Henry Stommel

13.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
140 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Henry Stommel is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Henry Stommel has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Oceanography, 37 papers in Atmospheric Science and 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Henry Stommel's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (72 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (24 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (14 papers). Henry Stommel is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (72 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (24 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (14 papers). Henry Stommel collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Slovakia. Henry Stommel's co-authors include A. B. Arons, James R. Luyten, 耕造吉田, Joseph Pedlosky, Nelson G. Hogg, K.N. Fedorov, George Veronis, Friedrich Schott, Allan R. Robinson and Harry L. Bryden and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Henry Stommel

130 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Thermohaline Convection with Two Stable Regimes of Flow

1961 921 citations Henry Stommel Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography profile →
The Ventilated Thermocline

1983 623 citations James R. Luyten, Henry Stommel et al. Journal of Physical Oceanography profile →
Kuroshio : its physical aspects

1972 523 citations Henry Stommel, 耕造吉田 profile →
Thermohaline Convection with Two Stable Regimes of Flow

1961 446 citations Henry Stommel Tellus profile →

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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Henry Stommel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Henry Stommel 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 Henry Stommel. Henry Stommel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A Conjectural Regulating Mechanism for Determining the Thermohaline Structure of the Oceanic Mixed Layer 1993 ·Journal of Physical Oceanography ·Henry Stommel	27
2	Experiments with cross-gyre flow patterns on a beta-plane 1986 ·Deep Sea Research Part A Oceanographic Research Papers ·James R. Luyten, Henry Stommel	10
3	The heton, an elementary interaction between discrete baroclinic geostrophic vortices, and its implications concerning eddy heat-flow 1985 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences ·Nelson G. Hogg, Henry Stommel	172
4	Upstream effects of the Gulf Stream on the structure of the mid-ocean thermocline 1985 ·Progress In Oceanography ·James R. Luyten, Henry Stommel	7
5	Limiting processes that determine basic features of the circulation in the mediterranean-sea 1984 ·Institutional Archive of Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) ·Harry L. Bryden, Henry Stommel	139
6	The density jump across Little Bahama Bank 1984 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·James R. Luyten, Henry Stommel	2
7	Subsurface subtropical gyre of the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans 1983 ·Reviews of Geophysics ·Henry Stommel	1
8	Evolution of physical oceanography : scientific surveys in honor of Henry Stommel 1981 ·MIT Press eBooks ·Henry Stommel, Bruce A. Warren, Carl Wunsch	53
9	Does some of the Mediterranean outflow come from great depth? 1973 ·Pure and Applied Geophysics ·Henry Stommel, Harry L. Bryden, Paul C. Mangelsdorf	84
10	Kuroshio : its physical aspects breakdown → 1972 ·Henry Stommel, 耕造吉田	523
11	Submarine Clouds in the Deep Ocean 1971 ·American Scientist ·Henry Stommel, Arthur D. Voorhis, (unknown)	23
12	On the interaction of gravitational and dynamic forcing in simple circulation models 1968 ·Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts ·Henry Stommel, Claes Rooth	18
13	The Large-Scale Oceanic Circulation 1966 ·Diqiu kexue jinzhan ·Henry Stommel	4
14	The tides and kindred phenomena in the solar system 1962 ·Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts ·Henry Stommel	4
15	THE OCEANIC THERMOCLINE 1959 ·Tellus ·Allan R. Robinson, Henry Stommel, Pierre Welander	17
16	The Oceanic Thermocline and the Associated Thermohaline Circulation 1959 ·Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography ·Allan R. Robinson, Henry Stommel	144
17	Amplification of transient response of the ocean to storms by the effect of bottom topography 1958 ·Deep Sea Research (1953) ·Allan R. Robinson, Henry Stommel	9
18	Steady Convective Motion in a Horizontal Layer of Fluid Heated Uniformly from Above and Cooled Non-uniformly from Below 1957 ·Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography ·Henry Stommel, George Veronis	17
19	Lateral eddy viscosity in the Gulf stream system 1955 ·Deep Sea Research (1953) ·Henry Stommel	10
20	RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE STUDY OF TIDAL ESTUARIES 1951 ·Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) ·Henry Stommel	4

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