Ryan Abernathey

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Ryan Abernathey is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan Abernathey has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Oceanography, 46 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 40 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Ryan Abernathey's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (57 papers), Climate variability and models (46 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (19 papers). Ryan Abernathey is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (57 papers), Climate variability and models (46 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (19 papers). Ryan Abernathey collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Ryan Abernathey's co-authors include John Marshall, Andreas Klocker, David Ferreira, Naomi Henderson, Dhruv Balwada, Richard Seager, Honghai Zhang, Dong Eun Lee, Matt Mazloff and Mark A. Cane and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ryan Abernathey

67 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Strengthening tropical Pacific zonal sea surface temperature gradient consistent with rising greenhouse gases

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryan Abernathey United States	30	2.2k	1.9k	1.7k	161	86	71	2.8k
Julien Le Sommer France	29	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	124 0.8×	78 0.9×	87	2.7k
Igor Kamenkovich United States	23	1.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	159 1.0×	67 0.8×	71	2.2k
Jean‐Marc Molines France	33	3.0k 1.3×	2.3k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	119 0.7×	78 0.9×	80	3.4k
Jonathan Gula France	27	2.3k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	112 0.7×	101 1.2×	74	2.7k
Laura Jackson United Kingdom	29	1.4k 0.7×	1.9k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	135 0.8×	54 0.6×	56	2.4k
Carsten Eden Germany	31	3.2k 1.4×	2.6k 1.4×	2.0k 1.2×	103 0.6×	47 0.5×	110	3.5k
Julie L. McClean United States	26	2.2k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	102 0.6×	106 1.2×	68	2.6k
Dmitry Sidorenko Germany	28	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.8k 1.1×	377 2.3×	93 1.1×	78	2.4k
Jin‐Song von Storch Germany	24	1.8k 0.8×	2.5k 1.3×	2.1k 1.2×	83 0.5×	98 1.1×	77	3.3k
Armin Köhl Germany	32	2.9k 1.3×	2.6k 1.4×	2.1k 1.2×	154 1.0×	170 2.0×	102	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Ryan Abernathey

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryan Abernathey

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Busecke, Julius, Dhruv Balwada, Paige Martin, et al.. (2025). The Impact of Sub‐Grid Heterogeneity on Air‐Sea Turbulent Heat Flux in Coupled Climate Models. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(13). 1 indexed citations

Abernathey, Ryan, Ankur R. Desai, Jason A. Otkin, et al.. (2025). Rapid changes in terrestrial carbon dioxide uptake captured in near-real time from a geostationary satellite: The ALIVE framework. Remote Sensing of Environment. 324. 114759–114759.

Thompson, LuAnne, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal Evolution of Marine Heatwaves Globally. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 41(12). 1247–1263. 1 indexed citations

Abernathey, Ryan, et al.. (2023). Using Lagrangian Filtering to Remove Waves From the Ocean Surface Velocity Field. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(4). 7 indexed citations

Arbic, Brian K., Shane Elipot, Dimitris Menemenlis, et al.. (2022). Near‐Surface Oceanic Kinetic Energy Distributions From Drifter Observations and Numerical Models. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(10). 27 indexed citations

Abernathey, Ryan, Ian Grooms, Julius Busecke, et al.. (2022). GCM-Filters: A Python Package for Diffusion-based Spatial Filtering of Gridded Data. The Journal of Open Source Software. 7(70). 3947–3947. 18 indexed citations

Haine, Thomas W. N., Renske Gelderloos, Gerard Lemson, et al.. (2021). Is Computational Oceanography Coming of Age?. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 102(8). E1481–E1493. 10 indexed citations

Gentemann, Chelle, Chris Holdgraf, Ryan Abernathey, et al.. (2021). Science Storms the Cloud. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 19 indexed citations

Grooms, Ian, et al.. (2021). Diffusion‐Based Smoothers for Spatial Filtering of Gridded Geophysical Data. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(9). 33 indexed citations

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Abernathey, Ryan, T. J. Crone, Chelle Gentemann, et al.. (2021). Cloud-Native Repositories for Big Scientific Data. Computing in Science & Engineering. 23(2). 26–35. 50 indexed citations

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Zou, Sijia, M. Susan Lozier, Feili Li, Ryan Abernathey, & Laura Jackson. (2020). Density-compensated overturning in the Labrador Sea. Nature Geoscience. 13(2). 121–126. 41 indexed citations

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Uchida, Takaya, et al.. (2019). Southern Ocean Phytoplankton Blooms Observed by Biogeochemical Floats. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 124(11). 7328–7343. 31 indexed citations

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Yu, Xiaolong, Aurélien Ponte, Shane Elipot, et al.. (2019). Surface Kinetic Energy Distributions in the Global Oceans From a High‐Resolution Numerical Model and Surface Drifter Observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(16). 9757–9766. 49 indexed citations

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Busecke, Julius & Ryan Abernathey. (2019). Ocean mesoscale mixing linked to climate variability. Science Advances. 5(1). eaav5014–eaav5014. 58 indexed citations

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Uchida, Takaya, Dhruv Balwada, Ryan Abernathey, et al.. (2019). The Contribution of Submesoscale over Mesoscale Eddy Iron Transport in the Open Southern Ocean. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(12). 3934–3958. 51 indexed citations

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Bolton, Thomas, Ryan Abernathey, & Laure Zanna. (2019). Regional and Temporal Variability of Lateral Mixing in the North Atlantic. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 49(10). 2601–2614. 7 indexed citations

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Groeskamp, Sjoerd, Paul M. Barker, Trevor J. McDougall, Ryan Abernathey, & Stephen M. Griffies. (2019). VENM: An Algorithm to Accurately Calculate Neutral Slopes and Gradients. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(7). 1917–1939. 19 indexed citations

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Tamsitt, Veronica, Ryan Abernathey, Matthew R. Mazloff, Jinbo Wang, & Lynne D. Talley. (2018). Transformation of Deep Water Masses Along Lagrangian Upwelling Pathways in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(3). 1994–2017. 33 indexed citations

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Abernathey, Ryan, Joseph Hamman, & Alistair Miles. (2018). Beyond netCDF: Cloud Native Climate Data with Zarr and XArray. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018.

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Abernathey, Ryan, Ivana Cerovečki, Paul R. Holland, et al.. (2016). Water-mass transformation by sea ice in the upper branch of the Southern Ocean overturning. Nature Geoscience. 9(8). 596–601. 206 indexed citations

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