Journal of Physical Oceanography

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Physical Oceanography is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Observations of a Filamentous Intrusion and Vigorous Submesoscale Turbulence within a Cyclonic Mesoscale Eddy27
Variability and Dynamics of the Kuroshio and Mindanao Current during the 2010/11 La Niña and in Late 201227
A Possible Hysteresis in the Arctic Ocean due to Release of Subsurface Heat during Sea Ice Retreat27
Sensitivities of the West Greenland Current to Greenland Ice Sheet Meltwater in a Mesoscale Ocean/Sea Ice Model25
Mesoscale Energy Balance and Air–Sea Interaction in the Kuroshio Extension: Low-Frequency versus High-Frequency Variability22
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The Role of Eddies in the Zonal and Meridional Overturning Circulations of Buoyancy-Forced Basins19
A Review of Parameterizations for Enthalpy and Momentum Fluxes from Sea Spray in Tropical Cyclones19
The sea-surface heat flux at a coastal site18
Destratification and Restratification of the Spring Surface Boundary Layer in a Subtropical Front18
Development of a sea-sediment coupled model incorporating ocean bottom heat flux18
Diapycnal displacement, diffusion, and distortion of tracers in the ocean17
The Potential Role of Bering Strait in the Dynamics of Multidecadal Variability in the North Atlantic: An Idealized Model Study17
Observation of Abyssal Circulation to the West of the Luzon Strait, South China Sea17
Overlapping Boundary Layers in Coastal Oceans17
Unveiling the mysteries of SST evolutions in the equatorial Pacific at the onset of El Niño events17
Turbulence Generated through Critical Reflection of Internal Waves off the Seafloor due to Nontraditional Effects16
Observations of Eddy-Modulated Turbulent Mixing in the Southern Bay of Bengal16
Temporal Variability of Global Surface Eddy Diffusivities: Estimates and Machine Learning Prediction16
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Investigation of Sea Spray Effect on the Vertical Momentum Transport Using an Eulerian Multifluid-Type Model15
Using Hydraulic Theory to Monitor Dense Overflows in a Parabolic Channel15
Three Regimes of Internal Gravity Wave–Stable Vortex Interaction Classified by a Nondimensional Parameter δ: Scattering, Wheel-Trapping, and Spiral-Trapping with Vortex Deformation15
On the Release and Renewal of Freshwater in the Beaufort Gyre of the Arctic Ocean14
Eddy–Internal Wave Interactions: Stimulated Cascades in Cross-Scale Kinetic Energy and Enstrophy Fluxes14
Generation and Evolution of Internal Solitary Waves in a Coastal Plain Estuary14
Resolving the Horizontal Direction of Internal Tide Generation: Global Application for the M2 Tide’s First Mode13
Near-Surface Reflection and Nonlinear Effects of Low-Mode Internal Tides on a Continental Slope13
How Much Arctic Fresh Water Participates in the Subpolar Overturning Circulation?13
Near-inertial dissipation due to stratified flow over abyssal topography13
Inertial Effect and Its Dependency on the Topographic Geometries in Barotropic Channel Models under the Weakly Nonlinear Regime13
Observation of Near-Inertial Waves in the Bottom Boundary Layer of an Abyssal Seamount13
Topographic Rossby Waves in the Abyssal South China Sea12
Observations of coherent transverse wakes in shoaling nonlinear internal waves12
Double Diffusion, Shear Instabilities, and Heat Impacts of a Pacific Summer Water Intrusion in the Beaufort Sea12
Coastal Trapped Waves and Other Subinertial Variability along the Southeast Greenland Coast in a Realistic Numerical Simulation12
Two-Dimensional Wavenumber Spectra on the Horizontal Submesoscale and Vertical Finescale12
Internal salt content: a useful framework for understanding the oceanic branch of the water cycle11
