Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volume 53 (2023): Issue 9 (Sep 2023)

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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

Jerome A. Smith, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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Reflection and Scattering of Low-mode Internal Tides on the Continental Slope of the South China Sea

Wei Li

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Xiaohui Xie

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0087.1

Published Online:: 20 Sep 2023

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Propagation Features of Diurnal Internal Tides West of the Luzon Strait Revealed by a Large PIES Array

Min Wang

Xiao-Hua Zhu

Hua Zheng

Juntian Chen

Ruixiang Zhao

Zhao-Jun Liu

Qiang Ren

Yansong Liu

Feng Nan

Fei Yu

Jianfeng Wang

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Qiang Li

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0206.1

Published Online:: 14 Sep 2023

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Mixing processes at the southwestern entrance to the Japan/East Sea

Hemantha W. Wijesekera

Conrad A. Luecke

David W. Wang

Ewa Jarosz

Sergio DeRada

William J. Teague

Kyung-Il Chang

Jae Hak Lee

Hong-Sik Min

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SungHyun Nam

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0061.1

Published Online:: 13 Sep 2023

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Bathymetry-aware mesoscale eddy parameterizations across upwelling slope fronts: A machine learning-augmented approach

Chenyue Xie

Huaiyu Wei

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Yan Wang

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0017.1

Published Online:: 08 Sep 2023

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Recirculation of Canada Basin Deep Water in the Amundsen Basin, Arctic

Salar Karam

Céline Heuzé

Vasco Müller

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Yixi Zheng

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0252.1

Published Online:: 07 Sep 2023

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Numerical simulations of internal tide dynamics in a steep submarine canyon

Eiji Masunaga

Matthew H. Alford

Andrew J. Lucas

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Andrea Rodriguez-Marin Freudmann

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0040.1

Published Online:: 06 Sep 2023

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Contribution of deep vertical velocity to deficiency of Sverdrup transport in the low-latitude North Pacific

Zhang Kun

Wang Qiang

Yin Baoshu

Yang Dezhou

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Yang Lina

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0006.1

Published Online:: 01 Sep 2023

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Seasonal Variability of Near-Inertial/Semidiurnal Fluctuations and Turbulence in the Sub-Arctic North Atlantic

Eric Kunze

Ren-Chieh Lien

Caitlin B. Whalen

James B. Girton

Barry Ma

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Maarten C. Buijsman

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0231.1

Published Online:: 01 Sep 2023

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Moored observations of the West Greenland Coastal Current along the Southwest Greenland Shelf

Nicholas P. Foukal

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Robert S. Pickart

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0104.1

Published Online:: 30 Aug 2023

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Fresh water and atmospheric cooling control on density-compensated overturning in the Labrador Sea

Yana Bebieva

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M. Susan Lozier

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0238.1

Published Online:: 24 Aug 2023

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Clarifying the Distinction Between Steric and Baroclinic Sea Surface Height

Edward D. Zaron

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Richard D. Ray

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0073.1

Published Online:: 23 Aug 2023

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Kinetic energy exchanges between a two-dimensional front and internal waves

Subhajit Kar

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Roy Barkan

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0240.1

Published Online:: 22 Aug 2023

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Temporal variability of the overturning circulation in the Arctic Ocean and the associated heat and freshwater transports during 2004-2010

Takamasa Tsubouchi

Wilken-Jon von Appen

Torsten Kanzow

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Laura de Steur

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0056.1

Published Online:: 22 Aug 2023

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Anatomy of mode-1 internal solitary waves derived from Seaglider observations in the northern South China Sea

Kai-Chieh Yang

Sen Jan

Yiing Jang Yang

Ming-Huei Chang

Joe Wang

Shih-Hong Wang

Steven Ramp

D. Benjamin Reeder

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Dong-Shan Ko

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0039.1

Published Online:: 11 Aug 2023

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Internal Solitary Waves within the Cold Tongue of the Equatorial Pacific generated by buoyant gravity currents

A M Santos-Ferreira

J C B da Silva

B St-Denis

D Bourgault

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L R M Maas

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0165.1

Published Online:: 10 Aug 2023

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Variability of eddy formation off the west Greenland coast from a 1/60° model

Ruijian Gou

Pusheng Li

Kevin N. Wiegand

Clark Pennelly

Dagmar Kieke

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Paul G. Myers

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0004.1

Published Online:: 10 Aug 2023

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Mooring measurements of full-depth zonal currents along 143°E meridian in the northwestern Pacific Ocean

Zhongbin Sun

Zhiwei Zhang

Cheng Li

Dongliang Yuan

Qingguo Yuan

Wenbo Lu

Yuelin Liu

Chun Zhou

Jing Wang

Ya Yang

Wei Zhao

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Jiwei Tian

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0210.1

Published Online:: 09 Aug 2023

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The Effect of an Exponentially Decaying Upper-ocean Vertical Mixing on the Pacific Tropical Sea Surface Temperature

Zhuoqun Wang

Yonggang Liu

Xunqiang Yin

Ming Zhang

Jian Zhang

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Fangli Qiao

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0026.1

Published Online:: 08 Aug 2023

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Local topographic Rossby modes observed in the abyssal Japan Sea

Tomoharu Senjyu

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0209.1

Published Online:: 07 Aug 2023

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The Potential Role of Bering Strait in the Dynamics of Multi-decadal Variability in the North Atlantic: an idealized model study

Xiaoting Yang

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Paola Cessi

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0010.1

Published Online:: 31 Jul 2023

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Near-Inertial Waves Reaching the Deep Basin in the South China Sea after Typhoon Mangkhut (2018)

Hua Zheng

Xiao-Hua Zhu

Ruixiang Zhao

Juntian Chen

Min Wang

Qiang Ren

Yansong Liu

Feng Nan

Fei Yu

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Jae-Hun Park

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0136.1

Published Online:: 24 Jul 2023

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A perturbative solution for nonlinear stratified upwelling over frictional slope

Jang-Geun Choi

James Pringle

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Thomas Lippmann

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0191.1

Published Online:: 24 Jul 2023

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Surface heating steers planetary-scale ocean circulation

Dhruv Bhagtani

Andrew McC. Hogg

Ryan M. Holmes

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Navid C. Constantinou

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0016.1

Published Online:: 24 Jul 2023

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Statistical characteristics of droplets formed due to the “bag breakup” fragmentation event at the interface between water and high-speed air flow.

Yuliya Troitskaya

Alexander Kandaurov

Anna Zotova

Evgenia V. Korsukova

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Daniil Sergeev

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0037.1

Published Online:: 23 Jun 2023

Volume 53 (2023): Issue 9 (Sep 2023)

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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

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Hans Hersbach

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-12-0173.1

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

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Craig M. Lee

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-13-0104.1

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

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

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Larry W. O’Neill

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-14-0032.1

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

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Chung-Wei Lu

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-11-073.1

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

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Detlef Stammer

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-12-079.1

Published Online:: Dec 2012

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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

Published Online:: Jan 1972

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Submesoscale Cold Filaments in the Gulf Stream

Jonathan Gula

M. Jeroen Molemaker

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James C. McWilliams

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-14-0029.1

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

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Dimitris Menemenlis

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-15-0087.1

Published Online:: Feb 2016

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Scales, Growth Rates, and Spectral Fluxes of Baroclinic Instability in the Ocean

Ross Tulloch

John Marshall

Chris Hill

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K. Shafer Smith

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/2011JPO4404.1

Published Online:: Jun 2011

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Craig M. Lee

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-13-0104.1

Page(s):: 1854–1872

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