Patrick Heimbach

13.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
132 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Patrick Heimbach is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Heimbach has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Oceanography, 79 papers in Atmospheric Science and 72 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Patrick Heimbach's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (82 papers), Climate variability and models (67 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (36 papers). Patrick Heimbach is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (82 papers), Climate variability and models (67 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (36 papers). Patrick Heimbach collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Patrick Heimbach's co-authors include Carl Wunsch, Rui M. Ponte, Chris Hill, Fiammetta Straneo, Jean‐Michel Campin, Gaël Forget, Dimitris Menemenlis, Martin Lösch, Matthew R. Mazloff and John Marshall and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Heimbach

127 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

ECCO version 4: an integrated framework for non-linear inverse modeling and global ocean state estimation

2015 541 citations Gaël Forget, Jean‐Michel Campin et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
An improved algorithm for the retrieval of ocean wave spectra from synthetic aperture radar image spectra

1996 246 citations C. Brüning, Klaus Hasselmann et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick Heimbach United States	43	4.5k	4.1k	3.5k	402	369	132	6.8k
Dimitris Menemenlis United States	51	5.3k 1.2×	5.2k 1.3×	4.0k 1.1×	732 1.8×	483 1.3×	183	8.9k
Andrew F. Thompson United States	42	3.9k 0.9×	3.9k 0.9×	2.6k 0.7×	502 1.2×	228 0.6×	150	5.8k
Jonathan D. Nash United States	51	5.5k 1.2×	4.0k 1.0×	1.7k 0.5×	347 0.9×	379 1.0×	126	7.1k
Alistair Adcroft United States	34	6.2k 1.4×	5.1k 1.3×	5.2k 1.5×	621 1.5×	68 0.2×	84	8.9k
Chris Hill United States	31	5.5k 1.2×	4.4k 1.1×	4.0k 1.1×	711 1.8×	55 0.1×	73	7.6k
Eli Tziperman United States	48	3.0k 0.7×	5.3k 1.3×	4.4k 1.3×	644 1.6×	70 0.2×	174	6.8k
Jean‐Michel Campin United States	33	2.6k 0.6×	2.8k 0.7×	2.1k 0.6×	527 1.3×	46 0.1×	62	4.3k
Sarah T. Gille United States	41	5.5k 1.2×	3.5k 0.9×	3.7k 1.1×	255 0.6×	33 0.1×	185	6.9k
Ichiro Fukumori United States	41	3.5k 0.8×	1.9k 0.5×	2.5k 0.7×	170 0.4×	71 0.2×	100	4.3k
R. M. Samelson United States	37	6.1k 1.4×	3.6k 0.9×	3.9k 1.1×	214 0.5×	28 0.1×	125	7.3k

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Pillar, Helen, Patrick Heimbach, An T. Nguyen, et al.. (2025). An Assessment of Uncertainty in the ECCO Global Ocean‐Sea Ice State Estimate Due To Atmospheric Forcing Uncertainty. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 130(6).

Narayanan, Sri Hari Krishna, Laurent Hascoët, Jean‐Michel Campin, et al.. (2024). MITgcm-AD v2: Open source tangent linear and adjoint modeling framework for the oceans and atmosphere enabled by the Automatic Differentiation tool Tapenade. Future Generation Computer Systems. 163. 107512–107512. 1 indexed citations

Nguyen, An T., et al.. (2021). The Arctic Subpolar Gyre sTate Estimate: Description and Assessment of a Data‐Constrained, Dynamically Consistent Ocean‐Sea Ice Estimate for 2002–2017. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(5). 37 indexed citations

Heimbach, Patrick, et al.. (2021). Leveraging Uncertainty Quantification to Design Ocean Climate Observing Systems. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(4). 10 indexed citations

Kostov, Yavor, H. L. Johnson, David P. Marshall, et al.. (2021). Distinct sources of interannual subtropical and subpolar Atlantic overturning variability. Nature Geoscience. 14(7). 491–495. 35 indexed citations

Heimbach, Patrick, et al.. (2020). Quantifying Dynamical Proxy Potential Through Shared Adjustment Physics in the North Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 125(9). 15 indexed citations

Nguyen, An T., Rebecca A. Woodgate, & Patrick Heimbach. (2020). Elucidating Large‐Scale Atmospheric Controls on Bering Strait Throughflow Variability Using a Data‐Constrained Ocean Model and Its Adjoint. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 125(9). 15 indexed citations

Goldberg, Daniel, Timothy A. Smith, Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan, Patrick Heimbach, & Mathieu Morlighem. (2020). Bathymetric Influences on Antarctic Ice‐Shelf Melt Rates. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 125(11). 8 indexed citations

Moon, Twila, T. A. Scambos, W. Abdalati, et al.. (2020). Ending a Sea of Confusion: Insights and Opportunities in Sea-Level Change Communication. Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. 62(5). 4–15. 6 indexed citations

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Narayanan, Sri Hari Krishna, et al.. (2020). SICOPOLIS-AD v1: an open-source adjoint modeling framework for ice sheet simulation enabled by the algorithmic differentiation tool OpenAD. Geoscientific model development. 13(4). 1845–1864. 2 indexed citations

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Smith, Timothy A. & Patrick Heimbach. (2018). Atmospheric Origins of Variability in the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Journal of Climate. 32(5). 1483–1500. 21 indexed citations

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Johnson, H. L., Helen Pillar, David P. Marshall, & Patrick Heimbach. (2016). Dynamical Attribution of Recent Variability in Atlantic Overturning. 2016. 15 indexed citations

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Baringer, Molly, William E. Johns, Gerard McCarthy, et al.. (2013). Meridional overturning circulation and heat transport observations in the Atlantic Ocean. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 2 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Gerard, J. K. Willis, Silvia L. Garzoli, et al.. (2013). Meridional overturning circulation and heat transport observations in the Atlantic Ocean [in 'state of the Climate in 2012']. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 6 indexed citations

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Mazloff, Matthew R., Patrick Heimbach, & Carl Wunsch. (2010). An Eddy-Permitting Southern Ocean State Estimate. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 40(5). 880–899. 350 indexed citations

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Dail, Holly, Patrick Heimbach, & Carl Wunsch. (2010). State estimation of Atlantic Ocean circulation at the Last Glacial Maximum. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 5664. 1 indexed citations

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Heimbach, Patrick, et al.. (2009). Global General Circulation of the Ocean Estimated by the ECCO-Consortium. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 169 indexed citations

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Strout, Michelle Mills, Nathan R. Tallent, Mike Fagan, et al.. (2006). ADJOINT CODE BY SOURCE TRANSFORMATION WITH OPENAD/F. ECCOMAS CFD 2006: Proceedings of the European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands, September 5-8, 2006. 10 indexed citations

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Hoteit, Ibrahim, et al.. (2003). A reduced-order optimization strategy for four dimensional variational data assimilation. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 802. 1 indexed citations

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Heimbach, Patrick, S. Hasselmann, C. Brüning, & Klaus Hasselmann. (1996). Application of Wave Spectral Retrievals from ERS-1 SAR Wave Mode Data for Improved Wind and Wave Field Analyses. ESASP. 383. 303. 1 indexed citations

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