Arnold Sullivan

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Arnold Sullivan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Arnold Sullivan has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 25 papers in Atmospheric Science and 21 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Arnold Sullivan's work include Climate variability and models (27 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (17 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (11 papers). Arnold Sullivan is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (27 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (17 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (11 papers). Arnold Sullivan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States. Arnold Sullivan's co-authors include Wenju Cai, Tim Cowan, Daohua Bi, Simon Marsland, Peter van Rensch, Anthony C. Hirst, Siobhan O’Farrell, Harun Rashid, Martin Dix and Hailin Yan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Arnold Sullivan

30 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Configuration and spin-up of ACCESS-CM2, the new generation Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator Coupled Model

2020 249 citations Daohua Bi, Martin Dix et al. Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth System Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Arnold Sullivan Australia	17	1.2k	936	653	64	56	32	1.4k
Irina Fast Germany	8	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	554 0.8×	55 0.9×	46 0.8×	12	1.6k
L. Shogo Urakawa Japan	13	765 0.7×	613 0.7×	405 0.6×	74 1.2×	49 0.9×	37	1.0k
Mikitoshi Hirabara Japan	10	784 0.7×	705 0.8×	295 0.5×	61 1.0×	66 1.2×	12	1.0k
Dian Putrasahan Germany	16	922 0.8×	776 0.8×	434 0.7×	49 0.8×	38 0.7×	33	1.1k
Yoshimitsu Chikamoto United States	23	2.0k 1.7×	1.7k 1.8×	1.2k 1.8×	65 1.0×	49 0.9×	45	2.2k
Siobhan O’Farrell Australia	17	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	558 0.9×	109 1.7×	75 1.3×	32	1.7k
Karoline Block Germany	7	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	204 0.3×	54 0.8×	41 0.7×	10	1.3k
Hyun‐Chul Lee United States	11	963 0.8×	805 0.9×	711 1.1×	43 0.7×	24 0.4×	14	1.2k
M. Botzet Germany	11	1.5k 1.3×	1.4k 1.5×	712 1.1×	109 1.7×	76 1.4×	11	1.8k
Chao He China	20	1.4k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	499 0.8×	80 1.3×	45 0.8×	56	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Arnold Sullivan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arnold Sullivan

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Hogg, Andrew McC., Martin Dix, Daohua Bi, et al.. (2025). The ACCESS-CM2 climate model with a higher resolution ocean-sea ice component (1/4°). Geoscientific model development. 18(24). 9991–10015. 1 indexed citations

Sullivan, Arnold, Shayne McGregor, Yann Planton, et al.. (2025). The Biennial ENSO in the ACCESS-CM2 Due to a Weakened Atmospheric Bjerknes Feedback in May–June. Journal of Climate. 38(4). 1005–1020. 1 indexed citations

Zhong, Wenxiu, Arnold Sullivan, Gian Luca Eusebi Borzelli, & Ziguang Li. (2025). Early signs of strong El Niño–Southern Oscillation episodes. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 17225–17225.

Borzelli, Gian Luca Eusebi & Arnold Sullivan. (2024). Kelvin Wave Propagation over a Sloping Interface and Relationships with El Niño Southern Oscillation. 7(2). 1–18. 3 indexed citations

Hong, Chi‐Cherng, et al.. (2024). Impact of North Atlantic Tripole and Extratropical North Pacific Extreme SSTs on the 2023/24 El Niño. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(19). 4 indexed citations

McInnes, Kathleen L., Robert J. Nicholls, Roderik S. W. van de Wal, et al.. (2024). Perspective on Regional Sea-level Change and Coastal Impacts. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. e16–e16. 1 indexed citations

Rashid, Harun, Arnold Sullivan, Martin Dix, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of climate variability and change in ACCESS historical simulations for CMIP6. Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth System Science. 72(2). 73–92. 18 indexed citations

Bi, Daohua, Guojian Wang, Wenju Cai, et al.. (2022). Improved Simulation of ENSO Variability Through Feedback From the Equatorial Atlantic in a Pacemaker Experiment. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(2). 11 indexed citations

Sullivan, Arnold, Wenxiu Zhong, Gian Luca Eusebi Borzelli, et al.. (2021). Generation of westerly wind bursts by forcing outside the tropics. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 912–912. 14 indexed citations

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Bi, Daohua, Martin Dix, Simon Marsland, et al.. (2020). Configuration and spin-up of ACCESS-CM2, the new generation Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator Coupled Model. Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth System Science. 70(1). 225–251. 249 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chung, Christine, Scott B. Power, Arnold Sullivan, & François Delage. (2019). The role of the South Pacific in modulating Tropical Pacific variability. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 18311–18311. 43 indexed citations

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Purich, Ariaan, Matthew H. England, Wenju Cai, Arnold Sullivan, & Paul J. Durack. (2018). Impacts of Broad-Scale Surface Freshening of the Southern Ocean in a Coupled Climate Model. Journal of Climate. 31(7). 2613–2632. 56 indexed citations

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Bakker, Pepijn, Andreas Schmittner, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, et al.. (2016). Fate of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Strong decline under continued warming and Greenland melting. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(23). 144 indexed citations

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Sullivan, Arnold, Jing‐Jia Luo, Anthony C. Hirst, et al.. (2016). Robust contribution of decadal anomalies to the frequency of central-Pacific El Niño. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 38540–38540. 70 indexed citations

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Cai, Wenju, Arnold Sullivan, Tim Cowan, Joachim Ribbe, & Ge Shi. (2011). Simulation of the Indian Ocean Dipole: A relevant criterion for selecting models for climate projections. Geophysical Research Letters. 38(3). n/a–n/a. 31 indexed citations

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Cai, Wenju, Tim Cowan, Arnold Sullivan, Joachim Ribbe, & Ge Shi. (2010). Are Anthropogenic Aerosols Responsible for the Northwest Australia Summer Rainfall Increase? A CMIP3 Perspective and Implications. Journal of Climate. 24(10). 2556–2564. 16 indexed citations

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Cai, Wenju, Arnold Sullivan, & Tim Cowan. (2009). 18TH WORLD IMACS CONGRESS AND MODSIM09 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MODELLING AND SIMULATION. Congress on Modelling and Simulation. 1 indexed citations

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Cai, Wenju, Arnold Sullivan, & Tim Cowan. (2009). Climate change contributes to more frequent consecutive positive Indian Ocean Dipole events. Geophysical Research Letters. 36(23). 63 indexed citations

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Cai, Wenju, Arnold Sullivan, & Tim Cowan. (2009). Rainfall Teleconnections with Indo-Pacific Variability in the WCRP CMIP3 Models. Journal of Climate. 22(19). 5046–5071. 58 indexed citations

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Cai, Wenju, Arnold Sullivan, & Tim Cowan. (2008). Shoaling of the off‐equatorial south Indian Ocean thermocline: Is it driven by anthropogenic forcing?. Geophysical Research Letters. 35(12). 21 indexed citations

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