Thomas M. Powell

9.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
92 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Thomas M. Powell is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas M. Powell has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Oceanography, 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 17 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Thomas M. Powell's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (28 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (26 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (16 papers). Thomas M. Powell is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (28 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (26 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (16 papers). Thomas M. Powell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Italy. Thomas M. Powell's co-authors include Alan Hastings, Alan D. Jassby, Patrice This, Thierry Lacombe, Enrique Curchitser, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, James C. McWilliams, Hernan G. Arango, Arthur J. Miller and Charles R. Goldman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Thomas M. Powell

90 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

Ocean forecasting in terrain-following coordinates: Formulation and skill assessment of the Regional Ocean Modeling System

2007 1.1k citations Enrique Curchitser, Emanuele Di Lorenzo et al. profile →
North Pacific Gyre Oscillation links ocean climate and ecosystem change

2008 957 citations Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Steven J. Bograd et al. profile →
Chaos in a Three‐Species Food Chain

1991 836 citations Thomas M. Powell et al. profile →
Historical origins and genetic diversity of wine grapes

2006 608 citations Patrice This, Thierry Lacombe et al. Trends in Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas M. Powell United States	38	3.5k	2.6k	1.6k	1.2k	834	92	6.9k
John H. Steele United States	43	3.7k 1.0×	3.0k 1.2×	2.7k 1.7×	408 0.3×	1.1k 1.3×	116	7.0k
S.A.L.M. Kooijman Netherlands	54	1.6k 0.4×	3.5k 1.3×	4.4k 2.8×	116 0.1×	2.3k 2.7×	219	10.9k
Bai-Lian Li United States	47	328 0.1×	2.0k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	453 0.4×	1.4k 1.7×	203	6.5k
Oscar Schofield United States	57	8.5k 2.4×	2.2k 0.8×	5.1k 3.3×	2.4k 2.0×	527 0.6×	278	12.6k
Trevor Platt Canada	62	13.2k 3.8×	4.7k 1.8×	5.6k 3.6×	1.3k 1.1×	784 0.9×	207	15.9k
Robert France Canada	35	1.1k 0.3×	1.2k 0.5×	3.5k 2.3×	414 0.3×	1.3k 1.6×	211	5.4k
Jean‐Christophe Poggiale France	30	914 0.3×	870 0.3×	1.0k 0.7×	127 0.1×	406 0.5×	96	2.8k
David A. Caron United States	65	8.0k 2.3×	1.1k 0.4×	8.7k 5.6×	886 0.7×	218 0.3×	235	13.6k
James J. O’Brien United States	57	5.9k 1.7×	5.6k 2.2×	779 0.5×	4.9k 4.0×	187 0.2×	230	9.9k
Thomas Wilke Germany	44	1.1k 0.3×	476 0.2×	3.3k 2.1×	401 0.3×	616 0.7×	220	5.8k

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Powell, Thomas M., et al.. (2024). Building a Federated Catalog for CyberTraining Materials: The HPC-ED Pilot Project. Knowledge@UChicago (University of Chicago). 1–5.

Powell, Thomas M., et al.. (2023). Approaching Exascale: Best Practices for Training a Diverse Workforce using Hackathons. 14(1). 17–22. 1 indexed citations

Li, John, et al.. (2022). Critique of: “A Parallel Framework for Constraint-Based Bayesian Network Learning via Markov Blanket Discovery” by SCC Team From UC San Diego. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 34(6). 1727–1730. 1 indexed citations

Sydeman, William J., et al.. (2015). An individual-based model of the krill Euphausia pacifica in the California Current. Progress In Oceanography. 138. 504–520. 14 indexed citations

Powell, Thomas M.. (2014). Parallel Implementation of the Unified Curvilinear Ocean and Atmospheric (UCOAM) Model and Supporting Computational Environment. CSUN ScholarWorks (California State University, Northridge). 1 indexed citations

Dooley, Rion, Sandro Fiore, Mark L. Green, et al.. (2011). Proceedings of the 2011 ACM workshop on Gateway computing environments. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. 3 indexed citations

Fiechter, Jérôme, Andrew M. Moore, Christopher A. Edwards, et al.. (2009). Modeling iron limitation of primary production in the coastal Gulf of Alaska. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography. 56(24). 2503–2519. 59 indexed citations

This, Patrice, Thierry Lacombe, & Thomas M. Powell. (2006). Historical origins and genetic diversity of wine grapes. Trends in Genetics. 22(9). 511–519. 608 indexed citations breakdown →

Stacey, Mark T. & Thomas M. Powell. (2005). Observation of Physical Fluxes Between an Estuary and the Ocean. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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Mock, Stephen, et al.. (2002). The Perl Commodity Grid Toolkit. Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. 14(13-15). 1085–1095. 6 indexed citations

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Barth, John A., P. Michael Kosro, P. Ted Strub, et al.. (2002). The GLOBEC Northeast Pacific California Current System Program. Oceanography. 15(2). 36–47. 52 indexed citations

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Powell, Thomas M. & Akira Ōkubo. (1994). Turbulence, diffusion and patchiness in the sea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 343(1303). 11–18. 70 indexed citations

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Jassby, Alan D. & Thomas M. Powell. (1994). Hydrodynamic influences on interannual chlorophyll variability in an estuary: Upper San Francisco Bay-Delta (California, U.S.A.). Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 39(6). 595–618. 39 indexed citations

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Archer, David, Steve Emerson, Thomas M. Powell, & C. S. Wong. (1993). Numerical hindcasting of sea surface pCO2 at Weathership Station Papa. Progress In Oceanography. 32(1-4). 319–351. 32 indexed citations

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Miller, Charles B., Bruce W. Frost, Patricia A. Wheeler, et al.. (1991). Ecological dynamics in the subarctic Pacific, a possibly iron-limited ecosystem. Limnology and Oceanography. 36(8). 1600–1615. 186 indexed citations

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Jassby, Alan D., Thomas M. Powell, & Charles R. Goldman. (1990). Interannual fluctuations in primary production: Direct physical effects and the trohic cascade at Castle Lake, California. Limnology and Oceanography. 35(5). 1021–1038. 64 indexed citations

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Cloern, James E., et al.. (1989). Spatial and temporal variability in South San Francisco Bay (USA). II. Temporal changes in salinity, suspended sediments, and phytoplankton biomass and productivity over tidal time scales. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 28(6). 599–613. 81 indexed citations

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Strub, P. Ted & Thomas M. Powell. (1986). Wind‐driven surface transport in stratified closed basins: Direct versus residual circulations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 91(C7). 8497–8508. 43 indexed citations

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Strub, P. Ted, Thomas M. Powell, & Charles R. Goldman. (1985). Climatic Forcing: Effects of El Niño on a Small, Temperate Lake. Science. 227(4682). 55–57. 45 indexed citations

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Cheng, Ralph T., Thomas M. Powell, & Thomas M. Dillon. (1976). Numerical models of wind-driven circulation in lakes. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 1(3). 141–159. 33 indexed citations

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