Journal of Physical Oceanography

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Volume 54 (2024): Issue 12 (Dec 2024)

 
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About the Journal

The Journal of Physical Oceanography (JPO) publishes research related to the physics of the ocean and to processes operating at its boundaries. Observational, theoretical, and modeling studies are all welcome, especially those that focus on elucidating specific physical processes. Papers that investigate interactions with other components of the Earth system (e.g., ocean–atmosphere, physical–biological, and physical–chemical interactions) as well as studies of other fluid systems (e.g., lakes and laboratory tanks) are also invited, as long as their focus is on understanding the ocean or its role in the Earth system.

ISSN: 0022-3670; eISSN: 1520-0485

Editor in Chief

Jerome A. Smith, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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Impact Factor

2.8

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The importance of eddy stirring in wind-driven coastal upwelling

Dou Li
,
Huaiyu Wei
, and
Xiaozhou Ruan
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-24-0066.1
Published Online:
04 Dec 2024
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Upper-ocean processes and sea ice production in the southeastern Amundsen Sea Polynya in austral autumn

Yixi Zheng
,
Benjamin G.M. Webber
,
Karen J. Heywood
,
David P. Stevens
,
Sharon E. Stammerjohn
, and
Rob A. Hall
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-24-0006.1
Published Online:
04 Dec 2024
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The Influence of Lateral Spreading upon Solitary Wave Formation by Internal Tides

Kehan Li
and
Bruce R. Sutherland
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0214.1
Published Online:
22 Nov 2024
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Sea level variations in shelf waters off the coast of British Columbia: from sub-synoptic to interannual time scales

Youyu Lu
,
Li Zhai
,
Xianmin Hu
,
Rachel Horwitz
,
Jean-Philippe Paquin
,
Charles Hannah
, and
William Crawford
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0028.1
Published Online:
20 Nov 2024
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A One-Dimensional Model for Investigating Scale-separated Approaches to the Interaction of Oceanic Internal Waves

Kurt L. Polzin
and
Yuri V. Lvov
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0185.1
Published Online:
23 Oct 2024
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Resolving the ubiquitous small-scale semi-permanent features of the general ocean circulation: a multiplatform observational approach

S. E. Wijffels
,
G. Gebbie
, and
P. E. Robbins
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0225.1
Published Online:
21 Oct 2024
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Optimal Transition Paths for AMOC Collapse and Recovery in a Stochastic Box Model

Jelle Soons
,
Tobias Grafke
, and
Henk A. Dijkstra
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0234.1
Published Online:
03 Oct 2024
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The effect of Southern Ocean topography on the global MOC and abyssal water mass distribution

Tatsu Monkman
and
Malte F. Jansen
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0253.1
Published Online:
01 Oct 2024

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On the Exchange of Momentum over the Open Ocean

James B. Edson
,
Venkata Jampana
,
Robert A. Weller
,
Sebastien P. Bigorre
,
Albert J. Plueddemann
,
Christopher W. Fairall
,
Scott D. Miller
,
Larry Mahrt
,
Dean Vickers
, and
Hans Hersbach
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-12-0173.1
Cited by:
482
Published Online:
Aug 2013
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Global Patterns of Diapycnal Mixing from Measurements of the Turbulent Dissipation Rate

Amy F. Waterhouse
,
Jennifer A. MacKinnon
,
Jonathan D. Nash
,
Matthew H. Alford
,
Eric Kunze
,
Harper L. Simmons
,
Kurt L. Polzin
,
Louis C. St. Laurent
,
Oliver M. Sun
,
Robert Pinkel
,
Lynne D. Talley
,
Caitlin B. Whalen
,
Tycho N. Huussen
,
Glenn S. Carter
,
Ilker Fer
,
Stephanie Waterman
,
Alberto C. Naveira Garabato
,
Thomas B. Sanford
, and
Craig M. Lee
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-13-0104.1
Cited by:
357
Published Online:
Jul 2014
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Convection-Driven Melting near the Grounding Lines of Ice Shelves and Tidewater Glaciers

Adrian Jenkins
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-11-03.1
Cited by:
321
Published Online:
Dec 2011
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Satellite Observations of Mesoscale Eddy-Induced Ekman Pumping

Peter Gaube
,
Dudley B. Chelton
,
Roger M. Samelson
,
Michael G. Schlax
, and
Larry W. O’Neill
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-14-0032.1
Cited by:
265
Published Online:
Jan 2015
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Energy Flux and Dissipation in Luzon Strait: Two Tales of Two Ridges

Matthew H. Alford
,
Jennifer A. MacKinnon
,
Jonathan D. Nash
,
Harper Simmons
,
Andy Pickering
,
Jody M. Klymak
,
Robert Pinkel
,
Oliver Sun
,
Luc Rainville
,
Ruth Musgrave
,
Tamara Beitzel
,
Ke-Hsien Fu
, and
Chung-Wei Lu
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-11-073.1
Cited by:
205
Published Online:
Nov 2011
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An Estimate of the Lorenz Energy Cycle for the World Ocean Based on the STORM/NCEP Simulation

