Cecilia M. Bitz

25.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
168 papers, 18.1k citations indexed

About

Cecilia M. Bitz is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Cecilia M. Bitz has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 18.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 155 papers in Atmospheric Science, 97 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 35 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Cecilia M. Bitz's work include Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (115 papers), Climate variability and models (92 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (58 papers). Cecilia M. Bitz is often cited by papers focused on Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (115 papers), Climate variability and models (92 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (58 papers). Cecilia M. Bitz collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Cecilia M. Bitz's co-authors include Marika M. Holland, William D. Collins, John C. H. Chiang, Kyle C. Armour, David S. Battisti, Edward Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth, Minghua Zhang, James R. McCaa, Shian‐Jiann Lin and James J. Hack and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Cecilia M. Bitz

168 papers receiving 17.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)

2006 2.0k citations Cecilia M. Bitz et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Description of the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model (CAM 3.0)

2004 1.8k citations Cecilia M. Bitz et al. profile →
Polar amplification of climate change in coupled models

2003 940 citations Marika M. Holland, Cecilia M. Bitz profile →
The Formulation and Atmospheric Simulation of the Community Atmosphere Model Version 3 (CAM3)

2006 800 citations Cecilia M. Bitz et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Influence of high latitude ice cover on the marine Intertropical Convergence Zone

2005 697 citations Cecilia M. Bitz et al. profile →
The UVic earth system climate model: Model description, climatology, and applications to past, present and future climates

2001 579 citations Cecilia M. Bitz, Marika M. Holland et al. profile →
Future abrupt reductions in the summer Arctic sea ice

2006 528 citations Marika M. Holland, Cecilia M. Bitz et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
Chinese stalagmite δ18O controlled by changes in the Indian monsoon during a simulated Heinrich event

2011 518 citations David S. Battisti, Cecilia M. Bitz et al. profile →
Ecological Consequences of Sea-Ice Decline

2013 409 citations Cecilia M. Bitz et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cecilia M. Bitz

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Sea ice loss in association with Arctic cyclones 2025 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Steven M. Cavallo, (unknown), Cecilia M. Bitz	2
2	Model Biases in Simulating Extreme Sea Ice Loss Associated With the Record January 2022 Arctic Cyclone 2024 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans ·Edward Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth, (unknown), Melinda Webster, Christopher Horvat, (unknown), Cecilia M. Bitz	2
3	Wind waves in sea ice of the western Arctic and a global coupled wave-ice model 2022 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ·(unknown), Lettie A. Roach, Jim Thomson, (unknown), Madison M. Smith, Michael H. Meylan, Cecilia M. Bitz	23
4	Understanding the Forecast Skill of Rapid Arctic Sea Ice Loss on Subseasonal Time Scales 2021 ·Journal of Climate ·Marie C. McGraw, (unknown), (unknown), Cecilia M. Bitz	6
5	Antarctic Elevation Drives Hemispheric Asymmetry in Polar Lapse Rate Climatology and Feedback 2020 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Lily Hahn, Kyle C. Armour, David S. Battisti, Aaron Donohoe, Andrew G. Pauling, Cecilia M. Bitz	26
6	Strong remote control of future equatorial warming by off-equatorial forcing 2020 ·Nature Climate Change ·Malte F. Stuecker, Axel Timmermann, Fei‐Fei Jin, Cristian Proistosescu, Sarah M. Kang, Doyeon Kim, Kyung‐Sook Yun, Eui‐Seok Chung, Jung‐Eun Chu, Cecilia M. Bitz, Kyle C. Armour, Michiya Hayashi	31
7	Antarctic Sea Ice Area in CMIP6 2020 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Lettie A. Roach, Jakob Dörr, Caroline Holmes, François Massonnet, Ed Blockley, Dirk Notz, Thomas Rackow, Marilyn Raphael, Siobhan O’Farrell, David A. Bailey, Cecilia M. Bitz	190
8	Associations between Total and Speciated Pollen Counts and Several Morbidity Measures in the Contiguous United States from 2008 to 2015 2018 ·Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology ·Jeremy Hess, Fiona Lo, Claudia Brown, Kristie L. Ebi, Arie Manangan, George Luber, Paul J. Schramm, Lewis H. Ziska, Cecilia M. Bitz, Shubhayu Saha	1
9	Speciated Pollen Season Parameters, Trends, and Associations with Temperature in the Contiguous United States 2018 ·Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology ·Jeremy Hess, Fiona Lo, Claudia Brown, Kristie L. Ebi, Arie Manangan, George Luber, Shubhayu Saha, Paul J. Schramm, Lewis H. Ziska, Cecilia M. Bitz	1
10	Metrics for the Evaluation of the Southern Ocean in Coupled Climate Models and Earth System Models 2018 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans ·J. L. Russell, Igor Kamenkovich, Cecilia M. Bitz, Raffaele Ferrari, Sarah T. Gille, P. J. Goodman, Robert Hallberg, Kenneth S. Johnson, (unknown), I. Marinov, Matthew R. Mazloff, Stephen C. Riser, Jorge L. Sarmiento, Kevin Speer, Lynne D. Talley, Rik Wanninkhof	23
11	Radiative Feedbacks From Stochastic Variability in Surface Temperature and Radiative Imbalance 2018 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Cristian Proistosescu, Aaron Donohoe, Kyle C. Armour, Gerard H. Roe, Malte F. Stuecker, Cecilia M. Bitz	24
12	The effect of ENSO on Arctic Sea Ice and Its Prediction 2018 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Cecilia M. Bitz, (unknown), Edward Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth	1
13	Remarkable separability of the circulation response to Arctic sea ice loss and greenhouse gas forcing 2017 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Kelly E. McCusker, Paul J. Kushner, John C. Fyfe, Michael Sigmond, V. V. Kharin, Cecilia M. Bitz	1
14	Response of the tropical Pacific to abrupt climate change 8,200 years ago 2017 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Alyssa R. Atwood, David S. Battisti, Cecilia M. Bitz, Julian P. Sachs	1
15	Diagnostic sea ice predictability in the pan‐Arctic and U.S. Arctic regional seas 2016 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Wei Cheng, Edward Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth, Cecilia M. Bitz, Carol Ladd, Phyllis J. Stabeno	14
16	Sea Ice Prediction Has Easy and Difficult Years 2014 ·NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) ·Lawrence C. Hamilton, Cecilia M. Bitz, Edward Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth, Matthew Cutler, Jennifer E. Kay, Walter N. Meier, Julienne Strœve, (unknown)	1
17	Biases in modeled surface snow BC mixing ratios in prescribed-aerosol climate model runs 2014 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Sarah J. Doherty, Cecilia M. Bitz, M. Flanner	8
18	High-latitude ocean and sea ice surface fluxes: requirements and challenges for climate research 2012 ·Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·Mark A. Bourassa, Sarah T. Gille, Cecilia M. Bitz, David Carlson, Ivana Cerovečki, Meghan F. Cronin, (unknown), C. W. Fairall, Ross N. Hoffman, (unknown), R. T. Pinker, Ian A. Renfrew, Mark C. Serreze, Kevin Speer, Lynne D. Talley, Gary A. Wick	4
19	Future abrupt reductions in the summer Arctic sea ice breakdown → 2006 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Marika M. Holland, Cecilia M. Bitz, Bruno Tremblay	528
20	A Mechanism for the High Rate of Sea-Ice Thinning in the Arctic Ocean 2004 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Cecilia M. Bitz, Gerard H. Roe	2

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