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Overview

Kurt L. Polzin is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science. Within these fields, their work emphasizes Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their investigations cover a range of topics, including:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Geological formations and processes

Polzin has published extensively in several key venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Polzin include:

  • Kinetic Energy Transfers between Mesoscale and Submesoscale Motions in the Open Ocean's Upper Layers, 2021, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • How Variable Is Mixing Efficiency in the Abyss?, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Mixing and Transformation in a Deep Western Boundary Current: A Case Study, 2021, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Observed Eddy-Internal Wave Interactions in the Southern Ocean, 2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Mesoscale Eddy Dissipation by a "Zoo" of Submesoscale Processes at a Western Boundary, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Frequent collaborators of Polzin include Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Yuri V. Lvov, Eleanor Frajka-Williams, Arnaud Le Boyer, and Matthew H. Alford. These partnerships have contributed to multiple joint publications across their shared fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Spatial variability of turbulent mixing in the Abyssal Ocean

    K. L. Polzin;J. M. Toole;J. R. Ledwell;R. W. Schmitt

  • Evidence for enhanced mixing over rough topography in the abyssal ocean

    J. R. Ledwell;E. T. Montgomery;K. L. Polzin;L. C. St. Laurent

  • Global Patterns of Diapycnal Mixing from Measurements of the Turbulent Dissipation Rate

    Amy F. Waterhouse;Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Jonathan D. Nash;Matthew H. Alford

  • Widespread Intense Turbulent Mixing in the Southern Ocean

    Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;Kurt L. Polzin;Brian A. King;Karen J. Heywood

  • Finescale parameterizations of turbulent dissipation

    Kurt L. Polzin;John M. Toole;Raymond W. Schmitt

  • Estimates of Diapycnal Mixing in the Abyssal Ocean

    John M. Toole;Raymond W. Schmitt;Kurt L. Polzin

  • Climate Process Team on Internal Wave–Driven Ocean Mixing

    Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Zhongxiang Zhao;Caitlin B. Whalen;Amy F. Waterhouse

  • Mixing in the Romanche Fracture Zone

    Bruno Ferron;Herlé Mercier;Kevin Speer;Ann Gargett

  • Intense mixing of Antarctic Bottom Water in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean

    K. L. Polzin;K. G. Speer;J. M. Toole;R. W. Schmitt

  • Enhanced Diapycnal Mixing by Salt Fingers in the Thermocline of the Tropical Atlantic

    R. W. Schmitt;J. R. Ledwell;E. T. Montgomery;K. L. Polzin

  • Finescale Parameterizations of Turbulent Dissipation

    Kurt L. Polzin;Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;Tycho N. Huussen;Bernadette M. Sloyan

  • Near‐boundary mixing above the flanks of a midlatitude seamount

    John M. Toole;Raymond W. Schmitt;Kurt L. Polzin;Eric Kunze

  • Sensitivity of the Ocean State to the Vertical Distribution of Internal-Tide-Driven Mixing

    Angelique Melet;Robert Hallberg;Sonya Legg;Kurt L. Polzin

  • Eddy stirring in the Southern Ocean

    A. C. Naveira Garabato;R. Ferrari;K. L. Polzin

  • Statistics of the Richardson number : Mixing models and finestructure

    Kurt Polzin

  • Internal waves and turbulence in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

    Stephanie N. Waterman;Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;Kurt L. Polzin

  • TOWARD REGIONAL CHARACTERIZATIONS OF THE OCEANIC INTERNAL WAVEFIELD

    Kurt L. Polzin;Yuri V. Lvov

  • The Finescale Response of Lowered ADCP Velocity Profiles

    Kurt Polzin;Eric Kunze;Jules Hummon;Eric Firing

  • An abyssal recipe

    Kurt L. Polzin

  • Mesoscale Eddy–Internal Wave Coupling. Part II: Energetics and Results from PolyMode

    Kurt L. Polzin

  • Idealized Solutions for the Energy Balance of the Finescale Internal Wave Field

    Kurt Polzin

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto C. Naveira Garabato
Alberto C. Naveira Garabato University of Southampton
John M. Toole
John M. Toole Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Raymond W. Schmitt
Raymond W. Schmitt Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Michael P. Meredith
Michael P. Meredith British Antarctic Survey
Eric Kunze
Eric Kunze University of Washington
Sonya Legg
Sonya Legg Princeton University
Robert Hallberg
Robert Hallberg Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Bernadette M. Sloyan
Bernadette M. Sloyan CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

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