Publications


Freilich, M. A., Poirier, C., Dever, M., Alou-Font, E., Allen, J., Cabornero, A., Sudek, L., Choi, C. J., Ruiz, S., Pascual, A., Farrar, J. T., Johnston, T. M. S., D’Asaro, E. A., Worden, A. Z., & Mahadevan, A. (2024). 3D intrusions transport active surface microbial assemblages to the dark ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(19), e2319937121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2319937121
Johnston, T. M. S., Rudnick, D. L., & Kessler, W. S. (2024). Elevated Mixing Estimates and Trapped Near‐Inertial Internal Waves on the Inshore Flank of the New Guinea Coastal Undercurrent From Sustained Glider Observations in the Solomon Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(10), e2024JC021626. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021626
Moum, J. N., Rudnick, D. L., Shroyer, E. L., Hughes, K. G., Reineman, B. D., Grindley, K., Sherman, J. T., Vutukur, P., Appledorn, C. V., Latham, K., Moulin, A. J., & Johnston, T. M. S. (2023). Flippin’ χSOLO, an Upper-Ocean Autonomous Turbulence-Profiling Float. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 40(5), 629–644. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-22-0067.1
Brizuela, N. G., Johnston, T. M. S., Alford, M. H., Asselin, O., Rudnick, D. L., Moum, J. N., Thompson, E. J., Wang, S., & Lee, C. (2023). A Vorticity‐Divergence View of Internal Wave Generation by a Fast‐Moving Tropical Cyclone: Insights From Super Typhoon Mangkhut. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(5), e2022JC019400. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC019400
Esposito, G., Donnet, S., Berta, M., Shcherbina, A. Y., Freilich, M., Centurioni, L., D’Asaro, E. A., Farrar, J. T., Johnston, T. M. S., Mahadevan, A., Özgökmen, T., Pascual, A., Poulain, P., Ruiz, S., Tarry, D. R., & Griffa, A. (2023). Inertial Oscillations and Frontal Processes in an Alboran Sea Jet: Effects on Divergence and Vertical Transport. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(3), e2022JC019004. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC019004
Tarry, D. R., Ruiz, S., Johnston, T. M. S., Poulain, P., Özgökmen, T., Centurioni, L. R., Berta, M., Esposito, G., Farrar, J. T., Mahadevan, A., & Pascual, A. (2022). Drifter Observations Reveal Intense Vertical Velocity in a Surface Ocean Front. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(18). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098969
Johnston, T. M. S. (2022). Stirring and Mixing in the Wake of Angaur and Peleliu Islands, Palau. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 127(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jc018544
Johnston, T. M. S., & Colin, P. L. (2022). Upwelling and downwelling driven by the North Equatorial Countercurrent and internal waves at Hatohobei Island and Helen Reef, Palau. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 127(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jc017606
Cutolo, E., Pascual, A., Ruiz, S., Shaun Johnston, T. M., Freilich, M., Mahadevan, A., Shcherbina, A., Poulain, P., Ozgokmen, T., Centurioni, L. R., Rudnick, D. L., & D’Asaro, E. (2022). Diagnosing Frontal Dynamics From Observations Using a Variational Approach. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127(11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC018336
Johnston, T. M. S., & Rudnick, D. L. (2022). Stirring and Mixing in the Wake of Velasco Reef, Palau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127(8). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC018745
Esposito, G., Berta, M., Centurioni, L., Johnston, T. M. S., Lodise, J., Ozgokmen, T., Poulain, P.-M., & Griffa, A. (2021). Submesoscale vorticity and divergence in the Alboran Sea: Scale and depth dependence. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.678304
Johnston, T. M. S., Wang, S. G., Lee, C. Y., Moum, J. N., Rudnick, D. L., & Sobel, A. (2021). Near-inertial wave propagation in the wake of Super Typhoon Mangkhut: Measurements from a profiling float array. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 126(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jc016749
Johnston, T. M. S., & Ou, C. Y. (2021). Momentum flux convergence from internal tides in the North Equatorial Countercurrent upstream of a submarine ridge near Merir Island, Palau. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 126(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jc016770
Rudnick, D. L., Owens, W. B., Johnston, T. M. S., Karnauskas, K. B., Jakoboski, J., & Todd, R. E. (2021). The equatorial current system west of the Galapagos Islands during the 2014-16 El Nino as observed by underwater gliders. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(1), 3–17. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-20-0064.1
Karnauskas, K. B., Jakoboski, J., Johnston, T. M. S., Owens, W. B., Rudnick, D. L., & Todd, R. E. (2020). The Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent in three generations of global climate models and glider observations. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jc016609
