Publication 

Ongoing Work:

Ma, Y., Ferrari, R., Polzin, K. et al.  (2024)  Tidally-driven shear convection along a submarine canyon in the Rockall Trough, in preparation.

Skitka, J., Arbic, B.K., Ma, Y, Momeni, K., Pan, Y, Peltier, W.R., Menemenlis, D., Thakur, R., (2024), Internal-Wave Dissipation Mechanisms and Vertical Structure in a High-Resolution Regional Ocean Model, submitted to Geophysical Research Letters

Alberto Naveira Garabato, Carl Spingys, Bieito Fernández Castro, ..., Ma, Y., .... Convective turbulent mixing drives rapid upwelling along the ocean’s bottom boundary, 03 May 2024, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4287202/v1], submitted to Nature Portfolio

Published Work:

Momeni, K., Ma, Y., Peltier, W.R., Thakur, R., Pan, Y., Menemenlis, D., Arbic, B.K., Skitka, J. (2024) Breaking internal waves and ocean diapycnal diffusivity in a High-Resolution Regional Ocean Model: Evidence of a Wave-turbulence cascade, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(6), e2023JC020509.https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020509

 Ma, Y., & Peltier, W. R. (2024). Diffusive-convection staircases in the polar oceans: the interplay between double diffusion and turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 984, A25

Skitka, J., Arbic, B.K., Thakur, R., Menemenlis, D., Peltier, W.R., Pan, Y., Momeni, K., Ma, Y (2024). Probing the Nonlinear Interactions of Supertidal Internal Waves Using a High-Resolution Regional Ocean Model. Journal of Physical Oceanography 54(2), pp.399-425.

Thakur, R., Arbic, B. K., Menemenlis, D., Momeni, K., Pan, Y., Peltier, W. R., Skitka, J., Alford, M.H. & Ma, Y. (2022). Impact of vertical mixing parameterizations on internal gravity wave spectra in regional ocean models. Geophysical Research Letters, e2022GL099614. Link

Ma, Y., & Peltier, W. R. (2022). Thermohaline-turbulence instability and thermohaline staircase formation in the polar oceans. Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, 083801. (Editors' Suggestion) Link 

Ma, Y., & Peltier, W. R. (2022). Diapycnal diffusivities in Kelvin–Helmholtz engendered turbulent mixing: The diffusive–convection regime in the Arctic Ocean. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 946, A32. Link

Ma, Y., & Peltier, W. R. (2022). Thermohaline staircase formation in the diffusive convection regime: a theory based upon stratified turbulence asymptotics. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 931,R4. Link

Ma, Y., & Peltier, W. R. (2021). Gamma instability in an inhomogeneous environment and salt-fingering staircase trapping: Determining the step size. Physical Review Fluids, 6(3), 033903. (Editors' Suggestion) Link 

Ma, Y., & Peltier, W. R. (2021). Parametrization of irreversible diapycnal diffusivity in salt-fingering turbulence using DNS. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 911, A9. Link 

Peltier, W. R., Ma, Y., & Chandan, D. (2020). The KPP trigger of rapid AMOC intensification in the nonlinear Dansgaard‐Oeschger relaxation oscillation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125(5), e2019JC015557. Link