Peter Brandt

9.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
210 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Peter Brandt is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Brandt has authored 210 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Oceanography, 94 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 58 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Peter Brandt's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (135 papers), Climate variability and models (78 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (64 papers). Peter Brandt is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (135 papers), Climate variability and models (78 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (64 papers). Peter Brandt collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Peter Brandt's co-authors include Lothar Stramma, Marcus Dengler, Sunke Schmidtko, Angelo Rubino, Jürgen Fischer, Friedrich Schott, Arne Körtzinger, Richard J. Greatbatch, Martin Visbeck and Andreas Oschlies and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Peter Brandt

195 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

  1. Drivers and mechanisms of ocean deoxygenation
    2018 324 citations Andreas Oschlies, Peter Brandt et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Peter Brandt 4.2k 2.6k 1.8k 569 494 210 5.4k
Warren B. White 4.4k 1.0× 5.1k 1.9× 3.9k 2.2× 464 0.8× 528 1.1× 137 6.8k
Yi Chao 3.8k 0.9× 2.1k 0.8× 1.7k 0.9× 728 1.3× 128 0.3× 136 5.1k
Bryan A. Franz 5.1k 1.2× 2.7k 1.0× 1.8k 1.0× 1.9k 3.3× 342 0.7× 127 7.3k
Lee‐Lueng Fu 6.7k 1.6× 3.4k 1.3× 2.6k 1.4× 228 0.4× 384 0.8× 142 7.5k
Bruce D. Cornuelle 5.5k 1.3× 2.8k 1.1× 2.7k 1.5× 648 1.1× 64 0.1× 232 6.7k
Kenneth J. Voss 2.6k 0.6× 2.2k 0.8× 1.8k 1.0× 824 1.4× 91 0.2× 135 4.8k
Dimitris Menemenlis 5.3k 1.3× 4.0k 1.5× 5.2k 2.9× 524 0.9× 236 0.5× 183 8.9k
Harry van Loon 2.1k 0.5× 5.5k 2.1× 5.4k 3.0× 372 0.7× 597 1.2× 90 6.8k
Rainer Bleck 3.8k 0.9× 3.6k 1.4× 3.5k 1.9× 350 0.6× 95 0.2× 76 5.9k
T. Rossby 3.3k 0.8× 1.7k 0.7× 1.9k 1.1× 187 0.3× 161 0.3× 101 4.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Brandt

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Brandt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Peter Brandt. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Peter Brandt. The network helps show where Peter Brandt may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Brandt

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stemmann, Lars, et al.. (2025). Marine snow surface production and bathypelagic export at the Equatorial Atlantic from an imaging float. Biogeosciences. 22(24). 7985–8003.
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Brandt, Peter, et al.. (2024). Impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation on the Decadal Variability of the Upper Subtropical‐Tropical Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(4). 2 indexed citations
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Körner, Mareike, Peter Brandt, & Marcus Dengler. (2023). Seasonal cycle of sea surface temperature in the tropical Angolan Upwelling System. Ocean science. 19(1). 121–139. 8 indexed citations
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Brandt, Peter, et al.. (2022). Tropical Instability Waves and Wind‐Forced Cross‐Equatorial Flow in the Central Atlantic Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(19). 12 indexed citations
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Moum, James N., Kenneth Hughes, E. Shroyer, et al.. (2022). Deep Cycle Turbulence in Atlantic and Pacific Cold Tongues. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(8). 13 indexed citations
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Brandt, Peter, Kevin G. Lamb, Richard J. Greatbatch, et al.. (2021). Three Dimensional Numerical Simulations of Internal Tides in the Angolan Upwelling Region. 1 indexed citations
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Brandt, Peter, et al.. (2021). Seasonal variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 11° S inferred from bottom pressure measurements. Ocean science. 17(1). 265–284. 12 indexed citations
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Hummels, Rebecca, Marcus Dengler, Gregory R. Foltz, et al.. (2020). Surface cooling caused by rare but intense near-inertial wave induced mixing in the tropical Atlantic. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3829–3829. 11 indexed citations
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Arévalo‐Martínez, Damian L., Tobias Steinhoff, Peter Brandt, et al.. (2019). N2O Emissions From the Northern Benguela Upwelling System. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(6). 3317–3326. 23 indexed citations
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Fischer, Tim, Annette Kock, Damian L. Arévalo‐Martínez, et al.. (2019). Gas exchange estimates in the Peruvian upwelling regime biased by multi-day near-surface stratification. Biogeosciences. 16(11). 2307–2328. 6 indexed citations
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Fu, Yao, Chunzai Wang, Peter Brandt, & Richard J. Greatbatch. (2019). Interannual Variability of Antarctic Intermediate Water in the Tropical North Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 124(6). 4044–4057. 7 indexed citations
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Christiansen, Svenja, Henk‐Jan Hoving, Florian Schütte, et al.. (2018). Particulate matter flux interception in oceanic mesoscale eddies by the polychaete Poeobius sp.. Limnology and Oceanography. 63(5). 2093–2109. 38 indexed citations
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Oschlies, Andreas, Peter Brandt, Lothar Stramma, & Sunke Schmidtko. (2018). Drivers and mechanisms of ocean deoxygenation. Nature Geoscience. 11(7). 467–473. 324 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dengler, Marcus, et al.. (2018). Seasonal Variability of the Mauritania Current and Hydrography at 18°N. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(11). 8122–8137. 21 indexed citations
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Brandt, Peter, et al.. (2017). The Angola Current: Flow and hydrographic characteristics as observed at 11°S. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(2). 1177–1189. 47 indexed citations
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Stramma, Lothar, Rena Czeschel, Toste Tanhua, et al.. (2016). The flow field of the upper hypoxic eastern tropical North Atlantic oxygen minimum zone. Ocean science. 12(1). 153–167. 5 indexed citations
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Schütte, Florian, Peter Brandt, & Johannes Karstensen. (2015). Occurrence and characteristics of mesoscale eddies in the tropical northeast Atlantic Ocean. 5 indexed citations
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Karstensen, Johannes, Björn Fiedler, Florian Schütte, et al.. (2015). Open ocean dead zones in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean. Biogeosciences. 12(8). 2597–2605. 68 indexed citations
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Leviandier, Luc, Peter Brandt, R. Garello, et al.. (1998). Mesoscale Ocean Radar Signature Experiments: MORSE. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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