T. Rossby

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

T. Rossby is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, T. Rossby has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Oceanography, 37 papers in Atmospheric Science and 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in T. Rossby's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (81 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (26 papers) and Underwater Acoustics Research (20 papers). T. Rossby is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (81 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (26 papers) and Underwater Acoustics Research (20 papers). T. Rossby collaborates with scholars based in United States, Norway and Sweden. T. Rossby's co-authors include Charles N. Flagg, Amy S. Bower, Léon Chafik, D. Randolph Watts, Philip L. Richardson, Henrik Søiland, Scott E. McDowell, John Lillibridge, Kathleen Donohue and Mark D. Prater and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

T. Rossby

97 papers receiving 3.8k citations

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A study of Bénard convection with and without rotation

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of T. Rossby

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The Nordic Seas overturning is modulated by northward-propagating thermohaline anomalies 2025 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Léon Chafik, Marius Årthun, Helene R. Langehaug, Johan Nilsson, T. Rossby	0
2	A Comparative Study of Velocity and Transport Estimates Along the Oleander Line Between Bermuda and New Jersey 2025 ·Earth and Space Science ·T. Rossby, Magdalena Andres, Léon Chafik, Kathleen Donohue	0
3	Monitoring Impacts of the Gulf Stream and its Rings on the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of the Middle Atlantic Bight Shelf and Slope from CMV Oleander 2025 ·Oceanography ·(unknown), Magdalena Andres, T. Rossby, Eric Firing, Charles N. Flagg, Nicholas R. Bates, Julia M. Hummon, Denis Pierrot, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Shenfu Dong, (unknown), David G. Johns, (unknown)	1
4	The Faroe‐Shetland Channel Jet: Structure, Variability, and Driving Mechanisms 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans ·Léon Chafik, Johan Nilsson, T. Rossby, (unknown)	2
5	Irminger Sea Is the Center of Action for Subpolar AMOC Variability 2022 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Léon Chafik, N. Penny Holliday, Sheldon Bacon, T. Rossby	30
6	What Can Hydrography Between the New England Slope, Bermuda and Africa Tell us About the Strength of the AMOC Over the Last 90 years? 2022 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·T. Rossby, Jaime B. Palter, Kathleen Donohue	10
7	Discovery of an unrecognized pathway carrying overflow waters toward the Faroe Bank Channel 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Léon Chafik, Hjálmar Hátún, Joakim Kjellsson, Karin Margretha Húsgarð Larsen, T. Rossby, Barbara Berx	21
8	What can Hydrography Tell Us About the Strength of the Nordic Seas MOC Over the Last 70 to 100 Years? 2020 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·T. Rossby, Léon Chafik, Loïc Houpert	23
9	Volume, Heat, and Freshwater Divergences in the Subpolar North Atlantic Suggest the Nordic Seas as Key to the State of the Meridional Overturning Circulation 2019 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Léon Chafik, T. Rossby	92
10	Oleander is More than a Flower: Twenty-Five Years of Oceanography Aboard a Merchant Vessel 2019 ·Oceanography ·T. Rossby, Charles N. Flagg, Kathleen Dohan, (unknown), Ruth Curry, Magdalena Andres, (unknown)	14
11	A Direct Estimate of Volume, Heat, and Freshwater Exchange Across the Greenland‐Iceland‐Faroe‐Scotland Ridge 2018 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans ·T. Rossby, Charles N. Flagg, Léon Chafik, (unknown), Henrik Søiland	27
12	On the long‐term stability of Gulf Stream transport based on 20 years of direct measurements 2013 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·T. Rossby, Charles N. Flagg, Kathleen Donohue, Alejandra Sanchez‐Franks, John Lillibridge	71
13	Directly measured mid-depth circulation in the northeastern North Atlantic Ocean 2002 ·Nature ·Amy S. Bower, Bernard Le Cann, T. Rossby, Walter Zenk, J. Gould, K. G. Speer, Philip L. Richardson, Mark D. Prater, (unknown)	184
14	The Volunteer Observing Ship and Future Ocean Monitoring 1995 ·Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·T. Rossby, Gerold Siedler, Walter Zenk	9
15	RAFOS Floats in the SYNOP Experiment: 1988-1990 1991 ·Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) ·(unknown), T. Rossby	1
16	A Forth controlled oceanographic instrument 1986 ·Journal of Media Literacy Education ·(unknown), T. Rossby	1
17	Detection, Structure, and Origin of Extreme Anomalies in a Western Atlantic Oceanographic Section 1986 ·Journal of Physical Oceanography ·Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer, Bruce A. Taft, James C. McWilliams, Colin Y. Shen, Stephen C. Riser, T. Rossby, Pierre E. Biscaye, H. Göte Östlund	30
18	Lagrangian studies of deep ocean currents 1984 ·Eos ·T. Rossby	1
19	Mediterranean Water: An Intense Mesoscale Eddy off the Bahamas 1978 ·Science ·Scott E. McDowell, T. Rossby	132
20	A vertical profile of currents near Plantagenet Bank 1969 ·Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts ·T. Rossby	11

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