A note on the general concept of wave breaking for Rossby and gravity waves

On the use and significance of isentropic potential vorticity maps

1985 • 2,853 citations

Stirring by chaotic advection

1984 • 1,796 citations

The deformation of steep surface waves on water - I. A numerical method of computation

1976 • 1,107 citations

Eliassen-Palm Cross Sections for the Troposphere

1980 • 950 citations

The effect of breaking gravity waves on the dynamics and chemical composition of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere

1985 • 814 citations

Breaking planetary waves in the stratosphere

1983 • 751 citations

An exact theory of nonlinear waves on a Lagrangian-mean flow

1978 • 728 citations

The ‘surf zone’ in the stratosphere

1984 • 469 citations

The Area of the Stratospheric Polar Vortex as a Diagnostic for Tracer Transport on an Isentropic Surface

1986 • 438 citations

Survey of planetary‐scale traveling waves: The state of theory and observations

1984 • 283 citations

On the incipient breaking of small scale waves

1974 • 261 citations

Vortex Waves: Stationary "<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>V</mml:mi></mml:math>States," Interactions, Recurrence, and Breaking

1978 • 255 citations

Some Eulerian and Lagrangian Diagnostics for a Model Stratospheric Warming

1981 • 233 citations

Transport of Ozone in the Middle Stratosphere: Evidence for Planetary Wave Breaking

1985 • 216 citations

Do Rossby-wave critical layers absorb, reflect, or over-reflect?

1985 • 193 citations

Vortex Waves: Stationary "<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>V</mml:mi></mml:math>States," Interactions, Recurrence, and Breaking.

1978 • 179 citations

The nonlinear evolution of rotating configurations of uniform vorticity

1986 • 142 citations

Computations of overturning waves

1985 • 125 citations

Towards a Lagrangian-mean description of stratospheric circulations and chemical transports

1980 • 110 citations

Potential vorticity in the stratosphere derived using data from satellites

1985 • 84 citations

A Lagrangian mean theory of wave, mean‐Flow interaction with applications to nonacceleration and its breakdown

1980 • 68 citations

Nonlinear instability of a Rossby-wavecritical layer

1985 • 59 citations

The Structure of the Unstable Marine Boundary Layer Viewed by Lidar and Aircraft Observations

1986 • 51 citations

On the Representation of Rossby Wave Critical Layers and Wave Breaking in Zonally Truncated Models

1987 • 41 citations

On the instability of sheared disturbances

1987 • 29 citations

A critical analysis of the concept of planetary wave breaking

1985 • 9 citations

Amplification of Forced Rossby Waves in the Presence of a Nonlinear Critical Layer

1984 • 8 citations