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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joseph Pedlosky is an American physical oceanographer. He is a scientist emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Pedlosky was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1985. He is the author of the textbooks Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Ocean Circulation Theory, and Waves in the Ocean and Atmosphere: Introduction to Wave Dynamics.
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Published Works
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (1979) (4222)
- The Ventilated Thermocline (1983) (810)
- Ocean Circulation Theory (1996) (340)
- The Stability of Currents in the Atmosphere and the Ocean: Part I (1964) (273)
- Finite-Amplitude Baroclinic Waves (1970) (268)
- Climate change and the integrity of science. (2010) (137)
- Waves In The Ocean And Atmosphere (2003) (111)
- Circulation around islands and ridges (1997) (104)
- A unified linear theory of homogeneous and stratified rotating fluids (1967) (98)
- An Inertial Theory of the Equatorial Undercurrent (1987) (98)
- Linear theory of rotating stratified fluid motions (1967) (96)
- Finite-Amplitude Baroclinic Waves with Small Dissipation (1971) (88)
- On the steady motions produced by a stable stratification in a rapidly rotating fluid (1967) (85)
- Resonant Topographic Waves in Barotropic and Baroclinic Flows (1981) (82)
- A simple laboratory model for the oceanic circulation (1967) (81)
- A mechanism of formation of multiple zonal jets in the oceans (2009) (80)
- The Instability of Rossby Basin Modes and the Oceanic Eddy Field (2004) (79)
- Chaotic and Periodic Behavior of Finite-Amplitude Baroclinic Waves (1980) (74)
- The Equations for Geostrophic Motion in the Ocean (1984) (73)
- A Study of the Time Dependent Ocean Circulation (1965) (72)
- The spin up of a stratified fluid (1967) (70)
- Finite-Amplitude Baroclinic Wave Packets (1972) (66)
- On the Indeterminacy of Rotational and Divergent Eddy Fluxes (2003) (66)
- Longshore Currents, Upwelling and Bottom Topography (1974) (63)
- An initial value problem in the theory of baroclinic instability (1964) (60)
- Eddy formation near the west coast of Greenland (2008) (59)
- The Initial Value Problem (2003) (56)
- A model of multiple zonal jets in the oceans : dynamical and kinematical analysis (2009) (52)
- An overlooked aspect of the wind-driven oceanic circulation (1968) (52)
- Vortex generation by topography in locally unstable baroclinic flows (2003) (52)
- Dynamics of Nonlinear Cross-Equatorial Flow. Part I: Potential Vorticity Transformation (1998) (51)
- The Instability of Continuous Heton Clouds (1985) (51)
- Role of Eddy Forcing in the Dynamics of Multiple Zonal Jets in a Model of the North Atlantic (2009) (48)
- Limit Cycles and Unstable Baroclinic Waves (1972) (48)
- Baroclinic instability of time-dependent currents (2003) (43)
- Climate Variability Inferred from a Layered Model of the Ventilated Thermocline (1999) (43)
- Radiating Instability of a Meridional Boundary Current (2008) (42)
- Anisotropic material transport by eddies and eddy-driven currents in a model of the North Atlantic (2009) (42)
- Parametric instability in oscillatory shear flows (2003) (40)
- On the radiation of meso-scale energy in the mid-ocean (1977) (40)
- Linear theory of the circulation of a stratified ocean (1969) (40)
- Wind-driven barotropic gyre I : circulation control by eddy vorticity fluxes to an enhanced removal region (2004) (39)
- Eastern Boundary Ventilation and the Structure of the Thermocline (1983) (39)
- The Dynamics of the Oceanic Subtropical Gyres (1990) (36)
- Rossby Normal Modes in Basins with Barriers (1999) (35)
- Longshore Currents and the Onset of Upwelling over Bottom Slope (1974) (34)
- Baroclinic instability in two layer systems (1963) (34)
- The nonlinear dynamics of baroclinic wave ensembles (1981) (34)
- Boundary Intensification of Vertical Velocity in a β-Plane Basin (2005) (32)
- Ventilation, Potential-Vorticity Homogenization and the Structure of the Ocean Circulation (1983) (32)
- Rossby wave instability and apparent phase speeds in large Ocean basins (2007) (31)
