Raffaele Ferrari

12.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
116 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Raffaele Ferrari is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Raffaele Ferrari has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Oceanography, 75 papers in Atmospheric Science and 74 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Raffaele Ferrari's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (94 papers), Climate variability and models (69 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (40 papers). Raffaele Ferrari is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (94 papers), Climate variability and models (69 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (40 papers). Raffaele Ferrari collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Raffaele Ferrari's co-authors include Baylor Fox‐Kemper, Maxim Nikurashin, Carl Wunsch, John R. Taylor, Jörn Callies, Robert Hallberg, Giulio Boccaletti, Malte F. Jansen, Leif N. Thomas and Daniel L. Rudnick and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Raffaele Ferrari

114 papers receiving 8.8k 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.

Ocean Circulation Kinetic Energy: Reservoirs, Sources, and Sinks

2008 742 citations Raffaele Ferrari et al. profile →
Parameterization of Mixed Layer Eddies. Part I: Theory and Diagnosis

2008 604 citations Baylor Fox‐Kemper, Raffaele Ferrari et al. Journal of Physical Oceanography profile →
Mixed Layer Instabilities and Restratification

2007 537 citations Raffaele Ferrari, Baylor Fox‐Kemper et al. Journal of Physical Oceanography profile →

Peers

Raffaele Ferrari

OCEAN

GPC

Raymond W. Schmitt United States

Eric Kunze United States

Michael C. Gregg United States

Eli Tziperman United States

Dimitris Menemenlis United States

Thomas B. Sanford United States

Patrice Klein France

Kurt L. Polzin United States

Lawrence A. Mysak Canada

Sarah T. Gille United States

Raymond W. Schmitt United States

Raffaele Ferrari

5.8k ×0.7

OCEAN

3.3k ×0.7

3.0k ×0.6

GPC

575 ×1.1

608 ×1.2

Citations per year, relative to Raffaele Ferrari Raffaele Ferrari (= 1×) peers Raymond W. Schmitt

Countries citing papers authored by Raffaele Ferrari

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Fields of papers citing papers by Raffaele Ferrari

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raffaele Ferrari

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

All Works

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Garabato, Alberto C. Naveira, Carl Spingys, Bieito Fernández Castro, et al.. (2025). Connecting Mixing to Upwelling Along the Ocean's Sloping Boundary. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(22).

Wagner, Gregory LeClaire, Navid C. Constantinou, Christopher Hill, et al.. (2025). A GPU‐Based Ocean Dynamical Core for Routine Mesoscale‐Resolving Climate Simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 17(4). 2 indexed citations

Couto, Nicole, Henri F. Drake, Raffaele Ferrari, et al.. (2024). Observations of diapycnal upwelling within a sloping submarine canyon. Nature. 630(8018). 884–890. 9 indexed citations

Wagner, Gregory LeClaire, Jean‐Michel Campin, Navid C. Constantinou, et al.. (2024). A New WENO‐Based Momentum Advection Scheme for Simulations of Ocean Mesoscale Turbulence. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(7). 5 indexed citations

Schneider, Tapio, Jinlong Wu, Lucas Böttcher, et al.. (2022). Epidemic management and control through risk-dependent individual contact interventions. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(6). e1010171–e1010171. 16 indexed citations

Wagner, Gregory LeClaire, Gregory P. Chini, Ali Ramadhan, Basile Gallet, & Raffaele Ferrari. (2021). Near-Inertial Waves and Turbulence Driven by the Growth of Swell. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 51(5). 1337–1351. 3 indexed citations

Freilich, Mara, Alexandre Mignot, Glenn R. Flierl, & Raffaele Ferrari. (2021). Grazing behavior and winter phytoplankton accumulation. Biogeosciences. 18(20). 5595–5607. 8 indexed citations

Souza, Andre N., Gregory LeClaire Wagner, Ali Ramadhan, et al.. (2020). Uncertainty Quantification of Ocean Parameterizations: Application to the K‐Profile‐Parameterization for Penetrative Convection. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(12). 19 indexed citations

Drake, Henri F., Raffaele Ferrari, & Jörn Callies. (2020). Abyssal Circulation Driven by Near-Boundary Mixing: Water Mass Transformations and Interior Stratification. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 50(8). 2203–2226. 23 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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Herbert, Éric, et al.. (2019). Active Fluids: Effects of Hydrodynamic Stress on Growth of Self-Propelled Fluid Particles. Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics. 13(2). 561–570. 6 indexed citations

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Russell, J. L., Igor Kamenkovich, Cecilia M. Bitz, et al.. (2018). Metrics for the Evaluation of the Southern Ocean in Coupled Climate Models and Earth System Models. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(5). 3120–3143. 23 indexed citations

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Mignot, Alexandre, Raffaele Ferrari, & Hervé Claustre. (2018). Floats with bio-optical sensors reveal what processes trigger the North Atlantic bloom. Nature Communications. 9(1). 190–190. 70 indexed citations

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Mignot, Alexandre, Raffaele Ferrari, & Kjell Arne Mork. (2016). Spring bloom onset in the Nordic Seas. Biogeosciences. 13(11). 3485–3502. 13 indexed citations

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Callies, Jörn, Raffaele Ferrari, Jody Klymak, & Jonathan Gula. (2015). Seasonality in submesoscale turbulence. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6862–6862. 297 indexed citations

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Ferrari, Raffaele. (2014). An Ocean Tale of Two Climates: Modern and Last Glacial Maximum. AGUFM. 2014. 2 indexed citations

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Ferrari, Raffaele. (2014). What goes down must come up. Nature. 513(7517). 179–180. 35 indexed citations

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Mashayek, Ali, Raffaele Ferrari, & W. R. Peltier. (2013). Geothermal Heat Flux and Enhanced Abyssal Mixing: Implications for the Antarctic Bottom Water Circulation. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations

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Fox‐Kemper, Baylor, Gökhan Danabasoglu, Stephen M. Griffies, et al.. (2010). Parameterization of mixed layer eddies. III: Implementation and impact in global ocean climate simulations. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 7 indexed citations

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Ferrari, Raffaele, et al.. (2008). Frontogenesis, and the Stratification of the Surface Mixed Layer,. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 38. 1 indexed citations

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