I investigate the mechanisms by which water is exchanged between the coastal oceans and the deep sea. I use mathematical tools, numerical ocean models, and field observations to understand the underlying ocean physics.
My current research involves:
- understanding ocean dynamics on seasonal and interannual timescales off North and Western Australia, including the 2011 marine heat wave, 2015-2016 bleaching event in the Northern Great Barrier Reef
- understanding processes that drive upwelling along the Great Barrier Reef.
The following are a selection of recent publications:
Oliver E, et al (2017) The unprecedented 2015/16 Tasman Sea marine heatwave. Nat Comms 8:16101
Lonborg C, et al (2017) Seasonal organic matter in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon: Contribution of carbohydrates and proteins. Cont Shelf Res 138:95-105
Benthuysen JA, et al (2016) Intrusive upwelling in the Central Great Barrier Reef. J Geophys Res Oceans 121:8395-8416
Hobday AJ, et al (2016) A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves. Prog in Oceanogr 141:227-238
Lough JM, et al (2016) Environmental drivers of growth in massive Porites corals over 16 degrees of latitude along Australia's northwest shelf. Limnol Oceanogr 61:684-700
Feng M, Benthuysen J, et al (2015) Freshening anomalies in the Indonesian Throughflow and impacts on the Leeuwin Current during 2010-2011. Geophys Res Letters 42:8555-8562
Albright R, Benthuysen J, et al (2015) Coral reef metabolism and carbon chemistry dynamics of a coral reef flat. Geophysical Research Letters 42:3980-3988
Caputi N, Feng M, Pearce A, Benthuysen J, et al (2015) Management implications of climate change effect on fisheries in Western Australia. Part 1. Environmental change and risk assessment. Fisheries Research Report 260, Dept of Fisheries Western Australia, September.
Benthuysen J, Thomas LN, Lentz SJ (2015) Rapid generation of upwelling at a shelf break caused by buoyancy shutdown. Journal of Physical Oceanography 45:294-312
Benthuysen J, Feng M, Zhong L (2014) Spatial patterns of warming off Western Australia during the 2011 Ningaloo Nino: quantifying impacts of remote and local forcing. Continental Shelf Research 91:232-246
Benthuysen J, et al (2014) Dynamics of the Leeuwin Current: Part 2. Impacts of mixing, friction, and advection on a buoyancy driven eastern boundary current over a shelf. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans 65:39-63
Furue R, et al (2013) Dynamics of the Leeuwin Current: Part 1. Coastal flows in an inviscid, variable- density, layer model. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans 63:24-59
Benthuysen J, Thomas LN (2013) Nonlinear stratified spindown over a slope. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 726: 371-403
Benthuysen J, Thomas LN (2012) Asymmetries in vertical vorticity and vertical velocity arising during nonlinear homogeneous spindown. Physics of Fluids 24:076601
Benthuysen J, Thomas LN (2012) Friction and diapycnal mixing at slope: boundary control of potential vorticity. Journal of Physical Oceanography 42:1509-1523
