Selected Publications
Lascaratos A., R. Williams and E. Tragou 1993 : A mixed layer study of the formation of Levantine Intermediate Water. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol.98, No.C8, 14,739-14,749.
Lascaratos A., 1993: Estimation of Deep and Intermediate Water Mass Formation Rates in the Mediterranean Sea. Deep Sea Res. II, Vol.40, No 6, 1327-1332.
Nittis K., N. Pinardi and A. Lascaratos 1993 : Characteristics of the summer 1987 flow field in the Ionian Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol.98, 171 -184.
Theocharis A., D. Georgopoulos, A. Lascaratos and K. Nittis, 1993: Water masses and circulation in the central region of the Eastern Mediterranean : Eastern Ionian , South Aegean and Northwest Levantine, 1986-1987. Deep Sea Res. II, Vol.40, No 6, 1121- 1142.
Garrett, C., K. Speer and E. Tragou 1995: The relationship between water mass formation and the surface buoyancy flux, with application to Phillips Red Sea model. J. Phys. Oceanogr., Vol. 25, 1696-1705.
Triantafyllou, G.N., J.B. Elsner, A. Lascaratos, C. Koutitas, and A.A. Tsonis, 1995 : Structure and Properties of an Attractor of a Marine Dynamical System. Math. Comput. Modelling, Vol. 21, No. 6, 73-86.
Pinardi, N., G. Korres, A. Lascaratos, V. Roussenov and E. Stanev, 1997: On the interannual variability of the Mediterranean Sea upper ocean circulation. Geophysical Review Letters, Vol.24, No 4, pp. 425-427.
Drakopoulos, P.G. and A. Lascaratos, 1997: Modelling the Mediterranean Sea: climatological forcing. Journal of Marine Systems 20(1999), 157-173.
Tragou, E. and C. Garrett 1997: The shallow thermohaline circulation of the Red Sea. Deep-Sea Research, Vol. 44, 1355-1376.
Lascaratos, A. and K. Nittis, 1998: A high-resolution three-dimensional numerical study of intermediate water formation in the Levantine Sea. Journal of Geophys. Res., Vol.103, no. C9, 18,497-18,511.
Tragou, E., C. Garrett, R. Outerbridge and C. Gilman 1999: The heat and freshwater budgets of the Red Sea. J. Phys. Oceanogr., Vol. 29, 2504-2522.
G.Korres, N.Pinardi and A.Lascaratos, 2000 : The ocean response to low frequency interannual atmospheric variability in the Mediterranean sea. Part I: Sensitivity experiments and energy analysis, Journal of Climate, 13, 705-731.
G.Korres, N.Pinardi and A.Lascaratos, 2000 : The ocean response to low frequency interannual atmospheric variability in the Mediterranean sea. Part II: Empirical Orthogonal Functions analysis, Journal of Climate , 13, 732-745.
Sofianos, S. and W. E. Johns, 2001: Wind induced sea level variability in the Red Sea, Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 3175-3178.
Sofianos, S., W. E. Johns and S. Murray, 2002: Heat and freshwater budgets in the Red Sea from direct observations at Bab el Mandeb, Deep Sea Research, 49, 1323-1340.
Sofianos, S. and W. E. Johns, 2002: An Oceanic General Circulation Model (OGCM) investigation of the Red Sea circulation. Part I.: The exchange between the Red sea and the Indian Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, 3196, doi: 10.1029/2001JC001184.
N. Skliris, , J. H. Hecq and S. Djenidi, 2002: Water fluxes at an ocean margin in the presence of a submarine canyon, Journal of Marine Systems,Volume 32, 1-3, 239-251.
Elkalay K., Frangoulis C., Skliris N., Goffart A., Gobert S., Lepoint G., Hecq J.-H., 2003: A model of the seasonal dynamics of biomass and production of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica in the Bay of Calvi (Northwestern Mediterranean), Ecological Modelling, Volume 167, 1, pp. 1-18.
Tragou, E., and A. Lascaratos 2003: The role of aerosols on the Mediterranean heat budget, J. Geophys. Res., VOL. 108, NO. C2, 3025, doi:10.1029/2001JC001258.
Sofianos, S. and W. E. Johns, 2003: An Oceanic General Circulation Model (OGCM) investigation of the Red Sea circulation. Part II.: The three-dimensional circulation in the Red Sea, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, 3066, doi: 10.1029/2001JC001185.
Sofianos, S., A. Lascaratos, and G. Korres, 2003: Interannual variability of atmospheric parameters over the Mediterranean basin fro 1945 to 1994, In: Tracking long-term hydrological change in the Mediterranean Sea, Briand, F. (Ed.), CIESM Workshop Series, vol. 16, pp. 21-24.
