Journal of Physical Oceanography

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Physical Oceanography is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Effects of Coexisting Surface Waves on Propagation of a Surface Wave Train41
Masthead30
Generation and Evolution of Internal Solitary Waves in a Coastal Plain Estuary24
A One-Dimensional Model for Investigating Scale-Separated Approaches to the Interaction of Oceanic Internal Waves24
Inferring Submesoscale Energy Spectra in the Gulf of Mexico from Surface Drifters22
Turbulence and Energy Dissipation from Wave Breaking22
Stokes Drift and Wind Drift in a Rotating Equilibrium Sea20
Nonlinear Instability and Subthermocline Turbulence for Western Boundary Undercurrents19
Regimes and Transitions in the Basal Melting of Antarctic Ice Shelves16
On the Release and Renewal of Freshwater in the Beaufort Gyre of the Arctic Ocean16
On the Consistent Parametric Description of the Wave Age Dependence of the Sea Surface Roughness15
Partial Control of the Gulf of Mexico Dynamics by the Current Feedback to the Atmosphere15
Patterns of Thermohaline Interleaving in the Cape Basin14
Surface Quasigeostrophic Turbulence in Variable Stratification14
Bottom Friction in a Baroclinic Ocean: Influences on Sea Level and Slope Currents14
The Role of Bottom Friction in Mediating the Response of the Weddell Gyre Circulation to Changes in Surface Stress and Buoyancy Fluxes14
A Deep Learning Model for Improved Wind and Consequent Wave Forecasts13
The Role of Precipitation in Modulating Upper-Ocean Structure during a Tropical Cyclone13
Abyssal Slope Currents13
Origin of the Antarctic Intermediate Water in the Southern Ocean Identified by a Distance Metric13
Journal Information and Table of Contents13
Reliability of a Theoretically Operable Method to Quantify TC-Induced Upwelling13
Note on the Beam Structure in Step-Trapped Internal Tides12
Energy and Momentum of a Density-Driven Overflow in the Samoan Passage12
Masthead12
The Dynamics of a Barotropic Current Impinging on an Ice Front11
Sampling-Dependent Transition Paths of Iceland–Scotland Overflow Water11
A Theory for How the Depth of Meltwater Injection Impacts Regional Sea Level Evolution11
Spatiotemporal Characteristics of the Near-Surface Turbulent Cascade at the Submesoscale in the Drake Passage11
Looking for Scaling Laws for the Width and Source Depth of Coastal Upwelling Zones11
The e-Folding Recovery Time of Tropical Cyclones’ Cold Wakes11
Models of the Sea Surface Height Expression of the Internal-Wave Continuum11
Irreversible Mixing Induced by Geostrophic Turbulence over the Global Ocean11
Direct Simulation of the Surface Manifestation of Internal Gravity Waves with a Wave–Current Interaction Model11
Seasonal Variability of Near-Inertial/Semidiurnal Fluctuations and Turbulence in the Subarctic North Atlantic11
Deep Learning–Based Ensemble Forecast and Predictability Analysis of the Kuroshio Intrusion into the South China Sea10
The Wave-Coherent Stress and Turbulent Structure over Swell Waves10
Generation of Fine-Scale Thermohaline Variability in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current10
Distinct Impacts of Topographic versus Planetary PV Gradients on Baroclinic Turbulence10
A Regime Diagram for Internal Lee Waves in Coastal Plain Estuaries10
Direction Symmetry of Wavefield Modulation by Tidal Current10
Energetics of frontogenesis in simple balanced models10
Interaction of a Hysteresis Western Boundary Current with a Large-Scale Marginal Sea Circulation in a Gap-Leaping System10
Circular Asymmetry of Ocean Mesoscale Eddy10
Masthead10
Mean Wind Profile Departure from Log Law in the Lower Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer for Different Wave–Wind Conditions Using Scanning Wind Lidar Measurements9
