DOI:10.1175/JPO-D-13-072.1.
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  28. Klymak, J, Maarten C Buijsman, Sonya Legg, and R Pinkel, July 2013: Parameterizing surface and internal tide scattering and breaking on supercritical topography: the one- and two-ridge cases. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 43(7), DOI:10.1175/JPO-D-12-061.1.
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  29. Melet, Angelique, Robert Hallberg, Sonya Legg, and Kurt L Polzin, March 2013: Sensitivity of the Ocean State to the Vertical Distribution of Internal-Tide Driven Mixing. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 43(3), DOI:10.1175/JPO-D-12-055.1.
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  30. Buijsman, Maarten C., Sonya Legg, and J Klymak, August 2012: Double Ridge Internal Tide Interference and its Effect on Dissipation in Luzon Strait. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 42(8), DOI:10.1175/JPO-D-11-0210.1.
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  31. Klymak, J, Sonya Legg, M H Alford, Maarten C Buijsman, R Pinkel, and J D Nash, June 2012: The direct breaking of internal waves at steep topography. Oceanography, 25(2), DOI:10.5670/oceanog.2012.50.
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  32. Coles, V, L Gerber, Sonya Legg, and S Lozier, June 2011: Mentoring Groups: A non-exit strategy for women in physical oceanography. Oceanography, 24(2), DOI:10.5670/oceanog.2011.43.
  33. Ilicak, M, Sonya Legg, Alistair Adcroft, and Robert Hallberg, April 2011: Dynamics of a dense gravity current flowing over a corrugation. Ocean Modelling, 38(1-2), DOI:10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.02.004.
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  34. Nikurashin, M, and Sonya Legg, February 2011: A mechanism for local dissipation of internal tides generated at rough topography. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 41(2), DOI:10.1175/2010JPO4522.1.
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  35. Griffies, Stephen M., Alistair Adcroft, Anand Gnanadesikan, Robert Hallberg, Matthew J Harrison, Sonya Legg, C M Little, M Nikurashin, Anna Pirani, Bonita L Samuels, J R Toggweiler, and Geoffrey K Vallis, et al., September 2010: Problems and prospects in large-scale ocean circulation models In Ocean Obs '09, 21-25 September, Venice, Italy, ESA Special Publication, DOI:10.5270/OceanObs09.cwp.38.
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  36. Klymak, J, and Sonya Legg, April 2010: A simple mixing scheme for models that resolve breaking internal waves. Ocean Modelling, 33(3-4), DOI:10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.02.005.
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  37. Klymak, J, Sonya Legg, and R Pinkel, September 2010: A simple parameterization of turbulent tidal mixing near supercritical topography. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 40(9), DOI:10.1175/2010JPO4396.1.
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  38. Klymak, J, Sonya Legg, and R Pinkel, February 2010: High-mode stationary waves in stratified flow over large obstacles. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 644, DOI:10.1017/S0022112009992503.
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  39. Griffies, Stephen M., Alistair Adcroft, V Balaji, Robert Hallberg, Sonya Legg, T Martin, and Anna Pirani, et al., February 2009: Sampling Physical Ocean Field in WCRP CMIP5 Simulations: CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development (WGOMD) Committee on CMIP5 Ocean Model Output, International CLIVAR Project Office, CLIVAR Publication Series No. 137, 56pp.
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  40. Legg, Sonya, Tal Ezer, Stephen M Griffies, Robert Hallberg, and L Jackson, et al., May 2009: Improving oceanic overflow representation in climate models: The gravity current entrainment climate process team. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90(5), DOI:10.1175/2008BAMS2667.1.
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  41. Green, J A M., J H Simpson, Sonya Legg, and M R Palmer, 2008: Internal waves, baroclinic energy fluxes and mixing at the European shelf edge. Continental Shelf Research, 28(7), DOI:10.1016/j.csr.2008.01.014.
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  42. Jackson, L, Robert Hallberg, and Sonya Legg, May 2008: A Parameterization of shear-driven turbulence for ocean climate models. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38(5), DOI:10.1175/2007JPO3779.1.
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  43. Legg, Sonya, L Jackson, and Robert Hallberg, 2008: Eddy-resolving modeling of overflows In Ocean Modeling in an Eddying Regime, Geophysical Monograph 177, M. W. Hecht, and H. Hasumi, eds., Washington, DC, American Geophysical Union, 63-82.
  44. Legg, Sonya, and J Klymak, September 2008: Internal hydraulic jumps and overturning generated by tidal flow over a tall steep ridge. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38(9), DOI:10.1175/2008JPO3777.1.
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  45. Riemenschneider, U, and Sonya Legg, 2007: Regional simulations of the Faroe Bank Channel overflow in a level model. Ocean Modelling, 17(2), DOI:10.1016/j.ocemod.2007.01.003.
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  46. Legg, Sonya, Robert Hallberg, and J B Girton, 2006: Comparison of entrainment in overflows simulated by z-coordinate, isopycnal and non-hydrostatic models. Ocean Modelling, 11(1-2), DOI:10.1016/j.ocemod.2004.11.006.
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  47. Legg, Sonya, and K M H Huijts, 2006: Preliminary simulations of internal waves and mixing generated by finite amplitude tidal flow over isolated topography. Deep-Sea Research, Part II, 53(1-2), DOI:10.1016/j.dsr2.2005.09.014.
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