Joël Hirschi

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Joël Hirschi is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joël Hirschi has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Oceanography, 68 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 57 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Joël Hirschi's work include Climate variability and models (67 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (63 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (22 papers). Joël Hirschi is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (67 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (63 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (22 papers). Joël Hirschi collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and France. Joël Hirschi's co-authors include Jochem Marotzke, Stuart A. Cunningham, Harry L. Bryden, Torsten Kanzow, William E. Johns, Christopher S. Meinen, Lisa M. Beal, Molly Baringer, Bablu Sinha and D. Rayner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Joël Hirschi

86 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Temporal Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5°N

2007 695 citations Stuart A. Cunningham, Torsten Kanzow et al. profile →

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Joël Hirschi

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Stuart A. Cunningham United Kingdom

Craig M. Lee United States

Dunxin Hu China

Kimio Hanawa Japan

Herlé Mercier France

Monika Rhein Germany

Paul Spence Australia

Clément de Boyer Montégut France

Alban Lazar France

Sabrina Speich France

Stuart A. Cunningham United Kingdom

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Countries citing papers authored by Joël Hirschi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joël Hirschi

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joël Hirschi

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ichikawa, Kaoru, et al.. (2025). Seasonal and mesoscale-eddy-caused variability in the Kuroshio surface current northeast of Taiwan differentiated using nine years of ocean radar observations. Journal of Marine Systems. 250. 104085–104085.

Dong, Buwen, Yevgeny Aksenov, Ioana Colfescu, et al.. (2025). Key drivers of large scale changes in North Atlantic atmospheric and oceanic circulations and their predictability. Climate Dynamics. 63(2). 113–113.

Wood, Melissa, Ivan D. Haigh, Nguyen Nghia Hung, et al.. (2024). Risk of compound flooding substantially increases in the future Mekong River delta. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 24(10). 3627–3649. 3 indexed citations

Jevrejeva, Svetlana, Francisco M. Calafat, Michela De Dominicis, et al.. (2024). Challenges, Advances and Opportunities in Regional Sea Level Projections: The Role of Ocean‐Shelf Dynamics. Earth s Future. 12(8). 7 indexed citations

Skliris, Nikolaos, et al.. (2024). Increased Summer Monsoon Rainfall Over Northwest India Caused by Hadley Cell Expansion and Indian Ocean Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(16). 4 indexed citations

Wood, Melissa, Ivan D. Haigh, Nguyen Nghia Hung, et al.. (2023). Climate-induced storminess forces major increases in future storm surge hazard in the South China Sea region. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(7). 2475–2504. 14 indexed citations

McCarthy, Gerard, et al.. (2023). The relationship between sea surface temperature anomalies, wind and translation speed and North Atlantic tropical cyclone rainfall over ocean and land. Environmental Research Communications. 5(2). 25007–25007. 9 indexed citations

Ortega, Pablo, Jon Robson, Matthew Menary, et al.. (2021). Labrador Sea subsurface density as a precursor of multidecadal variability in the North Atlantic: a multi-model study. Earth System Dynamics. 12(2). 419–438. 22 indexed citations

Yool, Andrew, Julien Palmiéri, Colin Jones, et al.. (2021). Evaluating the physical and biogeochemical state of the global ocean component of UKESM1 in CMIP6 historical simulations. Geoscientific model development. 14(6). 3437–3472. 32 indexed citations

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Swingedouw, Didier, et al.. (2021). Western boundary circulation and coastal sea-level variability in Northern Hemisphere oceans. Ocean science. 17(5). 1449–1471. 15 indexed citations

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Marsh, Robert, et al.. (2019). Ocean Precursors to the extreme Atlantic 2017 hurricane season. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1242. 1 indexed citations

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Duchez, Aurélie, et al.. (2016). Potential for seasonal prediction of Atlantic sea surface temperatures using the RAPID array at 26°N. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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Penduff, Thierry, et al.. (2015). Intrinsic Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at Interannual-to-Multidecadal Time Scales. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 45(7). 1929–1946. 52 indexed citations

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Hirschi, Joël, Adam T. Blaker, Bablu Sinha, et al.. (2013). Chaotic variability of the meridional overturning circulation on subannual to interannual timescales. Ocean science. 9(5). 805–823. 37 indexed citations

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Sonnewald, Maike, Joël Hirschi, & Robert Marsh. (2013). Oceanic dominance of interannual subtropical North Atlantic heat content variability. 4 indexed citations

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Sonnewald, Maike, Joël Hirschi, Robert Marsh, Elaine L. McDonagh, & Brian King. (2013). Atlantic meridional ocean heat transport at 26° N: impact on subtropical ocean heat content variability. Ocean science. 9(6). 1057–1069. 11 indexed citations

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Tailleux, Rémi, et al.. (2012). The vertical structure of oceanic Rossby waves: a comparison of high-resolution model data to theoretical vertical structures. Ocean science. 8(1). 19–35. 9 indexed citations

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Kanzow, Torsten, Stuart A. Cunningham, William E. Johns, et al.. (2010). Continuous observations of the variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 26.5°N: Major results and present challenges. EGUGA. 7074. 1 indexed citations

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Atkinson, C. P., Harry L. Bryden, Joël Hirschi, & Torsten Kanzow. (2010). On the seasonal cycles and variability of Florida Straits, Ekman and Sverdrup transports at 26° N in the Atlantic Ocean. Ocean science. 6(4). 837–859. 25 indexed citations

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Kanzow, Torsten, H. L. Johnson, David P. Marshall, et al.. (2009). Basin-wide integrated volume transports in an eddy-filled ocean. Unimas Institutional Repository (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak). 2481. 10 indexed citations

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