Journal of Physical Oceanography

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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

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Jerome A. Smith, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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3.318

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Effects of wave-current interactions on bay-shelf exchange

Dehai Song, Wen Wu, and Qiang Li
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0222.1
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05 Mar 2021
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Effects of wave-current interaction on the Eastern China Coastal Waters during super Typhoon Lekima (2019)

Renhao Wu, Shimei Wu, Tianhua Chen, Qinghua Yang, Bo Han, and Han Zhang
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0224.1
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02 Mar 2021
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Interannual variability in sea surface height at southern mid-latitudes of the Indian Ocean

Motoki Nagura and Michael J. McPhaden
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0279.1
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02 Mar 2021
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Modulation of cross-isothermal velocities with ENSO in the tropical Pacific cold tongue

Anna-Lena Deppenmeier, Frank O. Bryan, William Kessler, and LuAnne Thompson
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0217.1
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01 Mar 2021
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Off-equatorial deep-cycle turbulence forced by Tropical Instability Waves in the equatorial Pacific

D.A. Cherian, D.B. Whitt, R.M. Holmes, R.-C. Lien, S.D. Bachman, and W.G. Large
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0229.1
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01 Mar 2021
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On the role of bottom pressure torques in wind-driven gyres

Andrew L. Stewart, James C. McWilliams, and Aviv Solodoch
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0147.1
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25 Feb 2021
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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
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-19-0295.1
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24 Feb 2021
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High vertical shear and dissipation in equatorial topographic wakes

Kaushik Srinivasan, James C. McWilliams, and Arjun Jagannathan
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0119.1
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24 Feb 2021
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Influence of the Distortion of Vertical Wavenumber Spectra on Estimates of Turbulent Dissipation using the Finescale Parameterization: Eikonal Calculations

ANNE TAKAHASHI, TOSHIYUKI HIBIYA, and ALBERTO C. NAVEIRA GARABATO
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0196.1
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24 Feb 2021
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Modifications to the K-Profile parameterization with nondiffusive fluxes for Langmuir turbulence

Tomas Chor, James C. McWilliams, and Marcelo Chamecki
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0250.1
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24 Feb 2021
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Unravelling interactions between asymmetric tidal turbulence, residual circulation and salinity dynamics in short, periodically weakly stratified estuaries

Xiaoyan Wei, Henk M. Schuttelaars, Megan E. Williams, Jennifer M. Brown, Peter D. Thorne, and Laurent O. Amoudry
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0146.1
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24 Feb 2021
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Intermittent frontogenesis in the Alboran Sea

Esther Capó, James C. McWilliams, Evan Mason, and Alejandro Orfila
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0277.1
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23 Feb 2021
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Modeling water-mass distributions in the modern and LGM ocean: circulation change, isopycnal and diapycnal mixing

C. S. Jones and Ryan P. Abernathey
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0204.1
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23 Feb 2021
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Free and forced components of shoaling long waves in the absence of short wave breaking

Stephanie Contardo, Ryan J. Lowe, Jeff E. Hansen, Dirk P. Rijnsdorp, François Dufois, and Graham Symonds
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0214.1
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22 Feb 2021
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Anisotropic statistics of Lagrangian Structure Functions and Helmholtz Decomposition

Han Wang and Oliver Bühler
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0199.1
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19 Feb 2021
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Parameterizing non-propagating form drag over rough bathymetry

Jody M. Klymak, Dhruv Balwada, Alberto Naveira Garabato, and Ryan Abernathey
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0112.1
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18 Feb 2021
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Impact of evaporation and precipitation on estuarine mixing

Marvin Lorenz, Knut Klingbeil, and Hans Burchard
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0158.1
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16 Feb 2021
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Broadband Submesoscale Vorticity Generated by Flow Around an Island

Kristin L. Zeiden, Jennifer A. MacKinnon, Matthew H. Alford, Daniel L. Rudnick, Gunnar Voet, and Hemantha Wijesekera
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0161.1
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11 Feb 2021
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Diagnosing Subsurface Vertical Velocities from High-Resolution Sea Surface Fields

Lei Liu, Huijie xue, and Hideharu Sasaki
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0152.1
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11 Feb 2021
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An Idealised Model Study of Eddy Energetics in the Western Boundary ‘Graveyard’

ZHIBIN YANG, XIAOMING ZHAI, DAVID P. MARSHALL, and GUIHUA WANG
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-19-0301.1
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11 Feb 2021
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Diapycnal mixing in the sub-thermocline of the Mariana Ridge from high-resolution seismic images

Qunshu Tang, Zhiyou Jing, Jianmin Lin, and Jie Sun
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0120.1
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08 Feb 2021
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Structure of submesoscale fronts of the Mississippi River plume

Tao Wang, Roy Barkan, James C. McWilliams, and M. Jeroen Molemaker
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0191.1
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05 Feb 2021
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Geometric Constraints on Glacial Fjord-Shelf Exchange

