Andrew T. Wittenberg

26.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
131 papers, 13.9k citations indexed

About

Andrew T. Wittenberg is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew T. Wittenberg has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 13.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 103 papers in Atmospheric Science and 72 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Andrew T. Wittenberg's work include Climate variability and models (120 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (67 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (63 papers). Andrew T. Wittenberg is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (120 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (67 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (63 papers). Andrew T. Wittenberg collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and France. Andrew T. Wittenberg's co-authors include Gabriel A. Vecchi, Matthew Harrison, Fei‐Fei Jin, Thomas L. Delworth, Anthony Rosati, Éric Guilyardi, Shang‐Ping Xie, Fanrong Zeng, Stephen M. Griffies and Matthew Collins and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Andrew T. Wittenberg

130 papers receiving 13.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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. GFDL’s ESM2 Global Coupled Climate–Carbon Earth System Models. Part I: Physical Formulation and Baseline Simulation Characteristics
    2012 1.1k citations Alistair Adcroft, Stephen M. Griffies et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  2. The impact of global warming on the tropical Pacific Ocean and El Niño
    2010 975 citations Matthew Collins, Éric Guilyardi et al. profile →
  3. Global Warming Pattern Formation: Sea Surface Temperature and Rainfall*
    2009 942 citations Gabriel A. Vecchi, Andrew T. Wittenberg et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  4. Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing
    2006 855 citations Gabriel A. Vecchi, Andrew T. Wittenberg et al. profile →
  5. Understanding ENSO Diversity
    2014 808 citations Antonietta Capotondi, Andrew T. Wittenberg et al. profile →
  6. GFDL’s ESM2 Global Coupled Climate–Carbon Earth System Models. Part II: Carbon System Formulation and Baseline Simulation Characteristics*
    2012 524 citations Alistair Adcroft, William Cooke et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  7. Simulated Climate and Climate Change in the GFDL CM2.5 High-Resolution Coupled Climate Model
    2011 446 citations Thomas L. Delworth, Anthony Rosati et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  8. On the Seasonal Forecasting of Regional Tropical Cyclone Activity
    2014 332 citations Gabriel A. Vecchi, Thomas L. Delworth et al. Journal of Climate profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Andrew T. Wittenberg United States 53 12.1k 9.8k 7.1k 830 435 131 13.9k
Éric Guilyardi France 47 9.5k 0.8× 7.7k 0.8× 5.9k 0.8× 1.1k 1.3× 396 0.9× 122 11.4k
Gökhan Danabasoglu United States 54 10.0k 0.8× 8.6k 0.9× 6.7k 0.9× 617 0.7× 297 0.7× 178 12.7k
Ping Chang United States 49 9.2k 0.8× 7.9k 0.8× 6.8k 1.0× 827 1.0× 361 0.8× 190 11.7k
Matthieu Lengaigne France 52 8.9k 0.7× 6.8k 0.7× 6.8k 1.0× 1.2k 1.5× 440 1.0× 150 11.8k
Jong‐Seong Kug South Korea 55 11.9k 1.0× 10.1k 1.0× 7.0k 1.0× 498 0.6× 275 0.6× 299 13.2k
Rowan Sutton United Kingdom 56 12.2k 1.0× 10.1k 1.0× 5.2k 0.7× 532 0.6× 597 1.4× 156 13.9k
Noel Keenlyside Norway 54 9.1k 0.8× 8.0k 0.8× 4.9k 0.7× 366 0.4× 265 0.6× 191 10.4k
J. David Neelin United States 67 15.0k 1.2× 12.8k 1.3× 5.3k 0.8× 652 0.8× 501 1.2× 242 16.8k
David P. Rowell United Kingdom 41 14.3k 1.2× 12.0k 1.2× 5.7k 0.8× 872 1.1× 864 2.0× 71 16.0k
Nick A Rayner United Kingdom 33 17.7k 1.5× 15.2k 1.5× 9.4k 1.3× 1.4k 1.6× 363 0.8× 58 20.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Liping, Thomas L. Delworth, Andrew Ross, et al.. (2025). Skillful multiyear prediction of flood frequency along the US Northeast Coast using a high-resolution modeling system. Science Advances. 11(20). eads4419–eads4419. 2 indexed citations
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Stock, Charles A., et al.. (2024). Dynamically downscaled seasonal ocean forecasts for North American east coast ecosystems. Ocean science. 20(6). 1631–1656. 3 indexed citations
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Ross, Andrew, et al.. (2024). A Predicted Pause in the Rapid Warming of the Northwest Atlantic Shelf in the Coming Decade. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(17). 4 indexed citations