- Thermocline forced by annual and decadal surface temperature variation (1994) (31)
- Instability of Meridional Baroclinic Currents (2002) (30)
- A Nonlinear Model of the Onset of Upwelling (1978) (30)
- The Baroclinic Structure of the Abyssal Circulation (1992) (30)
- On Coastal Jets and Upwelling in Bounded Basins (1974) (28)
- A Numerical Study of Baroclinic Instability at Large Supereriticality (1986) (28)
- Axially symmetric motion of a stratified, rotating fluid in a spherical annulus of narrow gap (1969) (27)
- Finite-Amplitude Baroclinic Waves in a Continuous Model of the Atmosphere (1979) (27)
- Cross-Gyre Ventilation of the Subtropical Gyre: An Internal Mode in the Ventilated Thermocline (1984) (27)
- Local baroclinic instability of flow over variable topography (1990) (25)
- Time-dependent isolated anomalies in zonal flows (1993) (24)
- Barotropic Circulation around Islands with Friction (1998) (24)
- An Inertial Model of Steady Coastal Upwelling (1978) (24)
- The buoyancy and wind-driven ventilated thermocline (1986) (24)
- Entrainment and the Termination of the Equatorial Undercurrent (1988) (21)
- Baroclinic Rossby Waves in Irregular Basins (2002) (21)
- The Destabilization of Shear Flow by Topography (1980) (20)
- The Role of Finite Mixed-Layer Thickness in the Structure of the Ventilated Thermocline (1991) (20)
- Finite-Amplitude Baroclinic Waves at Minimum Critical Shear (1982) (20)
- Large-amplitude coherent anomalies in baroclinic zonal flows (1995) (20)
- A Model of Wave Amplitude Vacillation (1977) (19)
- Thermally Driven Circulations in Small Oceanic Basins (2003) (19)
- On the trapping of unstable planetary waves in the atmosphere (1963) (19)
- On Secondary Baroclinic Instability and the Meridional Scaleof Motion in the Ocean (1975) (19)
- The Amplitude of Baroclinic Wave Triads and Mesoscale Motion in the Ocean (1975) (19)
- The Effect of β on the Chaotic Behavior of Unstable Baroclinic Waves (1981) (18)
- Dynamics of Nonlinear Cross-Equatorial Flow. Part II: The Tropically Enhanced Instability of the Western Boundary Current (1998) (18)
- The Transmission of Rossby Waves through Basin Barriers (2000) (17)
- Reflection and transmission of equatorial Rossby waves (2005) (17)
- Shelf Circulation and Cross-Shelf Transport out of a Bay Driven by Eddies from an Open-Ocean Current. Part I: Interaction between a Barotropic Vortex and a Steplike Topography (2011) (16)
- On Parsons’ Model of the Ocean Circulation (1987) (16)
- Wave–Wave Interaction of Unstable Baroclinic Waves (1987) (16)
- Wind Forcing and the Zonal Structure of the Equatorial Undercurrent (1989) (15)
- The Influence of Distributed Sources and Upwelling on the Baroclinic Structure of the Abyssal Circulation (1995) (15)
- The Nonlinear Dynamics of Time Dependent Subcritical Baroclinic Currents (2007) (15)
- A Simple Model for Nonlinear Critical Layers in an Unstable Baroclinic Wave (1982) (14)
- The Development of Thermal Anomalies in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model (1975) (14)
- Finite-Amplitude Baroclinic Disturbances in Downstream Varying Currents (1976) (14)
- Ridges and Recirculations: Gaps and Jets (1994) (14)
- On the Dynamics of the Coupled Mixed Layer-Thermocline System and the Determination of the Oceanic Surface Density (1984) (14)
- The Growth and Decay of Finite-Amplitude Baroclinic Waves (1983) (14)
- Climate Variability of the Equatorial Thermocline Inferred from a Two-Moving-Layer Model of the Ventilated Thermocline* (2000) (13)
- The Link between Western Boundary Currents and Equatorial Undercurrents (1991) (13)
- On the Weakly Nonlinear Ekman Layer: Thickness and Flux (2008) (13)
- The Transmission and Transformation of Baroclinic Rossby Waves by Topography (2000) (13)
- Fluctuating winds and the ocean circulation (1967) (13)
- The Transparency of Ocean Barriers to Rossby Waves: The Rossby Slit Problem (2001) (13)
- A History of Thermocline Theory (2006) (13)
- Climatic inferences from the ventilated thermocline (1983) (12)
- Baroclinic Structure of the Abyssal Circulation and the Role of Meridional Topography (1993) (12)
- A note on the amplitude of baroclinic waves in the mid-ocean (1975) (12)
- Cross-Shelf and Out-of-Bay Transport Driven by an Open-Ocean Current (2011) (11)
