Stephen Yeager

14.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
105 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Stephen Yeager is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Yeager has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 71 papers in Oceanography and 71 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Stephen Yeager's work include Climate variability and models (85 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (61 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (33 papers). Stephen Yeager is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (85 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (61 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (33 papers). Stephen Yeager collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Stephen Yeager's co-authors include William G. Large, G. Large, Gökhan Danabasoglu, Who M. Kim, James J. Hack, Alicia Karspeck, Christine A. Shields, Thomas L. Delworth, Young‐Oh Kwon and Rym Msadek and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Yeager

95 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The global climatology of an interannually varying air–sea flux data set

2008 1.3k citations Stephen Yeager et al. profile →
Diurnal to decadal global forcing for ocean and sea-ice models: The data sets and flux climatologies

2004 886 citations Stephen Yeager et al. profile →
A Review of the Role of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and Associated Climate Impacts

2019 374 citations Rowan Sutton, Gökhan Danabasoglu et al. profile →
Ubiquity of human-induced changes in climate variability

2021 271 citations Keith B. Rodgers, Sun‐Seon Lee et al. Earth System Dynamics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Yeager United States	36	5.3k	4.4k	4.3k	303	256	105	6.7k
Simon A. Josey United Kingdom	42	4.2k 0.8×	3.1k 0.7×	4.4k 1.0×	213 0.7×	432 1.7×	142	5.8k
Helmuth Haak Germany	28	3.9k 0.7×	3.6k 0.8×	2.4k 0.6×	275 0.9×	193 0.8×	56	5.0k
Markus Jochum United States	36	3.8k 0.7×	3.4k 0.8×	2.8k 0.6×	217 0.7×	316 1.2×	80	4.9k
Sybren Drijfhout Netherlands	40	3.6k 0.7×	3.7k 0.8×	2.7k 0.6×	348 1.1×	315 1.2×	138	5.3k
Qinghua Ding United States	31	4.9k 0.9×	5.8k 1.3×	1.5k 0.4×	161 0.5×	314 1.2×	74	6.3k
Masayoshi Ishii Japan	33	4.5k 0.9×	3.6k 0.8×	2.8k 0.7×	105 0.3×	230 0.9×	78	5.4k
Soon‐Il An South Korea	43	8.6k 1.6×	7.0k 1.6×	5.5k 1.3×	154 0.5×	452 1.8×	214	9.6k
Jérôme Vialard France	51	6.9k 1.3×	5.2k 1.2×	7.0k 1.6×	111 0.4×	303 1.2×	150	8.7k
Niklas Schneider United States	45	7.2k 1.4×	5.1k 1.2×	6.1k 1.4×	131 0.4×	612 2.4×	91	8.4k
Weiqing Han United States	49	4.5k 0.9×	2.8k 0.6×	5.2k 1.2×	269 0.9×	280 1.1×	150	6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Yeager

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Yeager

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Yeager

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Richter, Ingo, Ping Chang, Gökhan Danabasoglu, et al.. (2025). The Tropical Basin Interaction Model Intercomparison Project (TBIMIP). Geoscientific model development. 18(9). 2587–2608. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Gaopeng, Ping Chang, Xiaoqing Liu, et al.. (2024). High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait’s role in amplified Arctic warming. Nature Climate Change. 14(6). 615–622. 8 indexed citations

Little, Christopher M., Stephen Yeager, Rui M. Ponte, Ping Chang, & Who M. Kim. (2024). Influence of Ocean Model Horizontal Resolution on the Representation of Global Annual‐To‐Multidecadal Coastal Sea Level Variability. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(12).

Bilbao, Roberto, Pablo Ortega, Didier Swingedouw, et al.. (2024). Impact of volcanic eruptions on CMIP6 decadal predictions: a multi-model analysis. Earth System Dynamics. 15(2). 501–525. 3 indexed citations

Lee, Sang‐Ki, Fabian A. Gomez, Hosmay Lopez, et al.. (2024). A pause in the weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation since the early 2010s. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10642–10642. 2 indexed citations

Richter, Jadwiga H., Anne A. Glanville, Sanjiv Kumar, et al.. (2024). Quantifying sources of subseasonal prediction skill in CESM2. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 10 indexed citations

Chang, Ping, et al.. (2023). Role of the Maritime Continent in the remote influence of Atlantic Niño on the Pacific. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3327–3327. 14 indexed citations

Richter, Jadwiga H., Anne A. Glanville, James Edwards, et al.. (2022). Subseasonal Earth System Prediction with CESM2. Weather and Forecasting. 37(6). 797–815. 30 indexed citations

Lovenduski, Nicole S., Luke Gregor, Adrienne J. Sutton, et al.. (2022). Ocean Biogeochemical Signatures of the North Pacific Blob. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(9). 26 indexed citations

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Ortega, Pablo, Jon Robson, Matthew Menary, et al.. (2021). Labrador Sea subsurface density as a precursor of multidecadal variability in the North Atlantic: a multi-model study. Earth System Dynamics. 12(2). 419–438. 22 indexed citations

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Rodgers, Keith B., Sun‐Seon Lee, Nan Rosenbloom, et al.. (2021). Ubiquity of human-induced changes in climate variability. Earth System Dynamics. 12(4). 1393–1411. 271 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ilyina, Tatiana, Hongmei Li, Aaron Spring, et al.. (2020). Predictable Variations of the Carbon Sinks and Atmospheric CO₂ Growth in a Multi‐Model Framework. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(6). 16 indexed citations

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Chassignet, Eric P., Stephen Yeager, Baylor Fox‐Kemper, et al.. (2020). Impact of horizontal resolution on global ocean–sea ice model simulations based on the experimental protocols of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (OMIP-2). Geoscientific model development. 13(9). 4595–4637. 97 indexed citations

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Krumhardt, Kristen M., Nicole S. Lovenduski, Matthew C. Long, et al.. (2020). Potential Predictability of Net Primary Production in the Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 34(6). 29 indexed citations

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Lovenduski, Nicole S., Gordon B. Bonan, Stephen Yeager, Keith Lindsay, & Danica Lombardozzi. (2019). High predictability of terrestrial carbon fluxes from an initialized decadal prediction system. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 2 indexed citations

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Lovenduski, Nicole S., Stephen Yeager, Keith Lindsay, & Matthew C. Long. (2019). Predicting near-term variability in ocean carbon uptake. Earth System Dynamics. 10(1). 45–57. 31 indexed citations

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Smith, Doug, Rosie Eade, Adam A. Scaife, et al.. (2019). Robust skill of decadal climate predictions. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 2(1). 187 indexed citations

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McClean, Julie L., et al.. (2018). Seasonal Cycle and Annual Reversal of the Somali Current in an Eddy‐Resolving Global Ocean Model. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(9). 6562–6580. 19 indexed citations

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DiNezio, Pedro, Clara Deser, Alicia Karspeck, et al.. (2017). A 2 Year Forecast for a 60–80% Chance of La Niña in 2017–2018. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(22). 43 indexed citations

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Yeager, Stephen. (2013). Understanding and predicting changes in North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature. CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder). 7 indexed citations

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