Reviewed papers
A. Bracco, S. Clayton, C. Pasquero
Horizontal advection, diffusion and plankton spectra at the sea surface.
J. Geophysical Research - Oceans, In Press [pdf file]
J. C. Furtado, E. Di Lorenzo, K. M. Cobb, A. Bracco
Paleoclimate reconstructions of tropical seas surface temperatures from precipitation proxies: Methods, uncertainties and nonstationarity.
A. Bracco, J. Pedlosky, R. S. Pickart (2008)
Eddy formation near the West coast of Greenland
J. Physical Oceanography, vol. 38(9), pag. 1992-2002 [pdf file]
F. Kucharski, A. Bracco, J.H. Yoo, F. Molteni (2008)
The Atlantic forced component of the Indian Monsoon interannual variability
Geoph. Res. Lett., vol. 35 L04706, DOI:10129/2007GL033037 [pdf file]
I. Koszalka, A. Bracco, C. Pasquero, A. Provenzale (2007)
Plankton cycles disguised by turbulent advection
Theoretical Population Biology, DOI:10.1016/j.tpb.2007.03.007. [pdf file]
F. Kucharski, A. Bracco, J.H. Yoo, F. Molteni (2007)
Low-frequency variability of the Indian monsoon - ENSO relation and the Tropical Atlantic:
The 'weakening' of the '80s and '90s.
A. Bracco, F. Kucharski, F. Molteni, W. Hazeleger, C. Savierijns (2007)
A recipe for simulating the interannual variability of the Asian summer monsoon and its relation with ENSO
Climate Dynamics. doi: 10.1007/s000382-006-0190-0 [pdf file]
F. Kucharski, F. Molteni F., A. Bracco (2006)
Decadal interactions between the Western tropical Pacific and the North Atlantic Oscillation
Climate Dynamics, vol. 26(1), pag. 79-91, doi 10.1007/s000382-005-0085-5 [pdf file]
A.Bracco, F. Kucharski, F. Molteni, W. Hazeleger , C. Severijns (2005)
Internal and forced modes of variability in the Indian Ocean.
Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 32, L12707, DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023154. [pdf file]
C. Pasquero, A. Bracco, A. Provenzale (2005)
Impact of the spatio-temporal variability of the nutrient flux on primary productivity in the ocean.
J. Geophys. Res. - Oceans, vol. 110, C07005, doi:10.129/2004JC002738. [pdf file]
F. Kucharski, F. Molteni F., A. Bracco (2005)
A western tropical Pacific relation to the NAO.
Bull. American Meteor. Soc., vol. 86(10), pag. 1418-1419
A. Bracco, F. Kucharski, R. Kallummal, F. Molteni (2004)
Internal variability, external forcing and climate trends in multi-decadal AGCM ensembles
Climate Dynamics, vol. 23(6), pag. 659-678, doi: 10.1007/s00382-004-0465-2 [pdf file]
A. Bracco, J von Hardenberg, A. Provenzale, J. Weiss, J.C. McWilliams (2004)
Dispersion and mixing in quasigeostrophic turbulence.
Physical Review Letters, vol. 92 (8), pag. 084501-1 - 4 [pdf file]
A. Bracco, E. P. Chassignet, Z. Garraffo, A. Provenzale (2003)
Lagrangian velocity distributions in a high resolution numerical simulation of the North Atlantic.
J. Atmospheric and Oceanic Techn., vol. 8, pag. 1212-1220 [pdf file]
A. Bracco, J. Pedlosky (2003)
Local baroclinic instabilities over variable topography in channel flows.
J. Physical Oceanography, vol. 33, pag. 207-219 [pdf file]
A. Martin, J. K. Richards, A. Bracco, A. Provenzale (2002)
Patchy productivity in the open ocean.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, vol. 16, (2) 10.1029/2001GB001449
Also in Editor's Choice: Biogeosciences, July 2002.
P. Berloff., J. C. McWilliams, A. Bracco (2002)
Material Transport in Oceanic Gyres. Part I: Phenomenology.
