T. R. Osborn

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

T. R. Osborn is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, T. R. Osborn has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Oceanography, 12 papers in Atmospheric Science and 8 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in T. R. Osborn's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (27 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (11 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (6 papers). T. R. Osborn is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (27 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (11 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (6 papers). T. R. Osborn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. T. R. Osborn's co-authors include B. J. Rothschild, Ann E. Gargett, Joseph Katz, S. A. Thorpe, W. Alex M. Nimmo‐Smith, David M. Farmer, James N. Moum, Thomas B. Sanford, P. Doron and Peter J. Hendricks and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Limnology and Oceanography.

In The Last Decade

T. R. Osborn

41 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Estimates of the Local Rate of Vertical Diffusion from Dissipation Measurements

1980 1.6k citations T. R. Osborn Journal of Physical Oceanography profile →
Small-scale turbulence and plankton contact rates

1988 565 citations B. J. Rothschild, T. R. Osborn profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
T. R. Osborn United States	20	2.7k	1.4k	1.3k	411	359	42	3.4k
Ann E. Gargett United States	34	3.2k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	410 1.0×	423 1.2×	74	4.0k
Kraig B. Winters United States	28	2.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	976 0.8×	444 1.1×	451 1.3×	64	3.0k
Paul H. LeBlond Canada	29	2.1k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	597 0.5×	1.0k 2.5×	433 1.2×	82	3.7k
T. Rossby United States	35	3.3k 1.2×	1.9k 1.3×	1.7k 1.3×	402 1.0×	187 0.5×	101	4.2k
Neil S. Oakey Canada	26	2.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	961 0.7×	262 0.6×	307 0.9×	47	2.8k
J. Imberger Australia	27	1.7k 0.6×	783 0.5×	586 0.5×	579 1.4×	543 1.5×	60	3.0k
Hidekatsu Yamazaki Japan	29	1.9k 0.7×	769 0.5×	742 0.6×	219 0.5×	412 1.1×	103	2.4k
S. Pond Canada	22	3.6k 1.4×	2.6k 1.8×	1.9k 1.4×	733 1.8×	300 0.8×	65	4.6k
Lakshmi Kantha United States	29	2.9k 1.1×	2.6k 1.8×	1.7k 1.3×	454 1.1×	232 0.6×	118	4.3k
Philip L. Richardson United States	43	4.7k 1.8×	2.3k 1.6×	2.8k 2.1×	600 1.5×	693 1.9×	115	5.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Osborn, T. R., et al.. (2024). Increasing transposase abundance with ocean depth correlates with a particle-associated lifestyle. mSystems. 9(3). e0006724–e0006724. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Wei, et al.. (2007). Distribution of Energy Spectra, Reynolds Stresses, Turbulence Production, and Dissipation in a Tidally Driven Bottom Boundary Layer. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 37(6). 1527–1550. 43 indexed citations

Osborn, T. R.. (2007). Applicability of turbulence measurement technology to small-scale plankton studies. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 347. 139–143. 5 indexed citations

Thorpe, S. A., et al.. (2006). Cold-Water Events and Dissipation in the Mixed Layer of a Lake. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 36(10). 1928–1939. 8 indexed citations

Nimmo‐Smith, W. Alex M., Joseph Katz, & T. R. Osborn. (2005). On the Structure of Turbulence in the Bottom Boundary Layer of the Coastal Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 35(1). 72–93. 49 indexed citations

Thorpe, S. A. & T. R. Osborn. (2005). Skewness of Spatial Gradients of Turbulent Dissipation Rates in the Mixed Layer. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 35(11). 2299–2303. 5 indexed citations

Thorpe, S. A., T. R. Osborn, David M. Farmer, & Svein Vagle. (2003). Bubble Clouds and Langmuir Circulation: Observations and Models. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 33(9). 2013–2031. 50 indexed citations

Nimmo‐Smith, W. Alex M., et al.. (2002). Flow Structure and Turbulence Distributions In The Coastal Ocean From Piv Data. EGSGA. 2415. 1 indexed citations

Osborn, T. R., et al.. (2002). Particle Transport in the Coastal Bottom Boundary Layer Using Combined PIV and SVM. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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Nimmo‐Smith, W. Alex M., et al.. (2002). PIV measurements in the bottom boundary layer of the coastal ocean. Experiments in Fluids. 33(6). 962–971. 44 indexed citations

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Griffiths, G., N.W. Millard, Stephen McPhail, et al.. (2001). Standard and special: Sensors used during the Autosub Science Missions programme. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 5 indexed citations

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Rothschild, B. J., et al.. (1989). The physical basis for recruitment variability in fish populations. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 45(2). 136–145. 12 indexed citations

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Itsweire, E. C., T. R. Osborn, & Timothy P. Stanton. (1989). Horizontal Distribution and Characteristics of Shear Layers in the Seasonal Thermocline. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 19(3). 301–320. 36 indexed citations

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Guttmann, A J & T. R. Osborn. (1988). A Monte Carlo study of lattice trails. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 21(2). 513–517. 19 indexed citations

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Guttmann, A J, T. R. Osborn, & Alan D. Sokal. (1986). Connective constant of the self-avoiding walk on the triangular lattice. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 19(13). 2591–2598. 8 indexed citations

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Moum, James N. & T. R. Osborn. (1986). Mixing in the Main Thermocline. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 16(7). 1250–1259. 62 indexed citations

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Osborn, T. R., et al.. (1980). Temperature Microstructure in the Equatorial Atlantic. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 10(1). 66–82. 10 indexed citations

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Gargett, Ann E., Thomas B. Sanford, & T. R. Osborn. (1979). Surface Mixing Layers in the Sargasso Sea. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 9(6). 1090–1111. 25 indexed citations

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Osborn, T. R.. (1979). The thermohaline finestructure of the ocean. Deep Sea Research Part A Oceanographic Research Papers. 26(3). 351–351. 16 indexed citations

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Osborn, T. R.. (1978). Measurements of energy dissipation adjacent to an island. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 83(C6). 2939–2957. 31 indexed citations

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