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Frontal Zone Structure

Frontal Zone Structure is a hydrographic construct that characterizes the spatial arrangement and intensity of gradients in temperature, salinity, and velocity across an oceanic front, distinguishing it from adjacent water masses and internal layered dynamics through its distinct thermohaline and dynamical discontinuities.

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Southern Ocean fronts from the Greenwich meridian to Tasmania

Igor M. Belkin, Arnold L. Gordon · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1996 · 757 citations

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Large-Scale Common Features of Subtropical Precipitation Zones (the Baiu Frontal Zone, the SPCZ, and the SACZ) Part I: Characteristics of Subtropical Frontal Zones

Yasu‐Masa Kodama · Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II · 1992 · 495 citations

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Frontal zone mixing and Antarctic Bottom water formation in the southern Weddell Sea

Theodore D. Foster, Eddy C. Carmack · Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts · 1976 · 467 citations

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Specification of Eddy Transfer Coefficients in Coarse-Resolution Ocean Circulation Models*

Martin Visbeck, John Marshall · Journal of Physical Oceanography · 1997 · 460 citations · Full text

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The Antarctic Slope Current in a Changing Climate

Andrew F. Thompson, Andrew L. Stewart, Paul Spence et al. · Reviews of Geophysics · 2018 · 392 citations · Full text

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    Peter V. Hobbs

    University of Washington, United States

    8 publications · 161 citations

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    Jonathan E. Martin

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    7 publications · 217 citations

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  3. JD
    John D. Locatelli

    University of Washington, United States

    7 publications · 143 citations

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    David M. Schultz

    University of Manchester, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 369 citations

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    Richard J. Reed

    University of Washington, United States

    6 publications · 545 citations

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  1. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    17 h-index

    47 publications

    1.3K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    16 h-index

    67 publications

    2.6K citations

  3. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

    Yokosuka, Japan

    12 h-index

    23 publications

    1.2K citations

  4. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    10 h-index

    21 publications

    720 citations

  5. Meteorological Research Institute

    Tsukuba, Japan

    10 h-index

    16 publications

    613 citations

  6. University of Cape Town

    Rondebosch, South Africa

    9 h-index

    18 publications

    747 citations

  7. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

    Marseille, France

    8 h-index

    22 publications

    1K citations

  8. Scripps Institution of Oceanography

    La Jolla, United States

    7 h-index

    23 publications

    2.2K citations

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  1. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

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  2. Journal of Physical Oceanography

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  3. Monthly Weather Review

    34 publications · 1.8K citations

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  5. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

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