Areas of interest include remote sensing of the ocean surface, modeling of the atmospheric and aqueous surface fluxes, and 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., 2006, Satellite-based observations of surface turbulent stress during severe weather, Atmosphere - Ocean Interactions, Vol. 2., ed., W. Perrie, Wessex Institute of Technology Press, Southampton, UK, 35 – 52 pp.
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.
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.
Gierach, M. M., M. A. Bourassa, P. Cunningham, P. Reasor, and J. J. O'Brien, 2007: Vorticity-Based Detection of Tropical Cyclogenesis. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 46, 1214–1229.
Kara, A. B., A. J. Wallcraft, and M. A. Bourassa, 2008: Air-Sea Stability Effects on the 10m Winds Over the Global Ocean: Evaluations of Air-Sea Flux Algorithms. J. Geophys. Res.,113, C04009, doi:10.1029/2007JC004324.
Morey, S. L., M. A. Bourassa, D. S. Dukhovskoy, and J. J. O’Brien, 2006: Modeling studies of the upper ocean response to a tropical storm. Ocean Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s10236-006-0085-y.
Morey, S. L., S. Baig, M. A. Bourassa, D. S. Dukhovskoy, and J. J. O’Brien, 2006: Remote forcing contribution to storm-induced sea level rise during Hurricane Dennis, Geophys. Res. Letts., 33, L19603–19607, doi:10.1029/2006GL027021.
Perrie, W., W. Zhang, M. A. Bourassa, H. Shen, and P. Vachon, 2008: Impact of satellite winds on marine wind simulations. Weather and Forecasting, in press.
Weissman, D. E., and M. A. Bourassa, 2008: Measurements of the Effect of Rain-induced Sea Surface Roughness on the Satellite Scatterometer Radar Cross Section. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., in press.
Kara, A. B., J. Metzger, M. A. Bourassa, 2007: Ocean Current and Wave Effects on Wind Stress Drag Coefficient and Fluxes over the Global Ocean. Geophys. Res. Letts., 34, L01604, doi:10.1029/2006GL027849.
Arguez, A., M. A. Bourassa, and J. J. O’Brien, 2005: Detection of the MJO signal from QuikSCAT. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 22, 1885-1894.
Kara, B. A., A. J. Wallcraft, H. E. Hurlburt, and M. A. Bourassa, 2005: Black Sea mixed layer sensitivity to various wind and thermal forcing products on the climatological time scales. J. Clim., 18, 5266–5293.
Morey, S. L., M. A. Bourassa, X. Davis, J. J. O’Brien, and J. Zavala-Hidalgo, 2005: Remotely sensed winds for episodic forcing of ocean models. J. Geophys. Res., 110(C10), C10024, doi:10.1029/2004JC002338.
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.
Smith, S. R., J. Servain, D. M. Legler, J. N. Stricherz, M. A. Bourassa, and J. J. O'Brien, 2004: In situ based pseudo-wind stress products for the tropical oceans. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85, 979–994.
