Dr. Johannes Becherer

Small-scale Physics and Turbulence

Scientist

Phone: +49 (0) 4152 87-1547

Fax: +49 (0)4152 87-1525

Research Interests
CV
selected Publications

I am a physical oceanographer with a special interest in turbulence and mixing in the ocean.
My favorite research topics are:

turbulence & mixing
internal waves - non-linear internal waves, internal tide, near-inertial waves
pycnocline mixing
bottom boundary layer turbulence
shelf sea dynamics
estuarine circulation

2020 - present Scientist, Helmholtz-Center HEREON, Small-scale Physics and Turbulence
2015 - 2019 PostDoc, Oregon State University, Ocean Mixing Group
2014 - 2015 PostDoc, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde
2011 - 2014 PhD Student, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde

Becherer, J., Burchard, H., Carpenter, J.R., Graewe, U., & Merckelbach, L. M. (2022): The role of turbulence in fueling the subsurface chlorophyll maximum in tidally dominated shelf seas. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127, doi:10.1029/2022JC018561
Becherer, J., Moum, J.N., Calantoni, J., Colosi, J.A., Barth, J.A., Lerczak, J.A., McSweeney, J.M., MacKinnon, J.A., & Waterhouse, A.F. (2021): Saturation of the internal tide over the inner continental shelf. Part I: Observations. Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-20-0264.1
Becherer, J., Moum, J.N., Calantoni, J., Colosi, J.A., Barth, J.A., Lerczak, J.A., McSweeney, J.M., MacKinnon, J.A., & Waterhouse, A. F. (2021): Saturation of the internal tide over the inner continental shelf. Part II: Parameterization. Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-21-0047.1
Kumar, N., Lerczak, J. A., Xu, T., Waterhouse, A. F., Thomson, J., Terrill, E. J., Swann, C., Suanda, S. H., Spydell, M. S., Smit, P. B., Simpson, A., Romeiser, R., Pierce, S. D., de Paolo, T., Palóczy, A., O’Dea, A., Nyman, L., Moum, J. N., Moulton, M., Moore, A. M., Miller, A. J., Mieras, R. S., Merrifield, S. T., Melville, K., McSweeney, J. M., MacMahan, J., MacKinnon, J. A., Lund, B., Di Lorenzo, E., Lenain, L., Kovatch, M., Janssen, T. T., Haney, S. R., Haller, M. C., Haas, K., Grimes, D. J., Graber, H. C., Gough, M. K., Fertitta, D. A., Feddersen, F., Edwards, C. A., Crawford, W., Colosi, J., Chickadel, C. C., Celona, S., Calantoni, J., Braithwaite, E. F., III, Becherer, J., Barth, J. A., & Ahn, S. (2021): The Inner-Shelf Dynamics Experiment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(5), E1033-E1063, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0281.1
Becherer, J., Moum, J.N., Colosi, J.A., Lerczak, J.A., & McSweeney, J.M. (2020): Turbulence Asymmetries in Bottom Boundary Layer Velocity Pulses Associated with Onshore-Propagating Nonlinear Internal Waves. J. Phys. Oceanogr. (2020) 50 (8): 2373–2391, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-19-0178.1
McSweeney, J.M., Lerczak, J.A., Barth, J.A., Becherer, J., MacKinnon, J.A., Waterhouse, A.F., Colosi, J.A., MacMahan, J.H., Feddersen, F., Calantoni, J., Simpson, A., Celona, S., Haller, M.C., & Terrill, E. (2020): Alongshore Variability of Shoaling Internal Bores on the Inner Shelf. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 1–50, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-20-0090.1

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