Journal of Physical Oceanography, vol. 32, pag. 764-796.
A. Bracco, J. C. McWilliams, G. Murante, A. Provenzale, J. B. Weiss (2000)
Revisiting 2D turbulence at millennial resolution.
Phys. of Fluids. vol. 12 (11), pag. 2931-2941 [pdf file]
A. Bracco, J. LaCasce, C. Pasquero, A. Provenzale (2000)
Velocity PDFs in barotropic turbulence,
A. Bracco, A. Provenzale, I. Scheuring, (2000)
Mesoscale vortices and the paradox of the plankton.
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. vol. 267 (1454), pag. 1795-1800. [pdf file]
A. Bracco, J. LaCasce, A. Provenzale (2000)
Velocity probability density functions for oceanic floats.
Journal of Physical Oceanography, vol. 30, pag. 461-474. [pdf file]
A. Bracco (2000)
Boundary layer separation in the Surface Quasi-Geostrophic equations.
Nuovo Cimento C, vol. 23 (5), pag. 487-506.
A. Bracco (2000)
Transport of passive tracers by monopoles on the beta-plane.
Nuovo Cimento C, vol. 23 (6), pag. 597-609.
A. Bracco, P. Chavanis, A. Provenzale, E. A Spiegel (1999)
Particle aggregation in a turbulent keplerian flow.
Reports and volumes
A. Bracco,F. Kucharski, B. E. Rosenheim (In Press)
Commentary: Challenges in the Tropical Atlantic: Understanding its interannual to decadal variability.
To be published in "The Atlantic Ocean: New Oceanographic Research", Nova Science Publishers, Inc. NY [pdf file]
A. Provenzale, A. Babiano, A. Bracco, C. Pasquero, J. Weiss (2008)
Coherent vortices and tracer transport.
In Lecture Notes Phys.
vol. 744, pag. 101-116,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin [pdf file]
C. Pasquero, A. Bracco, A. Provenzale (2004)
Coherent vortices, Lagrangian particles and the marine ecosystem
In Shallow Flows, pag. 399-412, edited by G.H. Jirka and W.S.J. Uijttewaal, Balkema Publishers,Leiden, NL. [pdf file]
W. Hazeleger, F. Molteni, C. Severijns, R. Haarsma, A. Bracco, F. Kucharski (2003)
SPEEDO: A flexible coupled model for climate studies.
Clivar Exchanges N. 28 - Coupled Modelling. [pdf file]
A. Bracco, J. von Hardenberg, A. Provenzale, J. B. Weiss (2003)
Modeling planetary turbulence at very high Reynolds number.
In Science and Supercomputing at CINECA. [pdf file]
A. Bracco, A. Provenzale, E. A Spiegel, P. A. Jecko (1999)
Spotted disks.
In "Theory of Black Hole Accretion Disks'', ed. M. Abramowicz, G. Bjornson, J. Pringle. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press [pdf file]
A. Bracco (1998)
Statistical properties of subsurface float trajectories in the Atlantic Ocean.
TAO Exchange Grant Technical Report.
A. Bracco (1997)
Boundary layer separation in the Surface Quasi-Geostrophic equations.
In "WHOI 1997 -
Course Lectures, Abstracts of Partecipants, Program Notes'', Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution Technical Report, WHOI-98-09.
A. Bracco (2000)
Dynamics of coherent vortices in geophysical flows.
PhD thesis.
Publications Submitted
I. Koszalka, A. Bracco, A. Provenzale
Dynamics of wind-forced coherent anticyclones in the open ocean.
C. Wang, F. Kucharski, R. Barimalala, A. Bracco
Teleconnections of the Tropical Atlantic to the Tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans:
A Review of Recent Findings
F. Kucharski, A. Bracco, J.H. Yoo, A. Tompkins, L. Feudale, P. Ruti, A. dell'Aquila (2008)
A Gill-Mastuno-type mechanism explains the Tropical Atlantic influence on African and Indian Monsoon rainfall