Ken X. Zhao, Andrew L. Stewart, and James C. McWilliams
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0091.1
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02 Feb 2021
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MJO-induced Intraseasonal Mixed Layer Depth Variability in the Equatorial Indian Ocean and Impacts on Subsurface Water Obduction

Lingling Liu, Yuanlong Li, and Fan Wang
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0179.1
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29 Jan 2021
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Subtidal to supertidal variability of Reynolds stresses in a mid-latitude stratified inner-shelf

André Palóczy, Jennifer A. MacKinnon, and Amy F. Waterhouse
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0140.1
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29 Jan 2021
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A modified finescale parameterization for turbulent mixing in the western equatorial Pacific

Chang-Rong Liang, Xiao-Dong Shang, Yong-Feng Qi, Gui-Ying Chen, and Ling-Hui Yu
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0205.1
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28 Jan 2021
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Mixing and Transformation in a Deep Western Boundary Current: A Case Study

Carl P. Spingys, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Sonya Legg, Kurt L. Polzin, E. Povl Abrahamsen, Christian E. Buckingham, Alexander Forryan, and Eleanor E. Frajka-Williams
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0132.1
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26 Jan 2021
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The Cyclonic Mode of Arctic Ocean Circulation

James Morison, Ron Kwok, Suzanne Dickinson, Roger Andersen, Cecilia Peralta-Ferriz, David Morison, Ignatius Rigor, Sarah Dewey, and John Guthrie
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0190.1
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20 Jan 2021
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The evolution and arrest of a turbulent stratified oceanic bottom boundary layer over a slope: Upslope regime and PV dynamics

XIAOZHOU RUAN, ANDREW F. THOMPSON, and JOHN R. TAYLOR
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0168.1
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13 Jan 2021
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Near-inertial waves and turbulence driven by the growth of swell

Gregory L. Wagner, Gregory P. Chini, Ali Ramadhan, Basile Gallet, and Raffaele Ferrari
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0178.1
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13 Jan 2021
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Deep Eastern Boundary Currents: idealized models and dynamics

Xiaoting Yang, Eli Tziperman, and Kevin Speer
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0227.1
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12 Jan 2021
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Near-surface Reflection and Nonlinear Effects of Low-mode Internal Tides on a Continental Slope

Xiaohui Xie and Dake Chen
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0197.1
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12 Jan 2021
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An 8-yr meteotsunami climatology across northwest Europe: 2010–2017

David A Williams, David M Schultz, Kevin J Horsburgh, and Chris W Hughes
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0175.1
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11 Jan 2021
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Interaction of nonlinear Ekman pumping, near-inertial oscillations and geostrophic turbulence in an idealized coupled model

Yanxu Chen, David Straub, and Louis-Philippe Nadeau
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0268.1
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07 Jan 2021
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Modified View of Energy Budget Diagram and its Application to the Kuroshio extension region

TAKURO MATSUTA and YUKIO MASUMOTO
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0124.1
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07 Jan 2021
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Overturning response to a surface wind stress doubling in an eddying and a non-eddying ocean

Veit Lüschow, Jochem Marotzke, and Jin-Song von Storch
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0176.1
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07 Jan 2021
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Convection and heat transfer in island (warm) wakes

Cátia C. Azevedo, Carolina M. L. Camargo, José Alves, and Rui M. A. Caldeira
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0103.1
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30 Dec 2020
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Spectral wave energy dissipation due to under-ice turbulence

Agnieszka Herman
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0171.1
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28 Dec 2020
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Numerical Simulations of Melt-Driven Double-Diffusive Fluxes in a Turbulent Boundary Layer beneath an Ice Shelf

Leo Middleton, Catherine A. Vreugdenhil, Paul R. Holland, and John R. Taylor
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0114.1
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01 Dec 2020
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Intra-annual Rossby waves destabilization as a potential driver of Low-Latitude Zonal Jets – Barotropic dynamics

Audrey Delpech, Claire Ménesguen, Yves Morel, Leif Thomas, Frédéric Marin, Sophie Cravatte, and Sylvie Le Gentil
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0180.1
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12 Nov 2020
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Energetics of a Rotating Wind-forced Horizontal Convection Model of a Reentrant Channel

Varvara E. Zemskova, Brian L. White, and Alberto Scotti
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-19-0169.1
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10 Feb 2020

Volume 51 (2021): Issue 3 (Mar 2021)

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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
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-12-0173.1
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Aug 2013
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Convection-Driven Melting near the Grounding Lines of Ice Shelves and Tidewater Glaciers

Adrian Jenkins
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-11-03.1
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Dec 2011
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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
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-13-0104.1
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Jul 2014
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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
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-14-0032.1
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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
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-11-073.1
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Nov 2011

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