Ricardo Locarnini

8.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
38 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Ricardo Locarnini is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ricardo Locarnini has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Oceanography, 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 10 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Ricardo Locarnini's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (20 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (16 papers) and Climate variability and models (7 papers). Ricardo Locarnini is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (20 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (16 papers) and Climate variability and models (7 papers). Ricardo Locarnini collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Ricardo Locarnini's co-authors include John I. Antonov, Hernan E. Garcia, Timothy P. Boyer, Sydney Levitus, Alexey Mishonov, O Baranova, M. Zweng, Dan Seidov, James Reagan and Daphne R. Johnson and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Geophysical Research Letters and International Journal of Climatology.

In The Last Decade

Ricardo Locarnini

38 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

World ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level change (0–2000 m), 1955–2010

2012 801 citations Sydney Levitus, John I. Antonov et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
World ocean atlas 2009

2010 600 citations Sydney Levitus, Ricardo Locarnini et al. profile →
Global ocean heat content 1955–2008 in light of recently revealed instrumentation problems

2009 582 citations Sydney Levitus, John I. Antonov et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
World ocean atlas 2001 : objective analyses, data statistics, and figures : CD-ROM documentation

2002 550 citations Margarita E. Conkright, Ricardo Locarnini et al. profile →
World ocean atlas 2013. Volume 2, Salinity

2014 328 citations M. Zweng, James Reagan et al. NOAA Institutional Repository profile →
World ocean atlas 2013. Volume 1, Temperature

2014 313 citations Ricardo Locarnini, Alexey Mishonov et al. NOAA Institutional Repository profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ricardo Locarnini

