Boris Dewitte

13.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
142 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Boris Dewitte is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Boris Dewitte has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Oceanography, 105 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 69 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Boris Dewitte's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (104 papers), Climate variability and models (95 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (42 papers). Boris Dewitte is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (104 papers), Climate variability and models (95 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (42 papers). Boris Dewitte collaborates with scholars based in France, Chile and Peru. Boris Dewitte's co-authors include Sang‐Wook Yeh, K. Takahashi, Fei‐Fei Jin, Jong‐Seong Kug, Ben P. Kirtman, Katerina Goubanova, Aldo Montecinos, Séréna Illig, Marcel Ramos and Gérard Eldin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Boris Dewitte

138 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

El Niño in a changing climate 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2014 2011 2018 2018 400 800 1.2k
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. El Niño in a changing climate
    2009 1.3k citations Sang‐Wook Yeh, Jong‐Seong Kug et al. profile →
  2. Understanding ENSO Diversity
    2014 808 citations Boris Dewitte, Sang‐Wook Yeh et al. profile →
  3. ENSO regimes: Reinterpreting the canonical and Modoki El Niño
    2011 481 citations Aldo Montecinos, Boris Dewitte et al. profile →
  4. Increased variability of eastern Pacific El Niño under greenhouse warming
    2018 436 citations Wenju Cai, Guojian Wang et al. profile →
  5. ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections and Their Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing
    2018 379 citations Sang‐Wook Yeh, Wenju Cai et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Boris Dewitte France 38 5.6k 4.8k 4.1k 736 200 142 7.5k
Shoshiro Minobe Japan 35 5.7k 1.0× 4.0k 0.8× 4.5k 1.1× 671 0.9× 160 0.8× 88 6.9k
Keith W. Dixon United States 37 5.2k 0.9× 3.1k 0.6× 4.6k 1.1× 605 0.8× 280 1.4× 66 6.7k
Steven R. Jayne United States 33 4.8k 0.9× 4.0k 0.8× 4.0k 1.0× 488 0.7× 175 0.9× 80 7.2k
Michael Winton United States 36 5.0k 0.9× 3.2k 0.7× 4.3k 1.0× 459 0.6× 160 0.8× 76 6.8k
P. N. Vinayachandran India 41 7.3k 1.3× 7.1k 1.5× 5.0k 1.2× 892 1.2× 241 1.2× 107 10.0k
Sang‐Wook Yeh South Korea 44 7.5k 1.3× 4.3k 0.9× 6.1k 1.5× 451 0.6× 188 0.9× 258 8.5k
Viva F. Banzon United States 21 4.8k 0.9× 3.3k 0.7× 4.0k 1.0× 585 0.8× 138 0.7× 28 5.9k
Soon‐Il An South Korea 43 8.6k 1.5× 5.5k 1.2× 7.0k 1.7× 452 0.6× 145 0.7× 214 9.6k
Boyin Huang United States 30 6.1k 1.1× 3.5k 0.7× 5.0k 1.2× 461 0.6× 172 0.9× 78 7.1k
Chunzai Wang China 54 9.1k 1.6× 6.3k 1.3× 7.7k 1.9× 678 0.9× 138 0.7× 212 10.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Boris Dewitte

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Fields of papers citing papers by Boris Dewitte

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Boris Dewitte

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Martínez-Villalobos, Cristian, et al.. (2024). Extreme coastal El Niño events are tightly linked to the development of the Pacific Meridional Modes. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 4 indexed citations
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Yeh, Sang‐Wook, et al.. (2024). North Atlantic Warming Hole Modulates Interhemispheric Asymmetry of Future Temperature and Precipitation. Earth s Future. 12(6). 4 indexed citations
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Boucharel, Julien, Rafaël Almar, & Boris Dewitte. (2024). Seasonal forecasts of the world’s coastal waterline: what to expect from the coming El Niño?. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 1 indexed citations
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Dewitte, Boris, Véronique Garçon, Práxedes Muñoz, et al.. (2024). Emergent constraint on oxygenation of the upper South Eastern Pacific oxygen minimum zone in the twenty-first century. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 1 indexed citations
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Sánchez-Gómez, Emilia, Roland Séférian, Lauriane Batté, et al.. (2024). Description and Evaluation of the CNRM‐Cerfacs Climate Prediction System (C3PS). Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(10). 1 indexed citations
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Pizarro, Óscar, Boris Dewitte, Ivonne Montès, et al.. (2023). On the interpretation of changes in the subtropical oxygen minimum zone volume off Chile during two La Niña events (2001 and 2007). Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 6 indexed citations
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Pérez‐Santos, Iván, Ivonne Montès, Boris Dewitte, et al.. (2023). Recent Deoxygenation of Patagonian Fjord Subsurface Waters Connected to the Peru–Chile Undercurrent and Equatorial Subsurface Water Variability. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(6). 14 indexed citations
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Dewitte, Boris, Óscar Pizarro, Cristian Martínez-Villalobos, et al.. (2023). The ENSO-induced South Pacific Meridional Mode. Frontiers in Climate. 4. 4 indexed citations
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Dewitte, Boris, Marcel Ramos, Luis Bravo, et al.. (2021). Understanding the impact of climate change on the oceanic circulation in the Chilean island ecoregions. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 31(2). 232–252. 15 indexed citations
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Dewitte, Boris, et al.. (2020). ENSO diversity driving low-frequency change in mesoscale activity off Peru and Chile. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 17902–17902. 11 indexed citations
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Bourras, Denis, Louis Marié, Marie‐Noëlle Bouin, et al.. (2019). Air‐Sea Turbulent Fluxes From a Wave‐Following Platform During Six Experiments at Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 124(6). 4290–4321. 5 indexed citations
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Yeh, Sang‐Wook, Wenju Cai, Seung‐Ki Min, et al.. (2018). ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections and Their Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing. Reviews of Geophysics. 56(1). 185–206. 379 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bourrel, Luc, et al.. (2017). Rainfall along the coast of Peru during strong El Niño events. International Journal of Climatology. 38(4). 1737–1747. 34 indexed citations
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Dewitte, Boris, et al.. (2015). The Central Pacific El Niño Intraseasonal Kelvin wave. EGUGA. 165. 1 indexed citations
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Boucharel, Julien, Boris Dewitte, Bernard Garel, & Yves du Penhoat. (2009). ENSO's non-stationary and non-Gaussian character: the role of climate shifts. Nonlinear processes in geophysics. 16(4). 453–473. 21 indexed citations
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Birol, Florence, L. Roblou, Florent Lyard, et al.. (2006). Towards Using Satellite Altimetry for the Observation of Coastal Dynamics. ESASP. 614. 23. 10 indexed citations
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Dewitte, Boris, et al.. (2000). Coupled atmosphere-tropical pacific model: Forecasting the 1997-1998 El Nino-Southern oscillaiton. Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics. 36(5). 533–554. 4 indexed citations

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