Probing the Nonlinear Interactions of Supertidal Internal Waves Using a High-Resolution Regional Ocean Model9
Turbulence Observations below Drifting Sea Ice: TKE Production and Dissipation in the Meltwater-Influenced Boundary Layer9
Escape of Near-Inertial Waves Trapped in Strong Fronts through Wave–Wave Interactions9
Air–Sea Coupling Feedbacks over Tropical Instability Waves9
Seasonal Changes in Dense Water Production Do Not Cause Seasonal Cycle in Atlantic Overturning9
A Theory of Standing Meanders of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Their Response to Wind9
Anticyclonic Ocean Eddies Generated/Enhanced by a Tropical Cyclone9
Variability of the Deep Western Boundary Current in the Northern Philippine Sea9
Analysis of Tidal Flows through the Strait of Gibraltar Using Dynamic Mode Decomposition9
Modifying the Mixed Layer Eddy Parameterization to Include Frontogenesis Arrest by Boundary Layer Turbulence9
Properties of the Lateral Mesoscale Eddy-Induced Transport in a High-Resolution Ocean Model: Beyond the Flux–Gradient Relation9
The Origin and Fate of Antarctic Intermediate Water in the Southern Ocean9
Can We Accurately Quantify a Lateral Diffusivity from a Single Tracer Release?9
The Impact of Internal Lee-Wave Closure in an Idealized Global Model8
Observations and Numerical Simulations of the Onset and Growth of Langmuir Circulations8
Seasonal and Year-To-Year Variability of Boundary Currents and Eddy Salt Flux along the Eastern and Southern Coasts of Sri Lanka Observed by PIES and Satellite Measurements8
AUV Observations of Langmuir Turbulence in a Stratified Shelf Sea8
Tropical Thermocline Helps Power Pacific Equatorial Upwelling8
Maintenance of the Zonal Momentum Balance of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by Barotropic Dynamics8
The Role of Wind in Driving the Subsurface Velocity Maxima of Makassar Strait Throughflow and Mindanao Current8
On the Observed Wind-Driven Circulation Response in Small Semienclosed Bays8
Impact of Rapid Change in the Rain-Formed Barrier Layer on the Upper Ocean Thermal Response to Typhoon Kalmaegi (2014)8
Controls on Exchange through a Tidal Mixing Hotspot at an Estuary Constriction8
Cover Information and Masthead8
Evidence of Surface Wave Reduction by Hurricane-Generated Ocean Currents8
Subsurface Anticyclonic Eddy Transited from Kuroshio Shedding Eddy in the Northern South China Sea8
Journal Information and Table of Contents8
Optimal Transition Paths for AMOC Collapse and Recovery in a Stochastic Box Model8
Frontal Maintenance in Submesoscale Flows8
Masthead7
Mixed Layer Deepening and Internal Wave Generation under Sea Ice in Free Drift7
Sediment Resuspension on the Inner Shelf under Combined Internal Tides and Waves and Surface Waves: Field Observations and Modeling7
Mixing in a Salinity Variance Budget of the Salish Sea is Controlled by River Flow7
The Turbulent Dynamics of Anticyclonic Submesoscale Headland Wakes7
A Rigorous Derivation of the Water Mass Transformation Framework, the Relation between Mixing and Diasurface Exchange Flow, and Links to Recent Theories in Estuarine Research7
Understanding Stokes Drift Mechanism via Crest and Trough Phase Estimates7
Four-Dimensional Glider fleet survey reveals small mesoscale eddy merging and splitting dynamics7
Tidal Enhancement of Antarctic Dense Shelf Water Export via Suppression of Continental Slope Mixing7
Formation and Evolution of Turbulence in Convectively Unstable Internal Solitary Waves of Depression Shoaling over Gentle Slopes in the South China Sea7
Observation of Bottom-Trapped Topographic Rossby Waves to the West of the Luzon Strait, South China Sea7
Seasonal Features and Potential Mechanisms of Submesoscale Processes in the Southern Bay of Bengal during 2011/127
