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Frontal Jets

Frontal Jets is a mesoscale oceanic phenomenon characterized by intense, narrow currents that form along the density gradient of oceanic fronts, distinguished from broader circulation patterns by their spatial confinement and dynamical association with frontal instabilities.

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Satellite and CALJET Aircraft Observations of Atmospheric Rivers over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean during the Winter of 1997/98

F. Martin Ralph, Paul J. Neiman, Gary A. Wick · Monthly Weather Review · 2004 · 783 citations · Full text

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Intensification of Ocean Fronts by Down-Front Winds

Leif N. Thomas, Craig M. Lee · Journal of Physical Oceanography · 2005 · 303 citations

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Observational evidence of alternating zonal jets in the world ocean

Nikolai Maximenko, Bohyun Bang, Hideharu Sasaki · Geophysical Research Letters · 2005 · 257 citations · Full text

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Multiple Jets of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current South of Australia*

Serguei Sokolov, Stephen R. Rintoul · Journal of Physical Oceanography · 2007 · 230 citations · Full text

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Large-Scale Common Features of Sub-Tropical Convergence Zones (the Baiu Frontal Zone, the SPCZ, and the SACZ) Part II : Conditions of the Circulations for Generating the STCZs

Yasu‐Masa Kodama · Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II · 1993 · 212 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. MS
    M. Susan Lozier

    Duke University, United States

    3 publications · 123 citations

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  2. TA
    T. Akiyama

    Meteorological Research Institute

    3 publications · 101 citations

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  3. RR
    Richard Rotunno

    NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States

    2 publications · 55 citations

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  4. NM
    Nikolai Maximenko

    University of Hawaii System, United States

    2 publications · 411 citations

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  5. SA
    Scott A. Braun

    Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

    2 publications · 55 citations

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Institutions

70

  1. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Falmouth, United States

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    491 citations

  2. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    346 citations

  3. Meteorological Research Institute

    Tsukuba, Japan

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    101 citations

  4. Duke University

    Durham, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    123 citations

  5. Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies

    Esporles, Spain

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    307 citations

  6. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Honolulu, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    628 citations

  7. University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory

    Seattle, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    669 citations

  8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    219 citations

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  1. Journal of Physical Oceanography

    15 publications · 1K citations

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  3. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 4 publications · 391 citations

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  4. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

    3 publications · 106 citations

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