Raymond W. Schmitt

9.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
100 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Raymond W. Schmitt is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Raymond W. Schmitt has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Oceanography, 46 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 36 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Raymond W. Schmitt's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (77 papers), Climate variability and models (31 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (26 papers). Raymond W. Schmitt is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (77 papers), Climate variability and models (31 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (26 papers). Raymond W. Schmitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Raymond W. Schmitt's co-authors include John M. Toole, Kurt L. Polzin, James R. Ledwell, Ellyn T. Montgomery, Louis St. Laurent, W. Steven Holbrook, Eric Kunze, Frank Müller‐Karger, Chuanmin Hu and Philip Bogden and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Raymond W. Schmitt

94 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Spatial Variability of Turbulent Mixing in the Abyssal Ocean

1997 855 citations Kurt L. Polzin, John M. Toole et al. profile →
Evidence for enhanced mixing over rough topography in the abyssal ocean

2000 542 citations Kurt L. Polzin, Raymond W. Schmitt et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raymond W. Schmitt United States	42	5.8k	3.3k	3.0k	608	575	100	7.0k
Trevor J. McDougall Australia	42	5.6k 1.0×	3.6k 1.1×	3.8k 1.3×	387 0.6×	615 1.1×	141	7.9k
Michael C. Gregg United States	53	8.2k 1.4×	4.6k 1.4×	3.6k 1.2×	1.0k 1.7×	480 0.8×	125	9.0k
Eric A. D’Asaro United States	51	8.4k 1.5×	5.1k 1.6×	3.2k 1.1×	865 1.4×	487 0.8×	175	9.6k
Eric Kunze United States	39	6.1k 1.1×	3.4k 1.0×	2.2k 0.7×	746 1.2×	382 0.7×	93	6.6k
David M. Farmer Canada	48	5.3k 0.9×	2.6k 0.8×	977 0.3×	1.5k 2.5×	346 0.6×	149	6.6k
Raffaele Ferrari United States	51	7.9k 1.4×	5.1k 1.5×	4.7k 1.6×	498 0.8×	514 0.9×	116	9.0k
T. Rossby United States	35	3.3k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	402 0.7×	205 0.4×	101	4.2k
Kurt L. Polzin United States	37	5.2k 0.9×	3.0k 0.9×	2.4k 0.8×	563 0.9×	338 0.6×	74	5.6k
S. A. Thorpe United Kingdom	44	4.5k 0.8×	2.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	1.7k 2.7×	337 0.6×	138	6.4k
Thomas B. Sanford United States	44	5.9k 1.0×	4.3k 1.3×	2.3k 0.8×	842 1.4×	245 0.4×	113	6.7k

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Weller, Robert A., et al.. (2019). The Challenge of Sustaining Ocean Observations. Frontiers in Marine Science. 6. 40 indexed citations

Martini, Kim I., et al.. (2019). Corrections for Pumped SBE 41CP CTDs Determined from Stratified Tank Experiments. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 36(4). 733–744. 7 indexed citations

Zeng, Lili, Eric P. Chassignet, Raymond W. Schmitt, Xiaobiao Xu, & Dongxiao Wang. (2018). Salinification in the South China Sea since late 2012: a reversal of the freshening since 1990s. 42. 2 indexed citations

Schmitt, Raymond W., et al.. (2016). North Atlantic Sea Surface Salinity as a Predictor of Sahel Rainfall. 2016. 3 indexed citations

Holbrook, W. Steven, et al.. (2016). Mapping turbulent diffusivity associated with oceanic internal lee waves offshore Costa Rica. Ocean science. 12(2). 601–612. 15 indexed citations

Schmitt, Raymond W., et al.. (2016). The Role of the Subtropical North Atlantic Water Cycle in the 2015 Extreme Precipitation Events in the US. AGUFM. 2016.

Schmitt, Raymond W.. (2015). Predicting Minnesota Rainfall Using Atlantic Ocean Salinities. 1 indexed citations

Holbrook, W. Steven, Ilker Fer, Raymond W. Schmitt, et al.. (2013). Estimating Oceanic Turbulence Dissipation from Seismic Images. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 30(8). 1767–1788. 44 indexed citations

Schmitt, Raymond W.. (2012). Finger puzzles. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 692. 1–4. 3 indexed citations

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Fer, Ilker, et al.. (2010). Seismic imaging of a thermohaline staircase in the western tropical North Atlantic. Ocean science. 6(3). 621–631. 38 indexed citations

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Inoue, Ryuichiro, Eric Kunze, Louis St. Laurent, Raymond W. Schmitt, & John M. Toole. (2008). Evaluating salt-fingering theories. Journal of Marine Research. 66(4). 413–440. 9 indexed citations

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Pearse, S., et al.. (2003). Time-Lapse Seismic-Reflection Images Of Thermohaline Intrusions in an Oceanographic Front. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2003. 2 indexed citations

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Holbrook, W. Steven, et al.. (2003). Fine-scale thermohaline structure revealed by seismic reflection profiling in the Gulf of California.. AGUFM. 2003. 1 indexed citations

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Polzin, Kurt L., Neil S. Oakey, John M. Toole, & Raymond W. Schmitt. (1996). Fine structure and microstructure characteristics across the northwest Atlantic Subtropical Front. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 101(C6). 14111–14121. 26 indexed citations

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Polzin, Kurt L., John M. Toole, & Raymond W. Schmitt. (1995). Finescale Parameterizations of Turbulent Dissipation. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 25(3). 306–328. 327 indexed citations

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Huang, Rui Xin & Raymond W. Schmitt. (1993). The Goldsbrough–Stommel Circulation of the World Oceans. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 23(6). 1277–1284. 34 indexed citations

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Schmitt, Raymond W., Rolf G. Lueck, & Terrence M. Joyce. (1986). Fine- and microstructure at the edge of a warm-core ring. Deep Sea Research Part A Oceanographic Research Papers. 33(11-12). 1665–1689. 23 indexed citations

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Joyce, Terrence M., Richard H. Backus, Karen S. Baker, et al.. (1984). Rapid evolution of a Gulf Stream warm-core ring. Nature. 308(5962). 837–840. 79 indexed citations

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Gargett, Ann E. & Raymond W. Schmitt. (1982). Observations of salt fingers in the central waters of the eastern North Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 87(C10). 8017–8029. 44 indexed citations

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Schmitt, Raymond W. & David Evans. (1978). An estimate of the vertical mixing due to salt fingers based on observations in the North Atlantic central water. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 83(C6). 2913–2919. 53 indexed citations

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