Energy Cascade from Internal Solitary Waves to Turbulence via Near-N Waves in the Northern South China Sea11
Observations of Intermittent Seamount-Trapped Waves and Topographic Rossby Waves around the Slope of a Low-Latitude Deep Seamount11
Stirring of interior potential vorticity gradients as a formation mechanism for large subsurface-intensified eddies in the Beaufort Gyre11
The Generation of Linear and Nonlinear Internal Waves Forced by Subinertial Tides over the Yermak Plateau, Arctic Ocean11
Across-Shore Propagation of Subthermocline Eddies in the California Current System11
Surface-to-Interior Transport Timescales and Ventilation Patterns in a Time-Dependent Circulation Driven by Sustained Climate Warming11
Vertical Convergence of Turbulent and Double-Diffusive Heat Flux Drives Warming and Erosion of Antarctic Winter Water in Summer11
On the Consistent Parametric Description of the Wave Age Dependence of the Sea Surface Roughness11
Wind-Driven Oscillations in Meridional Overturning Circulations near the Equator. Part II: Idealized Simulations11
A Four-Dimensional Survey of the Almeria–Oran Front by Underwater Gliders: Tracers and Circulation10
The Role of Bottom Friction in Mediating the Response of the Weddell Gyre Circulation to Changes in Surface Stress and Buoyancy Fluxes10
Low-Frequency Dynamic Ocean Response to Barometric-Pressure Loading10
Topography-Generated Submesoscale Coherent Vortices in the Kuroshio–Oyashio Extension Region from High-Resolution Simulations10
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Weakly Nonlinear Ekman Pumping in the Sri Lanka Dome and Southwest Monsoon Current9
Indian Ocean Subtropical Underwater and the Interannual Variability in Its Annual Subduction Rate Associated with the Southern Annular Mode9
Fresh Water and Atmospheric Cooling Control on Density-Compensated Overturning in the Labrador Sea9
Observations of Strongly Modulated Surface Wave and Wave Breaking Statistics at a Submesoscale Front9
Second Baroclinic Mode Rossby Waves in the South Indian Ocean9
Controls of Topographic Rossby Wave Properties and Downslope Transport in Dense Overflows9
On the Representation of Mediterranean Overflow Waters in Global Climate Models9
Contribution of Deep Vertical Velocity to Deficiency of Sverdrup Transport in the Low-Latitude North Pacific9
A Deep Learning Model for Improved Wind and Consequent Wave Forecasts9
Leading-Mode Connections of the Interannual Variability in Upper-Ocean Salinity in the Tropical Indian Ocean9
High vertical shear and dissipation in equatorial topographic wakes9
Freshwater Input and Vertical Mixing in the Canada Basin’s Seasonal Halocline: 1975 versus 2006–129
Reflection and Scattering of Low-Mode Internal Tides on the Continental Slope of the South China Sea9
Damping of Inertial Motions through the Radiation of Near-Inertial Waves in a Dipole Vortex in the Iceland Basin9
Shear Instability in Internal Solitary Waves in the Northern South China Sea Induced by Multiscale Background Processes8
Winter Convective Mixing in the Northern Arabian Sea during Contrasting Monsoons8
Internal Hydraulic Transition and Turbulent Mixing Observed in the Kuroshio over the I-Lan Ridge off Northeastern Taiwan8
Enhanced Double-Diffusive Salt Flux from the High-Salinity Core of Arabian Sea Origin Waters to the Bay of Bengal8
Diurnal variability of frontal dynamics, instability, and turbulence in a submesoscale upwelling filament8
Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Fronts and Their Impact on Chlorophyll-a in the Indonesian Seas8
Study of Ageostrophy during Strong, Nonlinear Eddy-Front Interaction in the Gulf of Mexico8
Revisit of the Occurrence of the Kuroshio Large Meander South of Japan8
Diurnal Warm Layers in the Ocean: Energetics, Nondimensional Scaling, and Parameterization8
A Conceptual Model of Polar Overturning Circulations8