Interannual and Seasonal Along-Shelf Current Variability and Dynamics: Seventeen Years of Observations from the Southern New England Inner Shelf7
Impact of the New England Seamount Chain on Gulf Stream Pathway and Variability7
Application of a Simple Diffusivity Formulation to Examine Regime Transition and Jet–Eddy Energy Partitioning in Quasi-Geostrophic Turbulence7
Dynamic Adjustment of Upwelling Circulation to Conservative Wave Effects over a Steep Shelf7
Quantifying Tidal Impacts on Arctic Sea Ice: An Unexpected Mechanism for the Regional Delay of Summer Melting7
Propagation and Dissipation of Southern Ocean Swells: A CFOSAT SWIM–Based Analysis7
The Response of Large Diurnal Warm Layers to Short-Term Variability in Solar and Wind Forcing: Observations and Physical Modeling7
Multidecadal Fluctuations of SST and Euphotic Zone Temperature off Northwest Africa7
Global Distribution and Governing Dynamics of Submesoscale Density Fronts7
A Generalized Slab Model6
Regional Abyssal Vorticity Balance in the Northeast South China Sea: External and Internal Dynamics of Abyssal Circulation6
Quantifying Cross-Shelf Transport in the East Australian Current System: A Budget-Based Approach6
Vertical Exchange Induced by Mixed Layer Instabilities6
Bottom-Trapped Topographic Rossby Waves Induced by a Warm-Core Ring on the Offshore Slope of a Trench in the Western North Pacific Ocean6
Breaking Internal Waves on Sloping Topography: Connecting Parcel Displacements to Overturn Size, Interior-Boundary Exchanges, and Mixing6
Diapycnal displacement, diffusion, and distortion of tracers in the ocean6
Instabilities of Tidal Currents Flowing Through Bounded Channels: I. Theory6
Topography Effects on the Seasonal Variability of Ocean Bottom Pressure in the North Pacific Ocean6
Mutual enhancement of wind- and tide-induced near-inertial internal waves in Luzon Strait6
Response of Subpolar North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to Variability in Surface Winds on Different Timescales6
Unsupervised Classification Identifies Warm, Fresh, and Dense Regimes of the Antarctic Margins6
Towards the Upper-Ocean Unbalanced Submesoscale Motions in the Oleander Observations6
Mixing Pathways in Simple Box Models6
Transformations between Normal and Abnormal Mesoscale Eddies in the Bay of Bengal6
Observations of a Filamentous Intrusion and Vigorous Submesoscale Turbulence within a Cyclonic Mesoscale Eddy6
Temporal Variability of Global Surface Eddy Diffusivities: Estimates and Machine Learning Prediction6
Low-Mode Near-Inertial Wave Generation6
Baroclinic Effects on Wave-Driven Flows in a Microtidal Bay6
The Response of a Baroclinic Anticyclonic Eddy to Relative Wind Stress Forcing6
Crescent-Shaped Low-Temperature Distribution along the Convex Topography in the Southeastern Edge of Taiwan Bank in Summer6
Delayed Freshwater Export from a Greenland Tidewater Glacial Fjord6
Enhanced Dissipation of Internal Tides in a Mesoscale Baroclinic Eddy6
Shear-flow instability of wind-wave coupling: numerical solutions compared to observations6
Inertial Effect and Its Dependency on the Topographic Geometries in Barotropic Channel Models under the Weakly Nonlinear Regime6
Observations of Intermittent Seamount-Trapped Waves and Topographic Rossby Waves around the Slope of a Low-Latitude Deep Seamount6
Waves Explain Observed Similarity Scaling of Turbulence Dissipation in the Southern Ocean6
Large-Eddy Simulations of Stabilizing Effects Induced by Opposing Eulerian Shear and Stokes Drift Shear in an Idealized Ocean Surface Boundary Layer6
Vertical Velocity Dynamics in the North Atlantic and Implications for AMOC6
Journal Information and Table of Contents5
