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  • 2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

James N. Moum is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. The scientist's research has contributed to understanding coastal ocean dynamics and related physical oceanography topics.

Recent publications include a study titled Examining the Inner Shelf: A Coastal Dynamics Experiment, published in 2022 in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Frequent coauthors with whom Moum has collaborated include:

  • Jennifer MacKinnon
  • Ryan Abernathey
  • J. Alexander Brearley
  • Damien Couespel
  • Casimir de Lavergne

The primary publication venue for Moum's recent work is the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

An honor held by James N. Moum is being recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), awarded in 2012.

Best Publications

  • The formation and fate of internal waves in the South China Sea

    Matthew H. Alford;Matthew H. Alford;Thomas Peacock;Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Jonathan D. Nash

  • Structure and Generation of Turbulence at Interfaces Strained by Internal Solitary Waves Propagating Shoreward over the Continental Shelf

    J. N. Moum;David Farmer;W. D. Smyth;L. Armi

  • On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

    Dean Roemmich;Matthew H. Alford;Hervé Claustre;Kenneth Johnson

  • From tides to mixing along the Hawaiian ridge.

    Daniel L. Rudnick;Timothy J. Boyd;Russell E. Brainard;Glenn S. Carter

  • The Efficiency of Mixing in Turbulent Patches: Inferences from Direct Simulations and Microstructure Observations

    W. D. Smyth;J. N. Moum;D. R. Caldwell

  • River plumes as a source of large-amplitude internal waves in the coastal ocean

    Jonathan D. Nash;James N. Moum

  • Length scales of turbulence in stably stratified mixing layers

    William D. Smyth;James N. Moum

  • Internal solitary waves of elevation advancing on a shoaling shelf

    Jody M. Klymak;James N. Moum

  • Surface Wave–Turbulence Interactions. Scaling ϵ(z) near the Sea Surface

    A. Anis;J. N. Moum

  • Comparison of Turbulence Kinetic Energy Dissipation Rate Estimates from Two Ocean Microstructure Profilers

    J. N. Moum;M. C. Gregg;R. C. Lien;M. E. Carr

  • An Estimate of Tidal Energy Lost to Turbulence at the Hawaiian Ridge

    Jody M. Klymak;James N. Moum;Jonathan D. Nash;Eric Kunze

  • Efficiency of mixing in the main thermocline

    James N. Moum

  • Mixing in the Equatorial Surface Layer and Thermocline

    James N. Moum;Douglas R. Caldwell;Clayton A. Paulson

  • Anisotropy of turbulence in stably stratified mixing layers

    William D. Smyth;James N. Moum

  • Energy Transport by Nonlinear Internal Waves

    J. N. Moum;J. M. Klymak;J. D. Nash;A. Perlin

  • Energy-containing scales of turbulence in the ocean thermocline

    James N. Moum

  • Shallow Water '06: A Joint Acoustic Propagation/Nonlinear Internal Wave Physics Experiment

    Dajun Tang;James N. Moum;James F. Lynch;Philip A. Abbot

  • Ocean mixing by Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

    William D. Smyth;James N. Moum

  • Observations of Boundary Mixing over the Continental Slope

    J. N. Moum;D. R. Caldwell;J. D. Nash;G. D. Gunderson

  • Internal hydraulic flows on the continental shelf: High drag states over a small bank

    Jonathan D. Nash;James N. Moum

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan D. Nash
Jonathan D. Nash Oregon State University
William D. Smyth
William D. Smyth Oregon State University
Jody M. Klymak
Jody M. Klymak University of Victoria
Ren-Chieh Lien
Ren-Chieh Lien University of Washington
Michael C. Gregg
Michael C. Gregg University of Washington
Daniel L. Rudnick
Daniel L. Rudnick Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Jennifer MacKinnon
Jennifer MacKinnon University of California, San Diego
Sutanu Sarkar
Sutanu Sarkar University of California, San Diego
Hans C. Graber
Hans C. Graber University of Miami
Teresa K. Chereskin
Teresa K. Chereskin University of California, San Diego

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