Chris Garrett

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Chris Garrett is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Garrett has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Oceanography, 33 papers in Atmospheric Science and 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Chris Garrett's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (62 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (22 papers) and Climate variability and models (16 papers). Chris Garrett is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (62 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (22 papers) and Climate variability and models (16 papers). Chris Garrett collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Chris Garrett's co-authors include Patrick F. Cummins, Eric Kunze, Louis St. Laurent, Ming Li, Amit Tandon, Peter Müller, A. R. Osborne, Peter B. Rhines, Parker MacCready and Johannes Gemmrich and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Chris Garrett

89 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

Internal Tide Generation in the Deep Ocean 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 100 200 300 400 500
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. Internal Tide Generation in the Deep Ocean
    2006 531 citations Chris Garrett et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chris Garrett Canada 38 4.0k 2.3k 1.4k 797 707 92 5.5k
S. A. Thorpe United Kingdom 44 4.5k 1.1× 2.8k 1.2× 1.1k 0.8× 1.7k 2.1× 186 0.3× 138 6.4k
David E. Cartwright United States 27 4.6k 1.1× 2.0k 0.9× 896 0.6× 1.8k 2.3× 470 0.7× 83 6.5k
Dirk Olbers Germany 28 3.8k 1.0× 2.5k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 1.6k 2.0× 206 0.3× 100 5.3k
G. T. Csanady United States 41 3.2k 0.8× 2.0k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 1.3k 1.7× 354 0.5× 133 5.6k
David M. Farmer Canada 48 5.3k 1.3× 2.6k 1.2× 977 0.7× 1.5k 1.9× 87 0.1× 149 6.6k
Clinton D. Winant United States 43 3.7k 0.9× 2.1k 0.9× 1.6k 1.1× 1.2k 1.5× 687 1.0× 86 5.8k
C. P. Caulfield United Kingdom 32 1.5k 0.4× 1.6k 0.7× 782 0.6× 410 0.5× 498 0.7× 150 3.4k
O. M. Phillips United States 40 6.2k 1.6× 2.9k 1.3× 550 0.4× 3.7k 4.7× 723 1.0× 81 9.0k
Kwok Fai Cheung United States 41 1.6k 0.4× 1.4k 0.6× 266 0.2× 1.7k 2.1× 223 0.3× 130 5.3k
Henry Stommel United States 42 6.0k 1.5× 4.3k 1.9× 3.9k 2.8× 718 0.9× 128 0.2× 140 8.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris Garrett

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Garrett

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Garrett

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Garrett, Chris. (2024). Tidal power’s limits. Physics Today. 77(3). 11–11. 1 indexed citations
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Garrett, Chris & Patrick F. Cummins. (2013). Maximum power from a turbine farm in shallow water. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 714. 634–643. 23 indexed citations
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Arbic, Brian K., Richard Karsten, & Chris Garrett. (2009). On tidal resonance in the global ocean and the back‐effect of coastal tides upon open‐ocean tides. ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN. 47(4). 239–266. 61 indexed citations
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Garrett, Chris, et al.. (2009). Environmental concentrations of methoprene and its transformation products after the treatment of Altosid® XR Briquets in the city of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 29(10). 2200–2205. 6 indexed citations
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Arbic, Brian K., Chris Garrett, & Richard Karsten. (2008). The far-reaching back-effect of coastal tides upon open-ocean tides. AGUFM. 2008. 1 indexed citations
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Garrett, Chris & Theo Gerkema. (2007). On the Body-Force Term in Internal-Tide Generation. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 37(8). 2172–2175. 16 indexed citations
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Arbic, Brian K., Pierre St‐Laurent, Graig Sutherland, & Chris Garrett. (2007). On the resonance and influence of the tides in Ungava Bay and Hudson Strait. Geophysical Research Letters. 34(17). 54 indexed citations
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Johnson, H. L. & Chris Garrett. (2006). What Fraction of a Kelvin Wave Incident on a Narrow Strait Is Transmitted?. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 36(5). 945–954. 14 indexed citations
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Garrett, Chris. (2006). Turbulent dispersion in the ocean. Progress In Oceanography. 70(2-4). 113–125. 24 indexed citations
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Garrett, Chris & Patrick F. Cummins. (2005). The power potential of tidal currents in channels. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 461(2060). 2563–2572. 228 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Graig, Chris Garrett, & M. G. G. Foreman. (2005). Tidal Resonance in Juan de Fuca Strait and the Strait of Georgia. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 35(7). 1279–1286. 31 indexed citations
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Johnson, H. L. & Chris Garrett. (2004). Effects of Noise on Thorpe Scales and Run Lengths. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 34(11). 2359–2372. 37 indexed citations
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Garrett, Chris, et al.. (2003). Hydraulic control of homogeneous shear flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 475. 163–172. 11 indexed citations
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Ross, Tetjana, Chris Garrett, & Pierre‐Yves Le Traon. (2000). Western Mediterranean sea‐level rise: Changing exchange flow through the Strait of Gibraltar. Geophysical Research Letters. 27(18). 2949–2952. 32 indexed citations
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Garrett, Chris & G. Apostolakis. (1999). Context in the Risk Assessment of Digital Systems. Risk Analysis. 19(1). 23–32. 33 indexed citations
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Ott, Michael W. & Chris Garrett. (1998). Frictional estuarine flow in Juan de Fuca Strait, with implications for secondary circulation. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 103(C8). 15657–15666. 37 indexed citations
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Zahariev, Konstantin & Chris Garrett. (1997). An Apparent Surface Buoyancy Flux Associated with the Nonlinearity of the Equation of State. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 27(2). 362–368. 11 indexed citations
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Tandon, Amit & Chris Garrett. (1995). Geostrophic Adjustment and Restratification of a Mixed Layer with Horizontal Gradients above a Stratified Layer. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 25(10). 2229–2241. 32 indexed citations
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Garrett, Chris, et al.. (1993). Interannual Variability in Meterrancan Heat and Buoyancy Fluxes. Journal of Climate. 6(5). 900–910. 101 indexed citations
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Garrett, Chris, et al.. (1989). Low-Frequency Fluctuations in the Strait of Gibraltar from MEDALPFX Sea Level Data. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 19(11). 1682–1696. 23 indexed citations

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