Christopher L. Sabine

32.3k citations

128 papers · 15.2k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 50

Co-authors: Richard A. Feely Frank J. Millero Kitack Lee Rik Wanninkhof Robert M. Key Bronte Tilbrook Nicolas Gruber Andrew G. Dickson
Topics: Marine and coastal ecosystems (92 papers)Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses (86 papers)Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (39 papers)
Cited by: Oceanography Global and Planetary Change Ecology
Journals: Nature Science Nature Communications
Partner nations: United States France Australia

In The Last Decade

Christopher L. Sabine

125 papers receiving 14.6k 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 Oceanic Sink for Anthropogenic CO ₂

2004 2.9k citations Christopher L. Sabine, Richard A. Feely et al. Science profile →
Impact of Anthropogenic CO ₂ on the CaCO ₃ System in the Oceans

2004 1.7k citations Richard A. Feely, Christopher L. Sabine et al. Science profile →
Global sea–air CO2 flux based on climatological surface ocean pCO2, and seasonal biological and temperature effects

2002 1.5k citations Nicolas Metzl, Bronte Tilbrook et al. profile →
Evidence for Upwelling of Corrosive "Acidified" Water onto the Continental Shelf

2008 1.1k citations Richard A. Feely, Christopher L. Sabine et al. Science profile →
The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO ₂ from 1994 to 2007

2019 545 citations Nicolas Gruber, Dominic Clement et al. Science profile →
The combined effects of ocean acidification, mixing, and respiration on pH and carbonate saturation in an urbanized estuary

2010 480 citations Richard A. Feely, Simone R. Alin et al. profile →
Guide to best practices for ocean CO2 measurement.

2021 385 citations Andrew G. Dickson, Christopher L. Sabine profile →
Global ocean storage of anthropogenic carbon

2013 350 citations Samar Khatiwala, Toste Tanhua et al. Biogeosciences profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher L. Sabine

