McPhee, M.G., and J.D. Smith. 1976. Measurements of the turbulent boundary layer under pack ice, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 6, 696-711.

McPhee, M.G., 1978. A simulation of inertial oscillation in drifting pack ice, Dyn. Atmos. Oceans, 2, 107-122.

McPhee, M.G., 1979. The effect of the oceanic boundary layer on the mean drift of sea ice: Application of a simple model, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 9, 388-400.

McPhee, M.G., 1980. A study of oceanic boundary layer characteristics including inertial oscillation at three drifting stations in the Arctic Ocean, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 10, 870-884.

McPhee, M. G., 1980. Physical oceanography of the seasonal sea ice zone, Cold Regions Sci. and Technol., 2(0), 94-118

McPhee, M. G., 1980. An Analysis of Pack Ice Drift in Summer, in Sea Ice Processes and Models, R. S. Pritchard, ed., Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 62-75.

McPhee, M. G., 1981. An analytic similarity theory for the planetary boundary layer stabilized by surface buoyancy, Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 21, 325-339.

McPhee, M. G. and N. Untersteiner. 1982. Using sea ice to measure vertical heat flux in the ocean , J. Geophys. Res., 87 (C3), 2071-2074.

McPhee, M. G., 1983. Greenland sea ice/ocean margin, Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 64(9), 82-83

McPhee, M. G., 1983. Turbulent heat and momentum transfer in the oceanic boundary layer under melting pack ice,  J. Geophys. Res., 88 (C5), 2827-2835.

McPhee, M. G., 1986. The upper ocean. In: The Geophysics of Sea Ice, ed. N. Untersteiner, 339-394, Plenum Press, New York.

Mellor, G. L., M. G. McPhee, M. Steele, 1986. Ice-Seawater Turbulent Boundary Layer Interaction with Melting or Freezing, J. Phys. Oceanogr. 16, 1829-1846.

McPhee, M. G., 1987. A time-dependent model for turbulent transfer in a stratified oceanic boundary layer, J. Geophys. Res., 92(C7), 6977-6986.

McPhee, M. G., J. H. Morison, and G. A. Maykut, 1987. Dynamics and thermodynamics of the ice/upper ocean system in the marginal ice zone of the Greenland Sea,  J. Geophys. Res., 92 (C7), 7017-7031.

Morison, J. H., M. G. McPhee, and G. A. Maykut, 1987. Boundary layer, upper ocean, and ice observations in the Greenland Sea Marginal Ice Zone, J. Geophys. Res., 92 (C7), 6987-7011.

McPhee, M.G. 1988. Analysis and prediction of short term ice drift, Transactions of the ASME, J. of Offshore Mech. and Arctic Engineer., 110, 94-100.

McPhee, M. G., 1989. Inferring Ice/Ocean Surface Roughness from Horizontal Current Measurements, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering 111(2).

Steele, M., G. L. Mellor, and M. G. McPhee, 1989. Role of the Molecular Sublayer in the Melting or Freezing of Sea Ice, J. Phys. Oceanogr. 19(1), 139-147.

McPhee, M.G., and L.H. Kantha, 1989. Generation of internal waves by sea ice. J. Geophys. Res., 94, 3287-3302.

McPhee, M.G. 1990. Small scale processes, in: Polar Oceanography, ed. W. Smith, 287-334, Academic Press, San Diego, CA.

McPhee, M. G., 1991. A quasi-analytical model for the under-ice boundary layer, Annals of Glaciol., 15, 148-154.

McPhee, M. G., 1991. Forced Convection in the Upper Ocean near Fram Strait in Late Winter. In: Deep Convection and Deep Water Formation in the Oceans, P. C. Chu and J. C. Gascard, eds., Elsevier, 69-86.

Muench, R. D., M. G. McPhee, C. A. Paulson, and J. H. Morison,1992. Winter oceanographic conditions in the Fram Strait-Yermak Plateau region, J. Geophys. Res., 97 (C3), 3469-3483.

Morison, J. H., M. G. McPhee,  T. B. Curtin, and C. A. Paulson, 1992. The oceanography of winter leads, J. Geophys. Res., 97(C7, 11199-11218.

McPhee, M.G., and D.G. Martinson, 1994. Turbulent mixing under drifting pack ice in the Weddell Sea. Science, 263, 218-221.

McPhee, M.G., 1994. On the Turbulent Mixing Length in the Oceanic Boundary Layer, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 24, 2014-2031.

Maykut, G. A., and M. G. McPhee, 1995. Solar heating of the Arctic mixed layer, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 24,691-24,703.

McPhee, M. G., and T. P. Stanton, 1996. Turbulence in the statically unstable oceanic boundary layer under Arctic leads, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 6409-6428.

McPhee M. G., S. F. Ackley, P. Guest, B. A. Huber, D. G. Martinson, J. H. Morison, R. D. Muench, L. Padman, and T. P. Stanton, 1996. The Antarctic Zone Flux Experiment, Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 77, 1221-1232.

McPhee, M.G., T. P. Stanton, J. Morison, and D. Martinson, 1998. Freshening of the upper ocean in the Arctic: Is perennial sea ice disappearing? Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1729-1732.

McPhee, M. G., 1998. An inertial-dissipation method for estimating turbulent flux in buoyancy driven, convective boundary layers, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 3249-3255.

McPhee, M. G., 1998. A Numerical Sediment-Radionuclide Interaction Model for the Continental Shelf. Report prepared for the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington.

McPhee, M. G., C. Kottmeier, J.H. Morison, 1999. Ocean heat flux in the central Weddell Sea in winter, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29, 1166-1179.