- Thermally driven motions in a rotating stratified fluid: theory and experiment (1997) (11)
- The Role of Dissipation Mechanisms in the Nonlinear Dynamics of Unstable Baroclinic Waves (1992) (11)
- Lateral Coupling in Baroclinically Unstable Flows (2008) (11)
- The nonlinear downstream development of baroclinic instability (2011) (10)
- On aliasing Rossby waves induced by asynchronous time stepping (2003) (9)
- Interaction of Ekman Layers and Islands (2013) (9)
- The Effect of Dissipation on Spatially Growing Nonlinear Baroclinic Waves (1988) (9)
- On the Stability of Baroclinic Flows as a Functional of the Velocity Profile (1965) (8)
- Simple Models for Local Instabilities in Zonally Inhomogeneous Flows (1989) (8)
- Linear and nonlinear barotropic instability of geostrophic shear layers (1991) (8)
- Climate Variability Induced by Anomalous Buoyancy Forcing in a Multilayer Model of the Ventilated Thermocline (2000) (8)
- Stratified Abyssal Flow in the Presence of Fractured Ridges (1994) (8)
- Circulation and boundary layers in differentially heated rotating stratified fluid (1996) (7)
- Climatic inferences from the ventilated thermocline (1983) (7)
- The Effect of Beta on the Downstream Development of Unstable, Chaotic Baroclinic Waves (2019) (7)
- Baroclinic Instability Localized by Dissipation (1992) (7)
- Radiation of Energy from Nonzonal Ocean Currents, Nonlinear Regime. Part I: Single Wave Development* (1998) (7)
- The Role of a Finite Density Jump at the Bottom of the Quasi-Continuous Ventilated Thermocline (2000) (6)
- Spectral considerations in two‐dimensional incompressible flow (1962) (6)
- The skirted island : the effect of topography on the flow around planetary scale islands (2009) (6)
- The Shadowed Island (1999) (6)
- On the Relative Importance of Ventilation and Mixing of Potential vorticity in Mid-Ocean Gyres (1983) (6)
- Steady Baroclinic Flow through Ridges with Narrow Gaps (2001) (6)
- The Nonlinear Dynamics of Slightly Supercritical Baroclinic Jets (1991) (6)
- On the role of topography in the ocean circulation (1986) (6)
- Radiation of Energy from Nonzonal Ocean Currents, Nonlinear Regime. Part II: Interactions between Waves (1998) (6)
- The Baroclinic Adjustment of Time-Dependent Shear Flows (2010) (5)
- The Destabilization of Rossby Normal Modes by Meridional Baroclinic Shear (2002) (5)
- The Reflection of Unstable Baroclinic Waves and the Production of Mean Coastal Currents (1993) (5)
- Instability of Baroclinic Currents That Are Locally Nonzonal. (1994) (5)
- Circulation Induced by Isolated Dense Water Formation over Closed Topographic Contours (2017) (4)
- On the Feedback of the Rhines-Young Pool on the Ventilated Thermocline (1993) (4)
- The Coastal Bottom Boundary Layer: A Note on the Model of Chapman and Lentz (2007) (4)
- Inviscid Shallow-Water Theory (1982) (4)
- Linear and Finite-Amplitude Localized Baroclinic Instability (1993) (4)
- The two-layer skirted Island (2011) (3)
- Time-Dependent Response to Cooling in a Beta-Plane Basin (2006) (3)
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics by Joseph Pedlosky (1988) (3)
- The Structure of Baroclinic Modes in the Presence of Baroclinic Mean Flow (2020) (3)
- Rossby Waves with Continuous Stratification and Bottom Friction (2018) (3)
- Laplace Tidal Equations and the Vertical Structure Equation (2003) (3)
- The Interaction of an Eastward-Flowing Current and an Island: Sub- and Supercritical Flow (2015) (3)
- Self-sustained Inertial Oscillations (1993) (3)
- Wave-Mean Flow Interaction (2003) (3)
- Baroclinic instability over topography : unstable at any wave number (2016) (3)
- Shelf–Open Ocean Exchange Forced by Wind Jets (2017) (3)
- On the dynamics of finite-amplitude baroclinic waves as a function of supercriticality (1976) (3)
- Buoyancy-Driven Flows: Theory of oceanic buoyancy-driven flows (2012) (3)
- A Note on Interior Pathways in the Meridional Overturning Circulation (2018) (2)
- Response to a Steady Poleward Outflow. Part I: The Linear, Quasigeostrophic Problem (2009) (2)
- Equations of Motion; Surface Gravity Waves (2003) (2)
- The Relation between the Potential Vorticity and the Montgomery Function in the Ventilated Ocean Thermocline (2001) (2)
