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Mixed Layer Shear Instability

Mixed Layer Shear Instability is a hydrodynamic instability mechanism, within the broader class of shear instabilities in fluid dynamics, distinguished by its occurrence in the oceanic mixed layer where vertical shear in horizontal velocity exceeds a threshold set by stratification and turbulent mixing, leading to the generation of small-scale turbulence and momentum transfer.

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Influence of the velocity ratio on the spatial instability of mixing layers

Peter A. Monkewitz, Patrick Huerre · The Physics of Fluids · 1982 · 327 citations

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A parameter study of the mixed instability of idealized ocean currents

William R. Holland, Dale B. Haidvogel · Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans · 1980 · 48 citations

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Influence of Gas Turbulence on the Instability of an Air-Water Mixing Layer

Jean-Philippe Matas, Sylvain Marty, Mohamed Seydou Dem et al. · Physical Review Letters · 2015 · 32 citations · Full text

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The Role of Internal Gravity Waves in the Equatorial Current System

Eric D. Skyllingstad, D. W. Denbo · Journal of Physical Oceanography · 1994 · 32 citations · Full text

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Shear Instability and Turbulence Within a Submesoscale Front Following a Storm

Jeffrey R. Carpenter, Arthur Rodrigues, Larissa K. P. Schultze et al. · Geophysical Research Letters · 2020 · 26 citations · Full text

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  1. BB
    Burkard Baschek

    Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany

    1 publications · 26 citations

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  2. IW
    I. Wygnanski

    Tel Aviv University, Israel

    1 publications · 21 citations

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  3. II
    Ilya I. Ryzhkov

    Institute of Computational Modeling, Russia

    1 publications · 16 citations

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  4. MS
    Mohamed Seydou Dem

    Université Grenoble Alpes, France

    1 publications · 32 citations

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  5. PH
    Patrick Huerre

    École Polytechnique, France

    1 publications · 327 citations

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  1. Université Grenoble Alpes

    Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    128 citations

  2. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    654 citations

  3. Tel Aviv University

    Tel Aviv, Israel

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    63 citations

  4. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Boulder, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    48 citations

  5. Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon

    Geesthacht, Germany

    1 h-index

    6 publications

    156 citations

  6. Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde

    Warnemünde, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

  7. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    128 citations

  8. Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels

    Grenoble, France

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    128 citations

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  1. The Physics of Fluids

    2 publications · 348 citations

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  2. Journal of Physical Oceanography

    2 publications · 58 citations

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  3. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

    1 publications · 48 citations

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  4. Geophysical Research Letters

    1 publications · 26 citations

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  5. Fluid Dynamics

    1 publications · 16 citations

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