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Ventilation and buffering capacity effects on ocean acidification in low oxygen environments 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Liang Xue,Christopher L. Sabine,Jianfang Chen,Siv K. Lauvset,Qinsheng Wei,Kuiping Li,Wei‐Jun Cai	0
2	Decadal Trends in the Oceanic Storage of Anthropogenic Carbon From 1994 to 2014 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Jens Daniel Müller,Nicolas Gruber,Brendan R. Carter,Richard A. Feely,Masao Ishii,Nico Lange,Siv K. Lauvset,Akihiko Murata,Are Olsen,Fı́z F. Pérez,Christopher L. Sabine,Toste Tanhua,Rik Wanninkhof,(unknown)	38
3	Quantifying Net Community Production and Calcification at Station ALOHA Near Hawai'i: Insights and Limitations From a Dual Tracer Carbon Budget Approach 2023 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·(unknown),Christopher L. Sabine,Adrienne J. Sutton,Angelicque White,James T. Potemra,Robert A. Weller	4
4	IOC-R: A vision of Coordinated Ocean Carbon Research and Observations for the Next Decade 2020 ·Christopher L. Sabine,(unknown),Salvatore Aricò	1
5	The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO ₂ from 1994 to 2007breakdown → 2019 ·Science ·Nicolas Gruber,Dominic Clement,Brendan R. Carter,Richard A. Feely,Steven van Heuven,Mario Hoppema,Masao Ishii,Robert M. Key,Alex Kozyr,Siv K. Lauvset,Claire Lo Monaco,Jeremy T. Mathis,Akihiko Murata,Are Olsen,Fı́z F. Pérez,Christopher L. Sabine,Toste Tanhua,Rik Wanninkhof	545
6	Pacific Anthropogenic Carbon Between 1991 and 2017 2019 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Brendan R. Carter,Richard A. Feely,Rik Wanninkhof,Shinya Kouketsu,Rolf E. Sonnerup,Paula C. Pardo,Christopher L. Sabine,Gregory C. Johnson,Bernadette M. Sloyan,Akihiko Murata,Sabine Mecking,Bronte Tilbrook,K. G. Speer,Lynne D. Talley,Frank J. Millero,Susan Wijffels,Alison M. Macdonald,Nicolas Gruber,John L. Bullister	52
7	Two decades of Pacific anthropogenic carbon storage and ocean acidification along Global Ocean Ship‐based Hydrographic Investigations Program sections P16 and P02 2017 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Brendan R. Carter,Richard A. Feely,Sabine Mecking,Jessica Cross,Alison M. Macdonald,Samantha Siedlecki,Lynne D. Talley,Christopher L. Sabine,Frank J. Millero,James H. Swift,Andrew G. Dickson,Keith B. Rodgers	49
8	Environmental controls on modern scleractinian coral and reef-scale calcification 2017 ·Science Advances ·Travis A. Courtney,Mario Lebrato,Nicholas R. Bates,(unknown),Samantha J. de Putron,Rebecca Garley,Rod Johnson,Juan‐Carlos Molinero,(unknown),Christopher L. Sabine,Andreas J. Andersson	49
9	Using present-day observations to detect when anthropogenic change forcessurface ocean carbonate chemistry outside preindustrial bounds 2016 ·Biogeosciences ·Adrienne J. Sutton,Christopher L. Sabine,Richard A. Feely,Wei‐Jun Cai,Meghan F. Cronin,Michael J. McPhaden,Julio M. Morell,Jan Newton,Jae-Hoon Noh,Sólveig Rósa Ólafsdóttir,J. Salisbury,Uwe Send,Doug Vandemark,Robert A. Weller	63
10	A high-frequency atmospheric and seawater p CO ₂ data set from 14 open-ocean sites using a moored autonomous system 2014 ·Earth system science data ·Adrienne J. Sutton,Christopher L. Sabine,(unknown),Noah Lawrence‐Slavas,Christian Meinig,Richard A. Feely,Jeremy T. Mathis,Sylvia Musielewicz,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Alex Kozyr	111
11	Global ocean storage of anthropogenic carbonbreakdown → 2013 ·Biogeosciences ·Samar Khatiwala,Toste Tanhua,S. E. Mikaloff Fletcher,Markus Gerber,Scott C. Doney,Heather Graven,Nicolas Gruber,Galen A. McKinley,Akihiko Murata,Aida F. Rı́os,Christopher L. Sabine	350
12	Global surface-ocean p ^{CO ₂} and sea–air CO ₂ flux variability from an observation-driven ocean mixed-layer scheme 2013 ·Ocean science ·Christian Rödenbeck,Ralph F. Keeling,Dorothée C. E. Bakker,Nicolas Metzl,Are Olsen,Christopher L. Sabine,Martin Heimann	124
13	Quantifying the flux of CaCO ₃ and organic carbon from the surface ocean using in situ measurements of O ₂ , N ₂ , pCO ₂ , and pH 2011 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Steven Emerson,Christopher L. Sabine,Meghan F. Cronin,Richard A. Feely,(unknown),M. D. DeGrandpre	24
14	Assessing the internal consistency of the CARINA data base in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean 2010 ·Earth system science data ·Christopher L. Sabine,Mario Hoppema,Robert M. Key,Bronte Tilbrook,Steven van Heuven,Claire Lo Monaco,Nicolas Metzl,Masao Ishii,Akihiko Murata,Sylvia Musielewicz	3
15	Assessing the internal consistency of the CARINA database in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean 2010 ·Earth system science data ·Claire Lo Monaco,Marta Álvarez,R. M. Key,X. Lin,Toste Tanhua,Bronte Tilbrook,Dorothée C. E. Bakker,Steven van Heuven,Mario Hoppema,Nicolas Metzl,Aida F. Rı́os,Christopher L. Sabine,A. Velo	15
16	Evidence for Upwelling of Corrosive "Acidified" Water onto the Continental Shelfbreakdown → 2008 ·Science ·Richard A. Feely,Christopher L. Sabine,José Martín Hernández‐Ayón,Debby Ianson,Burke Hales	1103
17	A New Proxy Method for Estimating the Aragonite Saturation State of Coastal Waters Using Chemical and Hydrographic Data 2008 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Richard A. Feely,B. R. Hales,Christopher L. Sabine,Dana Greeley,(unknown),Simone R. Alin,L. W. Juranek	4
18	Spring-time for sinks 2007 ·Nature ·David Reay,Christopher L. Sabine,Pete Smith,Graham J. Hymus	131
19	Impact of Anthropogenic CO ₂ on the CaCO ₃ System in the Oceansbreakdown → 2004 ·Science ·Richard A. Feely,Christopher L. Sabine,Kitack Lee,W. Berelson,Joanie Kleypas,Victoria J. Fabry,Frank J. Millero	1695
20	Net sea-air CO2 flux over the global oceans: An improved estimate based on the sea-air pCO2 difference 1999 ·ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) ·Timothy T. Takahashi,(unknown),Richard A. Feely,(unknown),D.W. Chipman,N. R. Bates,Jón Ólafsson,Christopher L. Sabine,(unknown)	134

About Christopher L. Sabine

Christopher L. Sabine is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, having authored 128 papers that have together received 15.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (92 papers), Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses (86 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (39 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Oceanography (12.6k citations), Global and Planetary Change (6.4k citations) and Ecology (3.7k citations). Christopher L. Sabine has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Richard A. Feely, Frank J. Millero, Kitack Lee, Rik Wanninkhof, Robert M. Key, Bronte Tilbrook, Nicolas Gruber, Andrew G. Dickson, Burke Hales and Victoria J. Fabry. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

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