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Leah Johnson
Senior Oceanographer, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington
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Physical Mechanisms Sustaining Silica Production Following the Demise of the Diatom Phase of the North Atlantic Spring Phytoplankton Bloom During EXPORTS
GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
16 july 2024
Mark Brzezinski, Leah Johnson, Margaret Estapa, Sa...

Each spring, the North Atlantic experiences one of the largest open‐ocean phytoplankton blooms in the global ocean. Diatoms often dominate th...

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The impact of mixed layer variability on SST prediction
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
air-sea interactions | 23 february 2024
Leah Johnson, Simon P. de Szoeke, Aneesh Subramani...
Subseasonal to seasonal forecasts are likely to improve from better sea surface temperature (SST) predictions, as SST is the bottom boundary condition...
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Precipitating Fronts in the Bay of Bengal
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
air-sea interactions | 22 february 2024
Taylor McKie, Leah Johnson, Tamara L. Schlosser, D...
The one-dimensional impacts of precipitation on the surface ocean are known to create complex patterns in vertical stratification and enhance interact...
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Particle dynamics, sinking carbon export and the demise of the North Atlantic spring bloom: Results from the EXPORTS-NA field campaign
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
ocean biology and biogeochemistry | 22 february 2024
David Siegel, Margaret Estapa, Adrian Burd, Erik F...
The sinking particle flux dominates the export and long-term sequestration of organic carbon by the ocean's biological pump and a myriad of ecological...
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Eddy Tracking From In Situ and Satellite Observations
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: OCEANS
25 august 2023
Zachary K. Erickson, Erik Fields, Leah Johnson, An...

Mesoscale eddies are a dominant source of spatial variability in the surface ocean and play a major role in the biological marine carbon cycle. Sat...

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Multi‐Scale Temporal Variability of Turbulent Mixing During a Monsoon Intra‐Seasonal Oscillation in the Bay of Bengal: An LES Study
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: OCEANS
19 january 2023
Hieu T. Pham, Baylor Fox-Kemper, Leah Johnson, Qin...

A process study using large‐eddy simulations is carried out to explore the dominant 1‐D processes that affect mixed layer (ML) properti...

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Modeling the Ocean Mixed Layer Response to Atmospheric Monsoon Forcing
OCEAN SCIENCES 2020
air-sea interactions | 17 february 2020
Leah Johnson, Baylor Fox-Kemper, Qing Li
Sea surface temperature variability plays a key role in monsoon intraseasonal oscillation dynamics over the Bay of Bengal. The relatively shallow mixe...
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Langmuir and mesoscale and submesoscale and bears, oh my! Assessing process impacts on climate
OCEAN SCIENCES 2020
physical oceanography: mesoscale and larger | 17 february 2020
Baylor Fox-Kemper, Steven C. Clemens, Leah Johnson...
Under anthropogenic change, the ocean is the reservoir of anomalous energy and much of the anomalous carbon. Over days, seasons, and decades these ano...
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