OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ocean Science is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in the coastal Sea of Japan inferred from 15 years of measurements of stable isotope ratios of Calanus sinicus	82
High interannual surface pCO₂ variability in the southern Canadian Arctic Archipelago's Kitikmeot Sea	81
The influence of tides on the marine carbonate chemistry of a coastal polynya in the south-eastern Weddell Sea	52
Alongshore sediment transport analysis for a semi-enclosed basin: a case study of the Gulf of Riga, the Baltic Sea	41
Observations of strong turbulence and mixing impacting water exchange between two basins in the Baltic Sea	38
Mean sea level and tidal change in Ireland since 1842: a case study of Cork	32
North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water properties: intrinsic and atmospherically forced interannual variability	32
Attributing decadal climate variability in coastal sea-level trends	30
Internal tides off the Amazon shelf in the western tropical Atlantic: analysis of SWOT Cal/Val mission data	30
High-resolution numerical modelling of seasonal volume, freshwater, and heat transport along the Indian coast	28
Modeling the interannual variability in Maipo and Rapel river plumes off central Chile	27
Occurrence of structural aluminium (Al) in marine diatom biological silica: visible evidence from microscopic analysis	25
Observation-based estimates of volume, heat, and freshwater exchanges between the subpolar North Atlantic interior, its boundary currents, and the atmosphere	23
Expanding seawater carbon dioxide and methane measuring capabilities with a Seaglider	23
Effects of sea level rise and tidal flat growth on tidal dynamics and geometry of the Elbe estuary	22
Satellite altimetry and operational oceanography: from Jason-1 to SWOT	21
Global water level variability observed after the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic tsunami of 2022	20
The Polar Front in the northwestern Barents Sea: structure, variability and mixing	20
The Mediterranean Forecasting System – Part 1: Evolution and performance	19
Equatorial wave diagnosis for the Atlantic Niño in 2019 with an ocean reanalysis	19
Western boundary circulation and coastal sea-level variability in Northern Hemisphere oceans	19
There and back again, a journey of many pathways: conceptualising the marine organic carbon cycle	18
The alongshore tilt of mean dynamic topography and its implications for model validation and ocean monitoring	18
Marine heatwaves in the Mediterranean Sea: a convolutional neural network study for extreme event prediction	17
Anomalous North Pacific subtropical mode water volume and density decrease in a recent stable Kuroshio Extension period from Argo observations	17

Upper-ocean response to the passage of tropical cyclones in the Azores region	16
Lagrangian eddy tracking reveals the Eratosthenes anticyclonic attractor in the eastern Levantine Basin	16
Exploring the tidal response to bathymetry evolution and present-day sea level rise in a channel–shoal environment	16
Decadal changes in phytoplankton functional composition in the Eastern English Channel: possible upcoming major effects of climate change	15
Impact of extratropical cyclones on coastal circulation in a semi-enclosed bay within the Humboldt Current System	14
Marine heatwaves in the Arabian Sea	14
Regional sea level trend budget over 2004–2022	14
Exploring the relationship between sea ice and phytoplankton growth in the Weddell Gyre using satellite and Argo float data	13
Sargassum spp. accumulation and transport by mesoscale eddies	13
Extension of the general unit hydrograph theory for the spread of salinity in estuaries	13
Inherent optical properties of dissolved and particulate matter in an Arctic fjord (Storfjorden, Svalbard) in early summer	12
Potential artifacts in conservation laws and invariants inferred from sequential state estimation	12
Observed multi-decadal trends in subsurface temperature adjacent to the East Australian Current	12
Uncertainties and discrepancies in the representation of recent storm surges in a non-tidal semi-enclosed basin: a hindcast ensemble for the Baltic Sea	12
Internal and forced ocean variability in the Mediterranean Sea	12
Joint observation–model mixed-layer heat and salt budgets in the eastern tropical Atlantic	12
Investigation of the impact of complex coastline geometry on the evolution of storm surges along the eastern coast of India: a sensitivity study using a numerical model	12
Stratification and overturning circulation are intertwined controls on ocean heat uptake efficiency in climate models	12
The Southern Ocean deep mixing band emerges from a competition between winter buoyancy loss and upper stratification strength	12
Refined estimates of water transport through the Åland Sea in the Baltic Sea	11
Arctic sea level variability from high-resolution model simulations and implications for the Arctic observing system	11
A thermodynamic potential of seawater in terms of Absolute Salinity, Conservative Temperature, and in situ pressure	11
Wind-driven upwelling and surface nutrient delivery in a semi-enclosed coastal sea	11
Tracer and observationally derived constraints on diapycnal diffusivities in an ocean state estimate	11
Monitoring the coastal–offshore water interactions in the Levantine Sea using ocean color and deep supervised learning	11
Convolutional neural networks for sea surface data assimilation in operational ocean models: test case in the Gulf of Mexico	11
Statistical analysis of ocean currents in the eastern Mediterranean	10
Integration of microseism, wavemeter buoy, HF radar and hindcast data to analyze the Mediterranean cyclone Helios	10
Disentangling spring–neap suspended particulate matter (SPM) dynamics in estuaries	10
Components of 21 years (1995–2015) of absolute sea level trends in the Arctic	10
Salt intrusion dynamics in a well-mixed sub-estuary connected to a partially to well-mixed main estuary	10
Enhanced resolution capability of SWOT sea surface height measurements and their application in monitoring ocean dynamics variability	9
Subsurface floats in the Filchner Trough provide the first direct under-ice tracks of the circulation on shelf	9
Decadal sea-level variability in the Australasian Mediterranean Sea	9
