Journal of Physical Oceanography
Last updated ISSN 0022-3670
Journal of Physical Oceanography is published by American Meteorological Society in earth and planetary sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Physical Oceanography concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Climate variability and models
- Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Geological formations and processes
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Key facts
| Publisher | American Meteorological Society |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0022-3670, 1520-0485 |
| Subject area | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 8,968 |
| Publishing since | 1971 |
| Journal website | journals.ametsoc.org/loi/phoc |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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