Recent and Selected Publications

 McPhee, M. G., 2017 . The sea ice–ocean boundary layer. In: Sea Ice, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: 138-159, 10.1002/9781118778371.ch5 

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.

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. Oceans, 118, 3737–3751, doi:10.1002/jgrc.20261.

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. Oceans, 118, 3278–3291, doi:10.1002/jgrc.20231.

McPhee, M. G., 2013: Intensification of Geostrophic Currents in the Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean, J. Climate, 26(10): 3130-3138.

McPhee, M. G., 2012: Advances in understanding ice-ocean stress during and since AIDJEX , Cold Reg. Sci. Technol., 76-77, doi: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2011.05.001.

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

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. 

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, L10602, 10.1029/ 2009GL037525.

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, 10.1029/ 2007JC004383.

McPhee, M. G., 2008: Air-Ice-Ocean Interaction: Turbulent Ocean Boundary Layer Exchange Processes, Springer, ISBN 978-0-387-78334-5.

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

Shaw, W.J., Stanton, T. P., McPhee, M. G., and Kikuchi, T., 2008: Estimates of surface roughness length in heterogeneous under-ice boundary layers, J. Geophys. Res., 113, C08039, 10.1029/2007JC004550.

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.

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.

Notz, D., M. G. McPhee, M. G. Worster, G. A. Maykut, K. H. Schlunzen, 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., and D.G. Martinson, 1994: Turbulent mixing under drifting pack ice in the Weddell Sea. Science, 263, 218-221.

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

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