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Symmetric Instability

Symmetric Instability is a hydrodynamical instability arising in rotating, stratified fluids when the horizontal buoyancy gradient exceeds a critical threshold, leading to slanted convective overturning along surfaces of constant angular momentum in the submesoscale.

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Symmetric instability in the Gulf Stream

Leif N. Thomas, John R. Taylor, Raffaele Ferrari et al. · Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography · 2013 · 401 citations

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Conditional symmetric instability ‐ a possible explanation for frontal rainbands

D. A. Bennetts, Brian J. Hoskins · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 1979 · 372 citations

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Gravitational, Symmetric, and Baroclinic Instability of the Ocean Mixed Layer

Thomas W. N. Haine, John Marshall · Journal of Physical Oceanography · 1998 · 321 citations

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The Use and Misuse of Conditional Symmetric Instability

David M. Schultz, Philip N. Schumacher · Monthly Weather Review · 1999 · 239 citations · Full text

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Open-Ocean Submesoscale Motions: A Full Seasonal Cycle of Mixed Layer Instabilities from Gliders

Andrew F. Thompson, Ayah Lazar, Christian E. Buckingham et al. · Journal of Physical Oceanography · 2016 · 221 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. PH
    Peter H. Stone

    Brigham and Women's Hospital, United States

    6 publications · 315 citations

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  2. JR
    John R. Taylor

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 850 citations

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  3. LN
    Leif N. Thomas

    Stanford University, United States

    6 publications · 854 citations

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  4. SL
    Suzanne L. Gray

    University of Reading, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 157 citations

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  5. BF
    Baylor Fox‐Kemper

    Brown University, United States

    5 publications · 388 citations

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Institutions

156

  1. University of Reading

    Reading, United Kingdom

    13 h-index

    32 publications

    1.3K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    10 h-index

    22 publications

    686 citations

  3. Met Office

    Exeter, United Kingdom

    10 h-index

    12 publications

    774 citations

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    8 h-index

    14 publications

    1.9K citations

  5. Brown University

    Providence, United States

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    438 citations

  6. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    854 citations

  7. Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

    Nanjing, China

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    289 citations

  8. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    914 citations

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  1. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

    30 publications · 1.4K citations

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  3. Monthly Weather Review

    14 publications · 678 citations

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  4. Journal of Physical Oceanography

    14 publications · 1.1K citations

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  5. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    8 publications · 557 citations

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