Melvin E. Stern

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Melvin E. Stern is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Melvin E. Stern has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Oceanography, 43 papers in Atmospheric Science and 28 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Melvin E. Stern's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (48 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (27 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (21 papers). Melvin E. Stern is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (48 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (27 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (21 papers). Melvin E. Stern collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Melvin E. Stern's co-authors include J. G. Charney, J. A. Whitehead, Peter D. Killworth, Glenn R. Flierl, Timour Radko, R. W. Griffiths, J. S. Turner, Julian Simeonov, Joanne Starr Malkus and Nathan Paldor and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

In The Last Decade

Melvin E. Stern

91 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

On the Stability of Internal Baroclinic Jets in a Rotatin... 1962 2026 1983 2004 1962 100 200 300 400 500
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. On the Stability of Internal Baroclinic Jets in a Rotating Atmosphere
    1962 577 citations Melvin E. Stern et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Melvin E. Stern United States 26 2.0k 1.7k 980 639 462 92 3.5k
T. Rossby United States 35 3.3k 1.6× 1.9k 1.2× 1.7k 1.8× 469 0.7× 402 0.9× 101 4.2k
Robert R. Long United States 29 1.5k 0.8× 1.2k 0.7× 447 0.5× 1.2k 1.9× 738 1.6× 93 3.4k
Edward R. Benton United States 17 933 0.5× 886 0.5× 362 0.4× 1.2k 1.8× 387 0.8× 43 3.5k
George Veronis United States 27 1.1k 0.5× 690 0.4× 604 0.6× 1.3k 2.1× 182 0.4× 95 3.4k
Rick Salmon United States 24 1.3k 0.6× 1.0k 0.6× 867 0.9× 827 1.3× 196 0.4× 54 2.6k
Joël Sommeria France 35 1.1k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 720 0.7× 1.9k 3.0× 243 0.5× 107 4.3k
Louis N. Howard United States 17 657 0.3× 684 0.4× 438 0.4× 1.1k 1.8× 227 0.5× 38 2.4k
C. P. Caulfield United Kingdom 32 1.5k 0.7× 1.6k 1.0× 782 0.8× 1.5k 2.4× 410 0.9× 150 3.4k
David Andrews United Kingdom 21 1.1k 0.5× 2.0k 1.2× 1.5k 1.6× 198 0.3× 245 0.5× 63 3.0k
E. J. Hopfinger France 25 706 0.3× 771 0.5× 208 0.2× 1.1k 1.8× 675 1.5× 47 2.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Radko, Timour & Melvin E. Stern. (2010). Finescale Instabilities of the Double-Diffusive Shear Flow*. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 41(3). 571–585. 12 indexed citations
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Stern, Melvin E.. (2004). Transport extremum through Denmark Strait. Geophysical Research Letters. 31(12). 4 indexed citations
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Simeonov, Julian & Melvin E. Stern. (2004). Double-Diffusive Intrusions on a Finite-Width Thermohaline Front. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 34(7). 1723–1740. 9 indexed citations
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Stern, Melvin E.. (2000). Scattering of an eddy advected by a current towards a topographic obstacle. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 402. 211–223. 12 indexed citations
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Radko, Timour & Melvin E. Stern. (2000). Self-Propagating Eddies on the StratifiedfPlane. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 30(12). 3134–3144. 8 indexed citations
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Radko, Timour & Melvin E. Stern. (2000). Finite-amplitude salt fingers in a vertically bounded layer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 425. 133–160. 27 indexed citations
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Stern, Melvin E.. (1998). Separation of a Density Current from the Bottom of a Continental Slope. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 28(10). 2040–2049. 16 indexed citations
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Stern, Melvin E. & Timour Radko. (1998). Maintaining the inshore shear of continental boundary currents. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans. 27(1-4). 661–678. 2 indexed citations
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Stern, Melvin E.. (1997). Splitting of a free jet flowing over a saddle sill. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 102(C9). 20957–20965. 1 indexed citations
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Stern, Melvin E. & Jay A. Austin. (1995). Entrainment of Shelf Water by a Bifurcating Continental Boundary Current. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 25(12). 3118–3131. 18 indexed citations
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Stern, Melvin E.. (1993). Topographic Jetogenesis and Transitions in Straits and along Continents. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 23(5). 846–854. 4 indexed citations
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Stern, Melvin E.. (1991). Countergradient vorticity Flux Generated in Continental Boundary Currents. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 21(11). 1622–1630. 3 indexed citations
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Stern, Melvin E. & Glenn R. Flierl. (1987). On the interaction of a vortex with a shear flow. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 92(C10). 10733–10744. 40 indexed citations
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Stern, Melvin E.. (1987). Horizontal Entrainment and Detrainment in Large-Scale Eddies. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 17(10). 1688–1695. 20 indexed citations
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Mory, Mathieu, Melvin E. Stern, & R. W. Griffiths. (1987). Coherent baroclinic eddies on a sloping bottom. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 183. 45–62. 46 indexed citations
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Stern, Melvin E.. (1985). Lateral Wave Breaking and “Shingle” Formation in Large-Scale Shear Flow. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 15(10). 1274–1283. 24 indexed citations
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Griffiths, R. W., Peter D. Killworth, & Melvin E. Stern. (1982). Ageostrophic instability of ocean currents. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 117. 343–377. 134 indexed citations
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Stern, Melvin E.. (1972). Hydraulically Critical Rotating Flow. The Physics of Fluids. 15(11). 2062–2064. 13 indexed citations
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Stern, Melvin E. & J. S. Turner. (1969). Salt fingers and convecting layers. Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts. 16(5). 497–511. 115 indexed citations
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Stern, Melvin E.. (1960). Instability of Ekman Flow at large Taylor Number. Tellus. 12(4). 399–417. 8 indexed citations

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