Amala Mahadevan

6.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
89 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Amala Mahadevan is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Amala Mahadevan has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Oceanography, 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 30 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Amala Mahadevan's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (70 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (47 papers) and Climate variability and models (26 papers). Amala Mahadevan is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (70 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (47 papers) and Climate variability and models (26 papers). Amala Mahadevan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Italy. Amala Mahadevan's co-authors include Amit Tandon, Eric A. D’Asaro, Mary Jane Perry, Melissa Omand, David Archer, Craig R. Lee, J. H. LaCasce, Mara Freilich, J. W. Campbell and Joseph Oliger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Amala Mahadevan

86 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

The Impact of Submesoscale Physics on Primary Productivit... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2015 2012 2015 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Impact of Submesoscale Physics on Primary Productivity of Plankton
    2015 442 citations Amala Mahadevan profile →
  2. Eddy-Driven Stratification Initiates North Atlantic Spring Phytoplankton Blooms
    2012 365 citations Amala Mahadevan, Eric A. D’Asaro et al. Science profile →
  3. Eddy-driven subduction exports particulate organic carbon from the spring bloom
    2015 274 citations Melissa Omand, Eric A. D’Asaro et al. Science profile →

Peers

Amala Mahadevan
Rick Lumpkin United States
Paola Malanotte‐Rizzoli United States
Hans van Haren Netherlands
Uwe Send United States
Gustavo Goñi United States
James G. Richman United States
Alan J. Wallcraft United States
P. Michael Kosro United States
R. R. Leben United States
Tal Ezer United States
Rick Lumpkin United States
Amala Mahadevan
Citations per year, relative to Amala Mahadevan Amala Mahadevan (= 1×) peers Rick Lumpkin

Countries citing papers authored by Amala Mahadevan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Amala Mahadevan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amala Mahadevan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Amala Mahadevan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Amala Mahadevan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Amala Mahadevan. Amala Mahadevan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mahadevan, Amala, et al.. (2024). Air‐Sea Turbulent Heat Flux Affects Oceanic Lateral Eddy Heat Transport. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(21). 2 indexed citations
2.
Freilich, Mara, Camille Poirier, Eva Alou‐Font, et al.. (2024). 3D intrusions transport active surface microbial assemblages to the dark ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(19). e2319937121–e2319937121. 3 indexed citations
3.
He, Jing & Amala Mahadevan. (2024). Vertical Velocity Diagnosed From Surface Data With Machine Learning. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(6). 4 indexed citations
4.
Swart, Sebastiaan, Marcel du Plessis, Sarah Nicholson, et al.. (2023). The Southern Ocean mixed layer and its boundary fluxes: fine-scale observational progress and future research priorities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 381(2249). 20220058–20220058. 12 indexed citations
5.
Strauss, Jan, Chang Jae Choi, Valeria Jiménez, et al.. (2023). The Bay of Bengal exposes abundant photosynthetic picoplankton and newfound diversity along salinity‐driven gradients. Environmental Microbiology. 25(11). 2118–2141. 7 indexed citations
6.
Berta, Maristella, Andrey Shcherbina, Mara Freilich, et al.. (2023). Inertial Oscillations and Frontal Processes in an Alboran Sea Jet: Effects on Divergence and Vertical Transport. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(3). 4 indexed citations
7.
Freilich, Mara, Roberto Benzi, Chang Jae Choi, et al.. (2023). Oceanic Frontal Divergence Alters Phytoplankton Competition and Distribution. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(8). 3 indexed citations
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Hormann, Verena, et al.. (2022). On Characterizing Ocean Kinematics from Surface Drifters. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 39(8). 1183–1198. 10 indexed citations
9.
Pascual, Ananda, Simón Ruíz, T. M. Shaun Johnston, et al.. (2022). Diagnosing Frontal Dynamics From Observations Using a Variational Approach. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(11). 9 indexed citations
10.
Ruíz, Simón, T. M. Shaun Johnston, Pierre‐Marie Poulain, et al.. (2022). Drifter Observations Reveal Intense Vertical Velocity in a Surface Ocean Front. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(18). 13 indexed citations
11.
He, Jing & Amala Mahadevan. (2021). How the Source Depth of Coastal Upwelling Relates to Stratification and Wind. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(12). 21 indexed citations
12.
Nicholson, David, et al.. (2021). Size‐Differentiated Export Flux in Different Dynamical Regimes in the Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(3). 8 indexed citations
13.
Freilich, Mara & Amala Mahadevan. (2021). Coherent Pathways for Subduction From the Surface Mixed Layer at Ocean Fronts. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(5). 30 indexed citations
14.
Pascual, Ananda, Simón Ruíz, Pierre‐Marie Poulain, et al.. (2021). Frontal Convergence and Vertical Velocity Measured by Drifters in the Alboran Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(4). 29 indexed citations
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Mahadevan, Amala, Ananda Pascual, Daniel L. Rudnick, et al.. (2021). CALYPSO: Observing Coherent Pathways from the Surface Ocean to the Interior. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 102(6). 532–540.
16.
Weber, Christoph A., et al.. (2020). Flow-Driven Branching in a Frangible Porous Medium. Physical Review Letters. 125(15). 158002–158002. 16 indexed citations
17.
Mahadevan, Amala, Ananda Pascual, Daniel L. Rudnick, et al.. (2020). Coherent Pathways for Vertical Transport from the Surface Ocean to Interior. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 101(11). E1996–E2004. 41 indexed citations
18.
Troupin, Charles, Ananda Pascual, Simón Ruíz, et al.. (2019). The AlborEX dataset: sampling of sub-mesoscale features in the Alboran Sea. Earth system science data. 11(1). 129–145. 9 indexed citations
19.
Omand, Melissa & Amala Mahadevan. (2014). Shape of the oceanic nitracline. 3 indexed citations
20.
Mahadevan, Amala, Eric A. D’Asaro, Craig R. Lee, & Mary Jane Perry. (2012). Eddy-Driven Stratification Initiates North Atlantic Spring Phytoplankton Blooms. Science. 337(6090). 54–58. 365 indexed citations breakdown →

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