Kentaro Ando

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Kentaro Ando is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kentaro Ando has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Oceanography, 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 24 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Kentaro Ando's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (44 papers), Climate variability and models (29 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (14 papers). Kentaro Ando is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (44 papers), Climate variability and models (29 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (14 papers). Kentaro Ando collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Australia. Kentaro Ando's co-authors include Michael J. McPhaden, Yukio Masumoto, Fadli Syamsudin, Iwao Ueki, M. Ravichandran, Weidong Yu, Jérôme Vialard, V. S. N. Murty, G. Meyers and Lisan Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Kentaro Ando

53 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

RAMA: The Research Moored Array for African–Asian–Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction^*

2008 488 citations Michael J. McPhaden, Kentaro Ando et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kentaro Ando Japan	18	1.3k	1.0k	650	89	57	55	1.5k
Mounir Benkiran France	12	1.0k 0.8×	626 0.6×	567 0.9×	62 0.7×	35 0.6×	24	1.2k
Fabrice Bonjean United States	10	1.1k 0.9×	819 0.8×	540 0.8×	91 1.0×	27 0.5×	21	1.2k
Bulusu Subrahmanyam United States	22	1.4k 1.1×	926 0.9×	835 1.3×	118 1.3×	37 0.6×	96	1.6k
Eric Greiner France	11	695 0.5×	498 0.5×	405 0.6×	53 0.6×	44 0.8×	17	843
Kyla Drushka United States	16	711 0.6×	511 0.5×	411 0.6×	47 0.5×	32 0.6×	37	873
Sandra J. Lubker United States	6	701 0.6×	918 0.9×	757 1.2×	95 1.1×	15 0.3×	6	1.1k
Annie P. S. Wong United States	12	732 0.6×	490 0.5×	425 0.7×	59 0.7×	27 0.5×	21	888
Florent Gasparin France	11	677 0.5×	484 0.5×	409 0.6×	80 0.9×	32 0.6×	15	867
Charly Régnier France	9	626 0.5×	451 0.4×	383 0.6×	45 0.5×	28 0.5×	16	770
Anant Parekh India	24	876 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	1.0k 1.6×	46 0.5×	23 0.4×	92	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kentaro Ando

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

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Horii, Takanori, et al.. (2025). Oceanic biophysical response to large-scale wind forcing observed southwest of Sumatra during December 2017. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography. 221. 105479–105479.

Horii, Takanori, Iwao Ueki, & Kentaro Ando. (2020). Coastal Upwelling Events, Salinity Stratification, and Barrier Layer Observed Along the Southwestern Coast of Sumatra. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 125(12). 11 indexed citations

Nagano, Akira & Kentaro Ando. (2020). Saildrone-observed atmospheric boundary layer response to winter mesoscale warm spot along the Kuroshio south of Japan. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science. 7(1). 7 indexed citations

Horii, Takanori, Iwao Ueki, & Kentaro Ando. (2018). Coastal upwelling events along the southern coast of Java during the 2008 positive Indian Ocean Dipole. Journal of Oceanography. 74(5). 499–508. 28 indexed citations

Nagano, Akira, Takuya Hasegawa, Iwao Ueki, & Kentaro Ando. (2017). El Niño–Southern Oscillation‐time scale covariation of sea surface salinity and freshwater flux in the western tropical and northern subtropical Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(13). 6895–6903. 10 indexed citations

Horii, Takanori, et al.. (2016). Intraseasonal coastal upwelling signal along the southern coast of Java observed using Indonesian tidal station data. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 121(4). 2690–2708. 17 indexed citations

Fujii, Yosuke, Koji Ogawa, Gary B. Brassington, et al.. (2015). Evaluating the impacts of the tropical Pacific observing system on the ocean analysis fields in the global ocean data assimilation system for operational seasonal forecasts in JMA. Journal of Operational Oceanography. 8(1). 25–39. 13 indexed citations

Horii, Takanori, Iwao Ueki, & Kentaro Ando. (2013). Contrasting Development and Decay Processes of Indian Ocean Dipoles in the 2000s. SOLA. 9(0). 183–186. 7 indexed citations

Ando, Kentaro, Yukio Masumoto, V. S. N. Murty, et al.. (2009). Supplement to RAMA: The Research Moored Array for African—Asian—Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 90(4). ES5–ES8. 23 indexed citations

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Ando, Kentaro & Takuya Hasegawa. (2009). Annual Zonal Displacement of Pacific Warm Pool in Association with El Nino Onset. SOLA. 5. 149–152. 7 indexed citations

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Meyers, Gary, M. Ravichandran, Fadli Syamsudin, et al.. (2009). SUPPLEMENT RAMA The Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 90(4). 5 indexed citations

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Hasegawa, Takuya, Kentaro Ando, Keisuke Mizuno, & Roger Lukas. (2009). Coastal upwelling along the north coast of Papua New Guinea and SST cooling over the pacific warm pool: A case study for the 2002/03 El Niño event. Journal of Oceanography. 65(6). 817–833. 16 indexed citations

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MATSUMOTΟ, Takeo, et al.. (2008). Improvements of oceanic and atmospheric measurements on the TRITON buoy. 1–5. 1 indexed citations

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Maes, Christophe, Kentaro Ando, Thierry Delcroix, et al.. (2006). Observed correlation of surface salinity, temperature and barrier layer at the eastern edge of the western Pacific warm pool - art. no. L06601. Geophysical Research Letters. 33(6). 20 indexed citations

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Ando, Kentaro, et al.. (2005). Drift Characteristics of a Moored Conductivity–Temperature–Depth Sensor and Correction of Salinity Data. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 22(3). 282–291. 45 indexed citations

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Maes, Christophe, Joël Picaut, Yoshifumi Kuroda, & Kentaro Ando. (2004). Characteristics of the convergence zone at the eastern edge of the Pacific warm pool. Geophysical Research Letters. 31(11). 44 indexed citations

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Ando, Kentaro & Yoshifumi Kuroda. (2002). Two Modes of Salinity and Temperature Variation in the Surface Layer of the Pacific Warm Pool. Journal of Oceanography. 58(4). 599–609. 4 indexed citations

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Mizuno, Keisuke, et al.. (2002). On the Weight Adjustment of Profiling Floats. 8 indexed citations

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Ando, Kentaro & Michael J. McPhaden. (1997). Variability of surface layer hydrography in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 102(C10). 23063–23078. 171 indexed citations

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Ando, Kentaro, Yoshifumi Kuroda, Kunio Yoneyama, Kei Muneyama, & Kensuke Takeuchi. (1995). Variations of Hydrographic Properties and Heat Budget Observed at 0°, 156°E during the TOGA COARE R/V Natsushima Cruise. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 73(2B). 653–663. 5 indexed citations

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