Leif Thomas - Publications

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2003 University of Washington, Seattle, Seattle, WA 

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2021 MacKinnon JA, Simmons HL, Hargrove J, Thomson J, Peacock T, Alford MH, Barton BI, Boury S, Brenner SD, Couto N, Danielson SL, Fine EC, Graber HC, Guthrie J, Hopkins JE, ... ... Thomas LN, et al. A warm jet in a cold ocean. Nature Communications. 12: 2418. PMID 33893280 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22505-5  0.307
2020 Wenegrat JO, Thomas LN, Sundermeyer MA, Taylor JR, D'Asaro EA, Klymak JM, Shearman RK, Lee CM. Enhanced mixing across the gyre boundary at the Gulf Stream front. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 32651275 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2005558117  0.393
2020 Wenegrat JO, Thomas LN. Centrifugal and Symmetric Instability during Ekman Adjustment of the Bottom Boundary Layer Journal of Physical Oceanography. 50: 1793-1812. DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-20-0027.1  0.444
2020 Johnson L, Lee CM, D’Asaro EA, Wenegrat JO, Thomas LN. Restratification at a California Current Upwelling Front. Part II: Dynamics Journal of Physical Oceanography. 50: 1473-1487. DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-19-0204.1  0.449
2020 Johnson L, Lee CM, D’Asaro EA, Thomas L, Shcherbina A. Restratification at a California Current Upwelling Front. Part I: Observations Journal of Physical Oceanography. 50: 1455-1472. DOI: 10.1175/Jpo-D-19-0203.1  0.488
2019 Naveira Garabato AC, Frajka-Williams EE, Spingys CP, Legg S, Polzin KL, Forryan A, Abrahamsen EP, Buckingham CE, Griffies SM, McPhail SD, Nicholls KW, Thomas LN, Meredith MP. Rapid mixing and exchange of deep-ocean waters in an abyssal boundary current. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 31213535 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1904087116  0.645
2018 Wenegrat JO, Callies J, Thomas LN. Submesoscale Baroclinic Instability in the Bottom Boundary Layer Journal of Physical Oceanography. 48: 2571-2592. DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-17-0264.1  0.392
2018 Wenegrat JO, Thomas LN, Gula J, McWilliams JC. Effects of the Submesoscale on the Potential Vorticity Budget of Ocean Mode Waters Journal of Physical Oceanography. 48: 2141-2165. DOI: 10.1175/Jpo-D-17-0219.1  0.372
2017 Wenegrat JO, Thomas LN. Ekman Transport in Balanced Currents with Curvature Journal of Physical Oceanography. 47: 1189-1203. DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-16-0239.1  0.355
2017 Bachman S, Fox-Kemper B, Taylor J, Thomas L. Parameterization of Frontal Symmetric Instabilities. I: Theory for Resolved Fronts Ocean Modelling. 109: 72-95. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ocemod.2016.12.003  0.46
2016 Spall MA, Thomas LN. Downfront Winds over Buoyant Coastal Plumes Journal of Physical Oceanography. 46: 3139-3154. DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-16-0042.1  0.328
2015 Whitt DB, Thomas LN. Resonant Generation and Energetics of Wind-Forced Near-Inertial Motions in a Geostrophic Flow Journal of Physical Oceanography. 45: 181-208. DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-14-0168.1  0.324
2015 Benthuysen J, Thomas LN, Lentz SJ. Rapid generation of upwelling at a shelf break caused by buoyancy shutdown Journal of Physical Oceanography. 45: 294-312. DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-14-0104.1  0.657
2014 Holmes RM, Thomas LN, Thompson L, Darr D. Potential vorticity dynamics of tropical instability vortices Journal of Physical Oceanography. 44: 995-1011. DOI: 10.1175/Jpo-D-13-0157.1  0.351
