asl publications


lab members


on-line publications

dr. paula sue fratantoni
research specialist


refereed publications

Gilbert, P. S., T. N. Lee, and G. P. Podesta, 1996. Transport of anomalous low-salinity waters from the Mississippi River flood of 1993 to the Straits of Florida.  Continental Shelf Research, 16, 1065-1085.

Fratantoni, P. S., T. N. Lee, G. P. Podesta, and F. Müller-Karger, 1998.  The influence of Loop Current perturbations on the formation and evolution of Tortugas eddies in the southern Straits of Florida.  Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 24,759-24,779.

Fratantoni, P. S., R. S. Pickart, D. J. Torres, and A. Scotti, 2001.  Mean structure and dynamics of the shelfbreak jet in the Middle Atlantic Bight during fall and winter.  Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31(8), Part 1, 2135-2156.

Fratantoni, P. S., and R. S. Pickart, 2003.  Variability of the shelfbreak jet in the Middle Atlantic Bight: Internally or externally forced? Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, (C5) 3166, doi: 10.1029/2002JC001326.

Pickart. R. S., D. Torres, and P. Fratantoni, 2005. The East Greenland Spill Jet, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 35, 1037-1053.

Fratantoni, P. S., and R. S. Pickart, 2007. The western North Atlantic Shelfbreak Current System in Summer. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37, 2509-2533.

Spall, M.A., R. S. Pickart, P. S. Fratantoni, A. J. Plueddemann, 2008. Western Arctic Shelfbreak Eddies: Formation and transport, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38, 1644-1668.

Pickart, R. S., G. W. K. Moore, D. J. Torres, P. S. Fratantoni, R. A. Goldsmith, and J. Yang, 2009. Upwelling on the continental slope of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea: Storms, ice, and oceanographic response.Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, C00A13, do:10.1029/2008JC005009.

Nikolopoulos, A., R.S. Pickart, P. S. Fratantoni, D.J. Torres, and E.P. Jones, The western arctic boundary current at 152W: Structure, variability, and transport, Deep Sea Research II, in press.

Fratantoni, P. S. and M. S. McCartney, 2009. Freshwater export from the Labrador Current to the North Atlantic Current at the Tail of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, submitted.

 

conference presentations

Gilbert, P. S., T. N. Lee, G. P. Podesta, and P. Ortner, 1994. Mississippi River water in the Florida Straits, Florida Coastal Ocean Sciences Symposium, Miami, Florida, April 21-22.

Gilbert, P.S., T. N. Lee, G. P. Podesta, and P. Ortner, 1994.  Mississippi River water in the Florida Straits, EOS Transactions, AGU, 75, 209.

Gilbert, P.S., and T. N. Lee, 1995. Coastal gyres in the Florida Stratis and their effects on recruitment, Fourth Scientific Meeting of The Oceanography Society, Newport, Rhode Island, April 18-21.

Gilbert, P. S., T. N. Lee, and G. P. Podesta, 1995. Modes of Current variability in the southern Straits of Florida, EOS Transactions, AGU, 76, 140.

Garzoli, S. L., P. Richardson, C. Duncombe Rae, D. Fratantoni, G. Goni, J. Mantel, A. Roubicek, P. Fratantoni, and C. Whittle, 1998. Benguela Current experiment, EOS Transactions, AGU, 79, 131.

Fratantoni, D. M., P. Richardson, C.M. Duncombe-Rae, S. L. Garzoli, and P. S. Fratantoni, 1998. Three warm-core rings in the eastern South Atlantic, EOS Transactions, AGU, 79(1), 131.

Fratantoni, P. S., T. N. Lee, G. P. Podesta, and F. Muller-Karger, 1998. The influence of Loop Current variability on the formation and evolution of cyclonic eddies in the southern Straits of Florida, EOS Transactions, AGU, 79, 132.

Fratantoni, P. S., R. S. Pickart, D. J. Torres, and A. Scotti, 2000. Structure and variability of the shelfbreak jet in the Middle Atlantic Bight, EOS Transactions, AGU, 81, 677.

Fratantoni, P. S., R. S. Pickart, 2000. Slopewater forcing of the shelfbreak jet in the Middle Atlantic Bight, EOS Transactions, AGU, 81, 677.

Fratantoni, P. S., and R. S. Pickart, 2004. The western North Atlantic shelfbreak current system, EOS Transactions, AGU, 85(47).

Pickart, R. S., P. S. Fratantoni, R. A. Goldsmith, G. Moore, T. Agnew, and J. Vandeweghe, 2006. Upwelling in the western Arctic boundary current north of Alaska, EOS Transactions, AGU, 87(36).

Fratantoni, P. S., 2008. The North Atlantic shelfbreak current: An advective link for climate variability, Ocean Sciences Meeting Suppl., Session 074.

McCartney, M S, and Fratantoni, P. S., 2008. Branches, bifurcations, and retroflections over the Tail of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Ocean Sciences Meeting Suppl., Session 010.

Lund, J M, P S Fratantoni, B A Hodges, and D M Fratantoni, 2008. Exploring the feasibility of glider based transport, stratification, and ecology measurements on the New England Shelf between MVCO and Line W, Ocean Sciences Meeting Suppl., Session 024.

Fratantoni, P. S., M. S. McCartney, and K. A. Donohue, 2008. Tale of two currents: The collision of the Gulf Stream and Deep Western Boundary Current at the Tail of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS33B-1344.

Fratantoni, P. S., and M. S. McCartney, 2009. Freshwater export from the Labrador Current to the North Atlantic Current at the Tail of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Geophysical Research Abstracts, 11, European Geophysical Union General Assembly, EGU2009-6520.

 

technical reports

Podesta, G. P., J. Splain, and P. S. Gilbert, 1995. Satellite-derived sea surface temperature fields off South Florida, July 1993-June 1994: Project II - Task 4: Oceanic and Atmospheric Observing systems collection and processing of AVHRR data, South Florida Oil Spill Research Center Technical Report, Miami, Florida.

Fratantoni, P. S., S. Zimmermann, M. Swartz, and R. S. Pickart, 2006. Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions Experiment: Processing of moored profiler data from the Beaufort Shelf Edge mooring array, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report, WHOI-06-15, 34pp.