Publications

Peer-reviewed

 T. Harrison, K. M. Thyng, B. Polagye (2019). Comparative evaluation of volumetric current measurements in a tidally-dominated, coastal setting with an emphasis on float swarms. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. (submitted)

K. M. Thyng, R. D. Hetland, S. A. Socolofsky, N. Fernando, E. L. Turner, C. Schoenbaechler (2019). Hurricane Harvey Caused Unprecedented Freshwater Inflow to Galveston Bay. JGR-Oceans. (under review)

K. M. Thyng (2019). Deepwater Horizon Oil could have naturally reached Texas beaches. Marine Pollution Bulletin. (accepted)

C. A. Greene, K. Thirumalai, K. A. Kearney, J. Miguel Delgado, W. Schwanghart, N. S. Wolfenbarger, K. M. Thyng, D. E. Gwyther, A. S. Gardner, D. D. Blankenship (2019). The Climate Data Toolbox for MATLAB. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. doi:10.1029/2019GC008392. link.

Feng, D., B. R. Hodges, S. S. Socolofsky, & K. M. Thyng (2019). Tidal eddies at a narrow channel inlet in operational oil spill models. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 140, 374–387. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.01.051. link.

Thyng, K.M. and R. D. Hetland (2018). Seasonal and interannual cross-shelf transport in Texas and Louisiana. Continental Shelf Research, 160, 23-35. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2018.03.006. link.

Khade, V., Kurian, J., Chang, P., Szunyogh, I., Thyng, K., & Montuoro, R. (2017). Oceanic Ensemble Forecasting in the Gulf of Mexico: An application to the case of the Deep Water Horizon oil spill. Ocean Modelling, 113, 171–184. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2017.04.004. link.

Thyng, K. M. and R. D. Hetland (2017). Texas and Louisiana Coastal Vulnerability and Shelf Connectivity. Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 116, Issues 1-2, Pages 226-233, doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.12.074. link.

Fitzsimmons, J. N., T. M. Conway, J.-M. Lee, R. Kayser, K. M. Thyng, S. G. John, and E. A. Boyle (2016), Dissolved iron and iron isotopes in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 30, doi:10.1002/2015GB005357. link

Thyng, K. M., C. A. Greene, R. D. Hetland, H. M. Zimmerle, and S. F. DiMarco. 2016. True colors of oceanography: Guidelines for effective and accurate colormap selection. Oceanography 29(3):9–13, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2016.66. pdf

Bacosa, H. P., K. M. Thyng, S. Plunkett, D. L. Erdner, Z. Liu. The tarballs on Texas beaches following the 2014 Texas City "Y" Spill: Modeling, chemical, and microbiological studies, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 109, Issue 1, 15 August 2016, Pages 236-244, ISSN 0025-326X, doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.05.076. link

Roc, T, S. W. Funke, K. M. Thyng (2015). Standard methodology for tidal array project optimisation: An idealized study of the Minas Passage. Proceedings European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference. Nantes, France. pdf.

Thyng, K. M. and R. D. Hetland, (2014). TracPy: Wrapping the Fortran Lagrangian trajectory model TRACMASS. Proceedings of the 13th Python in Science Conference (SciPy 2014). https://doi.org/10.25080/Majora-14bd3278-00d. pdf.

Roc, T., D. Greaves, K. M. Thyng, & D. Conley (2014). Tidal turbine representation in an ocean circulation model: Towards realistic applications. Ocean Engineering, 78, 95--111. doi:10.1016/j.oceaneng.2013.11.010. link

Thyng, K. M., R. D. Hetland, M. T. Ogle, X. Zhang, F. Chen, & L. Campbell (2013). Origins of Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms along the Texas coast. Limnology & Oceanography: Fluids & Environments, 3, 269-278. doi: 10.1215/21573689-2417719. link

Thyng, K. M., J. J. Riley, & J. Thomson (2013). Inference of turbulence parameters from a ROMS simulation using the k-ε closure scheme. Ocean Modelling, 72(C), 104--118. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.08.008. pre-print link

Thyng, K. M. & T. Roc (2013). Tidal current turbine power capture and impact in an idealised channel simulation. Proceedings European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference. Aalborg, Denmark. pdf

Roc, T., K. M. Thyng, & D. Conley (2011). Applying a numerical decision-making tool for tidal current turbine (TCT) planning projects to the Puget Sound estuary - Early Results. Proceedings European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference. Southampton, UK. pdf

Kawase, M., & K. M. Thyng (2010). Three-dimensional hydrodynamic modelling of inland marine waters of Washington State, United States, for tidal resource and environmental impact assessment. Renewable Power Generation, IET, 4(6), 568-578. doi:10.1049/iet-rpg.2009.0195. link

Products and Other

 Barba, L. A., J. Bazan, J. Brown, R. V. Guimera, M. Gymrek, A. Hanna, L. J. Heagy, K. D. Huff, D. S. Katz, C. R. Madan, K. M. Moerman, K. E. Niemeyer, J. L. Poulson, P. Prins, K. Ram, A. Rokem, A. M. Smith, G. K. Thiruvathukal, K. M. Thyng, L. Uieda, B. E. Wilson, Y. Yehudi (2019). Giving software its due through community-driven review and publication. OSF Preprints. doi:10.31219/osf.io/f4vx6.

M.T. Sherman, R. Blaylock, K. Lucas, M.E. Capron, J.R. Stewart, S.F. DiMarco, K. Thyng, R. Hetland, MH Kim, C. Sullivan, Z. Moscicki, I. Tsukrov, M.R. Swift, M.D. Chambers, S.C. James, M. Brooks, B. von Herzen, A. Jones, D. Piper (2018). SeaweedPaddock: Initial Modeling and Design for a Sargassum Ranch. Proceedings of Oceans 18 Conference, Charleston, NC, October 22-25.

Thyng, K. M. (2015). cmocean: Beautiful colormaps for oceanography. https://github.com/matplotlib/cmocean.

Thyng, K. M., C. H. Barker, K. Jordahl, D. Cherian (2014). TracPy, Zenodo, doi:10.5281/zenodo.10433.

Thyng, K. M. (2012). Numerical Simulation of Admiralty Inlet, WA, with Tidal Hydrokinetic Turbine Siting Application (Doctoral dissertation). pdf

Thyng, K. M., & Riley, J. J. (2010, September). Idealized headland simulation for tidal hydrokinetic turbine siting metrics. In OCEANS 2010 (pp. 1-6). IEEE. pdf