Colin, P. L., & Johnston, T. M. S. (2020). Measuring temperature in coral reef environments: Experience, lessons, and results from Palau. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8090680
Johnston, T. M. S., Rudnick, D. L., Brizuela, N., & Moum, J. N. (2020). Advection by the North Equatorial Current of a cold wake due to multiple typhoons in the Western Pacific: Measurements from a profiling float array. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 125(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jc015534
Johnston, T. M. S., MacKinnon, J. A., Colin, P. L., Haley, P. J., Lermusiaux, P. F. J., Lucas, A. J., Merrifield, M. A., Merrifield, S. T., Mirabito, C., Nash, J. D., Ou, C. Y., Siegeiman, M., Terrill, E. J., & Waterhouse, A. F. (2019). Energy and momentum lost to wake eddies and lee waves generated by the north equatorial current and tidal flows at Peleliu, Palau. Oceanography, 32(4), 110–125. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.417
Johnston, T. M. S., Schonau, M. C., Paluszkiewicz, T., MacKinnon, J. A., Arbic, B. K., Colin, P. L., Alford, M. H., Andres, M., Centurioni, L., Graber, H. C., Helfrich, K. R., Hormann, V., Lermusiaux, P. F. J., Musgrave, R. C., Powell, B. S., Qiu, B., Rudnick, D. L., Simmons, H. L., St Laurent, L., … Zeiden, K. L. (2019). Flow Encountering Abrupt Topography (Fleat): A multiscale observational and modeling program to understand how topography affects flows in the western North Pacific. Oceanography, 32(4), 10–21. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.407
Colin, P. L., Johnston, T. M. S., MacKinnon, J. A., Ou, C. Y., Rudnick, D. L., Terrill, E. J., Lindfield, S. J., & Batchelor, H. (2019). Ngaraard Pinnacle, Palau: An Undersea “Island” in the Flow. Oceanography, 32(4), 164–173. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.422
Rudnick, D. L., Zeiden, K. A., Ou, C. Y., Johnston, T. M. S., MacKinnon, J. A., Alford, M. H., & Voet, G. (2019). Understanding vorticity caused by flow passing an island. Oceanography, 32(4), 66–73. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.412
Valente, A., Sathyendranath, S., Brotas, V., Groom, S., Grant, M., Taberner, M., Antoine, D., Arnone, R., Balch, W. M., Barker, K., Barlow, R., Belanger, S., Berthon, J. F., Besiktepe, S., Borsheim, Y., Bracher, A., Brando, V., Canuti, E., Chavez, F., … Zibordi, G. (2019). A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean-colour satellite applications - version two. Earth System Science Data, 11(3), 1037–1068. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1037-2019
MacKinnon, J. A., Alford, M. H., Voet, G., Zeiden, K., Johnston, T. M. S., Siegelman, M., Merrifield, S., & Merrifield, M. (2019). Eddy wake generation from broadband currents near Palau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jc014945
Hemantha W. Wijesekera, Emily Shroyer, Amit Tandon, M. Ravichandran, Debasis Sengupta, S. U. P. Jinadasa, Harindra J. S. Fernando, Neeraj Agrawal, K. Arulananthan, G. S. Bhat, Mark Baumgartner, Jared Buckley, Luca Centurioni, Patrick Conry, J. Thomas Farrar, Arnold L. Gordon, Verena Hormann, Ewa Jarosz, Tommy G. Jensen, … Caitlin B. Whalen. (2016). ASIRI: An Ocean–Atmosphere Initiative for Bay of Bengal. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97(10), 1859–1884. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-14-00197.1
Johnston, T. M. S., Chaudhuri, D., Mathur, M., Rudnick, D. L., Sengupta, D., Simmons, H. L., Tandon, A., & Venkatesan, R. (2016). Decay mechanisms of near-inertial mixed layer oscillations in the Bay of Bengal. Oceanography, 29(2), 180–191. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.50
Johnston, T. M. S., Rudnick, D. L., & Kelly, S. M. (2015). Standing internal tides in the Tasman Sea observed by gliders. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 45(11), 2715–2737. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-15-0038.1
Alford, M. H., Peacock, T., MacKinnon, J. A., Nash, J. D., Buijsman, M. C., Centuroni, L. R., Chao, S. Y., Chang, M. H., Farmer, D. M., Fringer, O. B., Fu, K. H., Gallacher, P. C., Graber, H. C., Helfrich, K. R., Jachec, S. M., Jackson, C. R., Klymak, J. M., Ko, D. S., Jan, S., … Tang, T. Y. (2015). The formation and fate of internal waves in the South China Sea. Nature, 521(7550), 65-U381. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14399
Johnston, T. M. S., & Rudnick, D. L. (2015). Trapped diurnal internal tides, propagating semidiurnal internal tides, and mixing estimates in the California Current System from sustained glider observations, 2006-2012. Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 112, 61–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.03.009
Johnston, T. M. S., Rudnick, D. L., Alford, M. H., Pickering, A., & Simmons, H. L. (2013). Internal tidal energy fluxes in the South China Sea from density and velocity measurements by gliders. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 118(8), 3939–3949.
