Erik Behrens

3.9k total citations
53 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Erik Behrens is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Erik Behrens has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 36 papers in Oceanography and 29 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Erik Behrens's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (28 papers), Climate variability and models (27 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (15 papers). Erik Behrens is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (28 papers), Climate variability and models (27 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (15 papers). Erik Behrens collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Germany and United States. Erik Behrens's co-authors include Claus W. Böning, Arne Biastoch, Patrick L. Parker, G. J. Rickard, Klaus Getzlaff, Jonathan Bamber, Philip Sutton, R.S. Scalan, Franziska U. Schwarzkopf and Yukio Masumoto and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Erik Behrens

49 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Erik Behrens New Zealand 25 1.1k 1.1k 921 466 310 53 2.0k
Peter Winsor United States 28 729 0.7× 1.3k 1.2× 1.9k 2.1× 354 0.8× 740 2.4× 64 2.5k
Birgit Klein Germany 23 1.3k 1.2× 2.3k 2.1× 1.2k 1.3× 684 1.5× 218 0.7× 38 3.1k
Sheila Griffin United States 24 396 0.4× 910 0.9× 695 0.8× 1.1k 2.3× 287 0.9× 54 1.7k
Waldemar Walczowski Poland 27 707 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 1.6k 1.7× 600 1.3× 474 1.5× 61 2.3k
Ulf Gräwe Germany 26 756 0.7× 1.4k 1.3× 576 0.6× 554 1.2× 228 0.7× 90 2.1k
Agnieszka Beszczyńska-Möller Poland 33 1.2k 1.1× 2.1k 2.0× 2.4k 2.6× 1.0k 2.2× 1.4k 4.6× 67 4.0k
Vassilis Zervakis Greece 26 625 0.6× 1.5k 1.5× 453 0.5× 569 1.2× 65 0.2× 73 1.9k
A. Lascaratos Greece 24 1.0k 0.9× 1.7k 1.6× 687 0.7× 308 0.7× 69 0.2× 33 2.0k
Patrick Marsaleix France 34 1.1k 1.0× 2.2k 2.0× 1.0k 1.1× 542 1.2× 143 0.5× 97 3.0k
M. Angélica Peña Canada 24 636 0.6× 1.6k 1.5× 430 0.5× 607 1.3× 256 0.8× 56 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Erik Behrens

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erik Behrens

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Erik Behrens. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Erik Behrens based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Erik Behrens. Erik Behrens is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Spillman, Claire M., Alistair J. Hobday, Erik Behrens, et al.. (2025). What makes a marine heatwave forecast useable, useful and used?. Progress In Oceanography. 234. 103464–103464. 1 indexed citations
2.
Jeffs, Andrew, et al.. (2025). Deep‐sea lobster shifts in distribution and population connectivity under future climate change. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 59(5). 1659–1677.
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Malan, Neil, Alex Sen Gupta, Amandine Schaeffer, et al.. (2025). Lifting the lid on Marine Heatwaves. Progress In Oceanography. 239. 103539–103539.
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Minobe, Shoshiro, Erik Behrens, Kirsten L. Findell, et al.. (2025). Global and regional drivers for exceptional climate extremes in 2023-2024: beyond the new normal. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8(1). 138–138. 7 indexed citations
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Salinger, M. J., Kevin E. Trenberth, Howard J. Diamond, et al.. (2024). Climate Extremes in the New Zealand Region: Mechanisms, Impacts and Attribution. International Journal of Climatology. 44(16). 5809–5824. 2 indexed citations
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Dunn, Matthew R., et al.. (2024). The impacts of marine heatwaves on ecosystems and fisheries in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 59(5). 1530–1560. 1 indexed citations
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Behrens, Erik, et al.. (2024). Tropical teleconnections through the Amundsen Sea Low impact Antarctic toothfish recruitment within the Ross Gyre. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 26715–26715. 2 indexed citations
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Rickard, G. J., Erik Behrens, Stephen M. Chiswell, Cliff S. Law, & Matthew H. Pinkerton. (2023). Biogeochemical and Physical Assessment of CMIP5 and CMIP6 Ocean Components for the Southwest Pacific Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(5). 6 indexed citations
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Behrens, Erik & Helen Bostock. (2023). The Response of the Subtropical Front to Changes in the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds—Evidence From Models and Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(2). 12 indexed citations
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Williams, Jonny, Sebastian Naeher, Osamu Seki, et al.. (2023). Amplified surface warming in the south-west Pacific during the mid-Pliocene (3.3–3.0 Ma) and future implications. Climate of the past. 19(7). 1359–1381. 3 indexed citations
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Rickard, G. J., et al.. (2023). An Assessment of the Oceanic Physical and Biogeochemical Components of CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models for the Ross Sea Region. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(3). 3 indexed citations
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Woodhouse, Adam D., Philip M. Barnes, Lorna J. Strachan, et al.. (2022). Trench floor depositional response to glacio‐eustatic changes over the last 45 ka, northern Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 67(3). 312–335. 10 indexed citations
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Behrens, Erik, Andrew McC. Hogg, Matthew H. England, & Helen Bostock. (2021). Seasonal and Interannual Variability of the Subtropical Front in the New Zealand Region. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(2). 16 indexed citations
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Behrens, Erik, et al.. (2021). The Impact of Sea‐Ice Drift and Ocean Circulation on Dispersal of Toothfish Eggs and Juveniles in the Ross Gyre and Amundsen Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(10). 8 indexed citations
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Behrens, Erik, Jonny Williams, Olaf Morgenstern, et al.. (2020). Local Grid Refinement in New Zealand's Earth System Model: Tasman Sea Ocean Circulation Improvements and Super‐Gyre Circulation Implications. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(7). 21 indexed citations
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Swart, Neil C., Julius Busecke, Gaby S. Langendijk, et al.. (2018). Reflections on the CLIVAR Early Career Scientists Symposium 2016. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 1(1). 3 indexed citations
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Law, Cliff S., G. J. Rickard, S. E. Mikaloff Fletcher, et al.. (2017). Climate change projections for the surface ocean around New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 52(3). 309–335. 66 indexed citations
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Böning, Claus W., Erik Behrens, Arne Biastoch, Klaus Getzlaff, & Jonathan Bamber. (2016). Emerging impact of Greenland meltwater on deepwater formation in the North Atlantic Ocean. Nature Geoscience. 9(7). 523–527. 232 indexed citations
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Baltazar‐Soares, Miguel, Arne Biastoch, Chris Harrod, et al.. (2014). Recruitment Collapse and Population Structure of the European Eel Shaped by Local Ocean Current Dynamics. Current Biology. 24(1). 104–108. 79 indexed citations
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Ummenhofer, Caroline C., Franziska U. Schwarzkopf, G. Meyers, et al.. (2012). Pacific Ocean Contribution to the Asymmetry in Eastern Indian Ocean Variability. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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