Dirk Olbers

7.4k citations
100 papers · 5.3k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 28

Impact in

  • Oceanography top 0.1%
    • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
    • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
    • Marine and coastal ecosystems
    • Coastal and Marine Dynamics

Papers in

    • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes 69
    • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing 26
    • Marine and coastal ecosystems 9
    • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research 14
    • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 12
    • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 8

Dirk Olbers

93 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

Measurements of wind-wave growth and swell decay during the Joint North Sea Wave Project (JONSWAP) 1973 · 2.8k citations
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Dirk Olbers
Comparison fields: 5 of 84
  • Oceanography 3.8k
  • Earth-Surface Processes 1.6k
  • Atmospheric Science 2.5k
  • Global and Planetary Change 1.2k
  • Ocean Engineering 637
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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1 20241
2 20241
3 20204
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5 201912
6 201732
7 20122
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The Antarctic Circumpolar Current System
1999238
10 199844
11
A 3D heton mechanism of lateral spreading in localized convection in a rotating stratified fluid
19982
12
Steady states and variability in oceanic zonal flows
19966
13
On the eddy-potential-enstrophy balance in a two-layer quasi-geostrophic channel model
19933
14
Hydrographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean
1992140
15
The role of wind and buoyancy forcing of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
199119
16
A quasigeostrophic eddy resolving model of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: a description of the model and the first experiment
19904
17
Inverse Modelling activities at the AWI
19891
18 19881
19
Disqualifying two candidates for the energy balance of the oceanic internal wave field
19812
20 1976105

About Dirk Olbers

Dirk Olbers is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry and Earth-Surface Processes, having authored 100 papers that have together received 5.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (69 papers), Climate variability and models (31 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (26 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (14 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (12 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (11 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (9 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Oceanography (3.8k citations), Earth-Surface Processes (1.6k citations), Atmospheric Science (2.5k citations), Global and Planetary Change (1.2k citations) and Ocean Engineering (637 citations). Dirk Olbers has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, Russia and United States. Frequent co-authors include P. Müller, Klaus Hasselmann, Dieter Hasselmann, Hans Gienapp, David E. Cartwright, H. Walden, T. P. Barnett, H.E. Carlson, J. A. Ewing and E. Bouws. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Physical Oceanography, Ocean Dynamics, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Antarctic Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

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