Theocharis, A. A. Lascaratos, and S. Sofianos, 2003: Variability of sea water properties in the Ionian, Cretan and Levantine seas during the last century, In: Tracking long-term hydrological change in the Mediterranean Sea, Briand, F. (Ed.), CIESM Workshop Series, vol. 16, pp. 73-76.
Skliris, N. , G. Lacroixb and S. Djenidi, 2004: Effects of extreme meteorological conditions on coastal dynamics near a submarine canyon, Continental Shelf Research Volume 24, 9, Pages 1033-1045.
Mantziafou, A. and A. Lascaratos, 2004: An eddy resolving numerical study of the general circulation and deep-water formation in the Adriatic Sea Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, Volume 51, 7, 921-952.
Skliris, N. and A. Lascaratos, 2004: Impacts of the Nile River damming on the thermohaline circulation and water mass characteristics of the Mediterranean Sea, J. Mar. Sys., 52(1-4), 121-143.
Lascaratos,A., S. Sofianos, A. Theocharis and M. Tsimplis, 2005: Long term water masses: time scales, in .State of the Hellenic Marine Environment., Eds. V. Papathanasiou and A. Zenetos, HCMR Publ., 360 pp, ISBN: 960-86651-8-3.
Velaoras D. and A. Lascaratos, 2005: Deep Water mass characteristics and Interannual Variability in the Northern and Central Aegean Sea, Journal of marine Systems, 53, 59-85.
Sofianos, N. Skliris, A. Mantziafou, A. Lascaratos, G. Zodiatis, R. Lardner, D. Hayes, and G. Georgiou, 2006: Nesting operational forecasting models in the Eastern Mediterranean: active and slave mode, Ocean Science Discussions, 3, 1225-1254.
Skliris, N. S. Sofianos, and A. Lascaratos, 2007: Hydrological changes in the Mediterranean Sea in relation to changes in the freshwater budget: A numerical modelling study, Journal of Marine Systems, 65, 400-416.
Sofianos, S. and W. E. Johns, 2007: Observations of the summer Red Sea circulation, Journal of Geophysical Research, VOL. 112, C06025, doi:10.1029 - 2006JC003886.
Mantziafou A. and A. Lascaratos, 2008: Deep-water formation in the Adriatic Sea:Interannual simulations for the years 1979-1999, Deep-Sea Research I 55 (2008) 1403. 1427.
Zodiatis, G., R. L. Lardner, D. Hayes, G. Georgiou, S. Sofianos, N. Skliris, A. Lascaratos, 2008: Operational coastal ocean forecasting in the Eastern Mediterranean: implementation and evaluation, Ocean Science, 4, 31-47.
Tzali, M., Sofianos, S., Kallos, G., Mantziafou, A., Zafeirakou, A., Dermisis, V., Koutitas, Ch., Zervakis, V., 2009: Oil spill dispersion forecasting system for the region of installation of the burgas alexandroulopis pipeline outlet (N.E. Aegean) in the framework of "DIAVLOS" project, AIP Con. Proc., DOI:10.1063/1.3322304.
Axaopoulos, P., Sofianos, S., 2009: Long term variability of sea surface temperature in Mediterranean Sea, AIP Con. Proc., DOI: 10.1063/1.3322579.
Skliris, N., Mantziafou, A., Sofianos, S. , Gkanasos, A., 2010: Satellite-derived variability of the Aegean Sea ecohydrodynamics, Continental Shelf Research, 30 (5), pp. 403-418.
Tzali, M., S. Sofianos, A. Mantziafou and N. Skliris, 2010: Modelling the impact of Black Sea water inflow on the North Aegean Sea hydrodynamics, Ocean Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s10236-010-0277-3.
Skliris, N., S. Sofianos, A. Gkanasos, A. Mantziafou, V. Vervatis, P. Axaopoulos, A. Lascaratos, 2011: Decadal scale variability of sea surface temperature in the Mediterranean Sea in relation to atmospheric variability, Ocean Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s10236-011-0493-5.
Vervatis, V. D., S. S. Sofianos, and A. Theocharis, 2011: Distribution of the thermohaline characteristics in the Aegean Sea related to water mass formation processes (2005.2006 winter surveys), J. Geophys. Res., 116, C09034, doi:10.1029/2010JC006868.
Skliris, N., S. S. Sofianos, A. Gkanasos, P. Axaopoulos, A. Mantziafou, V. Vervatis, 2011: Long-term sea surface temperature variability in the Aegean Sea, Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 2:2, 125-139
Johns, W. E., S. S. Sofianos, 2012: Atmospherically Forced Exchange through the Bab el Mandeb Strait. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 42, 1143-1157. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-11-0157.1