Expert Profile

Vassiliki Kourafalou

Research Professor

METEOROLOGY AND PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY | ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL OF MARINE & ATM SCI

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Environmental Sciences Physical Sciences

Industries

Air & Environment

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Title

04-2022

Simulation Analysis FKEYS-HYCOM Simulation Analysis FKEYS-HYCOM

04-2022

Simulation Analysis FKEYS-HYCOM Simulation Analysis FKEYS-HYCOM

09-2015

Extending the Gulf of Mexico OSSE system to the North Atlantic in Support of Development and Demonstration of a Relocatable Ocean OSSE System Extending the Gulf of Mexico OSSE system to the North Atlantic in Support of Development and Demonstration of a Relocatable Ocean OSSE System

09-2015

Degrees

Ph.D., Physical Oceanography

University of Miami ▪ 1993

Publications

Schiller, R.V. and V.H. Kourafalou, 2014. Loop Current impact on the transport of Mississippi River waters. J. Coastal Res. (In Press).

Gerin, R., V.H. Kourafalou, P.-M. Poulain and ? Be?iktepe, 2014. Influence of thermal fronts, winds and bathymetry on drifter trajectories in the Aegean Sea. Medit. Mar. Science DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.464.

Le Hénaff, M., V.H. Kourafalou, R. Dussurget and R. Lumpkin, 2014. Cyclonic activity in the eastern Gulf of Mexico: characterization from along-track altimetry and in situ drifter trajectories. Progress in Oceanography. pp. 120-138, doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.08.002.

Halliwell, G.R., A. Srinivasan, V.H. Kourafalou, H. Yang, D. Willey and M. Le Hénaff, 2014. Rigorous Evaluation of a Fraternal Twin Ocean OSSE System for the Open Gulf of Mexico. J. Atm. Ocean. Techn. 31(1):105-130, doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00011.1.

Purkis, S., J. Kerr, A. Dempsey, A. Calhoun, L. Metsamaa, B. Riegl, V.H. Kourafalou, A. Buckner and P. Renaud, 2013. Contemporary Sedimentology of the Cay Sal Bank, Bahamas. Geomorphology. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.03.004.

Kourafalou, V.H. and Y.S. Androulidakis, 2013. Influence of Mississippi induced circulation on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill transport. J. Geophys. Res., 118, 1–20, doi:10.1002/jgrc.20272.

Androulidakis, Y.S. and V.H. Kourafalou, 2013. On the processes that influence the transport and fate of Mississippi waters under flooding outflow conditions, Ocean Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s10236-012-0587-8.

Tsiaras, K., I. Petihakis, V.H. Kourafalou and G. Triantafyllou, 2013. Impact of the river nutrient load variability on the North Aegean ecosystem functioning over the last decades. J. Sea Res., 86, 97-109.

Kourafalou, V.H. and H. Kang, 2012. Florida Current meandering and evolution of cyclonic eddies along the Florida Keys Reef Tract: are they inter-connected? J. Geophys. Res. 117, C05028, doi:10.1029/2011JC007383.

Le Hénaff, M., V.H. Kourafalou, Y. Morel and A. Srinivasan, 2012. Simulating the dynamics and intensification of cyclonic Loop Current frontal eddies in the Gulf of Mexico. J. Geophys. Res., 117, C02034, doi:10.1029/2011JC007279.

Le Hénaff M., V.H. Kourafalou, C.B. Paris, J. Helgers, P.J. Hogan, A. Srinivasan, 2012. Surface evolution of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: combined effects of circulation and wind induced drift. Environ. Sci. Technol., 46, 7267−7273, doi:10.1021/es301570w.

Androulidakis, Y.S., V.H. Kourafalou, Y.N. Krestenitis and V. Zervakis, 2012. Variability of deep water mass characteristics in the North Aegean Sea: the role of lateral inputs and atmospheric conditions. Deep Sea Res. I, (67) 55-72, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2012.05.004.

Androulidakis, Y.S., Y. Krestenitis, and V.H. Kourafalou, 2012. Connectivity of North Aegean circulation to the Black Sea water budget, Cont. Shelf Res., 48, 8-26, doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2012.08.019.

Tsiaras K.P., V.H. Kourafalou, D.E. Raitsos, G. Triantafyllou, G. Petihakis and G. Korres, 2012. Inter-annual productivity variability in the North Aegean Sea:
influence of thermohaline circulation during the Eastern Mediterranean Transient. J. Mar. Sys., (96–97), 72–81, doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2012.02.003.

Sponaugle, S., C. Paris, K. Walter, V.H. Kourafalou, E. D’ Alessandro, 2012. Observed and modeled larval settlement of a reef fish to the Florida Keys. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 453: 201–212, doi: 10.3354/meps09641.

Paris, C.B., M. Le Hénaff, Z. Aman, A. Suramaniam, J. Helgers, D.P. Wang, V.H. Kourafalou, A. Srinivasan, 2012. Evolution of the Macondo Well blowout: Simulating the Effects of the Circulation and Synthetic Dispersants on the Subsea Oil Transport. Environ. Sci. Technol., doi:10.1021/es303197h.

Schiller, R.V., V.H. Kourafalou, P.J. Hogan and N.D. Walker, 2011. The dynamics of the Mississippi River plume: impact of topography, wind and offshore forcing on the fate of plume waters. J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2010JC006883, 116, C06029.

Androulidakis, Y.S. and V.H. Kourafalou, 2011. Evolution of a buoyant outflow in the presence of complex topography: the Dardanelles plume (North Aegean Sea). J. Geophys. Res., 116(C04019), doi:10.1029/2010JC006316.

Mariano, A.J., V.H. Kourafalou, A. Srinivasan, H. Kang, G.R. Halliwell, E.H. Ryan and M. Roffer, 2011. On the modeling of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, doi:10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2011.06.001, 52, 322– 340. [most downloaded journal article]