Rudnick, D. L., Johnston, T. M. S., & Sherman, J. T. (2013). High-frequency internal waves near the Luzon Strait observed by underwater gliders. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 118(2), 774–784. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrc.20083
Zhao, Z. X., Alford, M. H., Girton, J., Johnston, T. M. S., & Carter, G. (2011). Internal tides around the Hawaiian Ridge estimated from multisatellite altimetry. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 116. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011jc007045
Johnston, T. M. S., Rudnick, D. L., & Pallas-Sanz, E. (2011). Elevated mixing at a front. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 116. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011jc007192
Johnston, T. M. S., Rudnick, D. L., Carter, G. S., Todd, R. E., & Cole, S. T. (2011). Internal tidal beams and mixing near Monterey Bay. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 116. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010jc006592
Pallas-Sanz, E., Johnston, T. M. S., & Rudnick, D. L. (2010). Frontal dynamics in a California Current System shallow front: 2. Mesoscale vertical velocity. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 115. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010jc006474
Pallas-Sanz, E., Johnston, T. M. S., & Rudnick, D. L. (2010). Frontal dynamics in a California Current System shallow front: 1. Frontal processes and tracer structure. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 115. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009jc006032
Rainville, L., Johnston, T. M. S., Carter, G. S., Merrifield, M. A., Pinkel, R., Worcester, P. F., & Dushaw, B. D. (2010). Interference pattern and propagation of the M2 internal tide south of the Hawaiian Ridge. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 40(2), 311–325. https://doi.org/10.1175/2009jpo4256.1
Johnston, T. M. S., & Rudnick, D. L. (2009). Observations of the transition layer. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39(3), 780–797. https://doi.org/10.1175/2008jpo3824.1
Johnston, T. M. S., Cheriton, O. M., Pennington, J. T., & Chavez, F. P. (2009). Thin phytoplankton layer formation at eddies, filaments, and fronts in a coastal upwelling zone. Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 56(3–5), 246–259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.08.006
MacKinnon, J. A., Johnston, T. M. S., & Pinkel, R. (2008). Strong transport and mixing of deep water through the Southwest Indian Ridge. Nature Geoscience, 1(11), 755–758. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo340
Johnston, T. M. S., Merrifield, M. A., & Holloway, P. E. (2003). Internal tide scattering at the Line Islands Ridge. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 108(C11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2003jc001844
Johnston, T. M. S., & Merrifield, M. A. (2003). Internal tide scattering at seamounts, ridges, and islands. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 108(C6). https://doi.org/10.1029/2002jc001528
Brix, H., Hench, J. L., Johnson, H. L., Johnston, T. M. S., Polton, J. A., Roughan, M., & Testor, P. (2003). An international perspective on graduate education in physical oceanography. Oceanography, 16(3), 128–133. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2003.43
Merrifield, M. A., Holloway, P. E., & Johnston, T. M. S. (2001). The generation of internal tides at the Hawaiian Ridge. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(4), 559–562. https://doi.org/10.1029/2000gl011749
Johnston, T. M. S., & Merrifield, M. A. (2000). Interannual geostrophic current anomalies in the near-equatorial western Pacific. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 30(1), 3–14. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(2000)030<0003:igcait>2.0.co;2
Johnston, T. M. S., Chow, K. H., Dunsiger, S., Duty, T., Kiefl, R. F., Koster, E., MacFarlane, W. A., Morris, G. D., Sonier, J., & Williams, D. L. I. (1997). The giant muon Knight shift in antimony: Evidence for a Kondo impurity. Hyperfine Interactions, 106(1–4), 71–76. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1012665118803
Chow, K. H., Kiefl, R. F., Schneider, J. W., Estle, T. L., Hitti, B., Johnston, T. M. S., Lichti, R. L., & Macfarlane, W. A. (1994). µSR studies in heavily doped GaAs. Hyperfine Interactions, 86(1–4), 645–651. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02068959
Mendels, P., Brewer, J. H., Alloul, H., Ansaldo, E. J., Noakes, D. R., Niedermayer, C., Collin, G., Marucco, J. F., Stronach, C. E., Morris, G. D., Duty, T. L., & Johnston, S. (1994). μSR Study of Zn-Substituted YBa2Cu3Ox. Hyperfine Interactions, 86(1–4), 577–583. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02068950
Chow, K. H., Kiefl, R. F., Schneider, J. W., Estle, T. L., Hitti, B., Lichti, R. L., Schwab, C., Kreitzman, S. R., Duvarney, R. C., Senba, M., Sonier, J., Johnston, T. M. S., & Macfarlane, W. A. (1994). Muonium dynamics in doped Si above room temperature studied by longitudinal field — μSR. Hyperfine Interactions, 86(1–4), 693–698. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02068965
Macfarlane, W. A., Kiefl, R. F., Chow, K. H., Dunsiger, S., Duty, T. L., Johnston, T. M. S., Schneider, J. W., Sonier, J., Brard, L., Strongin, R. M., Fischer, J. E., & Smith, A. B. (1994). Hebel-Slichter peak and superconducting energy gap in Rb3C60 observed by muon spin relaxation. Hyperfine Interactions, 86(1–4), 467–472. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02068935
Schneider, J. W., Kiefl, R. F., Chow, K. H., Johnston, S., Sonier, J., Estle, T. L., Hitti, B., Lichti, R. L., Connell, S. H., Sellschop, J. P. F., Smallman, C. G., Anthony, T. R., & Banholzer, W. F. (1993). Bond-centered muonium in diamond: Resolved nuclear hyperfine structure. Physical Review Letters, 71(4), 557–560. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.557