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  • Hogg, N. G., R. S. Pickart, R. M. Hendry, and W. M. Smethie, Jr., 1986. The northern recirculation gyre of the Gulf Stream.  Deep-Sea Research,33, 1139—1165.
  • Pickart, R. S., 1988. Entrainment and homogenization of a passive tracer in a numerical model gyre.  Journal of Geophysical Research, 93, 6761—6773.
  • Pickart, R. S., N. G. Hogg, and W. M. Smethie, Jr., 1989. Determining the strength of the deep western boundary current using the chlorofluoromethane ratio.   Journal of Physical Oceanography, 19, 940—951.
  • Pickart, R. S., and N. G. Hogg, 1989.  A tracer study of the deep Gulf Stream cyclonic recirculation.  Deep-Sea Research, 36, 935—956.
  • Pickart, R. S., and D. R. Watts, 1990. Using the inverted echo sounder to measure vertical profiles of Gulf Stream temperature and geostrophic velocity.  Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 7, 146—156.
  • Pickart, R. S., and D. R. Watts, 1990. Deep Western Boundary Current variability at Cape Hatteras.  Journal of Marine Research, 48, 765—791.
  • Pickart, R. S., 1992. Space-time variability of the Deep Western Boundary Current oxygen core.  Journal of Physical Oceanography, 22, 1047—1061.
  • Pickart, R. S, 1992. Water mass components of the North Atlantic Deep Western Boundary Current.  Deep-Sea Research, 39, 1553—1572.
  • Pickart, R. S., and D. R. Watts, 1993.  Gulf  Stream meanders over steep topography. Journal of Geophysical Research, 98(C4), 6895—6905.
  • Pickart, R. S., and W. M. Smethie, Jr., 1993.  How does the Deep Western Boundary Current cross the Gulf Stream?  Journal of Physical Oceanography, 23, 2602—2616.
  • Pickart, R. S., and S. S. Lindstrom, 1994.  A comparison of techniques for referencing geostrophic velocities.  Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 11, 813—824.
  • Pickart, R. S., 1995. Gulf Stream-generated topographic Rossby waves.  Journal of Physical Oceanography, 25, 574—586.
  • Pickart, R. S., 1995. Interaction of the Gulf Stream and Deep Western Boundary Current where they cross.  Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 25,155—25,164.
  • Pickart, R. S., and R. X. Huang, 1995.  Structure of an inertial deep western boundary current.  Journal of Marine Research, 53, 739—770.
  • Pickart, R. S., W. M. Smethie, Jr., J. R. N. Lazier, E. P. Jones, and W. J. Jenkins, 1996. Eddies of newly formed upper Labrador Sea Water.  Journal of Geophysical Research, 101(C9), 20,711—20,726.
  • Pickart, R. S., M. A. Spall, and J. R. N. Lazier, 1997. Mid-depth ventilation in the western boundary current system of the sub-polar gyre.  Deep-Sea Research I, 44, 1025—1054.
  • Lab Sea Group, 1998.  The Labrador Sea Deep Convection Experiment.   Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 79, 2033—2058.
  • Pickart R. S., and W. M. Smethie, Jr., 1998.   Temporal evolution of the deep western boundary current where it enters the subtropical domain.   Deep-Sea Research I,  45, 1053—1083.
  • Pickart, R. S., D. J. Torres, T. K. McKee, M. J. Caruso, and J. E. Przystup, 1999. Diagnosing a meander of the shelfbreak current in the mid-Atlantic Bight.   Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 3121—3132.
  • Joyce, T. M., R. S. Pickart, and R. C. Millard, 1999. Long-term hydrographic changes at 52° and 66°W in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre & Caribbean.  Deep-Sea Research II, 46, 245—278.
  • Pickart, R. S., T. K. McKee, D. J. Torres and S. A. Harrington, 1999. Mean structure and interannual variability of the slopewater system south of Newfoundland.   Journal of Physical Oceanography, 29, 2541—2558.
  • Keigwin, L. D. and R. S. Pickart, 1999. The slopewater current over the Laurentian Fan on interannual to millennial timescales.  Science, 286, 520—523.
  • Pickart, R. S., 2000. Bottom boundary layer structure and detachment in the shelfbreak jet of the Middle Atlantic Bight.  Journal of Physical Oceanography, 30, 2668—2686.
  • Spall, M. A. and R. S. Pickart, 2001.  Where does dense water sink?  A subpolar gyre example.  Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31, 810—826.
  • Fratantoni, P. S., R. S. Pickart, D. J. Torres, and A. Scotti, 2001.  Mean structure and dynamics of the shelfbreak jet in the Middle Atlantic Bight during fall and winter. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31, 2135—2156.
  • Lazier, J., R. Pickart, and P. Rhines, 2001. Deep convection. Chapter 5.5 in Ocean Circulation and Climate, G. Siedler, J. Church and W. J. Gould, editors, International Geophysics Series, Academic Press, pp. 387—400.
  • Pickart, R. S., D. J. Torres, and R. A. Clarke, 2002. Hydrography of the Labrador Sea during active convection.  Journal of Physical Oceanography, 32, 428—457.
  • Straneo, F., M. Kawase, and R. S. Pickart, 2002. Effects of wind on convection in strongly and weakly baroclinic flows with application to the Labrador Sea, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 32,  2603—2618.
