Laure Zanna

5.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
89 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Laure Zanna is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Laure Zanna has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 69 papers in Oceanography and 54 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Laure Zanna's work include Climate variability and models (73 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (65 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (34 papers). Laure Zanna is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (73 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (65 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (34 papers). Laure Zanna collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Laure Zanna's co-authors include Thomas Bolton, Christopher O’Reilly, Tim Woollings, PierGianLuca Porta Mana, Eli Tziperman, Ben Bronselaer, Patrick Heimbach, Jonathan M. Gregory, Markus Huber and Samar Khatiwala and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Laure Zanna

86 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

3 papers align trajectories

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.

The causes of sea-level rise since 1900

2020 361 citations Thomas Frederikse, Felix W. Landerer et al. Nature profile →
Applications of Deep Learning to Ocean Data Inference and Subgrid Parameterization

2019 233 citations Thomas Bolton, Laure Zanna Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems profile →
Past and future ocean warming

2022 141 citations Lijing Cheng, Karina von Schuckmann et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laure Zanna United States	27	1.9k	1.7k	1.6k	185	151	89	2.8k
Annalisa Griffa Italy	34	1.2k 0.6×	2.3k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	100 0.5×	85 0.6×	89	3.0k
Arthur J. Mariano United States	30	1.5k 0.8×	2.4k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	108 0.6×	72 0.5×	68	3.1k
Frank Lunkeit Germany	27	2.1k 1.1×	585 0.3×	2.1k 1.3×	305 1.6×	137 0.9×	90	2.9k
Ralf Giering Germany	23	2.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	62 0.3×	285 1.9×	45	3.0k
X. San Liang China	22	1.3k 0.7×	907 0.5×	1.0k 0.7×	117 0.6×	160 1.1×	84	2.4k
Gustavo Goñi United States	33	2.4k 1.2×	3.2k 1.8×	2.3k 1.5×	82 0.4×	49 0.3×	110	4.0k
Steven D. Meyers United States	20	1.0k 0.5×	771 0.4×	929 0.6×	107 0.6×	134 0.9×	55	2.1k
Michele M. Rienecker United States	27	1.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	69 0.4×	93 0.6×	64	2.6k
Pavel Sakov Australia	22	1.4k 0.7×	995 0.6×	1.5k 1.0×	47 0.3×	271 1.8×	41	2.2k
Ralph F. Milliff United States	22	1.5k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	26 0.1×	196 1.3×	52	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laure Zanna

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Shi, Jia‐Rui, Laure Zanna, & Alistair Adcroft. (2025). The Impact of Natural External Forcing on Ocean Heat Uptake Efficiency Since the 1980s. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(18).

Adcroft, Alistair, et al.. (2025). Samudra: An AI Global Ocean Emulator for Climate. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(10). 4 indexed citations

Gregory, William K., Mitchell Bushuk, Yongfei Zhang, Alistair Adcroft, & Laure Zanna. (2024). Machine Learning for Online Sea Ice Bias Correction Within Global Ice‐Ocean Simulations. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(3). 7 indexed citations

Eisenman, Ian, et al.. (2024). The Sensitivity of the Spatial Pattern of Sea Level Changes to the Depth of Antarctic Meltwater Fluxes. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(19). 1 indexed citations

Bachman, Scott, et al.. (2024). Vertical Structure and Energetic Constraints for a Backscatter Parameterization of Ocean Mesoscale Eddies. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(7). 6 indexed citations

Adcroft, Alistair, et al.. (2023). Remote Versus Local Impacts of Energy Backscatter on the North Atlantic SST Biases in a Global Ocean Model. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(21). 5 indexed citations

Reichl, Brandon G., et al.. (2023). Parameterizing Vertical Mixing Coefficients in the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer Using Neural Networks. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(10). 19 indexed citations

Zanna, Laure, et al.. (2022). Influences of Mesoscale Ocean Eddies on Flow Vertical Structure in a Resolution‐Based Model Hierarchy. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 14(11). 11 indexed citations

Adcroft, Alistair, Baylor Fox‐Kemper, Stephen M. Griffies, et al.. (2022). NeverWorld2: an idealized model hierarchy to investigate ocean mesoscale eddies across resolutions. Geoscientific model development. 15(17). 6567–6579. 10 indexed citations

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Abernathey, Ryan, Ian Grooms, Julius Busecke, et al.. (2022). GCM-Filters: A Python Package for Diffusion-based Spatial Filtering of Gridded Data. The Journal of Open Source Software. 7(70). 3947–3947. 18 indexed citations

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Cheng, Lijing, Karina von Schuckmann, John Abraham, et al.. (2022). Past and future ocean warming. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 3(11). 776–794. 141 indexed citations breakdown →

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Todd, Alexander, Laure Zanna, Jonathan M. Gregory, et al.. (2020). Ocean‐Only FAFMIP: Understanding Regional Patterns of Ocean Heat Content and Dynamic Sea Level Change. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(8). 40 indexed citations

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Zanna, Laure & Thomas Bolton. (2020). Data‐Driven Equation Discovery of Ocean Mesoscale Closures. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(17). 132 indexed citations

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Frederikse, Thomas, Felix W. Landerer, Lambert Caron, et al.. (2020). The causes of sea-level rise since 1900. Nature. 584(7821). 393–397. 361 indexed citations breakdown →

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O’Reilly, Christopher, Laure Zanna, & Tim Woollings. (2019). Assessing External and Internal Sources of Atlantic Multidecadal Variability Using Models, Proxy Data, and Early Instrumental Indices. Journal of Climate. 32(22). 7727–7745. 27 indexed citations

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Bolton, Thomas, Ryan Abernathey, & Laure Zanna. (2019). Regional and Temporal Variability of Lateral Mixing in the North Atlantic. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 49(10). 2601–2614. 7 indexed citations

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Subramanian, Aneesh C., et al.. (2018). Remote and local influences in forecasting Pacific SST: a linear inverse model and a multimodel ensemble study. Climate Dynamics. 52(5-6). 3183–3201. 18 indexed citations

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Zanna, Laure, et al.. (2018). Energizing Turbulence Closures in Ocean Models. AGUFM. 2018. 3 indexed citations

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Zanna, Laure, et al.. (2013). Stochastic Parameterization of Ocean Mesoscale Eddies. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Zanna, Laure. (2009). Optimal excitation of Atlantic Ocean variability and implications for predictability. PhDT. 1 indexed citations

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