Sonya Legg

5.5k total citations
61 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Sonya Legg is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonya Legg has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Oceanography, 42 papers in Atmospheric Science and 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Sonya Legg's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (50 papers), Climate variability and models (29 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (14 papers). Sonya Legg is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (50 papers), Climate variability and models (29 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (14 papers). Sonya Legg collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Sonya Legg's co-authors include Jody Klymak, Robert Hallberg, James C. McWilliams, J. Werne, Keith Julien, Alistair Adcroft, Angélique Melet, Maxim Nikurashin, John Marshall and Robert Pinkel and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Sonya Legg

61 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonya Legg United States	28	2.1k	1.5k	985	330	262	61	2.6k
Douglas S. Luther United States	26	1.9k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	984 1.0×	174 0.5×	80 0.3×	58	2.5k
K. Shafer Smith United States	27	2.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.4×	83 0.3×	172 0.7×	58	2.5k
Jennifer MacKinnon United States	32	3.7k 1.8×	2.0k 1.4×	1.3k 1.3×	352 1.1×	114 0.4×	95	4.1k
Myrl C. Hendershott United States	22	1.4k 0.7×	656 0.4×	507 0.5×	181 0.5×	138 0.5×	46	1.7k
Leif N. Thomas United States	29	2.8k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	170 0.5×	42 0.2×	70	3.0k
Kevin G. Lamb Canada	31	2.5k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	326 0.3×	779 2.4×	188 0.7×	87	3.0k
Zhongxiang Zhao United States	31	2.5k 1.2×	1.0k 0.7×	669 0.7×	208 0.6×	122 0.5×	71	2.8k
Malte F. Jansen United States	24	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	115 0.3×	62 0.2×	58	1.9k
James N. Moum United States	31	2.6k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	697 0.7×	625 1.9×	131 0.5×	36	2.9k
Rory O. R. Y. Thompson United States	20	1.3k 0.6×	939 0.6×	728 0.7×	293 0.9×	105 0.4×	38	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonya Legg

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20 of 20 papers shown

Legg, Sonya, Caixia Wang, Ellen Kappel, & LuAnne Thompson. (2022). Gender Equity in Oceanography. Annual Review of Marine Science. 15(1). 15–39. 19 indexed citations

Legg, Sonya, et al.. (2021). Parameterization of Submesoscale Symmetric Instability in Dense Flows Along Topography. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(6). 6 indexed citations

Legg, Sonya. (2020). Mixing by Oceanic Lee Waves. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 53(1). 173–201. 42 indexed citations

Mouw, Colleen B., et al.. (2018). Meeting Mentoring Needs in Physical Oceanography: An Evaluation of the Impact of MPOWIR. Oceanography. 31(4). 171–179. 5 indexed citations

Legg, Sonya, et al.. (2017). The Impact of Topographic Steepness on Tidal Dissipation at Bumpy Topography. Fluids. 2(4). 55–55. 7 indexed citations

Legg, Sonya, et al.. (2017). Internal wave scattering in continental slope canyons, part 1: Theory and development of a ray tracing algorithm. Ocean Modelling. 118. 1–15. 14 indexed citations

Subramanian, Aneesh C., Caroline C. Ummenhofer, Alessandra Giannini, et al.. (2016). Translating process understanding to improve climate models. A US CLIVAR White Paper. UCAR/NCAR. 3 indexed citations

Legg, Sonya, et al.. (2014). The Impact of MPOWIR: A Decade of Investing in Mentoring Women in Physical Oceanography. Oceanography. 27(4). 39–48. 8 indexed citations

Legg, Sonya. (2013). Scattering of Low-Mode Internal Waves at Finite Isolated Topography. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 44(1). 359–383. 45 indexed citations

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Buijsman, Maarten C., Sonya Legg, & Jody Klymak. (2012). Double-Ridge Internal Tide Interference and Its Effect on Dissipation in Luzon Strait. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 42(8). 1337–1356. 110 indexed citations

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Ilıcak, Mehmet, Sonya Legg, Alistair Adcroft, & Robert Hallberg. (2011). Dynamics of a dense gravity current flowing over a corrugation. Ocean Modelling. 38(1-2). 71–84. 12 indexed citations

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Klymak, Jody, Sonya Legg, & Robert Pinkel. (2010). High-mode stationary waves in stratified flow over large obstacles. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 644. 321–336. 60 indexed citations

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Klymak, Jody & Sonya Legg. (2010). A simple mixing scheme for models that resolve breaking internal waves. Ocean Modelling. 33(3-4). 224–234. 70 indexed citations

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Griffies, Stephen M., Alistair Adcroft, Hidenori Aiki, et al.. (2009). Sampling Physical Ocean Fields in WCRP CMIP5 Simulations. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 2 indexed citations

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Legg, Sonya, et al.. (2006). Preliminary simulations of internal waves and mixing generated by finite amplitude tidal flow over isolated topography. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography. 53(1-2). 140–156. 109 indexed citations

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Legg, Sonya. (2004). A Simple Criterion to Determine the Transition from a Localized Convection to a Distributed Convection Regime*. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 34(12). 2843–2846. 1 indexed citations

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Legg, Sonya & Alistair Adcroft. (2003). Internal wave breaking at concave and convex slopes. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 4509. 1 indexed citations

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Legg, Sonya & Alistair Adcroft. (2003). Internal Wave Breaking at Concave and Convex Continental Slopes*. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 33(11). 2224–2246. 141 indexed citations

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Fischer, Kenneth W., et al.. (1999). Modeled radar surface signature of deep ocean convection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 37(4). 2050–2067. 3 indexed citations

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Legg, Sonya, James C. McWilliams, & Jianbo Gao. (1998). Localization of Deep Ocean Convection by a Mesoscale Eddy. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 28(5). 944–970. 69 indexed citations

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