Publications

*supervised and co-supervised students

2025

Valcarcel, A. F.*, Stevens, C. L., O’Callaghan, J. M., & Suanda, S. H. (2025). Overlapping turbulent boundary layers in an energetic coastal sea. Ocean Science, 21(3), 965–987. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-965-2025

Marques, O. B., Feddersen, F., MacMahan, J., Acevedo-Ramirez, C. A., & Suanda, S. H. (2025). Observations of Wave Energy Dissipation by Bottom Friction on Rocky Shores. Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-24-0144.1

Quinn, K. J., Feddersen, F., Marques, O. B., MacMahan, J. H., & Suanda, S. H. (2025). Depth-Averaged Subtidal and Tidal Circulation off of a Rocky Shore. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130(4), e2024JC022047. doi.org/10.1029/2024JC022047

Santana, R.*, O’Callaghan, J., Macdonald, H., Suanda, S. H., & Wakes, S. (2025). Eddy-Driven Cross-Shelf Exchange and Variability in the East Auckland Current. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130(3), e2024JC021601. doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021601

Nuss, E. S.*, Moulton, M., Suanda, S. H., & Baker, C. M. (2025). Modeled Surf-Zone Eddies on a Laboratory Scale Barred Beach With Varying Wave Conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130(1) doi:10.1029/2023JC020549

2024

Suanda, S. H., & Smith, R. O. (2024). Spring stratification and internal temperature oscillations near a coastal inlet. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research doi:10.1080/00288330.2024.2439088

Vance, J. M., Currie, K., Suanda, S. H., & Law, C. S. (2024). Drivers of seasonal to decadal mixed layer carbon cycle variability in subantarctic water in the Munida Time Series. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11. doi:10.3389/fmars.2024.1309560

Johnson, E. E.*, Collins, C., Suanda, S. H., Wing, S. R., Currie, K. I., Vance, J., Smith, R. O. (2024) Drivers of Neritic Water Intrusions at the Subtropical Front Along a Narrow Shelf. Continental Shelf Research, 277, 105248. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2024.105248

2023

Johnson, E. E.*, Suanda, S. H., Wing, S. R., Currie, K. I., & Smith, R. O. (2023). Episodic Summer Chlorophyll-a Blooms Driven by Along-Front Winds at Aotearoa’s Southeast Shelf Break Front. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(7), doi:10.1029/2022JC019609

Santana, R.*, Macdonald, H., O’Callaghan, J., Powell, B., Wakes,
S., Suanda, S.H., (2023) Data
assimilation sensitivity experiments in the East Auckland Current
system using 4D-Var. Geoscientific Model Development 16, 13, doi:10.5194/gmd-16-3675-2023.

DeSouza, J., Suanda, S.H., Couto, P. P.*,
Smith, R. O., Kerry, C., Roughan, M. (2023) Moana Ocean
Hindcast – a 25+ years simulation for New Zealand Waters using the
ROMS v3.9 model. Geoscientific Model Development 16, 1, doi:10.5194/gmd-16-211-2023

Orozco, M.*, Suanda, S.H., DeSouza, J., (2023) Modelled coastal
circulation and Lagrangian statistics from a large coastal
embayment: The case of Bay of Plenty, Aotearoa New Zealand. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 281, doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108212

2022

Moulton, M., Suanda, S.H., Garwood, J. C., Kumar, N., Fewings, M. R.,
Pringle, J. (2022) Exchange of plankton, pollutants, and particles
across the nearshore region. Annual Reviews of Marine Science, Vol. 15:167-202, doi:10.1146/annurev-marine-032122-115057

2021

Spydell, M. S., Suanda, S. H., Grimes, D. J., Becherer, J., Mcsweeney, J. M., Chickadel, C., Moulton, M., et al. (2021) Internal Bore Evolution across the Shelf near Pt. Sal, California, Interpreted as a Gravity Current. Journal of Physical Oceanography 51, no. 12, 3629–50. doi:10.1175/JPO-D-21-0095.1.

