Peter Niiler

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Peter Niiler is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Niiler has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Oceanography, 7 papers in Atmospheric Science and 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Peter Niiler's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (11 papers), Climate variability and models (3 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (2 papers). Peter Niiler is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (11 papers), Climate variability and models (3 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (2 papers). Peter Niiler collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Ukraine. Peter Niiler's co-authors include Nikolai Maximenko, Jan Hafner, Kjell Arild Orvik, Dong‐Kyu Lee, Luca Centurioni, Murray D. Levine, Eric A. D’Asaro, Clayton A. Paulson, Charles C. Eriksen and Marie‐Hélène Rio and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Geophysical Research Letters and Marine Pollution Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Peter Niiler

14 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

Pathways of marine debris derived from trajectories of Lagrangian drifters

2011 473 citations Nikolai Maximenko, Jan Hafner et al. Marine Pollution Bulletin profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Niiler United States	11	858	557	452	408	229	14	1.4k
Peter Zavialov Russia	21	746 0.9×	403 0.7×	245 0.5×	128 0.3×	83 0.4×	84	1.2k
Nicolas Grima France	20	615 0.7×	297 0.5×	493 1.1×	192 0.5×	75 0.3×	29	1.1k
Vincent Taillandier France	22	1.0k 1.2×	269 0.5×	393 0.9×	148 0.4×	84 0.4×	59	1.3k
James T. Potemra United States	24	1.5k 1.8×	661 1.2×	1.2k 2.6×	152 0.4×	95 0.4×	40	1.9k
Francisco Machín Spain	19	847 1.0×	347 0.6×	438 1.0×	124 0.3×	85 0.4×	49	1.1k
Małgorzata Stramska Poland	24	1.6k 1.8×	332 0.6×	532 1.2×	75 0.2×	222 1.0×	54	1.8k
Christophe Maes France	31	2.1k 2.4×	988 1.8×	1.5k 3.2×	244 0.6×	106 0.5×	89	2.6k
Sarath Wijeratne Australia	18	525 0.6×	462 0.8×	319 0.7×	115 0.3×	66 0.3×	45	1.0k
Alexander Osadchiev Russia	22	683 0.8×	585 1.1×	137 0.3×	210 0.5×	111 0.5×	83	1.2k
Urmas Lips Estonia	22	958 1.1×	188 0.3×	293 0.6×	136 0.3×	89 0.4×	72	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Niiler

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

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14 of 14 papers shown

Maximenko, Nikolai, Jan Hafner, & Peter Niiler. (2011). Pathways of marine debris derived from trajectories of Lagrangian drifters. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 65(1-3). 51–62. 473 indexed citations breakdown →

Lee, Dong‐Kyu & Peter Niiler. (2010). Surface circulation in the southwestern Japan/East Sea as observed from drifters and sea surface height. Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 57(10). 1222–1232. 27 indexed citations

Lee, Dong‐Kyu & Peter Niiler. (2010). Influence of warm SST anomalies formed in the eastern Pacific subduction zone on recent El Niño events. Journal of Marine Research. 68(3). 459–477. 9 indexed citations

Lee, Dong‐Kyu & Peter Niiler. (2010). Eddies in the southwestern East/Japan Sea. Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 57(10). 1233–1242. 28 indexed citations

Sprintall, Janet, Sean C. Kennan, Yoo Yin Kim, & Peter Niiler. (2009). Wind-Driven Ageostrophic Transport in the North Equatorial Countercurrent of the Eastern Pacific at 95°W. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 39(11). 2985–2998. 5 indexed citations

Centurioni, Luca, Peter Niiler, & Dong‐Kyu Lee. (2009). Near‐surface circulation in the South China Sea during the winter monsoon. Geophysical Research Letters. 36(6). 36 indexed citations

Maximenko, Nikolai, Peter Niiler, Luca Centurioni, et al.. (2009). Mean Dynamic Topography of the Ocean Derived from Satellite and Drifting Buoy Data Using Three Different Techniques*. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 26(9). 1910–1919. 207 indexed citations

Niiler, Peter, et al.. (2004). Observed mechanisms of El Nino SST evolution in the Pacific. Journal of Marine Research. 62(6). 771–786. 4 indexed citations

Pazan, Stephen E. & Peter Niiler. (2004). New global drifter data set available. Eos. 85(2). 17–17. 28 indexed citations

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Orvik, Kjell Arild & Peter Niiler. (2002). Major pathways of Atlantic water in the northern North Atlantic and Nordic Seas toward Arctic. Geophysical Research Letters. 29(19). 287 indexed citations

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Born, George H., Norman L. Guinasso, Gregg Jacobs, et al.. (2000). Gulf of Mexico Monitoring System. Oceanography. 13(2). 10–17. 11 indexed citations

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Lie, Heung‐Jae, Cheol‐Ho Cho, Jae‐Hak Lee, Peter Niiler, & Jian‐Hwa Hu. (1998). Separation of the Kuroshio water and its penetration onto the continental shelf west of Kyushu. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 103(C2). 2963–2976. 111 indexed citations

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D’Asaro, Eric A., et al.. (1995). Upper-Ocean Inertial Currents Forced by a Strong Storm. Part I: Data and Comparisons with Linear Theory. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 25(11). 2909–2936. 169 indexed citations

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Lee, Dong‐Kyu, Peter Niiler, A. Warn‐Varnas, & Steve Piacsek. (1994). Wind-driven secondary circulation in ocean mesoscale. Journal of Marine Research. 52(3). 371–396. 34 indexed citations

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