Dillon J. Amaya

2.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
44 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Dillon J. Amaya is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Dillon J. Amaya has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 32 papers in Oceanography and 30 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Dillon J. Amaya's work include Climate variability and models (31 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (26 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers). Dillon J. Amaya is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (31 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (26 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers). Dillon J. Amaya collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Dillon J. Amaya's co-authors include Arthur J. Miller, Shang‐Ping Xie, Yu Kosaka, Michael A. Alexander, Michael G. Jacox, Antonietta Capotondi, Steven J. Bograd, Clara Deser, James D. Scott and Kristopher B. Karnauskas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Dillon J. Amaya

40 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

Physical drivers of the summer 2019 North Pacific marine heatwave

2020 229 citations Dillon J. Amaya, Arthur J. Miller et al. Nature Communications profile →
Global seasonal forecasts of marine heatwaves

2022 149 citations Michael G. Jacox, Michael A. Alexander et al. profile →
Marine heatwaves need clear definitions so coastal communities can adapt

2023 78 citations Dillon J. Amaya, Michael G. Jacox et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dillon J. Amaya United States	21	1.1k	987	761	187	38	44	1.4k
P. Swapna India	17	800 0.7×	616 0.6×	561 0.7×	131 0.7×	17 0.4×	35	1.0k
Riccardo Farneti Italy	24	1.7k 1.5×	1.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.7×	65 0.3×	51 1.3×	53	2.0k
Paulo S. Polito Brazil	18	713 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	424 0.6×	180 1.0×	21 0.6×	45	1.2k
Guillaume Gastineau France	24	1.7k 1.5×	724 0.7×	1.5k 2.0×	84 0.4×	44 1.2×	63	2.0k
Julie Leloup France	9	1.1k 1.0×	708 0.7×	970 1.3×	121 0.6×	21 0.6×	14	1.3k
Marie Drévillon France	19	1.0k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	858 1.1×	109 0.6×	75 2.0×	44	1.7k
Andrew Meijers United Kingdom	20	833 0.7×	886 0.9×	702 0.9×	138 0.7×	101 2.7×	40	1.3k
Gérard Eldin France	23	933 0.8×	1.5k 1.6×	590 0.8×	249 1.3×	35 0.9×	45	1.7k
J. Jungclaus Germany	10	960 0.9×	363 0.4×	931 1.2×	73 0.4×	43 1.1×	15	1.2k
Benjamín Kirtman United States	8	1.1k 1.0×	788 0.8×	915 1.2×	59 0.3×	17 0.4×	17	1.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wong, Joel, et al.. (2025). Removing ENSO’s Influence from Global SST Variability, with Insights into the Record-Setting Marine Heat Waves of 2023–24. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106(8). E1498–E1516. 1 indexed citations

Li, Jian, Arthur J. Miller, Qi Wang, et al.. (2025). Vertical structure of chlorophyll-a during marine heatwaves in the California Current Ecosystem. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).

Smith, Kathryn E., Alex Sen Gupta, Dillon J. Amaya, et al.. (2024). Baseline matters: Challenges and implications of different marine heatwave baselines. Progress In Oceanography. 231. 103404–103404. 19 indexed citations

Capotondi, Antonietta, Regina R. Rodrigues, Alex Sen Gupta, et al.. (2024). A global overview of marine heatwaves in a changing climate. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 29 indexed citations

Capotondi, Antonietta, Regina R. Rodrigues, Alex Sen Gupta, et al.. (2024). Publisher Correction: A global overview of marine heatwaves in a changing climate. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 1 indexed citations

Amaya, Dillon J., Michael G. Jacox, Michael A. Alexander, Steven J. Bograd, & Liwei Jia. (2024). Seasonal Upwelling Forecasts in the California Current System. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(22).

Jacox, Michael G., Steven J. Bograd, Jérôme Fiechter, et al.. (2024). Linking Upwelling Dynamics and Subsurface Nutrients to Projected Productivity Changes in the California Current System. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(10). 6 indexed citations

Amaya, Dillon J., Nicola Maher, Clara Deser, et al.. (2024). Linking Projected Changes in Seasonal Climate Predictability and ENSO Amplitude. Journal of Climate. 38(3). 675–688. 3 indexed citations

Shu, Qi, et al.. (2023). Role of Ocean Advections during the Evolution of the Pacific Meridional Modes. Journal of Climate. 36(13). 4327–4343. 7 indexed citations

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Liu, Wei, et al.. (2023). The Pacific Decadal Oscillation modulated marine heatwaves in the Northeast Pacific during past decades. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 36 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yu, Shang‐Ping Xie, Dillon J. Amaya, et al.. (2022). Role of ocean dynamics in equatorial Pacific decadal variability. Climate Dynamics. 59(7-8). 2517–2529. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yu, Dillon J. Amaya, Yu Kosaka, et al.. (2022). Atmospheric Forcing of the Pacific Meridional Mode: Tropical Pacific‐Driven Versus Internal Variability. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(7). 21 indexed citations

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Amaya, Dillon J., Michael G. Jacox, Juliana Dias, et al.. (2022). Subseasonal‐to‐Seasonal Forecast Skill in the California Current System and Its Connection to Coastal Kelvin Waves. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(1). 21 indexed citations

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Jin, Fei‐Fei, Robert C. J. Wills, Michael G. Jacox, et al.. (2022). Global decline in ocean memory over the 21st century. Science Advances. 8(18). eabm3468–eabm3468. 41 indexed citations

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Amaya, Dillon J., Michael A. Alexander, Antonietta Capotondi, et al.. (2021). Are Long-Term Changes in Mixed Layer Depth Influencing North Pacific Marine Heatwaves?. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 102(1). S59–S66. 65 indexed citations

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Karnauskas, Kristopher B., Lei Zhang, & Dillon J. Amaya. (2020). The Atmospheric Response to North Atlantic SST Trends, 1870–2019. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(2). 20 indexed citations

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Amaya, Dillon J., Arthur J. Miller, Shang‐Ping Xie, & Yu Kosaka. (2020). Physical drivers of the summer 2019 North Pacific marine heatwave. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1903–1903. 229 indexed citations breakdown →

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Amaya, Dillon J., Yu Kosaka, Wenyu Zhou, et al.. (2019). The North Pacific Pacemaker Effect on Historical ENSO and Its Mechanisms. Journal of Climate. 32(22). 7643–7661. 74 indexed citations

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Johnson, Kathleen R., Andrea Borsato, Dillon J. Amaya, et al.. (2019). Hydroclimatic variability in Southeast Asia over the past two millennia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 525. 115737–115737. 34 indexed citations

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Amaya, Dillon J., Deborah J Thomas, Franco Marcantonio, et al.. (2012). Reconstruction of South Pacific Dust Accumulation during the Early Paleogene Greenhouse. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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