2014 Spall MA, Pickart RS, Brugler ET, Moore GWK, Thomas L, Arrigo KR. Role of shelfbreak upwelling in the formation of a massive under-ice bloom in the Chukchi Sea Deep-Sea Research Part Ii: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 105: 17-29. DOI: 10.1016/J.Dsr2.2014.03.017  0.379
2013 Benthuysen JA, Thomas LN. Nonlinear stratified spindown over a slope Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 726: 371-403. DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2013.231  0.687
2013 Thomas LN, Taylor JR, Ferrari R, Joyce TM. Symmetric instability in the Gulf Stream Deep-Sea Research Part Ii: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 91: 96-110. DOI: 10.1016/J.Dsr2.2013.02.025  0.378
2012 Benthuysen J, Thomas LN. Friction and diapycnal mixing at a slope: Boundary control of potential vorticity Journal of Physical Oceanography. 42: 1509-1523. DOI: 10.1175/Jpo-D-11-0130.1  0.673
2012 Benthuysen JA, Thomas LN. Asymmetries in vertical vorticity and vertical velocity arising during nonlinear homogeneous spindown Physics of Fluids. 24. DOI: 10.1063/1.4731280  0.663
2011 D'Asaro E, Lee C, Rainville L, Harcourt R, Thomas L. Enhanced turbulence and energy dissipation at ocean fronts. Science (New York, N.Y.). 332: 318-22. PMID 21393512 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1201515  0.508
2010 Thomas LN, Joyce TM. Subduction on the northern and southern flanks of the Gulf Stream Journal of Physical Oceanography. 40: 429-438. DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4187.1  0.344
2010 Thomas LN, Lee CM, Yoshikawa Y. The Subpolar Front of the Japan/East Sea. Part II: Inverse Method for Determining the Frontal Vertical Circulation Journal of Physical Oceanography. 40: 3-25. DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4018.1  0.329
2009 Marshall J, Andersson A, Bates N, Dewar W, Doney S, Edson J, Ferrari R, Forget G, Fratantoni D, Gregg M, Joyce T, Kelly K, Lozier S, Lumpkin R, Maze G, ... ... Thomas L, et al. The climode field campaign observing the cycle of convection and restratification over the gulf stream Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 90: 1337-1350. DOI: 10.1175/2009Bams2706.1  0.402
2009 Joyce TM, Thomas LN, Bahr F. Wintertime observations of Subtropical Mode Water formation within the Gulf Stream Geophysical Research Letters. 36. DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035918  0.347
2009 Morel Y, Thomas LN. Ekman drift and vortical structures Ocean Modelling. 27: 185-197. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ocemod.2009.01.002  0.308
2008 Thomas L, Ferrari R. Friction, Frontogenesis, and the Stratification of the Surface Mixed Layer Journal of Physical Oceanography. 38: 2501-2518. DOI: 10.1175/2008Jpo3797.1  0.39
2006 Garcia Berdeal I, Hautala SL, Thomas LN, Paul Johnson H. Vertical structure of time-dependent currents in a mid-ocean ridge axial valley Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 53: 367-386. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2005.10.004  0.306
2005 Thomas LN. Destruction of Potential Vorticity by Winds Journal of Physical Oceanography. 35: 2457-2466. DOI: 10.1175/JPO2830.1  0.393
2005 Thomas LN, Lee CM. Intensification of Ocean Fronts by Down-Front Winds Journal of Physical Oceanography. 35: 1086-1102. DOI: 10.1175/JPO2737.1  0.347
2002 Johnson HP, Hautala SL, Tivey MA, Jones CD, Voight J, Pruis M, Garcia-Berdeal I, Gilbert LA, Bjorklund T, Fredericks W, Howland J, Tsurumi M, Kurakawa T, Nakamura KI, O'Connell K, ... Thomas L, et al. Survey studies hydrothermal circulation on the northern juan de fuca ridge Eos. 83: 73+78-79. DOI: 10.1029/2002Eo000043  0.334
2002 Thomas LN, Rhines PB. Nonlinear stratified spin-up Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 211-244. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112002002367  0.5
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