Santana, R.* , Suanda, S.H., Macdonald, H., O’Callaghan, J. (2021) Mesoscale and wind-driven intra-annual variability in the East Auckland current. Scientific Reports, doi:10.1038/s41598-021-89222-3

2020

Kumar, N., Lerczak, J., Xu, T., Waterhouse, A. F., Thomson, T., Terrill, E.J., Swann, C., Suanda, S.H., et al., (2020) The Inner Shelf Dynamics Experiment Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0281.1

O’Connell-Milne, S., Wing, S. R., Suanda, S.H., Udy, J. A., Durante, L. M., Salmond, N. H., Wing, L. C. (2020). Interactions between bivalve filter feeding and oceanographic forcing drive the fluxes of organic matter and nutrients at an estuarine–coastal interface Marine Ecology Progress Series, doi:10.3354/meps13522.

Gough, M. K., Freismuth, T., MacMahan J., Colosi, J., Suanda, S.H., Kumar, N. (2020) Heating of the midshelf and inner shelf by warm internal tidal bores Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-19-0143.1.

2019

Kumar, N., Suanda, S.H., Colosi, J. A., Cai, D., Haas, K. A., Di Lorenzo,
E., Miller, A. J., Edwards, C. A. (2019) Coastal Semidiurnal Internal Tidal Incoherence in the Santa Maria Basin, California: Observations and Model Simulations Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 124, no. 7, 5158-79 doi:10.1029/2018JC014891

O’Callaghan, J., Stevens C., Roughan M., et al. including Suanda, S.H. (2019) Developing an Integrated Ocean Observing System for New Zealand. Frontiers in Marine Science 6. doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00143.

Spydell, M. S., Feddersen F., Suanda, S.H., (2019) Inhomogeneous Turbulent Dispersion across the Nearshore Induced by Surfzone Eddies. Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-18-0102.1.

2018

Suanda, S.H., Feddersen, F., Spydell, M. S., Kumar, N., (2018) The Effect of Barotropic and Baroclinic Tides on Three-Dimensional Coastal Dispersion Geophysical Research Letters 45, no. 20, 11,235-11,246. doi:10.1029/2018GL079884.

2017

Suanda, S.H., Kumar, N., Feddersen, F. (2017) The effect of barotropic and baroclinic tides on coastal stratification and mixing. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1002/2017JC013379

Colosi, J., Kumar, N., Suanda, S.H., Freismuth, T., MacMahan J. (2017) Statistics of Internal Tide Bores and Internal Solitary Waves Observed on the Inner Continental Shelf off Point Sal, CA Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-17-0045.1

2016

Suanda, S.H., Kumar, N., Miller, A.J., DiLorenzo, E., Haas, K., Cai, D., Edwards, C.A., Washburn, L., Fewings, M., Torres, R., Feddersen, F. (2016) Wind relaxation and a coastal buoyant plume north of Pt. Conception, CA: observations, simulations, and scalings. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1002/ 2016JC011919.

Suanda, S.H., Perez, S., Feddersen, F. (2016) Evaluation of a source-function wavemaker for generating random directionally spread waves in the sea-swell band. Coastal Engineering, doi: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2016.04.006.

Kumar, N., Feddersen, F., Suanda, S.H., Uchiyama, Y., McWilliams, J., O’Reilly, W. (2016) Mid- to inner-shelf coupled ROMS-SWAN model-data comparison of currents and temperature: Diurnal and semi-diurnal variability. Journal of Physical Oceanography), doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-15-0103.1

2015

Suanda, S.H., Barth, J.A. (2015) Semidiurnal baroclinic tides on the Central Oregon inner shelf. Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-14- 0198.1.

Suanda, S.H., and Feddersen, F. (2015) A self-similar scaling for cross-shelf exchange driven by transient rip currents. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(13), doi: 10.1002/2015GL063944.

pre-2015

Suanda, S.H., Barth, J.A., Holman, R.A. and Stanley, J. (2014) Shore-based video observations of nonlinear internal waves across the inner shelf, Journal of Oceanic and Atmospheric Technology, 31, 714-728.

Suanda, S.H., Barth, J.A., and Woodson, C.B. (2011). Diurnal heat balance for the northern Monterey Bay inner shelf, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116(C9).

Tlusty, M.F., Metzler A., Huckabone S., Suanda, S.H., and Guerrier, S. (2009) Morphological colour change in the American lobster (Homarus americanus) in response to background colour and UV light, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 43(1), 247-255.