Imminent reversal of the residual flow through the Marsdiep tidal inlet into the Dutch Wadden Sea based on multiyear ferry-borne acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) observations	9
Global submesoscale diagnosis using along-track satellite altimetry	9
Autonomous methane seep site monitoring offshore western Svalbard: hourly to seasonal variability and associated oceanographic parameters	9
Dimethyl sulfide cycling in the sea surface microlayer in the southwestern Pacific – Part 1: Enrichment potential determined using a novel sampler	9
DUACS DT2021 reprocessed altimetry improves sea level retrieval in the coastal band of the European seas	9
A numerical study of near-inertial motions in the Mid-Atlantic Bight area induced by Hurricane Irene (2011)	9
Impact of a long-lived anticyclonic mesoscale eddy on seawater anomalies in the northeastern tropical Pacific Ocean: a composite analysis from hydrographic measurements, sea level altimetry data, and	9
Surface saline lakes in the Mediterranean Sea	9
Operational hydrodynamic service as a tool for coastal flood assessment	9
Persistent climate model biases in the Atlantic Ocean's freshwater transport	9
The formation and ventilation of an oxygen minimum zone in a simple model for latitudinally alternating zonal jets	9
The characteristics of tides and their effects on the general circulation of the Mediterranean Sea	9
Impact of Hurricane Irma on coral reef sediment redistribution at Looe Key Reef, Florida, USA	8
Integrating wide-swath altimetry data into Level-4 multi-mission maps	8
Contribution of a constellation of two wide-swath altimetry missions to global ocean analysis and forecasting	8
Drifting dynamics of the bluebottle (Physalia physalis)	8

Major sources of North Atlantic Deep Water in the subpolar North Atlantic from Lagrangian analyses in an eddy-rich ocean model	8
Quantification of Baltic sea water budget components using dynamic topography	8
Global coarse-grained mesoscale eddy statistics based on integrated kinetic energy and enstrophy correlations	8
Investigating the long-term variability of the Red Sea marine heatwaves and their relationship to different climate modes: focus on 2010 events in the northern basin	8
Long-term changes in the ocean tide at Port Louis, Falkland Islands	8
Evaluating altimetry-derived surface currents on the south Greenland shelf with surface drifters	8
Using machine learning and beach cleanup data to explain litter quantities along the Dutch North Sea coast	7
Critical uncoupling between biogeochemical stocks and rates in Ross Sea springtime production–export dynamics	7
Sudden, local temperature increase above the continental slope in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica	7
Altered Weddell Sea warm- and dense-water pathways in response to 21st-century climate change	7
Plastics in the Indian Ocean – sources, transport, distribution, and impacts	7
Winter observations alter the seasonal perspectives of the nutrient transport pathways into the lower St. Lawrence Estuary	7
Interannual variability in contributions of the Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC) to Peruvian upwelling source water	7
Sensitivity of gyre-scale marine connectivity estimates to fine-scale circulation	7
Validating the spatial variability in the semidiurnal internal tide in a realistic global ocean simulation with Argo and mooring data	7
Detection and tracking of carbon biomes via integrated machine learning	7
Assessment of Indonesian Throughflow transports from ocean reanalyses with mooring-based observations	7
Benefits of a second tandem flight phase between two successive satellite altimetry missions for assessing instrumental stability	7
Estimating ocean currents from the joint reconstruction of absolute dynamic topography and sea surface temperature through deep learning algorithms	7
Revisiting the global mean ocean mass budget over 2005–2020	7
The signature of NAO and EA climate patterns on the vertical structure of the Canary Current upwelling system	7
Internal-tide vertical structure and steric sea surface height signature south of New Caledonia revealed by glider observations	7
Improving the thermocline calculation over the global ocean	7
Contrasting two major Arctic coastal polynyas: the role of sea ice in driving diel vertical migrations of zooplankton in the Laptev and Beaufort seas	7
Dissipation ratio and eddy diffusivity of turbulent and salt finger mixing derived from microstructure measurements	6
Turbulent erosion of a subducting intrusion in the Western Mediterranean Sea	6
Importance of tides and winds in influencing the nonstationary behaviour of coastal currents in offshore Singapore	6
Mechanisms and intraseasonal variability in the South Vietnam Upwelling, South China Sea: the role of circulation, tides, and rivers	6
Progress in understanding of Indian Ocean circulation, variability, air–sea exchange, and impacts on biogeochemistry	6
Influence of river runoff and precipitation on the seasonal and interannual variability of sea surface salinity in the eastern North Tropical Atlantic	6
A global summary of seafloor topography influenced by internal-wave-induced turbulent water mixing	6
MAESSTRO: Masked Autoencoders for Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction under Occlusion	6
Unsupervised classification of the northwestern European seas based on satellite altimetry data	6
Surface circulation characterization along the middle southern coastal region of Vietnam from high-frequency radar and numerical modeling	6
Linking satellites to genes with machine learning to estimate phytoplankton community structure from space	6
Internal tides off the Amazon shelf during two contrasted seasons: interactions with background circulation and SSH imprints	6
Dynamics of salt intrusion in complex estuarine networks: an idealised model applied to the Rhine–Meuse Delta	6
Ensemble analysis and forecast of ecosystem indicators in the North Atlantic using ocean colour observations and prior statistics from a stochastic NEMO–PISCES simulator	6
Impact of acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) motion on structure function estimates of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate	6
Southern Ocean warming and Antarctic ice shelf melting in conditions plausible by late 23rd century in a high-end scenario	6
Coastal and regional marine heatwaves and cold spells in the northeastern Atlantic	6