People | Tobias Kukulka

• Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, 2006.
• M.S., Environmental Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute, 2002.
• Vordiplom, Physics, Freie Universitaet Berlin, 1998.

Air-sea interactions, environmental fluid mechanics, surface gravity waves, bubbles, turbulence near the air-sea interface and ocean bottom, ocean-atmosphere exchange of mass, heat, momentum, and pollutants

Kelsey Brunner

Robert Jenkins

Tyler Rabe

Dong Wang

Fall 2010 MAST 691/CIEG639 Ocean Fluid Dynamics

Spring 2011 MAST 667 Introduction to Ocean Modeling

Fall 2011 MAST 691/CIEG639 Ocean Fluid Dynamics

Fall 2012 MAST 691/CIEG639 Ocean Fluid Dynamics

Spring 2013 MAST/CIEG/GEOG 661 Introduction to Ocean Modeling (tentative syllabus)

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Kukulka, T., A.J. Plueddemann, P.P. Sullivan, Nonlocal transport due to Langmuir Circulation in a coastal ocean (accepted in J. Geophys. Res.). [pdf]
 
Kukulka, T., G. Proskurowski, S. Morét-Ferguson, D. W. Meyer, K. L. Law, The Effect of Wind Mixing on the Vertical Distribution of Buoyant Plastic Debris, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L07601, doi:10.1029/2012GL051116, 2012. [pdf]. 
 
Kukulka, T., A.J. Plueddemann, J.H. Trowbridge, P.P. Sullivan, The Influence of Crosswind Tidal Currents on Langmuir Circulation in a Shallow Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 116, C08005, doi:10.1029/2011JC006971, 2011. [pdf]
 
Kukulka, T., A.J. Plueddemann, J.H. Trowbridge, P.P. Sullivan, Rapid mixed layer deepening by the combination of Langmuir and shear instabilities- a case study, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 40(11), 2381-2400, 2010. [pdf]

Kukulka, T., T. Hara, L. Wu, Computations of wind wave coupling, Ann. of Diff. Eqs., 26(3), 322-331, 2010.

Kukulka, T., A.J. Plueddemann, J.H. Trowbridge, P.P. Sullivan, Significance of Langmuir circulations in upper ocean mixing: A comparison between observations and large eddy simulations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L10603, doi:10.1029/2009GL03762, 2009. [pdf]

Gerbi, G.P., J.H. Trowbridge, E.A. Terray, A.J. Plueddemann, T. Kukulka, Observations of turbulence in the ocean surface boundary layer: Energetics and Transport, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 39(5), 1077–1096, 2009.

Kukulka, T., T. Hara, The effect of breaking waves on a coupled model of wind and ocean surface waves: I. Mature seas, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 38(10), 2145–2163, 2008. [pdf]

Kukulka, T., T. Hara, The effect of breaking waves on a coupled model of wind and ocean surface waves: II. Growing seas, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 38(10), 2164–2184, 2008. [pdf]

Kukulka, T., T. Hara, S. E. Belcher, A model of the air-sea momentum flux and breaking wave distribution for strongly forced wind-waves, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37(7), 1811–1828, 2007. [pdf]

Kukulka, T., T. Hara, Momentum flux budget analysis of wind-driven air-water interfaces, J. Geophys. Res., 110(C12020), 10.1029/2004JC002844, 2005. [pdf]

Kukulka, T., D. A. Jay, Impacts of Columbia River discharge on water surface elevation and salmonid habitat II. Changes in shallow-water habitat, J. Geophys. Res., 108(C9), 10.1029/2003JC001829, 2003. [pdf]

Kukulka, T., D. A. Jay, Impacts of Columbia River discharge on water surface elevation and salmonid habitat I. A non-stationary fluvial tide model, J. Geophys. Res., 108(C9), 10.1029/2002JC001382, 2003. [pdf]

Jay, D. A., T. Kukulka, Revising the paradigm of tidal analysis- the use of non-stationary data, Ocean Dynamics, 53(3), 110–125, 2003.

Turbulent mixing in the upper ocean