Jin-Song von Storch
,
Carsten Eden
,
Irina Fast
,
Helmuth Haak
,
Daniel Hernández-Deckers
,
Ernst Maier-Reimer
,
Jochem Marotzke
, and
Detlef Stammer
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-12-079.1
Cited by:
203
Published Online:
Dec 2012
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Submesoscale Cold Filaments in the Gulf Stream

Jonathan Gula
,
M. Jeroen Molemaker
, and
James C. McWilliams
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-14-0029.1
Cited by:
198
Published Online:
Oct 2014
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Mesoscale to Submesoscale Wavenumber Spectra in Drake Passage

Cesar B. Rocha
,
Teresa K. Chereskin
,
Sarah T. Gille
, and
Dimitris Menemenlis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-15-0087.1
Cited by:
195
Published Online:
Feb 2016
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A Study of the Bottom Boundary Layer of the Florida Current

Georges L. Weatherly
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485-2.1.54
Cited by:
103
Published Online:
Jan 1972
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Upper-Ocean Response to Hurricane Frances (2004) Observed by Profiling EM-APEX Floats

Thomas B. Sanford
,
James F. Price
, and
James B. Girton
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/2010JPO4313.1
Cited by:
167
Published Online:
Jun 2011

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Arctic Ocean Warming Contributes to Reduced Polar Ice Cap

Igor V. Polyakov
,
Leonid A. Timokhov
,
Vladimir A. Alexeev
,
Sheldon Bacon
,
Igor A. Dmitrenko
,
Louis Fortier
,
Ivan E. Frolov
,
Jean-Claude Gascard
,
Edmond Hansen
,
Vladimir V. Ivanov
,
Seymour Laxon
,
Cecilie Mauritzen
,
Don Perovich
,
Koji Shimada
,
Harper L. Simmons
,
Vladimir T. Sokolov
,
Michael Steele
, and
John Toole
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/2010JPO4339.1
Page(s):
2743–2756
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Size Matters: Another Reason Why the Atlantic Is Saltier than the Pacific

C. S. Jones
and
Paola Cessi
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-17-0075.1
Page(s):
2843–2859
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Kinetic Energy Transfers between Mesoscale and Submesoscale Motions in the Open Ocean’s Upper Layers

Alberto C. Naveira Garabato
,
Xiaolong Yu
,
Jörn Callies
,
Roy Barkan
,
Kurt L. Polzin
,
Eleanor E. Frajka-Williams
,
Christian E. Buckingham
, and
Stephen M. Griffies
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-21-0099.1
Page(s):
75–97
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Stability of a Double-Diffusive Interface in the Diffusive Convection Regime

J. R. Carpenter
,
T. Sommer
, and
A. Wüest
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-11-0118.1
Page(s):
840–854
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Double Diffusion in Saline Powell Lake, British Columbia

Benjamin Scheifele
,
Rich Pawlowicz
,
Tobias Sommer
, and
Alfred Wüest
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-14-0070.1
Page(s):
2893–2908
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Deep-Water Warming in the Gulf of Mexico from 2003 to 2019

José Ochoa
,
Vicente Ferreira-Bartrina
,
Julio Candela
,
Julio Sheinbaum
,
Manuel López
,
Paula Pérez-Brunius
,
Sharon Herzka
, and
Rainer M.W. Amon
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-19-0295.1
Page(s):
1021–1035
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The WAM Model—A Third Generation Ocean Wave Prediction Model

The Wamdi Group
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1988)018<1775:TWMTGO>2.0.CO;2
Page(s):
1775–1810
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Geographical Variability of the First Baroclinic Rossby Radius of Deformation

Dudley B. Chelton
,
Roland A. deSzoeke
,
Michael G. Schlax
,
Karim El Naggar
, and
Nicolas Siwertz
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<0433:GVOTFB>2.0.CO;2
Page(s):
433–460
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How Much Arctic Fresh Water Participates in the Subpolar Overturning Circulation?

Isabela Le Bras
,
Fiamma Straneo
,
Morven Muilwijk
,
Lars H. Smedsrud
,
Feili Li
,
M. Susan Lozier
, and
N. Penny Holliday
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0240.1
Page(s):
955–973
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Global Patterns of Diapycnal Mixing from Measurements of the Turbulent Dissipation Rate

Amy F. Waterhouse
,
Jennifer A. MacKinnon
,
Jonathan D. Nash
,
Matthew H. Alford
,
Eric Kunze
,
Harper L. Simmons
,
Kurt L. Polzin
,
Louis C. St. Laurent
,
Oliver M. Sun
,
Robert Pinkel
,
Lynne D. Talley
,
Caitlin B. Whalen
,
Tycho N. Huussen
,
Glenn S. Carter
,
Ilker Fer
,
Stephanie Waterman
,
Alberto C. Naveira Garabato
,
Thomas B. Sanford
, and
Craig M. Lee
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-13-0104.1
Page(s):
1854–1872

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