John M. Lyman

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

John M. Lyman is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John M. Lyman has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Oceanography, 26 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 19 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in John M. Lyman's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (28 papers), Climate variability and models (26 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (11 papers). John M. Lyman is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (28 papers), Climate variability and models (26 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (11 papers). John M. Lyman collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. John M. Lyman's co-authors include Gregory C. Johnson, Sunke Schmidtko, J. K. Willis, Norman G. Loeb, Masayoshi Ishii, Viktor Gouretski, Simon Good, Richard P. Allan, Brian J. Soden and Graeme L. Stephens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

In The Last Decade

John M. Lyman

42 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Satellite and Ocean Data Reveal Marked Increase in Earth’s Heating Rate

2021 141 citations Norman G. Loeb, Gregory C. Johnson et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John M. Lyman United States	23	1.6k	1.6k	1.2k	139	71	43	2.4k
John Gilson United States	19	2.0k 1.2×	2.6k 1.6×	1.2k 1.0×	193 1.4×	87 1.2×	25	3.0k
Julien Le Sommer France	29	1.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	1.7k 1.4×	78 0.6×	124 1.7×	87	2.7k
Xichen Li China	21	1.8k 1.1×	819 0.5×	1.8k 1.5×	136 1.0×	85 1.2×	98	2.3k
Viktor Gouretski Germany	15	955 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	625 0.5×	88 0.6×	38 0.5×	35	1.4k
James G. Richman United States	33	1.5k 0.9×	2.9k 1.8×	1.3k 1.1×	325 2.3×	135 1.9×	72	3.3k
J. Thomas Farrar United States	31	1.3k 0.8×	2.3k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	256 1.8×	68 1.0×	108	2.8k
Silvia L. Garzoli United States	34	2.1k 1.3×	3.0k 1.9×	1.3k 1.1×	261 1.9×	94 1.3×	93	3.4k
Michele M. Rienecker United States	27	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	109 0.8×	20 0.3×	64	2.6k
Yanluan Lin China	29	2.4k 1.5×	705 0.4×	2.8k 2.3×	117 0.8×	43 0.6×	122	3.1k
Jean‐Marc Molines France	33	2.3k 1.4×	3.0k 1.8×	1.7k 1.5×	78 0.6×	119 1.7×	80	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by John M. Lyman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John M. Lyman

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Loeb, Norman G., Seung‐Hee Ham, Richard P. Allan, et al.. (2024). Observational Assessment of Changes in Earth’s Energy Imbalance Since 2000. Surveys in Geophysics. 45(6). 1757–1783. 17 indexed citations

Johnson, Gregory C., Felix W. Landerer, Norman G. Loeb, et al.. (2023). Closure of Earth’s Global Seasonal Cycle of Energy Storage. Surveys in Geophysics. 45(6). 1785–1797. 3 indexed citations

Johnson, Gregory C. & John M. Lyman. (2022). GOSML: A Global Ocean Surface Mixed Layer Statistical Monthly Climatology: Means, Percentiles, Skewness, and Kurtosis. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(1). 22 indexed citations

Loeb, Norman G., Michael Mayer, Seiji Kato, et al.. (2022). Evaluating Twenty‐Year Trends in Earth's Energy Flows From Observations and Reanalyses. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(12). 34 indexed citations

Loeb, Norman G., Gregory C. Johnson, Tyler J. Thorsen, et al.. (2021). Satellite and Ocean Data Reveal Marked Increase in Earth’s Heating Rate. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(13). 141 indexed citations breakdown →

Scannell, Hillary A., Gregory C. Johnson, LuAnne Thompson, John M. Lyman, & Stephen C. Riser. (2020). Subsurface Evolution and Persistence of Marine Heatwaves in the Northeast Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(23). 107 indexed citations

Johnson, Gregory C., et al.. (2020). Antarctic Bottom Water Warming in the Brazil Basin: 1990s Through 2020, From WOCE to Deep Argo. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(18). 28 indexed citations

Johnson, Gregory C. & John M. Lyman. (2020). Warming trends increasingly dominate global ocean. Nature Climate Change. 10(8). 757–761. 156 indexed citations

Jacobs, Leonie, et al.. (2019). Impact of water sanitation on broiler chicken production and welfare parameters. The Journal of Applied Poultry Research. 29(1). 258–268. 10 indexed citations

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Durack, Paul J., Peter J. Gleckler, Sarah G. Purkey, et al.. (2018). Ocean Warming: From the Surface to the Deep in Observations and Models. Oceanography. 31(2). 41–51. 32 indexed citations

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Johnson, Gregory C., John M. Lyman, & Norman G. Loeb. (2016). Improving estimates of Earth's energy imbalance. Nature Climate Change. 6(7). 639–640. 99 indexed citations

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Schmidtko, Sunke, Gregory C. Johnson, & John M. Lyman. (2013). MIMOC: A global monthly isopycnal upper‐ocean climatology with mixed layers. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 118(4). 1658–1672. 217 indexed citations

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Gorman, John M., Franco Reseghetti, J. K. Willis, et al.. (2011). A computational method for determining XBT depths. Ocean science. 7(6). 733–743. 14 indexed citations

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Lyman, John M., Simon Good, Viktor Gouretski, et al.. (2010). Robust warming of the global upper ocean. Nature. 465(7296). 334–337. 270 indexed citations

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Willis, J. K., John M. Lyman, Gregory C. Johnson, & John Gilson. (2008). In Situ Data Biases and Recent Ocean Heat Content Variability*. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 26(4). 846–852. 59 indexed citations

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Willis, J. K., John M. Lyman, Gregory C. Johnson, & John Gilson. (2007). Correction to “Recent cooling of the upper ocean”. Geophysical Research Letters. 34(16). 59 indexed citations

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Chelton, Dudley B., Michael G. Schlax, John M. Lyman, & Gregory C. Johnson. (2003). Equatorially trapped Rossby waves in the presence of meridionally sheared baroclinic flow in the Pacific Ocean. Progress In Oceanography. 56(2). 323–380. 52 indexed citations

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Lyman, John M.. (2002). The cross-equatorial structure of tropical instability waves in sea surface height. 2 indexed citations

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Lyman, John M., Moshe Solomonow, & Amos Freedy. (1977). Perspectives for automation in rehabilitation engineering. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 14(14). 148–154. 1 indexed citations

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Lyman, John M.. (1954). The deepest sounding in the North Atlantic. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 222(1150). 334–336. 3 indexed citations

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