  • Straneo, F., R. S. Pickart, and K. Lavender, 2003.   Spreading of Labrador Sea water:  An advective-diffusive study based on Lagrangian data.  Deep-Sea Research, 50,701—719.
  • Pickart, R.S., F. Straneo, and G.W.K. Moore, 2003.  Is Labrador Sea Water formed in the Irminger Sea?  Deep-Sea Research,  50, 23—52.
  • Fratantoni, P. S. and R. S. Pickart, 2003. Variability of the shelfbreak jet in the Middle Atlantic Bight: Internally or externally forced?  Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 (C5) 3166, doi:10.1029/2002JC00132626.
  • Pickart, R. S. M. A. Spall, M. H. Ribergaard, G. W. K. Moore, and R. F. Milliff, 2003. Deep convection in the Irminger Sea forced by the Greenland tip jet.  Nature 424,152—156.
  • Spall, M. A., and R. S. Pickart, 2003. Wind-driven recirculations and exchange in the Labrador and Irminger Seas.  Journal of Physical Oceanography,  33, 1829—1845.
  • Katsman, C., M. A. Spall, and R. S. Pickart, 2004. Boundary Current eddies and their role in the restratification of the Labrador Sea. Journal of Physical Oceanography 34, 1967— 1983.
  • Pickart, R. S., 2004. Shelfbreak circulation in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea:  Mean structure and variability. Journal of Geophysical Research,  109, (C4), C04024  10.1029/2003JC001912.
  • Linder, C. A., G. G. Gawarkiewicz, and R. S. Pickart, 2004. Seasonal characteristics of bottom boundary layer detachment at the shelfbreak front in the Middle Atlantic Bight. Journal of Geophysical Research109(C3),  C03049  10.1029/2003JC002032
  • Hall, M. M. T. M. Joyce, R. S. Pickart, W. M. Smethie, Jr., 2004. Zonal circulation across 52 W in the North Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109,  C11008, doi:10.1029/2003JC002103.
  • Pickart, R. S., D. J. Torres, P. S. Fratantoni, 2005. The East Greenland spill jet. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 35, 1037-1053.
  • Joyce, T.M., J. Dunworth-Baker, R.S. Pickart, D. Torres, and S. Waterman, 2005. On the deep western boundary current south of Cape Cod. Deep-Sea research II52, 615-625.
  • Pickart, R. S., T. J. Weingartner, S. Zimmermann, D. J. Torres, L. J. Pratt, 2005. Flow of winter-transformed water into the western arctic. Deep-Sea Research II52, 3175-3198.
  • Pickart, Robert S. and Michael Spall, 2007:   Impact of Labrador Sea Convection on the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.   Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37, 2207-2227.
  • Fratantoni, P. S. and R. S. Pickart, 2007:   The western North Atlantic shelfbreak current system in summer.    Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37, 2509-2533.
  • Mathis, J.T., R.S. Pickart, D.A. Hansell, D. Kadko, and N.R. Bates, 2007:   Eddy transport of organic carbon and nutrients from the Chukchi shelf into the deep Arctic basin. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112,  c05011,  10.1029/2006JC003899.
  • Bakalian, F., S. Hameed, and R.S. Pickart, 2007:   Influence of the Icelandic low latitude on the frequency of Greenland tip jet events: Implications for Irminger Sea convection. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112,   C04020,  10.1029/2006JC003807.
  • Kadko, D., R.S. Pickart, and J. Mathis, 2008:   Age characteristics of a shelf-break eddy in the western Arctic Ocean and implications for shelf-basin exchange.
  • Våge, Kjetil., R. S. Pickart, G. W. K. Moore, and M. H. Ribergaard, 2008:  Winter mixed-layer development in the central Irminger Sea:  The effect of strong, intermittent wind events.  Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38, 541-565.  doi:  10.1175/2007JPO3678.1
  • Pickart, R.S., K. Våge, G. W. K. Moore, I. A. Renfrew, M. H. Ribergaard, and H. C. Davies, 2008. Convection in the western North Atlantic sub-polar gyre: Do small-scale wind events matter? In Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes:  Defining the role of the northern seas in climate. Ed. R.R. Dickson, J. Meincke, P. Rhines. Dordrecht, The Netherlands:  Springer, 2008: 629-652.
  • Bracco, A., J. Pedlosky, and R. S. Pickart, 2008:   Eddy formation near the west coast of Greenland.  Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38, 1992-2002.
  • Spall, M., R. S. Pickart, P. Fratantoni, and A. Plueddemann, 2008:   Western Arctic Shelfbreak Eddies:  Formation and transport.  Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38, 1644-1668.
  • Sutherland, D. and R. S. Pickart, 2008:   The East Greenland Coastal Current:   Structure, variability, and forcing.  Progress in Oceanography, 78, 58-77.
  • Moore, G. W. K., R. S. Pickart, I. A. Renfrew, 2008:   Buoy observations from the Windiest Location in the World Ocean, Cape Farewell, Greenland.   Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L18802, doi:10.1029/2008GL034845.
  • Sutherland, D., R. S. Pickart, E. P. Jones, K. Azetsu-Scott, A., J. Eert, J. Olafsson, 2009:   Freshwater composition of the waters off southeast Greenland and their link to the Arctic Ocean.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 114,  C05020,  doi:10.1029/2008JC004808.

 


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