Braulio Juarez

Braulio Juarez
Autonomous University of Baja California | UABC · Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanológicas

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
My research interests are mainly focused on Estuarine and Coastal Hydrodynamics. Throughout my career, I had demonstrated a passion for the study of the physical processes occurring in these complex coastal environments which are highly relevant from a social and environmental perspective. My research interests also include physical oceanography, numerical modeling, and data analysis.
Additional affiliations
April 2020 - present
Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanologicas
Position
  • Research Associate
Description
  • Research and teaching
Education
August 2016 - December 2019
University of Florida
Field of study
  • Physical oceanography

Publications

Publications (17)
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Biological data collection often overlooks short-term environmental variations, potentially leading to under- or over-estimation of species abundance and ineffective conservation actions. This study investigated the complex relationship between oceanic and meteorological processes and the short-term abundance patterns of two economically important...
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Bahía Santa Elena is a tropical bay located in the northern Pacific region of Costa Rica. This region experiences a period of reduced precipitation from July to August, known as mid-summer drought, induced by the intensification of northeastern winds from the Caribbean Low-Level Jet. Intensification of upwelling-favorable winds can cool surface wat...
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Subtidal circulation patterns were studied along an elongated hypersaline system. Month-long data were collected using three acoustic Doppler current profilers. These profilers were moored at depths of around 15 m in three locations: 10 km inland from the mouth of the lagoon, within the central region, and near the head of the lagoon. The variabili...
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Hurricane Irma affected the Florida peninsula from September 10th to 12th, 2017. The peninsula’s east coast was hit hardest: the city of Jacksonville flooded around the St. Johns River estuary with storm surge that exceeded 1.5 m and rainfall that surpassed 20 cm in 24 hours. This study used observations such as water and wind velocities, river dis...
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We present an approach for estimating drag coefficients for depth-averaged tidal flows that uses the ratio of observed RMS velocities to the RMS velocities that would be observed without bottom friction. We find that this ratio, R, depends on a single non-dimensional number, P=CDCη0/ωH2, where CD is the drag coefficient, and C is the phase speed of...
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While estuarine salt plugs can develop worldwide in basins adjacent to buoyant coastal currents, their formation has been scarcely documented. This study aims to investigate a mechanism for salt‐plug formation that disregards evaporation processes but involves a buoyant coastal current modified by wind stresses. A numerical model, Delft3D, is used...
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Yearly-average along-shelf winds were predominantly upcoast over the last two decades, but large seasonal fluctuations existed. This study provides an example of how the passage of episodic cold fronts generally induce the reversing of along-shelf flows downcoast on the southern Texas coast. A total of 819 cold fronts of 4 days of average duration...
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Kelp forests affect coastal circulation but their influence on upwelling around headlands is poorly understood. Tidal-cycle surveys off two headlands with contrasting kelp coverage illustrated the influence of kelp forests on headland upwelling. Underway acoustic Doppler current and backscatter profiles were collected simultaneously to surface wate...
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Estuarine salt plugs can cause water quality problems and are usually attributed to hypersaline conditions in low-inflow estuaries, where evaporation rates exceed or match freshwater input rates. However, salt plugs may also develop in typical estuaries, in brackish waters, by an additional freshwater influence from the estuary's mouth. In this stu...
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Hurricane Irma impacted the entire Florida peninsula in September 2017. The combination of Irma's strength, size, and track provided a unique opportunity to study hurricane effects on storm surge on both sides of a peninsula. Storm surge characteristics on the west coast of Florida were markedly different from those on the east coast. On the west c...
Presentation
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La formación de tapones de sal, i.e., bloqueo al intercambio de agua en estuarios, suele estar atribuida a estuarios de flujo reducido cuando su tasa de evaporación excede o es similar a la tasa de aporte de agua dulce. Datos mensuales y anuales en este estudio mostraron un tapón de sal formado por un pulso de agua dulce procedente de la plataforma...
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Wind-stress is one of the main drivers of estuarine circulation. The lateral structure of wind-induced flows in estuaries has been described mainly with analytical and numerical models. The aim of this study is to investigate, with observations, the lateral structure of wind-induced flow in a coastal plain estuary, the James River, Virginia. Such s...
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The mixing of fresh and salty waters in semi-enclosed coastal basins is modified by the main forcings: tide, density gradient, and wind. Each of those drivers induces a different spatial structure of residual (non-tidal) circulation. This study focuses on the competition between tide and horizontal density gradients to drive the residual circulatio...
Poster
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Tidal and residual circulation in the Mississippi River Delta.
Thesis
The tide is the principal forcing in the dynamic of the coastal lagoons. The Estero de Punta Banda is a shallow coastal lagoon, with a mean depth of 4 m, approximately, located at the south part of the Bahia de Todos Santos from the west coast of Baja California. The tidal range is 2.2 m corresponding to a mesotidal regime; the tides are mixed main...

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