Claude Frankignoul

9.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
124 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

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Claude Frankignoul is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Claude Frankignoul has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 103 papers in Oceanography and 81 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Claude Frankignoul's work include Climate variability and models (103 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (97 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (39 papers). Claude Frankignoul is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (103 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (97 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (39 papers). Claude Frankignoul collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Claude Frankignoul's co-authors include Arnaud Czaja, Klaus Hasselmann, Guillaume Gastineau, Young‐Oh Kwon, Élodie Kestenare, Peter Müller, Nathalie Sennéchael, Michael A. Alexander, Emmanuel Mignot and Eduardo Zorita and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Claude Frankignoul

121 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

Stochastic climate models, Part II Application to sea-surface temperature anomalies and thermocline variability

1977 620 citations Claude Frankignoul, Klaus Hasselmann Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography profile →
Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

2020 603 citations Clara Deser, Flavio Lehner et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Stochastic climate models, Part II Application to sea-surface temperature anomalies and thermocline variability

1977 253 citations Claude Frankignoul, Klaus Hasselmann profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Claude Frankignoul France	41	6.5k	5.3k	4.9k	128	122	124	7.3k
Paul Julian United States	17	7.3k 1.1×	6.7k 1.3×	3.8k 0.8×	238 1.9×	145 1.2×	74	8.3k
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh United States	46	6.5k 1.0×	5.9k 1.1×	3.0k 0.6×	139 1.1×	145 1.2×	98	7.1k
Grant Branstator United States	40	6.5k 1.0×	5.8k 1.1×	2.8k 0.6×	153 1.2×	144 1.2×	73	7.0k
Anthony C. Hirst Australia	29	3.8k 0.6×	2.9k 0.6×	3.2k 0.7×	169 1.3×	78 0.6×	38	4.6k
Tim Woollings United Kingdom	50	7.0k 1.1×	6.6k 1.3×	2.0k 0.4×	135 1.1×	142 1.2×	140	7.8k
Matthew Newman United States	38	6.9k 1.1×	5.7k 1.1×	4.1k 0.8×	281 2.2×	145 1.2×	88	7.9k
Jin‐Yi Yu United States	44	7.7k 1.2×	6.3k 1.2×	5.0k 1.0×	247 1.9×	119 1.0×	146	8.5k
Chidong Zhang United States	47	9.1k 1.4×	8.5k 1.6×	3.7k 0.7×	127 1.0×	206 1.7×	123	9.8k
Sébastien Masson France	40	4.9k 0.7×	3.7k 0.7×	4.3k 0.9×	213 1.7×	111 0.9×	79	5.8k
Dake Chen China	42	4.7k 0.7×	4.5k 0.8×	5.0k 1.0×	221 1.7×	148 1.2×	267	7.0k

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Hall, Richard J., et al.. (2024). A New Robust Frontal Disturbance Index of the Oyashio Extension Sea Surface Temperature Front. Journal of Climate. 38(1). 293–307.

Frankignoul, Claude, et al.. (2024). Arctic September Sea Ice Concentration Biases in CMIP6 Models and Their Relationships with Other Model Variables. Journal of Climate. 37(16). 4257–4274. 1 indexed citations

Gastineau, Guillaume, Claude Frankignoul, Yongqi Gao, et al.. (2023). Forcing and impact of the Northern Hemisphere continental snow cover in 1979–2014. The cryosphere. 17(5). 2157–2184. 2 indexed citations

Simon, Amélie, Guillaume Gastineau, Claude Frankignoul, Vladimir Lapin, & Pablo Ortega. (2022). Pacific Decadal Oscillation modulates the Arctic sea-ice loss influence on the midlatitude atmospheric circulation in winter. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 3(3). 845–861. 9 indexed citations

Liang, Yu‐Chiao, Claude Frankignoul, Young‐Oh Kwon, et al.. (2021). Impacts of Arctic Sea Ice on Cold Season Atmospheric Variability and Trends Estimated from Observations and a Multi-model Large Ensemble. Journal of Climate. 1–64. 17 indexed citations

Deser, Clara, Flavio Lehner, Keith B. Rodgers, et al.. (2020). Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects. Nature Climate Change. 10(4). 277–286. 603 indexed citations breakdown →

Deser, Clara, Flavio Lehner, Keith B. Rodgers, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects. Nature Climate Change. 10(8). 791–791. 10 indexed citations

García‐Serrano, Javier, Claude Frankignoul, Martin P. King, et al.. (2016). Multi-model assessment of linkages between eastern Arctic sea-ice variability and the Euro-Atlantic atmospheric circulation in current climate. Climate Dynamics. 49(7-8). 2407–2429. 25 indexed citations

Frankignoul, Claude, et al.. (2015). Influence of the Decadal Variability of the Kuroshio Extension on the Atmospheric Circulation in the Cold Season. Journal of Climate. 29(6). 2123–2144. 62 indexed citations

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Gastineau, Guillaume & Claude Frankignoul. (2014). Influence of the North Atlantic SST Variability on the Atmospheric Circulation during the Twentieth Century. Journal of Climate. 28(4). 1396–1416. 174 indexed citations

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Kwon, Young-Oh & Claude Frankignoul. (2012). Multi-decadal Variability of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Community Climate System Model 3. EGUGA. 10826.

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Mignot, Emmanuel, Myriam Khodri, Claude Frankignoul, & Jérôme Servonnat. (2011). Volcanic impact on the Atlantic Ocean over the last millennium. Climate of the past. 7(4). 1439–1455. 55 indexed citations

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Mignot, Emmanuel & Claude Frankignoul. (2004). Interannual to interdecadal variability of sea surface salinity in the Atlantic and its link to the atmosphere in a coupled model. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 109(C4). 39 indexed citations

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Frankignoul, Claude & Élodie Kestenare. (2002). The surface heat flux feedback. Part I: estimates from observations in the Atlantic and the North Pacific. Climate Dynamics. 19(8). 633–647. 144 indexed citations

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Frankignoul, Claude, Élodie Kestenare, & Emmanuel Mignot. (2002). The surface heat flux feedback. Part II: direct and indirect estimates in the ECHAM4/OPA8 coupled GCM. Climate Dynamics. 19(8). 649–655. 31 indexed citations

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Zorita, Eduardo & Claude Frankignoul. (1997). Modes of North Atlantic Decadal Variability in the ECHAM1/LSG Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere General Circulation Model. Journal of Climate. 10(2). 183–200. 41 indexed citations

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Sennéchael, Nathalie, Claude Frankignoul, & Mark A. Cane. (1994). An Adaptive Procedure for Tuning a Sea Surface Temperature Model. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 24(11). 2288–2305. 3 indexed citations

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Frankignoul, Claude & Richard W. Reynolds. (1983). Testing a Dynamical Model for Mid-Latitude Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 13(7). 1131–1145. 107 indexed citations

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Frankignoul, Claude & Klaus Hasselmann. (1977). Stochastic climate models, Part II Application to sea-surface temperature anomalies and thermocline variability. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 29(4). 289–289. 620 indexed citations breakdown →

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Frankignoul, Claude. (1970). The effect of weak shear and rotation on internal waves. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 22(2). 194–194. 17 indexed citations

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