Dr. Mark A. Bourassa, Ph.D.
Purdue University 1993

(850) 645-4788   (850) 644-6923       http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~bourassa

Assistant Professor

Remote sensing of the ocean surface, modeling of the atmospheric and aqueous surface fluxes, applications of air-sea interaction. Past interests include wind-wave-tank studies of wind and wave interaction, wind outflow from mountain passes, and ice and snow accretion. Small-scale interests include the influence of sea state on fluxes: specifically, the influences of surface water waves on the transfer of energy and momentum, and observations of tropical disturbance. Large-scale interests include merging in-situ and/or satellite observations into gridded surface winds and flux products, and scientific applications of these products (e.g, climate variability). The recent abundance of high quality satellite observations allows the examination of oceanographic and meteorological phenomena on a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, and in previously poorly sampled locations.

Selected Publications

• Bourassa, M. A., 2005: Satellite-based observations of surface turbulent stress during severe weather, Atmosphere - Ocean Interactions, Vol. 2., ed., W. Perrie, Wessex Institute of Technology., in press.
• Bourassa, M. A., R. Romero, S. R. Smith, and J, J. O’Brien, 2005: A new FSU winds Climatology, J. Clim., 18, 3,692–3,704.
• Kara, B. A., A. J. Wallcraft, H. E. Hurlburt, and M. A. Bourassa, 2005: Sensitivity of Black Sea Mixed Layer to Various Wind and Thermal Forcing Products on the Climatological Time Scales. J. Clim., accepted.
• Morey, S. L., M. A. Bourassa, X. Davis, J. J. O’Brien, and J. Zavala-Hidalgo, 2005: Remotely sensed winds for forcing ocean models. J. Geophys. Res., accepted.
• Morey, S. L., M. A. Bourassa, D. S. Dukhovskoy, and J. J. O’Brien, 2005: Modeling studies of the upper ocean response to a tropical storm. Ocean Dynamics, submitted.
• Bourassa, M. A., 2004: An Improved Seastate Dependency For Surface Stress Derived from In Situ and Remotely Sensed Winds. Advances in Space Res., 33(7), 1136-1142.
• Curry, J. A., A. Bentamy, M. A. Bourassa, D. Bourras, M. Brunke, S. Castro, S. Chou, C. A. Clayson, W. J. Emery, L. Eymard, C. W. Fairall, M. Kubota, B. Lin, W. Perrie, R. R. Reeder, I. A. Renfrew, W. B. Rossow, J. Schulz, S.R Smith, P.J. Webster, G. A. Wick, X. Zeng, 2004: SEAFLUX. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85, 409–424.
• Bourassa, M. A., D. M. Legler, J. J. O’Brien, and S. R. Smith, 2003: SeaWinds Validation with Research Vessels, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 3019, DOI 10.1029/2001JC001081.
• Hanley, D., M. Bourassa, J. J. O'Brien, S. Smith, and E. Spade, 2003: A quantitative evaluation of ENSO indices. J. Clim., 16, 1249-1258.
• Weissman, D. E., M. A. Bourassa, J. Tongue, and J. J. O’Brien, 2003: Calibrating the QuikSCAT/SeaWinds Radar for Measuring Rain Over Water. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 41, 2814-2820.