McPhee, M.G., 1999. Scales of turbulence and parameterization of mixing in the ocean boundary layer, J. Marine Systems, 21, 55-65.

Crawford, G., L. Padman, and M. McPhee, 1999. Turbulent mixing in Barrow Strait, Continental Shelf Res., 19, 205-245.

McPhee, M. G., 2000. Marginal thermobaric stability in the ice-covered upper ocean over Maud Rise, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 30, 2710-2722.

McPhee, M., and J. H. Morison, 2001. Under-Ice Boundary Layer, Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, eds. J. Steele, S. Thorpe, and K. Turekian, Academic Press, doi:10.1006/rwos.2001.0146.

Morison, J. H., and M. McPhee, 2001. Ice-Ocean Interaction, Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, eds. J. Steele, S. Thorpe, and K. Turekian, Academic Press, doi:10.1006/rwos.2001.0003.

McPhee, M. G., 2002. Turbulent stress at the ice/ocean interface and bottom surface hydraulic roughness during the SHEBA drift, J. Geophys. Res., 107(C10), 8037, doi:10.1029/2000JC000633.

McPhee, M. G., T. Kikuchi, J. H. Morison, and T. P. Stanton, 2003. Ocean-to-ice heat flux at the North Pole environmental observatory, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30 (24), 2274, doi:10.1029/2003GL018580.

McPhee, M. G., 2003. Is thermobaricity a major factor in Southern Ocean ventilation? Antarctic Science, 15(1), 153-160.

Notz, D., M. G. McPhee, M. G. Worster, G. A. Maykut, K. H. Schlünzen, and H. Eicken, 2003. Impact of underwater ice evolution on Arctic summer sea ice, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (C7), 3223, doi:10.1029/2001JC001173.

McPhee, M. G., 2004. A personal view of ONR high latitude upper ocean physics programs, Arctic Science of the United States, 18, 26-35.

McPhee, M. G., 2004. A spectral technique for estimating turbulent stress, scalar flux magnitude, and eddy viscosity in the ocean boundary layer under pack ice, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34, 2180-2188.

Fer, I., M. G. McPhee, and A. Sirevaag, 2004. Conditional statistics of the Reynolds stress in the underice boundary layer, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L15311, doi:10.1029/2004GL020475.

McPhee, M. G., R. Kwok, R. Robins, and M. Coon, 2005: Upwelling of Arctic pycnocline associated with shear motion of sea ice, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L10616, doi:10.1029/2004GL021819.

De Steur, L., D. M. Holland, R. D. Muench, and McPhee, M. G., 2007: The warm-water “Halo” around Maud Rise: Properties, Dynamics and Impact, Deep-Sea Res. I 54, 871–896.

McPhee, M. G., 2008: Physics of early summer ice/ocean exchanges in the western Weddell, Deep-Sea Res, II, 55 (8/9), doi: 10.1016/j.dsr1012.2007.1012.1022.

McPhee, M. G., 2008. Air-Ice-Ocean Interaction: Turbulent ocean boundary layer exchange processes. New York, Springer, 215 pp.

McPhee, M. G., J. H. Morison, and F. Nilsen., 2008: Revisiting heat and salt exchange at the ice-ocean interface: Ocean flux and modeling considerations, J. Geophys. Res., 113, C06014, doi:10.1029/2007JC004383

Shaw, W. J., T. P. Stanton, M. G. McPhee, and T. Kikuchi, 2008: Estimates of surface roughness length in heterogeneous under-ice boundary layers, J. Geophys. Res., 113, C08030, doi:10.1029/2007JC004550

Ogi, M., I. G. Rigor, M. G. McPhee, and J. M. Wallace, 2008: Summer retreat of Arctic sea ice: Role of summer winds, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L24701, doi:10.1029/2008GL035672.

McPhee, M. G., A. Proshutinsky, J. H. Morison, M. Steele, and M. B. Alkire, 2009: Rapid change in freshwater content of the Arctic Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L04606, doi:10.1029/2008GL036587.

Shaw, W. J., T. P. Stanton, M. G. McPhee, J. H. Morison, and D. G. Martinson, 2009: Role of the upper ocean in the energy budget of Arctic sea ice during SHEBA, J. Geophys. Res., 114, C06012, doi:10.1029/2008JC004991.

Sirevaag, A., M. G. McPhee, J. H. Morison, W. J. Shaw, and T. P. Stanton, 2010, Wintertime mixed layer measurements at Maud Rise, Weddell Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 115 (C2)  C02009, doi:10.1029/2008JC005141.

McPhee, M. G., 2012. Advances in understanding ice–ocean stress during and since AIDJEX, Cold Regions Sci. and Technol., 76–77, 24-36.

McPhee, M. G., 2013. Intensification of geostrophic currents in the Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean, J. Climate, 26, 3130-3138.

Skogseth, R., M. G. McPhee, F. Nilsen, and L. H. Smedsrud, 2013. Creation and tidal advection of a cold salinity front in Storfjorden: 1. Polynya dynamics, J. Geophys. Res., 118(7), 3278-3291.

McPhee, M. G., R. Skogseth, F. Nilsen, and L. H. Smedsrud, 2013. Creation and tidal advection of a cold salinity front in Storfjorden: 2. Supercooling induced by turbulent mixing of cold water, J. Geophys. Res., 118(8), 3737-3751.

McPhee, M. G., C. L. Stevens, I. J. Smith, and N. J. Robinson, 2016. Turbulent heat transfer as a control of platelet ice growth in supercooled under-ice ocean boundary layers, Ocean Sci. 12(2): 507-515.

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