What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Oceanography
- Meteorology
- Fluid dynamics
Michael A. Spall focuses on Climatology, Oceanography, Eddy, Boundary current and Ocean gyre.
Michael A. Spall regularly ties together related areas like Boundary layer in his Climatology studies.
Michael A. Spall focuses mostly in the field of Oceanography, narrowing it down to topics relating to Convection and, in certain cases, Parametrization.
His Eddy research incorporates elements of Baroclinity, Front and Potential vorticity, Vorticity.
His work deals with themes such as Meteorology and Geophysics, which intersect with Baroclinity.
His Ocean gyre study incorporates themes from Mixed layer, Downwelling, Thermohaline circulation and Advection.
His most cited work include:
- Air–sea interaction over ocean fronts and eddies (458 citations)
- Specification of eddy transfer coefficients in coarse resolution ocean circulation models (380 citations)
- The Community Climate System Model (273 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
His primary areas of investigation include Oceanography, Climatology, Boundary current, Ocean gyre and Ocean current.
He studied Oceanography and Potential vorticity that intersect with Baroclinity, Labrador Sea Water and Isopycnal.
In most of his Climatology studies, his work intersects topics such as Atmospheric sciences.
The various areas that he examines in his Boundary current study include Downwelling, Convection, Eddy and Boundary layer.
His Ocean gyre research includes themes of Gulf Stream and Ekman transport.
Michael A. Spall has researched Ocean current in several fields, including Forcing and Mesoscale meteorology.
He most often published in these fields:
- Oceanography (41.04%)
- Climatology (38.81%)
- Boundary current (26.87%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?
- Oceanography (41.04%)
- Thermohaline circulation (16.42%)
- Climatology (38.81%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Michael A. Spall spends much of his time researching Oceanography, Thermohaline circulation, Climatology, Ocean current and Dynamics.
His Oceanography research includes elements of Convection and Buoyancy.
Within one scientific family, Michael A. Spall focuses on topics pertaining to Middle latitudes under Thermohaline circulation, and may sometimes address concerns connected to Wind stress and Rossby wave.
Michael A. Spall interconnects Arctic and Ridge in the investigation of issues within Climatology.
His Ocean current research integrates issues from Shallow water equations and North Atlantic Deep Water.
The concepts of his Dynamics study are interwoven with issues in Eddy, Instability and The arctic.
Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Transport of Pacific water into the Canada Basin and the formation of the Chukchi Slope Current (31 citations)
- Sinking of dense North Atlantic waters in a global ocean model : location and controls (25 citations)
- Circulation of the Chukchi Sea shelfbreak and slope from moored timeseries (24 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Oceanography
- Meteorology
- Fluid dynamics
His scientific interests lie mostly in Oceanography, Climatology, Atmosphere, Ridge and Ocean current.
His Oceanography study often links to related topics such as Convection.
His work in the fields of Forcing, North Atlantic oscillation and North Atlantic Deep Water overlaps with other areas such as Heat losses.
His Atmosphere research focuses on subjects like Sea ice, which are linked to Water mass.
His research in Ocean current intersects with topics in Buoyancy, Downwelling and Advection.
His studies in Geostrophic wind integrate themes in fields like Amplitude and Outflow.
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