Stephen E. Zebiak

15.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
100 papers, 12.0k citations indexed

About

Stephen E. Zebiak is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen E. Zebiak has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 12.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 61 papers in Atmospheric Science and 52 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Stephen E. Zebiak's work include Climate variability and models (75 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (46 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (41 papers). Stephen E. Zebiak is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (75 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (46 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (41 papers). Stephen E. Zebiak collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Ethiopia. Stephen E. Zebiak's co-authors include Mark A. Cane, Michael J. McPhaden, Michael H. Glantz, Amy Clement, Richard Seager, Dake Chen, Yochanan Kushnir, Alexey Kaplan, Yan Xue and Eli Tziperman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Stephen E. Zebiak

96 papers receiving 11.3k 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.

ENSO as an Integrating Concept in Earth Science

2006 1.5k citations Michael J. McPhaden, Stephen E. Zebiak et al. Science profile →
A Model El Ni&ntilde–Southern Oscillation

1987 1.3k citations Stephen E. Zebiak, Mark A. Cane Monthly Weather Review profile →
ENSO theory

1998 758 citations J. David Neelin, David S. Battisti et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
Air–Sea Interaction in the Equatorial Atlantic Region

1993 581 citations Stephen E. Zebiak profile →
Experimental forecasts of El Niño

1986 555 citations Mark A. Cane, Stephen E. Zebiak 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
Stephen E. Zebiak United States	45	10.5k	8.5k	6.7k	551	362	100	12.0k
Masahide Kimoto Japan	49	9.7k 0.9×	8.6k 1.0×	4.0k 0.6×	309 0.6×	426 1.2×	161	11.1k
J. David Neelin United States	67	15.0k 1.4×	12.8k 1.5×	5.3k 0.8×	652 1.2×	501 1.4×	242	16.8k
Andrew T. Wittenberg United States	53	12.1k 1.2×	9.8k 1.2×	7.1k 1.1×	830 1.5×	435 1.2×	131	13.9k
Ping Chang United States	49	9.2k 0.9×	7.9k 0.9×	6.8k 1.0×	827 1.5×	361 1.0×	190	11.7k
Ben P. Kirtman United States	56	11.2k 1.1×	9.5k 1.1×	6.4k 1.0×	325 0.6×	249 0.7×	227	12.1k
Adam H. Sobel United States	68	14.0k 1.3×	13.5k 1.6×	5.5k 0.8×	456 0.8×	594 1.6×	226	16.0k
Gökhan Danabasoglu United States	54	10.0k 1.0×	8.6k 1.0×	6.7k 1.0×	617 1.1×	297 0.8×	178	12.7k
Rowan Sutton United Kingdom	56	12.2k 1.2×	10.1k 1.2×	5.2k 0.8×	532 1.0×	597 1.6×	156	13.9k
Brian J. Soden United States	57	17.5k 1.7×	15.8k 1.8×	5.0k 0.8×	717 1.3×	507 1.4×	157	19.9k
B. N. Goswami India	49	10.7k 1.0×	9.0k 1.1×	4.6k 0.7×	498 0.9×	489 1.4×	158	12.1k

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Loboguerrero, Ana María, Philip K. Thornton, Jonathan Wadsworth, et al.. (2020). Perspective article: Actions to reconfigure food systems. Global Food Security. 26. 100432–100432. 23 indexed citations

Zebiak, Stephen E.. (2019). International Conference on Climate Services - 5 – An introduction. Climate Services. 15. 100121–100121. 2 indexed citations

Wilby, Robert L., et al.. (2015). Toward an Ethical Framework for Climate Services. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 7 indexed citations

Hewitson, Bruce, et al.. (2015). Call for an Ethical Framework for Climate Services. Loughborough University Institutional Repository (Loughborough University). 64(2). 53–56. 9 indexed citations

Vaughan, Catherine, Suraje Dessai, & Stephen E. Zebiak. (2014). Toward effective climate services: lessons for design and evaluation. EGUGA. 16324. 2 indexed citations

Hansen, James, Stephen E. Zebiak, & Kevin Coffey. (2014). Shaping global agendas on climate risk management and climate services: an IRI perspective. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 1(1). 13–13. 16 indexed citations

Thomson, Madeleine C., et al.. (2011). Africa needs climate data to fight disease. Nature. 471(7339). 440–442. 29 indexed citations

Camargo, Suzana J., Anthony G. Barnston, & Stephen E. Zebiak. (2005). A statistical assessment of tropical cyclone activity in atmospheric general circulation models. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 57(4). 589–589. 87 indexed citations

Robertson, Andrew W., Upmanu Lall, Stephen E. Zebiak, & Lisa Goddard. (2004). Improved Combination of Multiple Atmospheric GCM Ensembles for Seasonal Prediction. Monthly Weather Review. 132(12). 2732–2744. 126 indexed citations

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Camargo, Suzana J., Anthony G. Barnston, & Stephen E. Zebiak. (2004). Properties of Tropical Cyclones in Atmospheric General Circulation Models. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 6 indexed citations

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Shaman, Jeffrey, Jonathan F. Day, Marc Stieglitz, Stephen E. Zebiak, & Mark A. Cane. (2004). Seasonal Forecast of St. Louis Encephalitis Virus Transmission, Florida. Emerging infectious diseases. 10(5). 802–809. 24 indexed citations

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Zhang, Rong‐Hua & Stephen E. Zebiak. (2003). Embedding a SST anomaly model in to a z‐coordinate oceanic GCM for producing El Niño oscillation in the tropical Pacific climate system. Geophysical Research Letters. 30(4). 3 indexed citations

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Robertson, Andrew W., Upmanu Lall, Stephen E. Zebiak, & Balaji Rajagopalan. (2003). Categorical Climate Forecasts through Optimal Combination of Multiple GCM Ensembles. 1–7. 2 indexed citations

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Kirtman, Ben P., J. Shukla, Magdalena Balmaseda, et al.. (2001). Current status of ENSO forecast skill: a report to the CLIVAR Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction. 21 indexed citations

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Servain, Jacques, Antonio J. Busalacchi, Michael J. McPhaden, et al.. (1998). A Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 79(10). 2019–2031. 186 indexed citations

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Neelin, J. David, David S. Battisti, Anthony C. Hirst, et al.. (1998). ENSO theory. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 103(C7). 14261–14290. 758 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Dake, Stephen E. Zebiak, Mark A. Cane, & Antonio J. Busalacchi. (1997). Initialization and Predictability of a Coupled ENSO Forecast Model*. Monthly Weather Review. 125(5). 773–788. 67 indexed citations

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Münnich, Matthias, Mark A. Cane, & Stephen E. Zebiak. (1991). A Study of Self-excited Oscillations of the Tropical Ocean–Atmosphere System. Part II: Nonlinear Cases. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 48(10). 1238–1248. 189 indexed citations

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Zebiak, Stephen E.. (1989). Oceanic Heat Content Variability and El Niño Cycles. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 19(4). 475–486. 97 indexed citations

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Cane, Mark A. & Stephen E. Zebiak. (1985). A Theory for El Niño and the Southern Oscillation. Science. 228(4703). 1085–1087. 407 indexed citations

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