bodner research group

Research

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List of Publications

In Final Preparation / Submitted

  • Si, Y., Johnson, L., & Bodner, A. Diagnosing Mixed Layer Dynamics from Sea Surface Height Anomalies: A Theoretical Framework. In preparation for Geophysical Research Letters.

  • McConkey, R., Balla, J., Bailey, J., Backour, A., Hofgard, E., Jaakola, T., Bodner, A., & Smidt, T. Turbulence Teaches Equivariance to Neural Networks. Journal of Fluid Mechanics – Rapids, Submitted. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04695

  • Champenois, B., Ali, A., & Bodner, A. Reconstructing Ocean Mixed Layer Variability from SWOT Using Machine Learning. Geophysical Research Letters, Submitted. Preprint: 10.22541/essoar.177046572.22898014/v1

  • Peng, S. & Bodner, A. A Theoretical Model for Oceanic Submesoscales Under Next-Order Effects of Strain and Turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Submitted. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18962

  • Peng, S., Silvestri, S., & Bodner, A. Submesoscale and Boundary Layer Turbulence Under Mesoscale Forcing in the Upper Ocean. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Submitted. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10441

  • Zhang, Z., Dong, J., Yu, X., Qu, L., Wang, S., Cai, W., Qiu, B., Klein, P., Zhang, X., Tang, T., Wenegrat, J., Renault, L., Sasaki, H., Barkan ,R., Bodner, A., Siegelman, L., Fox-Kemper, B., Liu, Z., Xu, L., Zhang, Z., Jing, Z., Yang, H., Jing, Z., Chen, Z., Song, X., Lin, X., Tian, J., & Zhao W. Oceanic Submesoscale Processes and Their Impacts. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Submitted.
  • Dong, J., Bodner, A., Fox-Kemper, B., Dong, C., & Tian, J. Significant contribution of submesoscales to turbulence in the upper ocean boundary layer of an anticyclonic mesoscale eddy. Journal of Physical Oceanography, Under Review.

Peer Reviewed

  • Uchida, T., Bodner, A., Reichl, B., Adcroft, A., Fox-Kemper, B. Ilicak, M., & Bentsen, M. (2026) Surface Mixed-Layer Eddies Affect the Large-Scale Ventilation of the Global Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, doi.org/10.1029/2025GL116872.

  • Bodner, A., Balwada, D., & Zanna, L. (2025) A Data-Driven Approach for Parameterizing Ocean Sub- mesoscale Buoyancy Fluxes. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, doi.org/10.1029/ 2025MS004991.

  • Dong, J., Fox-Kemper, B., Wenegrat, J.O., Bodner, A., Zhang, H., Yu, X., & Dong, C., Belcher, S. (2024) Submesoscales are a significant turbulence source in global ocean surface boundary layer. Nature Communications, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53959-y

  • Bodner, A., Fox-Kemper, B., Johnson, L., Van Roekel, L.P., McWilliams, J.C., Sullivan, P.P., Hall, P.S., & J.Dong (2023). Modifying the Mixed Layer Eddy Parameterization to Include Frontogenesis Arrest by Boundary Layer Turbulence. Journal of Physical Oceanography. doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-21-0297.1

  • Bodner, A. & Fox-Kemper, B. (2020). A Breakdown in Potential Vorticity Estimation Delineates the Submesoscale-to-Turbulence Boundary in Large Eddy Simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, e2020MS002049. doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002049

  • Bodner, A., Fox-Kemper, B., Van Roekel, L.P., McWilliams, J.C. & Sullivan, P.P. (2019). A Perturbation Approach to Understanding the Effects of Turbulence on Frontogenesis. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 883. doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2019.804

Please refer to Dr. Bodner’s Google Scholar page for additional work.