Grant Branstator

9.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
73 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Grant Branstator is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Grant Branstator has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 62 papers in Atmospheric Science and 38 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Grant Branstator's work include Climate variability and models (65 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (50 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (35 papers). Grant Branstator is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (65 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (50 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (35 papers). Grant Branstator collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Grant Branstator's co-authors include Kevin E. Trenberth, Haiyan Teng, John M. Wallace, Chester Ropelewski, Arun Kumar, David J. Karoly, Ngar‐Cheung Lau, A. J. Simmons, Gerald A. Meehl and Phillip A. Arkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Grant Branstator

72 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Progress during TOGA in understanding and modeling global teleconnections associated with tropical sea surface temperatures

1998 1.4k citations Kevin E. Trenberth, Grant Branstator et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
Barotropic Wave Propagation and Instability, and Atmospheric Teleconnection Patterns

1983 686 citations Grant Branstator et al. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences profile →
Circumglobal Teleconnections, the Jet Stream Waveguide, and the North Atlantic Oscillation

2002 533 citations Grant Branstator 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
Grant Branstator United States	40	6.5k	5.8k	2.8k	186	153	73	7.0k
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh United States	46	6.5k 1.0×	5.9k 1.0×	3.0k 1.1×	142 0.8×	139 0.9×	98	7.1k
Richard Kleeman United States	38	4.2k 0.6×	3.5k 0.6×	2.6k 0.9×	283 1.5×	114 0.7×	84	4.8k
Matthew Newman United States	38	6.9k 1.1×	5.7k 1.0×	4.1k 1.5×	74 0.4×	281 1.8×	88	7.9k
David L. T. Anderson United Kingdom	43	4.5k 0.7×	4.0k 0.7×	4.2k 1.5×	117 0.6×	59 0.4×	121	6.1k
Eli Tziperman United States	48	4.4k 0.7×	5.3k 0.9×	3.0k 1.1×	189 1.0×	408 2.7×	174	6.8k
Claude Frankignoul France	41	6.5k 1.0×	5.3k 0.9×	4.9k 1.8×	48 0.3×	128 0.8×	124	7.3k
Robert E. Livezey United States	23	5.7k 0.9×	4.8k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	45 0.2×	200 1.3×	47	6.4k
Lawrence A. Mysak Canada	38	3.0k 0.5×	4.2k 0.7×	3.0k 1.1×	155 0.8×	409 2.7×	165	6.3k
Abraham H. Oort United States	34	4.7k 0.7×	4.6k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	242 1.3×	165 1.1×	59	6.2k
Stephen M. Griffies United States	54	7.9k 1.2×	6.6k 1.1×	7.6k 2.7×	162 0.9×	643 4.2×	156	11.6k

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Teng, Haiyan, L. Ruby Leung, Grant Branstator, Jian Lu, & Qinghua Ding. (2022). Warming Pattern over the Northern Hemisphere Midlatitudes in Boreal Summer 1979–2020. Journal of Climate. 35(11). 3479–3494. 20 indexed citations

Teng, Haiyan, Gerald A. Meehl, Grant Branstator, Stephen Yeager, & Alicia Karspeck. (2017). Initialization Shock in CCSM4 Decadal Prediction Experiments. Past Global Change Magazine. 25(1). 41–46. 5 indexed citations

Branstator, Grant & Haiyan Teng. (2017). Tropospheric Waveguide Teleconnections and Their Seasonality. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 74(5). 1513–1532. 63 indexed citations

Trenberth, Kevin E., John Fasullo, Grant Branstator, & Adam S. Phillips. (2014). Seasonal aspects of the recent pause in surface warming. Nature Climate Change. 4(10). 911–916. 269 indexed citations

Teng, Haiyan, Grant Branstator, & Gerald A. Meehl. (2011). Predictability of the Atlantic Overturning Circulation and Associated Surface Patterns in Two CCSM3 Climate Change Ensemble Experiments. Journal of Climate. 24(23). 6054–6076. 26 indexed citations

Berner, Judith & Grant Branstator. (2007). Linear and Nonlinear Signatures in the Planetary Wave Dynamics of an AGCM: Probability Density Functions. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 64(1). 117–136. 43 indexed citations

Franzke, Christian L. E., Andrew J. Majda, & Grant Branstator. (2007). The Origin of Nonlinear Signatures of Planetary Wave Dynamics: Mean Phase Space Tendencies and Contributions from Non-Gaussianity. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 64(11). 3987–4003. 30 indexed citations

Branstator, Grant & Judith Berner. (2005). Linear and Nonlinear Signatures in the Planetary Wave Dynamics of an AGCM: Phase Space Tendencies. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 62(6). 1792–1811. 43 indexed citations

Selten, Frank & Grant Branstator. (2004). Preferred Regime Transition Routes and Evidence for an Unstable Periodic Orbit in a Baroclinic Model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 61(18). 2267–2282. 28 indexed citations

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Selten, Frank, Grant Branstator, Henk A. Dijkstra, & Michael Kliphuis. (2004). Tropical origins for recent and future Northern Hemisphere climate change. Geophysical Research Letters. 31(21). 96 indexed citations

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Chhak, Kettyah C., Andy Moore, Ralph F. Milliff, et al.. (2003). Stochastic Forcing of the North Atlantic Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2003. 920. 2 indexed citations

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Branstator, Grant & Jorgen S. Frederiksen. (2003). The Seasonal Cycle of Interannual Variability and the Dynamical Imprint of the Seasonally Varying Mean State. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 60(13). 1577–1592. 16 indexed citations

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Schubert, Siegfried D., Max J. Suárez, Yehui Chang, & Grant Branstator. (2001). The Impact of ENSO on Extratropical Low-Frequency Noise in Seasonal Forecasts. Journal of Climate. 14(10). 2351–2365. 21 indexed citations

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Storch, Hans von, et al.. (1993). Numerical experiments on the atmospheric response to cold equatorial Pacific conditions ("La Nina") during northern summer. Max Planck Digital Library. 2. 99–120. 1 indexed citations

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Branstator, Grant. (1992). The Maintenance of Low-Frequency Atmospheric Anomalies. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 49(20). 1924–1946. 160 indexed citations

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Branstator, Grant, et al.. (1989). Study of the atmospheric general circulation as an initial value problem with the NCAR community climate model. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 94(D3). 3427–3450. 2 indexed citations

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Baker, W. E., S. C. Bloom, John S. Woollen, et al.. (1987). Experiments with a Three-Dimensional Statistical Objective Analysis Scheme Using FGGE Data. Monthly Weather Review. 115(1). 272–296. 34 indexed citations

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Branstator, Grant. (1985). Analysis of General Circulation Model Sea-Surface Temperature Anomaly Simulations Using a Linear Model. Part I: Forced Solutions. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 42(21). 2225–2241. 127 indexed citations

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Daley, Roger & Grant Branstator. (1982). A Comparison of Quasi-geostrophic and Primitive Equation Models for Stratospheric Sudden Warming Simulations. UCAR/NCAR. 2 indexed citations

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Schlatter, Thomas & Grant Branstator. (1979). Estimation of Errors in Nimbus 6 Temperature Profiles and Their Spatial Correlation. Monthly Weather Review. 107(10). 1402–1413. 12 indexed citations

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