Geoffrey K. Vallis

11.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
148 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Geoffrey K. Vallis is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Geoffrey K. Vallis has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Atmospheric Science, 97 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 79 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Geoffrey K. Vallis's work include Climate variability and models (94 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (73 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (52 papers). Geoffrey K. Vallis is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (94 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (73 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (52 papers). Geoffrey K. Vallis collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Geoffrey K. Vallis's co-authors include Maxim Nikurashin, Edwin P. Gerber, M. E. Maltrud, K. Shafer Smith, Joseph Kidston, Mathew Maltrud, Isaac M. Held, R. M. Samelson, Pablo Zurita‐Gotor and Rong Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Geoffrey K. Vallis

143 papers receiving 7.9k citations

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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.

Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

2006 1.1k citations Geoffrey K. Vallis profile →
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

2017 855 citations Geoffrey K. Vallis profile →
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Large-Scale Circulation

2006 603 citations Geoffrey K. Vallis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Geoffrey K. Vallis United States	43	5.2k	5.0k	4.3k	966	915	148	8.2k
Lorenzo M. Polvani United States	66	13.0k 2.5×	12.1k 2.4×	3.0k 0.7×	1.8k 1.9×	555 0.6×	269	15.3k
Akio Arakawa United States	38	6.8k 1.3×	6.2k 1.2×	2.0k 0.5×	470 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	98	8.8k
Joseph Pedlosky United States	39	5.5k 1.0×	4.7k 0.9×	7.7k 1.8×	1.4k 1.5×	2.0k 2.2×	173	12.5k
M. E. McIntyre United Kingdom	47	12.4k 2.4×	9.8k 1.9×	4.0k 0.9×	3.8k 4.0×	824 0.9×	104	15.6k
David G. Dritschel United Kingdom	38	2.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.2×	2.2k 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	1.8k 2.0×	181	4.9k
Brian F. Farrell United States	41	3.4k 0.6×	3.6k 0.7×	1.6k 0.4×	613 0.6×	2.6k 2.8×	107	6.6k
Peter Haynes United Kingdom	42	7.9k 1.5×	6.8k 1.4×	1.4k 0.3×	1.8k 1.9×	330 0.4×	129	9.1k
A. E. Gill United Kingdom	37	5.6k 1.1×	5.5k 1.1×	5.3k 1.2×	278 0.3×	1.5k 1.7×	64	9.2k
James J. Hack United States	41	9.2k 1.8×	8.6k 1.7×	2.2k 0.5×	279 0.3×	559 0.6×	79	11.1k
Kayo Ide United States	32	3.1k 0.6×	2.8k 0.5×	1.5k 0.3×	303 0.3×	240 0.3×	101	5.3k

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Jeevanjee, Nadir, et al.. (2025). Water Vapor Spectroscopy and Thermodynamics Constrain Earth's Tropopause Temperature. AGU Advances. 6(2). 1 indexed citations

Baker, Jonathan, et al.. (2025). Continued Atlantic overturning circulation even under climate extremes. Nature. 638(8052). 987–994. 13 indexed citations

Baker, Jonathan, Michael J. Bell, Laura Jackson, et al.. (2023). Overturning Pathways Control AMOC Weakening in CMIP6 Models. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(14). 11 indexed citations

Geen, Ruth, Stephen I. Thomson, James A. Screen, et al.. (2023). An Explanation for the Metric Dependence of the Midlatitude Jet‐Waviness Change in Response to Polar Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(21). 16 indexed citations

Geen, Ruth, et al.. (2023). The Relationship between Model Biases in East Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall and Land Evaporation. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 40(11). 2029–2042. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Lin, Geoffrey K. Vallis, Ruth Geen, et al.. (2021). Amplified Waveguide Teleconnections Along the Polar Front Jet Favor Summer Temperature Extremes Over Northern Eurasia. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(13). 31 indexed citations

Vallis, Geoffrey K.. (2021). Turbulence Theory: Imperfect, but Necessary. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 5 indexed citations

Liu, Qun, Matthew Collins, Penelope Maher, Stephen I. Thomson, & Geoffrey K. Vallis. (2021). SimCloud version 1.0: a simple diagnostic cloud scheme for idealized climate models. Geoscientific model development. 14(5). 2801–2826. 4 indexed citations

Jeevanjee, Nadir, et al.. (2021). Joint Dependence of Longwave Feedback on Surface Temperature and Relative Humidity. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(18). 21 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Dann, et al.. (2021). The Roles of Latent Heating and Dust in the Structure and Variability of the Northern Martian Polar Vortex. The Planetary Science Journal. 2(5). 203–203. 13 indexed citations

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Thomson, Stephen I. & Geoffrey K. Vallis. (2019). Hierarchical Modeling of Solar System Planets with Isca. Atmosphere. 10(12). 803–803. 14 indexed citations

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Lambert, F. Hugo, et al.. (2019). The Presence of Africa and Limited Soil Moisture Contribute to Future Drying of South America. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(21). 12445–12453. 7 indexed citations

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Thuburn, John & Geoffrey K. Vallis. (2018). Properties of conditionally filtered equations: Conservation, normal modes, and variational formulation. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 144(714). 1555–1571. 4 indexed citations

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Vallis, Geoffrey K., Greg Colyer, Ruth Geen, et al.. (2018). Isca, v1.0: a framework for the global modelling of the atmospheres of Earth and other planets at varying levels of complexity. Geoscientific model development. 11(3). 843–859. 81 indexed citations

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Zurita‐Gotor, Pablo & Geoffrey K. Vallis. (2013). Determination of Extratropical Tropopause Height in an Idealized Gray Radiation Model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 70(7). 2272–2292. 4 indexed citations

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Ferrari, Raffaele, Stephen M. Griffies, A. J. George Nurser, & Geoffrey K. Vallis. (2010). A boundary-value problem for the parameterized mesoscale eddy transport. Ocean Modelling. 32(3-4). 143–156. 96 indexed citations

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Kidston, Joseph & Geoffrey K. Vallis. (2010). Relationship between eddy‐driven jet latitude and width. Geophysical Research Letters. 37(21). 19 indexed citations

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Farneti, Riccardo & Geoffrey K. Vallis. (2009). An Intermediate Complexity Climate Model (ICCMp1) based on the GFDL flexible modelling system. Geoscientific model development. 2(2). 73–88. 13 indexed citations

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Vallis, Geoffrey K., et al.. (2005). Mechanisms for climate variability during glacial and interglacial periods. Paleoceanography. 20(4). 26 indexed citations

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Vallis, Geoffrey K., Edwin P. Gerber, Paul J. Kushner, & Benjamin A. Cash. (2004). A Mechanism and Simple Dynamical Model of the North Atlantic Oscillation and Annular Modes. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 61(3). 264–280. 160 indexed citations

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