Insights into the Mixing Efficiency of Submesoscale Centrifugal–Symmetric Instabilities8
Surface Quasigeostrophic Turbulence in Variable Stratification8
Impact of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on the Benguela Upwelling8
Influence of Wind on Subtidal Salt Intrusion and Stratification in Well-Mixed and Partially Stratified Estuaries8
Submesoscale Eddies in the Upper Ocean of the Kuroshio Extension from High-resolution Simulation: Energy Budget8
Regimes and Transitions in the Basal Melting of Antarctic Ice Shelves8
Diapycnal Mixing in the Subthermocline of the Mariana Ridge from High-Resolution Seismic Images7
Limited Width of Tropical Cyclone–Induced Baroclinic Geostrophic Response7
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The Impact of Topography and Eddy Parameterization on the Simulated Southern Ocean Circulation Response to Changes in Surface Wind Stress7
Intraseasonal Oscillatory Modes in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea7
Observations of Internal Wave Interactions in a Southern Ocean Standing Meander7
The Effect of Southern Ocean Topography on the Global MOC and Abyssal Water Mass Distribution7
Intraseasonal Sea Level Variability in the Persian Gulf7
Oceanic Advection Controls Mesoscale Mixed Layer Heat Budget and Air–Sea Heat Exchange in the Southern Ocean7
Intrinsically Episodic Antarctic Shelf Intrusions of Circumpolar Deep Water via Canyons7
Numerical Simulations of Melt-Driven Double-Diffusive Fluxes in a Turbulent Boundary Layer beneath an Ice Shelf7
Variability and Sources of the Internal Wave Continuum Examined from Global Moored Velocity Records7
Eddy–Internal Wave Interactions and Their Contribution to Cross-Scale Energy Fluxes: A Case Study in the California Current7
Unraveling Interactions between Asymmetric Tidal Turbulence, Residual Circulation, and Salinity Dynamics in Short, Periodically Weakly Stratified Estuaries7
Thermal Imprints of Mesoscale Eddies in the Global Ocean7
Unraveling the Impacts of Submesoscale Thermal and Current Feedbacks on the Low-Level Winds and Oceanic Submesoscale Currents7
Spatial and Subannual Variability of the Antarctic Slope Current in an Eddying Ocean–Sea Ice Model7
Partial Control of the Gulf of Mexico Dynamics by the Current Feedback to the Atmosphere7
Mechanisms of Offshore Solid and Liquid Freshwater Flux from the East Greenland Current7
On the Significance of Ageostrophic Meridional Eddy-Induced Heat Flux in the Surface Ocean of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current7
Deep-Water Warming in the Gulf of Mexico from 2003 to 20196
Ocean Surface Salinity Response to Atmospheric River Precipitation in the California Current System6
Abyssal Slope Currents6
Propagation Features of Diurnal Internal Tides West of the Luzon Strait Revealed by a Large PIES Array6
A Global Diagnosis of Eddy Potential Energy Budget in an Eddy-Permitting Ocean Model6
A One-Dimensional Model for Investigating Scale-Separated Approaches to the Interaction of Oceanic Internal Waves6
Divergence and Dispersion of Global Eddy Propagation from Satellite Altimetry6
Impact of Evaporation and Precipitation on Estuarine Mixing6
Forcing Space: An Alternative to Regime Diagrams for Predicting Characteristics of Turbulence in the Ocean Surface Mixing Layer6
Moored Observations of Currents and Water Mass Properties between Talaud and Halmahera Islands at the Entrance of the Indonesian Seas6
The information contained in altimetric Sea Surface Height frequency spectra6
An Idealized Model Study of Eddy Energetics in the Western Boundary “Graveyard”6
A Shelf Water Cascading Event near Cape Hatteras6
Suppression of Mesoscale Eddy Mixing by Topographic PV Gradients6
Initial and Transient Growth of Symmetric Instability6
High-resolution observations of the North Pacific transition layer from a Lagrangian float6