Resolving the Horizontal Direction of Internal Tide Generation: Global Application for the M2 Tide’s First Mode5
Wind Dependencies of Deep Cycle Turbulence in the Equatorial Cold Tongues5
A Landscape of Mesoscale Eddy Vertical Structure: The Influence of Bathymetric Slope and Roughness on Kinetic Energy5
A Summer Stratification Anomaly over the Continental Slope off Oregon: A Common Feature of El Niños?5
Characteristics of Energy Cascade in Iceland Basin and Irminger Sea5
Terdiurnal Radiational Tides5
Vertical Structure of Baroclinic Instability in a Three-Layer Quasigeostrophic Model over a Sloping Bottom5
Masthead5
A Forward Energy Flux at Submesoscales Driven by Frontogenesis5
Wind-Induced Topographic Rossby Waves in the Southwestern Slope of the Chukchi Abyssal Plain5
A Global Diagnosis of Eddy Potential Energy Budget in an Eddy-Permitting Ocean Model5
Surface-to-Interior Transport Timescales and Ventilation Patterns in a Time-Dependent Circulation Driven by Sustained Climate Warming5
Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Fronts and Their Impact on Chlorophyll-a in the Indonesian Seas5
Seasonality of Upper-Ocean Vertical Eddy Buoyancy Flux in the Kuroshio Extension5
Bimonthly Variability in Zonal Velocity at Middepths of the Equatorial Indian Ocean5
Attribution of the Subsurface Temperature Change in the Southern Hemisphere5
Revisiting Chapman and Lentz (1994): Trapping of a Coastal Density Front in the Presence of Baroclinic Instability5
Parameterizing the Sheltering Effect of Ice Ridges on Ice–Ocean Drag in Polar Oceans: Insights from Numerical Simulations5
Lateral Circulation in an Elongated Curved Tidal Channel5
Effect of Wave Directions on Orientation and Magnitude of Surface Wind Stress under Typhoon Megi (2010)5
Observations of Upper-Ocean Kinetic Energy Transfers between Near-Inertial Internal Waves and Low-Frequency Dynamics5
A Basal Melt Parameterization for the Simulation of Freshwater Discharge–Driven Melt for Warm Antarctic Ice Shelves5
Large-Scale Distribution and Variations of Active Salt-Finger Double-Diffusion in the Western North Pacific5
The impact of intra-tidal wave asymmetry on nearshore sediment dynamic processes5
Intrinsically Episodic Antarctic Shelf Intrusions of Circumpolar Deep Water via Canyons5
Limited Width of Tropical Cyclone–Induced Baroclinic Geostrophic Response5
Low-Frequency Dynamic Ocean Response to Barometric-Pressure Loading5
Upper–Lower Layer Coupling of Recurrent Circulation Patterns in the Gulf of Mexico5
Kinetic Energy Exchanges between a Two-Dimensional Front and Internal Waves5
A Zonally Averaged Model of the Meridional Overturning Circulation5
Hypsographic Control on the Diapycnal Flow in the Eastern Gotland Basin of the Baltic Sea5
Estimating Spectral Fluxes in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Flows with Advective Structure Functions and Bessel Functions5
Roles of Surface Forcing in the Southern Ocean Temperature and Salinity Changes under Increasing CO2: Perspectives from Model Perturbation Experiments and a Theoretical Framework5
Energetics of Eddy–Mean Flow Interactions in the East Australian Current System5
On the Pathways of Wind-Driven Coastal Upwelling: Nonlinear Momentum Flux and Baroclinic Instability5
Turbulent Thermal-Wind-Driven Coastal Upwelling: Current Observations and Dynamics5
Statistical Features of a Time-Averaged Global State Estimate: Strong Regional Variations and Implications for Sea Level and Heat Content Change5
Winter–Summer Transition in the Southern South China Sea Western Boundary Current4
Vertical Energy Fluxes Driven by the Interaction between Wave Groups and Langmuir Turbulence4
Superinertial Internal Tides Propagating along the Coast: Dynamics and Energetics Revealed through Topographic Modes4
