Matthew H. Alford

11.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
162 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Matthew H. Alford is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew H. Alford has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 153 papers in Oceanography, 78 papers in Atmospheric Science and 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Matthew H. Alford's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (151 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (75 papers) and Climate variability and models (40 papers). Matthew H. Alford is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (151 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (75 papers) and Climate variability and models (40 papers). Matthew H. Alford collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Matthew H. Alford's co-authors include Jonathan D. Nash, Jennifer MacKinnon, Zhongxiang Zhao, Harper L. Simmons, Jody Klymak, Michael C. Gregg, Robert Pinkel, Eric Kunze, James B. Girton and R. Pinkel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Matthew H. Alford

157 papers receiving 6.9k 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.

Global Patterns of Diapycnal Mixing from Measurements of the Turbulent Dissipation Rate

2014 403 citations Amy F. Waterhouse, Jennifer MacKinnon et al. Journal of Physical Oceanography profile →
Near-Inertial Internal Gravity Waves in the Ocean

2015 310 citations Matthew H. Alford, Jennifer MacKinnon et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthew H. Alford United States	44	6.6k	3.5k	2.0k	685	406	162	7.1k
Jody Klymak Canada	38	4.7k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	659 1.0×	240 0.6×	87	5.0k
Jonathan D. Nash United States	51	5.5k 0.8×	4.0k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	968 1.4×	347 0.9×	126	7.1k
Robert Pinkel United States	36	4.8k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	471 0.7×	286 0.7×	101	5.2k
Kurt L. Polzin United States	37	5.2k 0.8×	3.0k 0.9×	2.4k 1.2×	563 0.8×	338 0.8×	74	5.6k
Thomas B. Sanford United States	44	5.9k 0.9×	4.3k 1.2×	2.3k 1.1×	842 1.2×	245 0.6×	113	6.7k
Ren‐Chieh Lien United States	38	3.5k 0.5×	2.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	472 0.7×	168 0.4×	100	4.0k
Ilker Fer Norway	38	2.8k 0.4×	3.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	292 0.4×	756 1.9×	147	4.2k
Andrew F. Thompson United States	42	3.9k 0.6×	3.9k 1.1×	2.6k 1.3×	177 0.3×	502 1.2×	150	5.8k
Brian K. Arbic United States	40	3.7k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	2.1k 1.0×	294 0.4×	162 0.4×	127	4.2k
Terrence M. Joyce United States	43	4.7k 0.7×	2.8k 0.8×	2.9k 1.4×	359 0.5×	307 0.8×	122	5.4k

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Alford, Matthew H., Arnaud Le Boyer, Gunnar Voet, et al.. (2025). Observations of Turbulence Generated by a Near‐Inertial Wave Propagating Downward in an Anticyclonic Eddy. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(6).

Colosi, John A., Timothy F. Duda, Matthew H. Alford, Ying-Tsong Lin, & Gunnar Voet. (2024). On the feasibility of using short-range, high-frequency transmissions to characterize the vertical-spectra of small-scale internal waves and turbulence in a bottom boundary layer. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 155(3_Supplement). A278–A279. 1 indexed citations

Lenain, Luc, et al.. (2024). Observations and Numerical Simulations of the Onset and Growth of Langmuir Circulations. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 54(8). 1737–1763.

Boyer, Arnaud Le, et al.. (2024). Interacting internal waves explain global patterns of interior ocean mixing. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7468–7468. 4 indexed citations

Alford, Matthew H., Shang‐Ping Xie, Janet Sprintall, et al.. (2023). Prolonged thermocline warming by near-inertial internal waves in the wakes of tropical cyclones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(26). e2301664120–e2301664120. 16 indexed citations

Pratt, Larry J., et al.. (2022). Hydraulic control of flow in a multi-passage system connecting two basins. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 940. 1 indexed citations

Waterhouse, Amy F., Eric Kunze, Jennifer MacKinnon, et al.. (2022). Global Observations of Rotary-With-Depth Shear Spectra. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 7 indexed citations

Sanford, Thomas B., B. Barry, & Matthew H. Alford. (2021). Stalling and Dissipation of a Near‐Inertial Wave (NIW) in an Anticyclonic Ocean Eddy: Direct Determination of Group Velocity and Comparison With Theory. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(5). 11 indexed citations

Alford, Matthew H., et al.. (2021). Data‐Driven Identification of Turbulent Oceanic Mixing From Observational Microstructure Data. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(23). 9 indexed citations

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Wagner, Gregory LeClaire, Glenn R. Flierl, Raffaele Ferrari, et al.. (2019). Squeeze Dispersion and the Effective Diapycnal Diffusivity of Oceanic Tracers. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(10). 5378–5386. 7 indexed citations

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Merrifield, M. A., Eric Firing, Jennifer MacKinnon, et al.. (2019). Observations of Near-Inertial Surface Currents at Palau. Oceanography. 32(4). 74–83. 5 indexed citations

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MacKinnon, Jennifer, Matthew H. Alford, Gunnar Voet, et al.. (2019). Eddy Wake Generation From Broadband Currents Near Palau. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 124(7). 4891–4903. 40 indexed citations

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Girton, James B., John B. Mickett, Zhongxiang Zhao, et al.. (2019). Flow-Topography Interactions in the Samoan Passage. Oceanography. 32(4). 184–193. 5 indexed citations

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Voet, Gunnar, et al.. (2019). A Spatial Geography of Abyssal Turbulent Mixing in the Samoan Passage. Oceanography. 32(4). 194–203. 10 indexed citations

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Rudnick, Daniel L., et al.. (2019). Understanding Vorticity Caused by Flow Passing an Island. Oceanography. 32(4). 66–73. 15 indexed citations

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Andres, Magdalena, Verena Hormann, Ruth Musgrave, et al.. (2019). Eddies, Topography, and the Abyssal Flow by the Kyushu-Palau Ridge Near Velasco Reef. Oceanography. 32(4). 46–55. 10 indexed citations

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Savage, Anna C., Brian K. Arbic, Matthew H. Alford, et al.. (2017). Spectral decomposition of internal gravity wave sea surface height in global models. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(10). 7803–7821. 95 indexed citations

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Ansong, Joseph K., Brian K. Arbic, Matthew H. Alford, et al.. (2017). Semidiurnal Internal Tide Energy Fluxes and Their Variability in a Global Ocean Model and Moored Observations. Aquila Digital Community (University of Southern Mississippi). 1 indexed citations

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Savage, Anna C., Brian K. Arbic, James G. Richman, et al.. (2017). Frequency content of sea surface height variability from internal gravity waves to mesoscale eddies. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(3). 2519–2538. 69 indexed citations

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Girton, James B., et al.. (2011). Internal Wave Climates of the Philippine Seas. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations

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