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Gordon E. Swaters

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40

Publications

928

Citations

19

H-Index

1985

Active since

Affiliations

University of Alberta(Current)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University of British Columbia

Gordon E. Swaters is an author at University of Alberta specializing in engineering, fluid mechanics, and geophysics.

Top concepts

EngineeringGeophysicsEarth ScienceFluid DynamicsPhysical OceanographyGeographyOceanographyOcean DynamicsMarine GeologyHydrodynamics

Publications per year

1985–2022

40

Publications

40

On the baroclinic instability of cold-core coupled density fronts on a sloping continental shelf

Gordon E. Swaters · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1991 · 90 citations

Density Fronts, Ocean Dynamics, Engineering +21

The source area influencing a measurement in the Planetary Boundary Layer: The ?footprint? and the ?distribution of contact distance?

John D. Wilson, Gordon E. Swaters · Boundary-Layer Meteorology · 1991 · 75 citations

Geophysics, Engineering, Atmospheric Science +8

Dynamics of ventilated coherent cold eddies on a sloping bottom

Gordon E. Swaters, Glenn R. Flierl · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1991 · 45 citations

Finite-amplitude baroclinic instability of a mesoscale gravity current in a channel

Curtis Mooney, Gordon E. Swaters · Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics · 1996 · 37 citations

Geophysics, Finite-amplitude Baroclinic Instability, Engineering +13

Numerical simulations of the baroclinic dynamics of density‐driven coupled fronts and eddies on a sloping bottom

Gordon E. Swaters · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1998 · 35 citations · Full text

Geophysics, Coupled Front, Baroclinic Dynamics +14

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