Scaling and Flow Structure of Langmuir Turbulence in Inertial Frames4
Vertical Velocity 3D Estimates from the Linear Vorticity Balance in the North Atlantic Ocean4
Rogue Waves in the Southern North Sea—The Role of Modulational Instability4
Journal Information and Table of Contents4
On the Propagation and Translational Adjustment of Isolated Vortices in Large-Scale Shear Flows4
Internal Tides at the Coast: Energy Flux of Baroclinic Tides Propagating into the Deep Ocean in the Presence of Supercritical Shelf Topography4
Middepth Recipes4
“Eddy” Saturation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by Standing Waves4
Strong Long-Lived Kuroshio-Shed Anticyclonic Eddies and Their Reintensification in the Northern South China Sea4
Parameterizing Eddy Buoyancy Fluxes Across Prograde Shelf/Slope Fronts Using a Slope-Aware GEOMETRIC Closure4
Interpreting Observed Interactions between Near-Inertial Waves and Mesoscale Eddies4
Masthead4
The Long Lives of Subducted Spice and Vorticity Anomalies in the Subtropical Oceans4
Oceanic Lee Waves in a Linearly Sheared Flow4
Downward Propagation and Trapping of Near-Inertial Waves by a Westward-Moving Anticyclonic Eddy in the Subtropical Northwestern Pacific Ocean4
Enhanced energy dissipation around intrathermocline eddy: direct observations in the South China Sea4
Three-Dimensional Structure of Subduction/Obduction in the North Pacific Ocean4
Finescale Measurements of Kelvin–Helmholtz Instabilities at a Kuroshio Seamount4
Changes in Global Ocean Circulation due to Isopycnal Diffusion4
Dynamics of Bubble Plumes Produced by Breaking Waves4
Turbulent Ice–Ocean Boundary Layers in the Well-Mixed Regime: Insights from Direct Numerical Simulations4
Interannual Variability and Trend of the Bering Strait Throughflow Gleaned from Satellite Altimeters4
Interpreting Negative IOD Events Based on the Transfer Routes of Wave Energy in the Upper Ocean4
Internal Tide Interactions with Submesoscale and Mesoscale Eddies in the Tropical Western Atlantic4
Submesoscale Thermohaline Compensation and Its Role in Frontogenesis4
Estimating the Ocean Interior from Satellite Observations in the Kerguelen Area (Southern Ocean): A Combined Investigation Using High-Resolution CTD Data from Animal-Borne Instruments4
Turbulence Observations and Energetics of Diurnal Warm Layers4
Dynamics and Scaling of a Small River Discharging into the Surf Zone4
Observations of Wave Energy Dissipation by Bottom Friction on Rocky Shores4
Concealed Layering in the Upper Arctic4
A Major Improvement of Atmospheric Wave Boundary Layer Model for Storm Surge Modeling by Including Effect of Wave Breaking on Air–Sea Momentum Exchange4
Buoyancy Flux and Mixing Efficiency from Direct, Near-Bottom Turbulence Measurements in a Submarine Canyon4
Identification of Thermohaline Sheet and Its Spatial Structure in the Canada Basin4
The Earliest Stages of Wind Wave Generation in the Open Sea4
Moored Observations of the West Greenland Coastal Current along the Southwest Greenland Shelf4
The Cross-Shelf Regime of a Wind-Driven Supercritical River Plume4
On the Spreading of Glacial Meltwater in the Western North Atlantic. Part II: Interactions with the Gulf Stream4
Middepth Zonal Velocity in the Southern Tropical Indian Ocean: Striation-Like Structures and Their Dynamics4
A Simple Model for Multiple Equilibria in Ice-Covered Oceans4
Sink of Eddy Energy by Submesoscale Sea Surface Temperature Variability in a Coupled Regional Model4
Tidal Intrusion Fronts, Surface Convergence, and Mixing in an Estuary with Complex Topography4
Diagnosing Scale-Dependent Energy Cycles in a High-Resolution Isopycnal Ocean Model4
Anisotropy of Surfzone Turbulence4
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