Physical Drivers of Ocean Wave Attenuation in the Marginal Ice Zone6
Spatial Variability of Diapycnal Mixing in the South China Sea Inferred from Density Overturn Analysis6
Upper-Ocean Processes and Sea Ice Production in the Southeastern Amundsen Sea Polynya in Austral Autumn6
Energetics of Multiscale Interactions in the Agulhas Retroflection Current System6
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Vorticity in the Wake of Palau from Lagrangian Surface Drifters5
Seasonality and Spatial Dependence of Mesoscale and Submesoscale Ocean Currents from Along-Track Satellite Altimetry5
Structure of Submesoscale Fronts of the Mississippi River Plume5
Langmuir Circulations Transfer Kinetic Energy from Submesoscales and Larger Scales to Dissipative Scales5
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Turbulent Mixing Variability in an Energetic Standing Meander of the Southern Ocean5
Mesoscale Eddy Kinetic Energy Budgets and Transfers between Vertical Modes in the Agulhas Current5
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Subtidal to Supertidal Variability of Reynolds Stresses in a Midlatitude Stratified Inner Shelf5
Long-distance radiation of Rossby waves from the equatorial current system5
Nonlinear Dynamics of a Hysteresis Western Boundary Current Perturbed by a Mesoscale Eddy at a Gap with an Island5
Baroclinic Tidal Energetics Inferred from Satellite Altimetry5
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Enhanced Near-Inertial Waves and Turbulent Diapycnal Mixing Observed in a Cold- and Warm-Core Eddy in the Kuroshio Extension Region5
Energetics of Eddy–Mean Flow Interactions in the East Australian Current System5
Eddy Vertical Structure and Variability: Deepglider Observations in the North Atlantic5
On the Vertical Structure of Deep-Ocean Subinertial Variability5
Properties and Drivers of Marine Heat Waves in the Northern South China Sea5
Seasonal Eddy Variability in the Northwestern Tropical Atlantic Ocean5
Spatiotemporal Characteristics of the Near-Surface Turbulent Cascade at the Submesoscale in the Drake Passage5
The impact of lee waves on the Southern Ocean circulation5
Topographically Generated Submesoscale Shear Instabilities Associated with Brazil Current Meanders5
Observed Upper Deep Branch of the Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation North of New Guinea5
Subthermocline Eddies in the Kuroshio Extension Region Observed by Mooring Arrays5
Seasonality of Upper-Ocean Vertical Eddy Buoyancy Flux in the Kuroshio Extension5
Energy and Momentum of a Density-Driven Overflow in the Samoan Passage5
Mixing Processes at the Southwestern Entrance to the Japan/East Sea5
Potential Vorticity and Instability in the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent West of the Galápagos Archipelago5
Sampling-Dependent Transition Paths of Iceland–Scotland Overflow Water5
Beta-Plane Arrested Topographic Wave as a Linkage of Open Ocean Forcing and Mean Shelf Circulation5
Upper–Lower Layer Coupling of Recurrent Circulation Patterns in the Gulf of Mexico4
Seasonal Variability of Near-Inertial/Semidiurnal Fluctuations and Turbulence in the Subarctic North Atlantic4
MJO-Induced Intraseasonal Mixed Layer Depth Variability in the Equatorial Indian Ocean and Impacts on Subsurface Water Obduction4
Why Is the Westward Rossby Wave Propagation from the California Coast “Too Fast”?4
Saturation of the internal tide over the inner continental shelf. Part II: Parameterization4
Energy Spectra and Vorticity Dynamics in a Two-Layer Shallow Water Ocean Model4
Turbulent Thermal-Wind-Driven Coastal Upwelling: Current Observations and Dynamics4
Near-Resonances of Superinertial and Tidal Fluctuations at Islands4
Abundant Cold Anticyclonic Eddies and Warm Cyclonic Eddies in the Global Ocean4
Wave–Tide Interaction for a Strongly Modulated Wave Field4
