Gilbert P. Compo

25.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
72 papers, 15.0k citations indexed

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Gilbert P. Compo is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Gilbert P. Compo has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 15.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 62 papers in Atmospheric Science and 23 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Gilbert P. Compo's work include Climate variability and models (61 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (44 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (18 papers). Gilbert P. Compo is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (61 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (44 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (18 papers). Gilbert P. Compo collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Gilbert P. Compo's co-authors include Christopher Torrence, Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, Jeffrey S. Whitaker, Matthew Newman, Michael A. Alexander, Cécile Penland, Peter J. Webster, Stefan Brönnimann, Rob Allan and George N. Kiladis and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Gilbert P. Compo

70 papers receiving 14.4k 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.

A Practical Guide to Wavelet Analysis

1998 11.5k citations Gilbert P. Compo et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →
ENSO-Forced Variability of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

2003 573 citations Gilbert P. Compo et al. Journal of Climate profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gilbert P. Compo United States	29	6.8k	6.5k	3.2k	1.9k	1.3k	72	15.0k
Christopher Torrence United States	5	4.7k 0.7×	4.4k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	1.9k 1.0×	1.8k 1.5×	6	13.6k
John C. Moore Finland	61	6.4k 0.9×	8.0k 1.2×	2.7k 0.9×	982 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	313	18.7k
Michael Ghil United States	66	11.2k 1.6×	10.3k 1.6×	6.0k 1.9×	822 0.4×	1.9k 1.5×	346	19.5k
Norden E. Huang United States	49	4.0k 0.6×	3.4k 0.5×	3.5k 1.1×	847 0.5×	2.0k 1.5×	170	40.1k
Svetlana Jevrejeva United Kingdom	40	4.4k 0.6×	3.9k 0.6×	3.4k 1.1×	519 0.3×	873 0.7×	90	10.2k
Aslak Grinsted Denmark	32	3.6k 0.5×	3.9k 0.6×	2.4k 0.8×	500 0.3×	864 0.7×	84	9.2k
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert United States	60	3.7k 0.5×	5.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	2.5k 1.4×	715 0.6×	174	13.0k
Pascal Yiou France	49	6.8k 1.0×	8.2k 1.3×	1.9k 0.6×	281 0.2×	572 0.5×	179	13.1k
Quanan Zheng United States	35	2.5k 0.4×	2.9k 0.4×	5.0k 1.6×	433 0.2×	800 0.6×	190	22.5k
Zhaohua Wu China	36	3.8k 0.5×	2.9k 0.5×	1.6k 0.5×	318 0.2×	817 0.6×	139	15.2k

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Sardeshmukh, Prashant D., Cécile Penland, & Gilbert P. Compo. (2025). Learning ENSO Dynamics from Data. Journal of Climate. 38(24). 7437–7452.

Sardeshmukh, Prashant D., et al.. (2023). Improving Atmospheric Models by Accounting for Chaotic Physics. Journal of Climate. 36(16). 5569–5585. 2 indexed citations

Klotzbach, Philip J., Carl J. Schreck, Gilbert P. Compo, et al.. (2023). Influence of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation on Continental United States Hurricane Landfalls. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(7). 4 indexed citations

Hawkins, Ed, Philip Brohan, Samantha Burgess, et al.. (2023). Rescuing historical weather observations improves quantification of severe windstorm risks. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(4). 1465–1482. 11 indexed citations

Brönnimann, Stefan, Peter Stucki, Jörg Franke, et al.. (2022). Influence of warming and atmospheric circulation changes on multidecadal European flood variability. Climate of the past. 18(4). 919–933. 14 indexed citations

Brönnimann, Stefan, Peter Stucki, Jörg Franke, et al.. (2021). Influence of Warming and Atmospheric Circulation Changes on Multidecadal European Flood Variability. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Xiaosong, Thomas L. Delworth, Fanrong Zeng, et al.. (2021). On the Development of GFDL's Decadal Prediction System: Initialization Approaches and Retrospective Forecast Assessment. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(11). 23 indexed citations

Turney, Chris, Andrew Klekociuk, Christopher J. Fogwill, et al.. (2017). Brief communication: Changing mid-twentieth century Antarctic sea ice variability linked to tropical forcing. 3 indexed citations

Turney, Chris, Richard T. Jones, David Lister, et al.. (2016). Anomalous mid-twentieth century atmospheric circulation change over the South Atlantic compared to the last 6000 years. Environmental Research Letters. 11(6). 64009–64009. 18 indexed citations

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Brohan, Philip, Gilbert P. Compo, Stefan Brönnimann, et al.. (2016). The 1816 ‘year without a summer’ in an atmospheric reanalysis. 8 indexed citations

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Compo, Gilbert P., James A. Carton, Arun Kumar, et al.. (2016). Report from the NOAA Climate Reanalysis Task Force Technical Workshop.. NOAA Institutional Repository. 1 indexed citations

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Stickler, Alexander, Richard Wartenburger, Hans Hersbach, et al.. (2015). Upper-air observations from the German Atlantic Expedition (1925–27) and comparison with the Twentieth Century and ERA-20C reanalyses. Meteorologische Zeitschrift. 24(5). 525–544. 7 indexed citations

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Sandeep, S., Frøde Stordal, Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, & Gilbert P. Compo. (2014). Pacific Walker Circulation variability in coupled and uncoupled climate models. Climate Dynamics. 43(1-2). 103–117. 73 indexed citations

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Neff, W. D., Gilbert P. Compo, F. Martin Ralph, & Matthew D. Shupe. (2014). Continental heat anomalies and the extreme melting of the Greenland ice surface in 2012 and 1889. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 119(11). 6520–6536. 104 indexed citations

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Compo, Gilbert P., Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, Jeffrey S. Whitaker, et al.. (2013). Independent confirmation of global land warming without the use of station temperatures. Geophysical Research Letters. 40(12). 3170–3174. 41 indexed citations

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Allan, Rob, Philip Brohan, Gilbert P. Compo, et al.. (2011). The International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) Initiative. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 92(11). 1421–1425. 133 indexed citations

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Allan, Rob, Gilbert P. Compo, & James A. Carton. (2011). Recovery of Global Surface Weather Observations for Historical Reanalyses and International Users. Eos. 92(18). 154–154. 6 indexed citations

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Stickler, Alexander, Andrea Grant, Tracy Ewen, et al.. (2009). The Comprehensive Historical Upper-Air Network. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 91(6). 741–752. 48 indexed citations

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Compo, Gilbert P. & Prashant D. Sardeshmukh. (2009). Removing ENSO-Related Variations from the Climate Record. Journal of Climate. 23(8). 1957–1978. 155 indexed citations

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Compo, Gilbert P.. (1997). Modulation of East Asian pressure surges. PhDT. 5440. 1 indexed citations

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