| Structure and generation of turbulence at interfaces strained by internal solitary waves propagating shoreward over the continental shelf JN Moum, DM Farmer, WD Smyth, L Armi, S Vagle Journal of Physical Oceanography 33 (10), 2093-2112, 2003 | 449 | 2003 |
| The efficiency of mixing in turbulent patches: Inferences from direct simulations and microstructure observations WD Smyth, JN Moum, DR Caldwell Journal of Physical Oceanography 31 (8), 1969-1992, 2001 | 384 | 2001 |
| Length scales of turbulence in stably stratified mixing layers WD Smyth, JN Moum Physics of Fluids 12 (6), 1327-1342, 2000 | 336 | 2000 |
| Anisotropy of turbulence in stably stratified mixing layers WD Smyth, JN Moum Physics of Fluids 12 (6), 1343-1362, 2000 | 212 | 2000 |
| Energy transport by nonlinear internal waves JN Moum, JM Klymak, JD Nash, A Perlin, WD Smyth Journal of Physical Oceanography 37 (7), 1968-1988, 2007 | 209 | 2007 |
| Observational and numerical modeling methods for quantifying coastal ocean turbulence and mixing H Burchard, PD Craig, JR Gemmrich, H van Haren, PP Mathieu, ... Progress in oceanography 76 (4), 399-442, 2008 | 178 | 2008 |
| Ocean mixing by Kelvin-Helmholtz instability WD Smyth, JN Moum Oceanography 25 (2), 140-149, 2012 | 174 | 2012 |
| Air–sea interactions from westerly wind bursts during the November 2011 MJO in the Indian Ocean JN Moum, SP de Szoeke, WD Smyth, JB Edson, HL DeWitt, AJ Moulin, ... Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 95 (8), 1185-1199, 2014 | 144 | 2014 |
| Resonant wind-driven mixing in the ocean boundary layer ED Skyllingstad, WD Smyth, GB Crawford Journal of physical oceanography 30 (8), 1866-1890, 2000 | 126 | 2000 |
| Nonlocal fluxes and Stokes drift effects in the K-profile parameterization WD Smyth, ED Skyllingstad, GB Crawford, H Wijesekera Ocean Dynamics 52, 104-115, 2002 | 123 | 2002 |
| Marginal instability and deep cycle turbulence in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean WD Smyth, JN Moum Geophysical Research Letters 40 (23), 6181-6185, 2013 | 122 | 2013 |
| Narrowband oscillations in the upper equatorial ocean. Part II: Properties of shear instabilities WD Smyth, JN Moum, JD Nash Journal of Physical Oceanography 41 (3), 412-428, 2011 | 121 | 2011 |
| Turbulence and mixing in Holmboe waves WD Smyth, KB Winters Journal of physical oceanography 33 (4), 694-711, 2003 | 121 | 2003 |
| Efficiency of turbulent mixing in the abyssal ocean circulation A Mashayek, H Salehipour, D Bouffard, CP Caulfield, R Ferrari, ... Geophysical Research Letters 44 (12), 6296-6306, 2017 | 115 | 2017 |
| Local ocean response to a multiphase westerly wind burst: 2. Thermal and freshwater responses WD Smyth, D Hebert, JN Moum Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 101 (C10), 22513-22533, 1996 | 114 | 1996 |
| Upper-ocean turbulence during a westerly wind burst: A comparison of large-eddy simulation results and microstructure measurements ED Skyllingstad, WD Smyth, JN Moum, H Wijesekera Journal of physical oceanography 29 (1), 5-28, 1999 | 103 | 1999 |
| The transition between Kelvin–Helmholtz and Holmboe instability: An investigation of the overreflection hypothesis WD Smyth, WR Peltier Journal of Atmospheric Sciences 46 (24), 3698-3720, 1989 | 102 | 1989 |
| Finite amplitude Holmboe waves WD Smyth, GP Klaassen, WR Peltier Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 43 (2), 181-222, 1988 | 99 | 1988 |
| Instability in geophysical flows WD Smyth, JR Carpenter Cambridge University Press, 2019 | 94 | 2019 |
| Upper ocean mixing processes JN Moum, WD Smyth Elements of physical oceanography: A derivative of the encyclopedia of ocean …, 2001 | 91 | 2001 |
