Merge pull request #287 from Parcels-code/maalouly_paper

Adding Maalouly paper

Author: erikvansebille

src/data/papers-citing-parcels.ts

@@ -3040,4 +3040,13 @@ export const papersCitingParcels: Paper[] = [
     abstract:
       'Water transport through the Korea Strait critically influences the East Sea’s marine environment and regional climate. While short-term variability has been studied, long-term (decadal) changes and their impact on source contributions remain less understood. Here, we apply three-dimensional Lagrangian particle tracking within a high-resolution eddy-resolving coupled ocean–atmosphere model to analyze seasonal and decadal variability of Korea Strait inflow and identify its upstream feeder branch. We find that the Taiwan Strait and the Kuroshio east of Taiwan contribute approximately 0.45 Sv and 0.39 Sv, respectively, together accounting for about 38.4% (0.84 Sv) of the total inflow (~ 2.19 Sv) in the model. The seasonal cycles of these feeder branches show complementary patterns, with the Taiwan Strait dominating in summer and the Kuroshio in winter. Decadal phases modulate both the volume and timing of inflow, with higher transport phases exhibiting more efficient and faster contributions. These findings enhance understanding of regional circulation dynamics and provide a basis for future studies on ecosystem and climate variability in the East Sea.',
   },
+  {
+    title:
+      'Lagrangian pair dispersion in the presence of high-frequency motions at the ocean surface',
+    published_info: 'Journal of Physical Oceanography, in press',
+    authors: 'Maalouly, M, A Dekens, G Lapeyre, ALS Ponte, S Berti (2026)',
+    doi: 'https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-25-0103.1',
+    abstract:
+      'We investigate the properties of relative dispersion of Lagrangian particles in a global-ocean simulation resolving both inertia-gravity waves (IGW) and meso and submesoscale (M/SM) turbulence. More specifically, we test if the dispersion laws depend on the shape of the Eulerian kinetic energy spectrum, as predicted from quasi-geostrophic turbulence theory. To this end, we focus on two areas, in the Kuroshio Extension and in the Gulf Stream, for which the relative importance of IGW compared to M/SM vary in summer and winter. In winter, Lagrangian statistical indicators return a picture in overall agreement with the shape of the kinetic energy spectrum. Conversely, in summer, when submesoscales are less energetic and higher-frequency internal waves gain importance, the expected relations between dispersion properties and spectra do not seem to hold. This apparent discrepancy is explained by decomposing the flow into nearly-balanced motions and internal gravity waves, and showing that the latter dominate the kinetic energy spectrum at small scales. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that high-frequency IGWs do not impact relative dispersion, which is then controlled by the nearly-balanced, mainly rotational, flow component at larger scales. These results highlight that geostrophic velocities derived from wide-swath altimeters, such as SWOT, may present limits when estimating surface dispersion, and that current measuring satellite missions may provide the complementary information to do so.',
+  },
 ]