Near-field wind mixing and implications on parameterization from float observations4
Surface Heating Steers Planetary-Scale Ocean Circulation4
Direct Observation of Wave-Coherent Pressure Work in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer4
Wind Dependencies of Deep Cycle Turbulence in the Equatorial Cold Tongues4
Coherent Velocity Structures in the Mixed Layer: Characteristics, Energetics, and Turbulent Kinetic Energy Budget4
Circular Asymmetry of Ocean Mesoscale Eddy4
Curvature Dynamics of a Coastal Barotropic Outflow Jet on a Slope4
Curves, Coriolis, and Cross-Channel Circulation in the Hudson River Estuary4
Statistical and Dynamical Characteristics of Extreme Wave Crests Assessed with Field Measurements from the North Sea4
Meddies and Their Sea Surface Expressions: Observations and Theory4
The Dynamics of a Barotropic Current Impinging on an Ice Front4
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Effect of Small-Scale Topography on Eddy Dissipation in the Northern South China Sea4
Deterministic Model of the Eddy Dynamics for a Midlatitude Ocean Model4
Observed 10–20-Day Deep-Current Variability at 5°N, 90.5°E in the Eastern Indian Ocean4
A Perturbative Solution for Nonlinear Stratified Upwelling over a Frictional Slope4
Vertical Motions Driven by Geostrophic Stress in Surface Boundary Layer under a Finite Ekman Number Regime4
Large-Scale Distribution and Variations of Active Salt-Finger Double-Diffusion in the Western North Pacific4
The Eastern Mediterranean Boundary Current: Seasonality, Stability, and Spiral Formation4
The Wave-Coherent Stress and Turbulent Structure over Swell Waves4
Breaking of Internal Waves Parametrically Excited by Ageostrophic Anticyclonic Instability4
Irreversible Mixing Induced by Geostrophic Turbulence over the Global Ocean4
New Insights on the Formation and Breaking Mechanism of Convective Cyclonic Cones in the South Adriatic Pit during Winter 20184
Diabatic Transformations along the Global Routes of the Middepth Meridional Overturning Circulation4
Adjustment and extension of the Hansen and Rattray estuarine classification diagram4
Note on the Beam Structure in Step-Trapped Internal Tides4
Topographic Influences on the Wind-Driven Exchange between Marginal Seas and the Open Ocean4
On the Bimodality of the Wind-Wave Spectrum: Mean Square Slopes and Azimuthal Overlap Integral4
Overturning Response to a Surface Wind Stress Doubling in an Eddying and a Non-Eddying Ocean4
Predicting Surface Oscillations in Lake Superior from Normal Mode Dynamics4
Dynamical Controls on Bottom Water Transport and Transformation across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current4
Importance of Mesoscale Currents in AMOC Pathways and Timescales3
Clarifying the Distinction between Steric and Baroclinic Sea Surface Height3
Wind and Heat Forcings of the Seasonal and Interannual Sea Level Variabilities in the Southwest Pacific3
Model-Based Study of Near-Surface Transport in and around Cape Cod Bay, Its Seasonal Variability, and Response to Wind3
Direct Simulation of the Surface Manifestation of Internal Gravity Waves with a Wave–Current Interaction Model3
Effects of Wave–Current Interactions on Bay–Shelf Exchange3
Thermodynamical Effects of Ocean Current Feedback in a Quasigeostrophic Coupled Model3
An Analytical Spectral Model for Infragravity Waves over Topography in Intermediate and Shallow Water under Nonbreaking Conditions3
Effects of Wave–Current Interaction on the Eastern China Coastal Waters during Super Typhoon Lekima (2019)3
Main Component in Altimetry-Observed Response to a Tropical Cyclone3
Time-dependent response of the overturning circulation and pycnocline depth to Southern Ocean surface wind stress changes3
Attribution of the Subsurface Temperature Change in the Southern Hemisphere3
