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Parametric Subharmonic Instability

Parametric Subharmonic Instability is a hydrodynamic instability mechanism within the broader class of wave–wave interaction phenomena in which a primary internal wave mode transfers energy to two or more secondary wave modes at nearly half the frequency of the primary mode through resonant triadic interactions, thereby distinguishing it from other instabilities by its specific frequency-subharmonic resonance and parametric amplification process.

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Global Abyssal Mixing Inferred from Lowered ADCP Shear and CTD Strain Profiles

Eric Kunze, Eric Firing, Julia M. Hummon et al. · Journal of Physical Oceanography · 2006 · 488 citations · Full text

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Resonant interaction of oceanic internal waves

C. Henry McComas, F. P. Bretherton · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1977 · 383 citations

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Global Observations of Open-Ocean Mode-1 M2 Internal Tides

Zhongxiang Zhao, Matthew H. Alford, James B. Girton et al. · Journal of Physical Oceanography · 2016 · 268 citations

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Chaotic mode competition in parametrically forced surface waves

S. Ciliberto, J. P. Gollub · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1985 · 246 citations

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Measurement of radiation-pressure-induced optomechanical dynamics in a suspended Fabry-Perot cavity

T. R. Corbitt, D. J. Ottaway, E. Innerhofer et al. · Physical Review A · 2006 · 165 citations · Full text

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    Matthew H. Alford

    University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory, United States

    8 publications · 787 citations

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  2. TH
    Toshiyuki Hibiya

    The University of Tokyo, Japan

    8 publications · 395 citations

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  3. JM
    Jennifer MacKinnon

    Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States

    6 publications · 469 citations

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  4. GC
    Guiying Chen

    Institute of Oceanology, China

    5 publications · 216 citations

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  5. XX
    Xiaohui Xie

    Institute of Oceanology, China

    5 publications · 216 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    10 h-index

    36 publications

    1.4K citations

  2. Scripps Institution of Oceanography

    La Jolla, United States

    10 h-index

    21 publications

    2.2K citations

  3. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    9 h-index

    17 publications

    1.4K citations

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    9 h-index

    15 publications

    1.3K citations

  5. University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory

    Seattle, United States

    7 h-index

    15 publications

    1.8K citations

  6. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

    Villeurbanne, France

    7 h-index

    18 publications

    924 citations

  7. University of Alberta

    Edmonton, Canada

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    267 citations

  8. École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

    Lyon, France

    6 h-index

    18 publications

    946 citations

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  1. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    24 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. Journal of Physical Oceanography

    14 publications · 1.4K citations

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  3. Geophysical Research Letters

    9 publications · 589 citations

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  4. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 7 publications · 672 citations

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  5. Physics of Fluids

    5 publications · 167 citations

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