Rick Salmon

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Rick Salmon is a scholar working on Oceanography, Computational Mechanics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rick Salmon has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Oceanography, 19 papers in Computational Mechanics and 13 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Rick Salmon's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (16 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (15 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (8 papers). Rick Salmon is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (16 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (15 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (8 papers). Rick Salmon collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Rick Salmon's co-authors include Myrl C. Hendershott, Greg Holloway, John Miles, Paul J. Dellar, Christine Provost, Lynne D. Talley, Annalisa Griffa, G. F. Carnevale, U. Frisch and Russ E. Davis and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Computational Physics and Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.

In The Last Decade

Rick Salmon

51 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Lectures on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rick Salmon United States	24	1.3k	1.0k	867	827	432	54	2.6k
George Veronis United States	27	1.1k 0.8×	690 0.7×	604 0.7×	1.3k 1.6×	261 0.6×	95	3.4k
Louis N. Howard United States	17	657 0.5×	684 0.7×	438 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	184 0.4×	38	2.4k
David G. Dritschel United Kingdom	38	2.2k 1.7×	2.4k 2.3×	1.2k 1.4×	1.8k 2.2×	328 0.8×	181	4.9k
John Thuburn United Kingdom	34	772 0.6×	2.5k 2.4×	1.6k 1.9×	902 1.1×	115 0.3×	114	3.5k
Petros J. Ioannou United States	26	617 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	1.2k 1.5×	304 0.7×	57	2.6k
Melvin E. Stern United States	26	2.0k 1.6×	1.7k 1.6×	980 1.1×	639 0.8×	169 0.4×	92	3.5k
C. E. Leith United States	17	636 0.5×	1.9k 1.8×	1.7k 2.0×	1.2k 1.5×	402 0.9×	32	3.6k
Rupert Klein Germany	30	348 0.3×	1.2k 1.2×	658 0.8×	2.3k 2.7×	194 0.4×	167	3.8k
Joël Sommeria France	35	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	720 0.8×	1.9k 2.3×	818 1.9×	107	4.3k
L. G. Redekopp United States	28	1.3k 1.0×	561 0.5×	131 0.2×	1.2k 1.4×	879 2.0×	76	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Rick Salmon

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rick Salmon

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Pizzo, Nick & Rick Salmon. (2024). Exact planetary waves and jet streams. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 998.

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Salmon, Rick & Nick Pizzo. (2024). Two-dimensional turbulence on the ellipsoid. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 996. 1 indexed citations

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Salmon, Rick & Nick Pizzo. (2023). Two-Dimensional Flow on the Sphere. Atmosphere. 14(4). 747–747. 4 indexed citations

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Salmon, Rick. (2013). Coupled systems of two-dimensional turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 732. 1 indexed citations

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Salmon, Rick. (2009). An Ocean Circulation Model Based on Operator-Splitting, Hamiltonian Brackets, and the Inclusion of Sound Waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 39(7). 1615–1633. 3 indexed citations

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Salmon, Rick. (2007). A General Method for Conserving Energy and Potential Enstrophy in Shallow-Water Models. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 64(2). 515–531. 39 indexed citations

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Dellar, Paul J. & Rick Salmon. (2005). Shallow water equations with a complete Coriolis force and topography. Physics of Fluids. 17(10). 75 indexed citations

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Salmon, Rick, et al.. (2001). The General circulation of the atmosphere : 2000 program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution eBooks. 15 indexed citations

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Salmon, Rick. (1999). Lattice Boltzmann solutions of the three-dimensional planetary geostrophic equations. Journal of Marine Research. 57(6). 847–884. 23 indexed citations

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Becker, J. M. & Rick Salmon. (1997). Eddy formation on a continental slope. Journal of Marine Research. 55(2). 181–200. 20 indexed citations

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Salmon, Rick & Leslie Smith. (1994). Hamiltonian derivation of the nonhydrostatic pressure-coordinate model. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 120(519). 1409–1413.

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Salmon, Rick. (1992). A two-layer Gulf Stream over a continental slope. Journal of Marine Research. 50(3). 341–365. 32 indexed citations

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Salmon, Rick & Rainer Hollerbach. (1991). Similarity solutions of the thermocline equations. Journal of Marine Research. 49(2). 249–280. 12 indexed citations

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Miles, John W., et al.. (1990). Of fluid mechanics and related matters : the proceedings of a symposium honoring John Miles on his seventieth birthday, November 29-30, December 1, 1990, Sumner Auditorium, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. Medical Entomology and Zoology.

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Salmon, Rick. (1988). Hamiltonian Fluid Mechanics. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 20(1). 225–256. 328 indexed citations

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Salmon, Rick. (1988). Hamiltonian Fluid Mechanics. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 20(1). 225–256. 12 indexed citations

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Salmon, Rick. (1980). Baroclinic instability and geostrophic turbulence. Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics. 15(1). 167–211. 217 indexed citations

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Salmon, Rick. (1978). Two-layer quasi-geostrophic turbulence in a simple special case. Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics. 10(1). 25–52. 133 indexed citations

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Salmon, Rick & Myrl C. Hendershott. (1976). Large scale air-sea interactions with a simple general circulation model. Tellus. 28(3). 228–242. 9 indexed citations

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Salmon, Rick & Myrl C. Hendershott. (1976). Large scale air-sea interactions with a simple general circulation model. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 28(3). 228–228. 18 indexed citations

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