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Reichl, Brandon G., Andrew T. Wittenberg, Stephen M. Griffies, & Alistair Adcroft. (2024). Improving Equatorial Upper Ocean Vertical Mixing in the NOAA/GFDL OM4 Model. Earth and Space Science. 11(10). 1 indexed citations
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Delworth, Thomas L., Andrew T. Wittenberg, Xiaosong Yang, et al.. (2023). The role of upper-ocean variations of the Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension in seasonal-to-decadal air-sea heat flux variability. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 5 indexed citations
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Jiang, Feng, Wenjun Zhang, Fei‐Fei Jin, et al.. (2023). Resolving the Tropical Pacific/Atlantic Interaction Conundrum. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(13). 22 indexed citations
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Lee, Sang‐Ki, et al.. (2023). On the Genesis of the 2021 Atlantic Niño. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(16). 13 indexed citations
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Lee, Sukyoung, Michelle L’Heureux, Andrew T. Wittenberg, et al.. (2022). On the future zonal contrasts of equatorial Pacific climate: Perspectives from Observations, Simulations, and Theories. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 5(1). 96 indexed citations
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Tseng, Kai‐Chih, Nathaniel C. Johnson, Sarah Kapnick, et al.. (2022). When Will Humanity Notice Its Influence on Atmospheric Rivers?. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(9). 9 indexed citations
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Zhu, Feng, Julien Emile‐Geay, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, et al.. (2022). A re-appraisal of the ENSO response to volcanism with paleoclimate data assimilation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 747–747. 33 indexed citations
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Bushuk, Mitchell, Michael Winton, F. Alexander Haumann, et al.. (2021). Seasonal Prediction and Predictability of Regional Antarctic Sea Ice. Journal of Climate. 34(15). 6207–6233. 35 indexed citations
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Zhang, Gan, Hiroyuki Murakami, William Cooke, et al.. (2021). Seasonal predictability of baroclinic wave activity. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 4(1). 12 indexed citations
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Ding, Hui, Matthew Newman, Michael A. Alexander, & Andrew T. Wittenberg. (2018). Skillful Climate Forecasts of the Tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean Using Model-Analogs. Journal of Climate. 31(14). 5437–5459. 53 indexed citations
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Wittenberg, Andrew T., Gabriel A. Vecchi, Thomas L. Delworth, et al.. (2018). Improved Simulations of Tropical Pacific Annual‐Mean Climate in the GFDL FLOR and HiFLOR Coupled GCMs. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 10(12). 3176–3220. 13 indexed citations
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Wittenberg, Andrew T., Gabriel A. Vecchi, Thomas L. Delworth, A. Rosati, & Fanrong Zeng. (2016). ENSO in a Flux-Adjusted Coupled GCM. 2016. 1 indexed citations
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McGregor, Shayne, Axel Timmermann, Matthew H. England, O. Elison Timm, & Andrew T. Wittenberg. (2013). Inferred changes in El Niño–Southern Oscillation variance over the past six centuries. Climate of the past. 9(5). 2269–2284. 70 indexed citations
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Wittenberg, Andrew T.. (2012). Variation of ENSO teleconnections. AGUFM. 2012. 1 indexed citations
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Anderson, W., Anand Gnanadesikan, & Andrew T. Wittenberg. (2009). Regional impacts of ocean color on tropical Pacific variability. Ocean science. 5(3). 313–327. 45 indexed citations
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Guilyardi, Éric, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Alexander Fedorov, et al.. (2008). Understanding El Niño in Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Models: progress and challenges. Figshare. 2008.
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Wittenberg, Andrew T., Gabriel A. Vecchi, & A. Rosati. (2006). Reassessing the Role of Stochastic Forcing in the 1997--8 El Niño. AGUSM. 2007. 9 indexed citations

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