Tidally Forced Turbulent Dissipation on a Three-Dimensional Fan in Luzon Strait3
Intense interactions between ocean waves and currents observed in the Lofoten Maelstrom3
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The Vertical Middepth Ocean Density Profile: An Interplay between Southern Ocean Dynamics and Interior Vertical Diffusivity3
Distinct Impacts of Topographic versus Planetary PV Gradients on Baroclinic Turbulence3
Enhanced Abyssal Mixing in the Equatorial Pacific Associated with Non-Traditional Effects3
Energy Flux into Near-Inertial Internal Waves Below the Surface Boundary Layer in the Global Ocean3
Analytical Model of Thermohaline Circulation in Land-Locked Basins: Analyzing the Impact of Friction on Circulation Reversal3
Interannual Variability of Barrier Layer in the Tropical Atlantic and Its Relationship with the Tropical Atlantic Modes3
The Scale and Activity of Symmetric Instability Estimated from a Global Submesoscale-Permitting Ocean Model3
Theoretical Framework for the Response of Barotropic Shelf Current to Along-Shelf Bathymetric Perturbations3
Modulation of Cross-Isothermal Velocities with ENSO in the Tropical Pacific Cold Tongue3
Tidal and Near-Inertial Internal Waves over the Reykjanes Ridge3
Predicting Turbulent Vertical Velocity in the Ocean Surface Layer under Mixed Convective and Wind/Wave Forcing3
Spiralling Inverse Method: A New Inverse Method to Estimate Ocean Mixing3
The Cyclonic Mode of Arctic Ocean Circulation3
Variability of Heat Content and Eddy Kinetic Energy in the Southeast Indian Ocean: Roles of the Indonesian Throughflow and Local Wind Forcing3
Boundary layer-mediated vorticity generation in currents over sloping bathymetry3
Interaction of near-inertial waves with an anticyclonic vortex3
Seasonal Variability of Eddy Kinetic Energy along the Kuroshio Current3
Effect of Wave Directions on Orientation and Magnitude of Surface Wind Stress under Typhoon Megi (2010)3
Surface and Interfacial Waves in a Strongly Stratified Upper Ocean3
Oceanic Frontal Turbulence3
What controls the deep cycle? Proxies for equatorial turbulence.3
Interaction of a Hysteresis Western Boundary Current with a Large-Scale Marginal Sea Circulation in a Gap-Leaping System3
Anatomy of Mode-1 Internal Solitary Waves Derived From Seaglider Observations in the Northern South China Sea3
On the Pathways of Wind-Driven Coastal Upwelling: Nonlinear Momentum Flux and Baroclinic Instability3
Shear Turbulence in the High-Wind Southern Ocean Using Direct Measurements3
A Forward Energy Flux at Submesoscales Driven by Frontogenesis3
The Attenuation Effect of Jet Filament on the Eastward Mesoscale Eddy Lifetime in the Southern Ocean3
Off-Equatorial Deep-Cycle Turbulence Forced by Tropical Instability Waves in the Equatorial Pacific3
Intrathermocline Eddy with Lens-Shaped Low Potential Vorticity and Diabatic Forcing Mechanism in the South China Sea3
Deep-Current Intraseasonal Variability Interpreted as Topographic Rossby Waves and Deep Eddies in the Xisha Islands of the South China Sea3
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The Role of Atlantic Basin Geometry in Meridional Overturning Circulation3
Observations of River Plume Mixing in the Surf Zone3
Atlantic equatorial deep jets in Argo float data3
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An idealized modeling study of the mid-latitude variability of the wind-driven meridional overturning circulation3
Standing Eddies in Glacial Fjords and Their Role in Fjord Circulation and Melt3
Competition between baroclinic instability and Ekman transport under varying buoyancy forcings in upwelling systems: An idealized analog to the Southern Ocean.3
Extending Residual-Mean Overturning Theory to the Topographically Localized Transport in the Southern Ocean3
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