Paul Spence

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Paul Spence is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Spence has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Oceanography, 44 papers in Atmospheric Science and 38 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Paul Spence's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (43 papers), Climate variability and models (36 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (28 papers). Paul Spence is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (43 papers), Climate variability and models (36 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (28 papers). Paul Spence collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Canada. Paul Spence's co-authors include Matthew H. England, Shayne McGregor, Agus Santoso, Andrew McC. Hogg, Michael J. McPhaden, Alex Sen Gupta, Axel Timmermann, Wenju Cai, Gerald A. Meehl and Ariaan Purich and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Climate and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Paul Spence

63 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Recent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus

2014 1.1k citations Matthew H. England, Shayne McGregor et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Spence Australia	26	2.4k	2.0k	1.8k	237	225	65	3.2k
Torsten Kanzow Germany	30	2.4k 1.0×	2.3k 1.2×	2.8k 1.6×	424 1.8×	226 1.0×	87	3.9k
Craig M. Lee United States	33	2.7k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	3.7k 2.1×	513 2.2×	336 1.5×	83	4.7k
Simon Marsland Australia	23	2.0k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	151 0.6×	187 0.8×	41	2.6k
Ruth Curry United States	18	1.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	249 1.1×	187 0.8×	24	2.7k
Paul G. Myers Canada	30	2.2k 0.9×	965 0.5×	1.6k 0.9×	476 2.0×	311 1.4×	148	2.7k
Oleg A. Saenko Canada	29	2.4k 1.0×	2.1k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	447 1.9×	332 1.5×	83	3.5k
Bruce A. Huber United States	26	1.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	159 0.7×	355 1.6×	47	2.5k
Catia M. Domingues Australia	20	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	53 0.2×	267 1.2×	29	2.5k
Mattias Green United Kingdom	25	1.2k 0.5×	520 0.3×	1.3k 0.7×	227 1.0×	285 1.3×	81	2.0k
Κay I. Ohshima Japan	40	4.4k 1.8×	1.0k 0.5×	2.4k 1.3×	767 3.2×	412 1.8×	178	5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Spence

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Spence

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Spence

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Morrison, Adele K., et al.. (2025). Antarctic Dense Water Formation Sensitivity to Ocean Surface Cell Thickness. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 17(7). 1 indexed citations

Wang, Zhaomin, Paul Spence, Yiyong Luo, et al.. (2025). Impact of anthropogenic climate change on Antarctic dense shelf water in a high-resolution Community Earth System Model (CESM1.3). Climate Dynamics. 63(9).

Spence, Paul, et al.. (2025). The variability of Antarctic dense water overflows can be observed from space. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).

Menviel, Laurie & Paul Spence. (2024). Southern Ocean circulation’s impact on atmospheric CO2 concentration. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 5 indexed citations

Hobbs, Will, Paul Spence, Amélie Meyer, et al.. (2024). Observational Evidence for a Regime Shift in Summer Antarctic Sea Ice. Journal of Climate. 37(7). 2263–2275. 41 indexed citations

Menviel, Laurie, Paul Spence, Andrew E. Kiss, et al.. (2023). Enhanced Southern Ocean CO ₂ outgassing as a result of stronger and poleward shifted southern hemispheric westerlies. Biogeosciences. 20(21). 4413–4431. 3 indexed citations

Morrison, Adele K., et al.. (2023). Sensitivity of Antarctic Shelf Waters and Abyssal Overturning to Local Winds. Journal of Climate. 36(18). 6465–6479. 11 indexed citations

Gray, William R., Casimir de Lavergne, Robert C. J. Wills, et al.. (2023). Poleward Shift in the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds Synchronous With the Deglacial Rise in CO₂. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 38(7). 26 indexed citations

Brüggemann, Nils, et al.. (2019). Pathways and watermass transformation of Atlantic Water entering the Nordic Seas through Denmark Strait in two high resolution ocean models. Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 145. 59–72. 14 indexed citations

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Thompson, Andrew F., Andrew L. Stewart, Paul Spence, & Karen J. Heywood. (2018). The Antarctic Slope Current in a Changing Climate. Reviews of Geophysics. 56(4). 741–770. 232 indexed citations

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Menviel, Laurie, Paul Spence, Jimin Yu, et al.. (2018). Southern Hemisphere westerlies as a driver of the early deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2503–2503. 129 indexed citations

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Jourdain, Nicolas C., et al.. (2017). Ice‐Shelf Melt Response to Changing Winds and Glacier Dynamics in the Amundsen Sea Sector, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(12). 10206–10224. 43 indexed citations

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Jourdain, Nicolas C., Pierre Mathiot, Nacho Merino, et al.. (2017). Ocean circulation and sea‐ice thinning induced by melting ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(3). 2550–2573. 102 indexed citations

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Walsh, Kevin, et al.. (2017). The effect on simulated ocean climate of a parameterization of unbroken wave‐induced mixing incorporated into the k‐epsilon mixing scheme. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 9(2). 735–758. 12 indexed citations

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Saenko, Oleg A., Duo Yang, Jonathan M. Gregory, Paul Spence, & Paul G. Myers. (2015). Separating the influence of projected changes in air temperature and wind on patterns of sea level change and ocean heat content. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 120(8). 5749–5765. 11 indexed citations

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McGregor, Shayne, Nandini Ramesh, Paul Spence, et al.. (2013). Meridional movement of wind anomalies during ENSO events and their role in event termination. UNSWorks (UNSW Sydney). 2012. 1077. 1 indexed citations

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Fogwill, Christopher J., Chris Turney, Katrin J. Meißner, et al.. (2013). Testing the sensitivity of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to Southern Ocean dynamics: past changes and future implications. Journal of Quaternary Science. 29(1). 91–98. 37 indexed citations

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Spence, Paul, Erik van Sebille, Oleg A. Saenko, & Matthew H. England. (2013). Using Eulerian and Lagrangian Approaches to Investigate Wind-Driven Changes in the Southern Ocean Abyssal Circulation. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 44(2). 662–675. 9 indexed citations

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Spence, Paul, John C. Fyfe, Álvaro Montenegro, & Andrew J. Weaver. (2010). Southern Ocean Response to Strengthening Winds in an Eddy-Permitting Global Climate Model. Journal of Climate. 23(19). 5332–5343. 48 indexed citations

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Truong, Amy, et al.. (1999). Probing the Potassium Channel K_vβ1/K_v1.1 Interaction Using a Random Peptide Display Library. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 868(1). 427–430. 2 indexed citations

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