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ricardo Locarnini. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ricardo Locarnini 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 Ricardo Locarnini. Ricardo Locarnini 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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Monitoring Ocean Climate with World Ocean Database 2025 ·Alexey Mishonov, Tim Boyer, Ricardo Locarnini, Hernan E. Garcia, James Reagan, Christopher R. Paver, O Baranova, Dan Seidov, (unknown), (unknown), Ebenezer S. Nyadjro, Zhankun Wang	2
2	North Atlantic Heat Transport Convergence Derived from a Regional Energy Budget Using Different Ocean Heat Content Estimates 2024 ·Surveys in Geophysics ·Benoît Meyssignac, (unknown), Michael Mayer, (unknown), Francisco M. Calafat, (unknown), Timothy P. Boyer, Lijing Cheng, Damien Desbruyères, Gaël Forget, Donata Giglio, Mikael Kuusela, Ricardo Locarnini, (unknown), (unknown), Alexey Mishonov, James Reagan, Vanessa Rousseau, Jérôme Benveniste	2
3	DC_OCEAN: an open-source algorithm for identification of duplicates in ocean databases 2024 ·Frontiers in Marine Science ·Xinyi Song, Zhetao Tan, Ricardo Locarnini, Simona Simoncelli, Rebecca Cowley, Shoichi Kizu, Tim Boyer, Franco Reseghetti, Guilherme Castelão, Viktor Gouretski, Lijing Cheng	2
4	Upper Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High in 2020 2021 ·Advances in Atmospheric Sciences ·Lijing Cheng, John Abraham, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Tim Boyer, Ricardo Locarnini, Bin Zhang, Fujiang Yu, Liying Wan, Xingrong Chen, Xiangzhou Song, Yulong Liu, Michael Mann, Franco Reseghetti, Simona Simoncelli, Viktor Gouretski, Gengxin Chen, Alexey Mishonov, (unknown), Jiang Zhu	109
5	Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019 2020 ·Advances in Atmospheric Sciences ·Lijing Cheng, John Abraham, Jiang Zhu, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Tim Boyer, Ricardo Locarnini, Bin Zhang, Fujiang Yu, Liying Wan, Xingrong Chen, Xiangzhou Song, Yulong Liu, Michael Mann	127
6	The World Ocean Atlas 2018: Improvements and Uses of Climatological Mean Fields 2018 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Timothy P. Boyer, Ricardo Locarnini, O Baranova, Hernan E. Garcia, Alexey Mishonov, Christopher R. Paver, James Reagan, Dan Seidov, I Smolyar, (unknown), M. Zweng	2
7	World ocean atlas 2013. Volume 1, Temperature breakdown → 2014 ·NOAA Institutional Repository ·Ricardo Locarnini, Alexey Mishonov, John I. Antonov, Timothy P. Boyer, Hernan E. Garcia, O Baranova, M. Zweng, Christopher R. Paver, James Reagan, Daphne R. Johnson, Melanie Hamilton, Dan Seidov	313
8	World ocean atlas 2013. Volume 2, Salinity breakdown → 2014 ·NOAA Institutional Repository ·M. Zweng, James Reagan, John I. Antonov, Ricardo Locarnini, Alexey Mishonov, Timothy P. Boyer, Hernan E. Garcia, O Baranova, Daphne R. Johnson, Dan Seidov, Matt Biddle	328
9	The World Ocean Database 2013 ·Data Science Journal ·Sydney Levitus, John I. Antonov, O Baranova, Timothy P. Boyer, (unknown), Hernan E. Garcia, (unknown), (unknown), Ricardo Locarnini, Alexey Mishonov, James Reagan, (unknown), Dan Seidov, I Smolyar, E. S. Yarosh, M. Zweng	103
10	World ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level change (0–2000 m), 1955–2010 breakdown → 2012 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Sydney Levitus, John I. Antonov, Timothy P. Boyer, O Baranova, Hernan E. Garcia, Ricardo Locarnini, Alexey Mishonov, James Reagan, Dan Seidov, E. S. Yarosh, M. Zweng	801
11	World Ocean Atlas 2013: Improved vertical and horizontal resolution 2012 ·AGUFM ·Ricardo Locarnini, Sydney Levitus, Tim Boyer, John I. Antonov, Alexey Mishonov, Hernan E. Garcia, M. Zweng, James Reagan	2
12	World Ocean Atlas 2009, Volume 2: Salinity 2010 ·Medical Entomology and Zoology ·John I. Antonov, Dan Seidov, Timothy P. Boyer, Ricardo Locarnini, Alexey Mishonov, Hernan E. Garcia, O Baranova, M. Zweng, Daphne R. Johnson	124
13	Global ocean heat content 1955–2008 in light of recently revealed instrumentation problems breakdown → 2009 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Sydney Levitus, John I. Antonov, Timothy P. Boyer, Ricardo Locarnini, Hernan E. Garcia, Alexey Mishonov	582
14	World Ocean Database 2005, Volume 4: Nutrients (phosphate, nitrate, silicate [+DVD] 2006 ·(unknown), Ricardo Locarnini, Timothy P. Boyer, John I. Antonov, Sydney Levitus	14
15	Climatological annual cycle of upper ocean oxygen content anomaly 2005 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Hernan E. Garcia, Tim Boyer, Sydney Levitus, Ricardo Locarnini, John I. Antonov	8
16	Linear trends of zonally averaged thermosteric, halosteric, and total steric sea level for individual ocean basins and the world ocean, (1955–1959)–(1994–1998) 2005 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Sydney Levitus, John I. Antonov, Tim Boyer, Hernan E. Garcia, Ricardo Locarnini	55
17	Objective analyses of annual, seasonal, and monthly temperature and salinity for the World Ocean on a 0.25° grid 2005 ·International Journal of Climatology ·Timothy P. Boyer, Sydney Levitus, Hernan E. Garcia, Ricardo Locarnini, Cathy Stephens, John I. Antonov	216
18	CLIMATIC ATLAS OF THE ARCTIC SEAS 2004: Part I. Database of the Barents, Kara, Laptev, and White Seas - Oceanography and Marine Biology 2004 ·Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ·Gennady G Matishov, (unknown), Valery A Golubev, (unknown), Sergey F Timofeev, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), A Braunstein, Д. В. Моисеев, I Smolyar, Ricardo Locarnini, (unknown), Timothy P. Boyer, Sydney Levitus	7
19	World ocean atlas 2001 : objective analyses, data statistics, and figures : CD-ROM documentation breakdown → 2002 ·Margarita E. Conkright, Ricardo Locarnini, Hernan E. Garcia, Todd O’Brien, Timothy P. Boyer, Cathy Stephens, John I. Antonov	550
20	On the use of carbon tetrachloride as a transient tracer of Weddell Sea deep and bottom waters 1996 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Michael P. Meredith, Kim A. Van Scoy, Andrew Watson, Ricardo Locarnini	20

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