- WKB Theory for Internal Gravity Waves (2003) (2)
- Friction and Viscous Flow (1982) (2)
- Propagation of Velocity Discontinuities on Potential Vorticity Fronts (1990) (2)
- Triad Instability of Planetary Rossby Waves (2007) (2)
- The Response of a Weakly Stratified Layer to Buoyancy Forcing (2009) (2)
- A Theory of Equatorial Deep Jets (2002) (2)
- Graduate Education in Physical Oceanography (1992) (2)
- The effect of beta on the downstream development of unstable baroclinic waves 1 by 2 (2019) (2)
- Homogeneous Models of the Wind-Driven Oceanic Circulation (1982) (2)
- A note on the role of the buoyancy layer in a rotating stratified fluid (1971) (1)
- Vertical Structure: Baroclinic Quasi-Geostrophic Models (1996) (1)
- Baroclinic Abyssal Flow in the Presence of a Peninsula (1996) (1)
- Symmetric instability of cross-stream varying currents (2014) (1)
- Equatorial Dynamics of the Thermocline: The Equatorial Undercurrent (1996) (1)
- An experimental investigation of the Rossby two-slit problem (2016) (1)
- Baroclinic Flow around Planetary Islands in a Double Gyre: A Mechanism for Cross-Gyre Flow (2010) (1)
- Homogeneous Models of the Ocean Circulation (1996) (1)
- Response to a Steady Poleward Outflow. Part II: Oscillations and Eddies (2009) (1)
- 2007 Program of Study: Boundary Layers (2008) (1)
- Quasigeostrophic Motion of a Stratified Fluid on a Sphere (1982) (1)
- Equatorial Beta-Plane and Equatorial Waves (2003) (1)
- An Inertial Model of the Interaction of Ekman Layers and Planetary Islands (2013) (1)
- Shallow Water Waves in a Rotating Fluid; Poincaré and Kelvin Waves (2003) (1)
- On the Circulation of the Warm Water of the Subtropical Gyres (1984) (1)
- On the Effect of a Surface Density Front on the Interior Structure of the Ventilated Ocean Thermocline (2001) (0)
- The Baroclinic Instability of Time Dependent Zonal Flow. (2002) (0)
- Baroclinic Instability: The Charney Paradigm* (1990) (0)
- Vertical Propagation of Waves: Steady Flow and the Radiation Condition (2003) (0)
- Rotation and Potential Vorticity (2003) (0)
- The Interaction of an Eastward-Flowing Current and an Island : 1 Sub-and Supercritical Flow 2 3 4 (2015) (0)
- Radiation-induced baroclinic instability (1991) (0)
- Rossby Waves (Continued), Quasi-Geostrophy (2003) (0)
- Ocean Circulation in the Presence of Planetary-Scale Islands (1997) (0)
- Buoyancy Forced Circulation and Cross-Gyre Flow (1996) (0)
- Baroclinic Rossby waves in the ocean : normal modes , phase speeds and instability (2008) (0)
- Theory of the Ventilated Thermocline (1996) (0)
- The circulation of a baroclinic ocean around planetary scale islands with topography (2010) (0)
- Internal Gravity Waves (2003) (0)
- Internal Waves, Group Velocity and Reflection (2003) (0)
- Large-Scale Hydrostatic Motions (2003) (0)
- EARLY ONLINE RELEASE (2008) (0)
- Collaborative Research : Vortex Dynamics and Interannual Variability in the Labrador Sea (2007) (0)
- The Tropically Enhanced Instability of Oceanic Western Boundary Currents (2019) (0)
- Fofonoff Negative Modes (2016) (0)
- Stratified Quasi-Geostrophic Motion and Instability Waves (2003) (0)
- Reply to “Comments on ‘The Interaction of an Eastward-Flowing Current and an Island: Sub- and Supercritical Flow’” (2016) (0)
- A Three-Dimensional Inertial Model for Coastal Upwelling Along Western Boundaries (2022) (0)
- Discussion of Initial Value Problem (Continued) (2003) (0)
- Pedlosky receives 2011 Maurice Ewing Medal: Response (2012) (0)
- On the correct matching and boundary conditions for a radiating broken-line current (1996) (0)
- Energy and Energy Flux in Rossby Waves (2003) (0)
- Fox-Kemper and Willis receive Ocean Sciences Early Career Awards: Citation for Baylor Fox-Kemper (2012) (0)
- Kelvin’s Theorem and the Oceanic Circulation in the Presence of Islands and Broken Ridges (2001) (0)
- Circulation around a "skirted" island (2009) (0)
- Energy Equation and Necessary Conditions for Instability (2003) (0)
- Radiating Instability (2019) (0)
- Fields of Motion in Gravity Waves and Energy (2003) (0)
- On formation of multiple zonal jets in the oceans (2008) (0)
- 1 Radiating instability and small-scale stochastic wind forcing (2014) (0)
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