OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ocean Science is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Drifting dynamics of the bluebottle (Physalia physalis)	302
Mean sea level and tidal change in Ireland since 1842: a case study of Cork	93
Clustering analysis of the Sargassum transport process: application to beaching prediction in the Lesser Antilles	76
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	66
Coupled hydrological and hydrodynamic modelling application for climate change impact assessment in the Nemunas river watershed–Curonian Lagoon–southeastern Baltic Sea continuum	48
The influence of tides on the marine carbonate chemistry of a coastal polynya in the south-eastern Weddell Sea	36
Internal tides off the Amazon shelf in the western tropical Atlantic: analysis of SWOT Cal/Val mission data	33
Major sources of North Atlantic Deep Water in the subpolar North Atlantic from Lagrangian analyses in an eddy-rich ocean model	31
High-resolution numerical modelling of seasonal volume, freshwater, and heat transport along the Indian coast	29
Dimethyl sulfide cycling in the sea surface microlayer in the southwestern Pacific – Part 2: Processes and rates	26
Long-term changes in the ocean tide at Port Louis, Falkland Islands	26
Impact of Hurricane Irma on coral reef sediment redistribution at Looe Key Reef, Florida, USA	23
North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water properties: intrinsic and atmospherically forced interannual variability	23
Swell hindcast statistics for the Baltic Sea	21
Temperature effect on seawater fCO₂ revisited: theoretical basis, uncertainty analysis and implications for parameterising carbonic acid equilibrium constants	21
An assessment of equatorial Atlantic interannual variability in Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP) simulations	20
Accuracy of numerical wave model results: application to the Atlantic coasts of Europe	20
Hydrographic section along 55° E in the Indian and Southern oceans	20
Modelling the barotropic sea level in the Mediterranean Sea using data assimilation	17
The characteristics of tides and their effects on the general circulation of the Mediterranean Sea	17
Forecasting hurricane-forced significant wave heights using a long short-term memory network in the Caribbean Sea	16
The diurnal cycle of pCO₂ in the coastal region of the Baltic Sea	16
Decadal sea-level variability in the Australasian Mediterranean Sea	16
Sea-level variability and change along the Norwegian coast between 2003 and 2018 from satellite altimetry, tide gauges, and hydrography	15
Autonomous methane seep site monitoring offshore western Svalbard: hourly to seasonal variability and associated oceanographic parameters	15

Flow separation, dipole formation, and water exchange through tidal straits	15
Rectified tidal transport in Lofoten–Vesterålen, northern Norway	15
Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in the coastal Sea of Japan inferred from 15 years of measurements of stable isotope ratios of Calanus sinicus	14
Role of air–sea fluxes and ocean surface density in the production of deep waters in the eastern subpolar gyre of the North Atlantic	14
Attributing decadal climate variability in coastal sea-level trends	13
Interannual variation of a bottom cold water mass in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan	13
Technical note: Turbulence measurements from a light autonomous underwater vehicle	13
Fortnightly variability of Chl a in the Indonesian seas	12
Contribution of a constellation of two wide-swath altimetry missions to global ocean analysis and forecasting	12
A numerical study of near-inertial motions in the Mid-Atlantic Bight area induced by Hurricane Irene (2011)	12
Global submesoscale diagnosis using along-track satellite altimetry	12
A newly reconciled dataset for identifying sea level rise and variability in Dublin Bay	12
Seasonal overturning variability in the eastern North Atlantic subpolar gyre: a Lagrangian perspective	11
Water mass transformation variability in the Weddell Sea in ocean reanalyses	11
High interannual surface pCO₂ variability in the southern Canadian Arctic Archipelago's Kitikmeot Sea	11
River effects on sea-level rise in the Río de la Plata estuary during the past century	11
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	11
Current observed global mean sea level rise and acceleration estimated from satellite altimetry and the associated measurement uncertainty	11
Evaluating altimetry-derived surface currents on the south Greenland shelf with surface drifters	11
Origins of mesoscale mixed-layer depth variability in the Southern Ocean	10
Dependency of simulated tropical Atlantic current variability on the wind forcing	10
An analogues-based forecasting system for Mediterranean marine-litter concentration	10
The acceleration of sea-level rise along the coast of the Netherlands started in the 1960s	10
Alongshore sediment transport analysis for a semi-enclosed basin: a case study of the Gulf of Riga, the Baltic Sea	9
Fusion of Lagrangian drifter data and numerical model outputs for improved assessment of turbulent dispersion	9
Modelling floating riverine litter in the south-eastern Bay of Biscay: a regional distribution from a seasonal perspective	9
A three-quantile bias correction with spatial transfer for the correction of simulated European river runoff to force ocean models	9
Tropical deoxygenation sites revisited to investigate oxygen and nutrient trends	9
The formation and ventilation of an oxygen minimum zone in a simple model for latitudinally alternating zonal jets	9
Observations of strong turbulence and mixing impacting water exchange between two basins in the Baltic Sea	9
Variability in coastal downwelling circulation in response to high-resolution regional atmospheric forcing off the Pearl River estuary	8
Global water level variability observed after the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic tsunami of 2022	8
Responses of estuarine circulation to the morphological evolution in a convergent, microtidal estuary	8
Delayed-mode reprocessing of in situ sea level data for the Copernicus Marine Service	8
Fjord circulation permits a persistent subsurface water mass in a long, deep mid-latitude inlet	8
Causes of the 2015 North Atlantic cold anomaly in a global state estimate	8
Bivariate sea-ice assimilation for global-ocean analysis–reanalysis	8
The sensitivity of primary productivity in Disko Bay, a coastal Arctic ecosystem, to changes in freshwater discharge and sea ice cover	8
Multi-model analysis of the Adriatic dense-water dynamics	7
The riddle of eastern tropical Pacific Ocean oxygen levels: the role of the supply by intermediate-depth waters	7
Plastics in the Indian Ocean – sources, transport, distribution, and impacts	7
Integrating wide-swath altimetry data into Level-4 multi-mission maps	7
Using feature-based verification methods to explore the spatial and temporal characteristics of the 2019 chlorophyll-a bloom season in a model of the European Northwest Shelf	7
High-resolution stochastic downscaling method for ocean forecasting models and its application to the Red Sea dynamics	7
Sea surface salinity short-term variability in the tropics	7
Regionalizing the sea-level budget with machine learning techniques	7
A framework to evaluate and elucidate the driving mechanisms of coastal sea surface pCO₂ seasonality using an ocean general circulation model (MOM6-COBALT)	7
The Mediterranean Forecasting System – Part 1: Evolution and performance	7
Preface: Developments in the science and history of tides	7
Evaluating high-frequency radar data assimilation impact in coastal ocean operational modelling	6

Unsupervised classification identifies coherent thermohaline structures in the Weddell Gyre region	6
A turbulence data reduction scheme for autonomous and expendable profiling floats	6
Temporal and spatial variations in three-dimensional seismic oceanography	6
Deep through-flow in the Bight Fracture Zone	6
Revisiting the tropical Atlantic western boundary circulation from a 25-year time series of satellite altimetry data	6
Consistent picture of the horizontal circulation of the Atlantic Ocean over 3 decades	6
Occurrence of structural aluminium (Al) in marine diatom biological silica: visible evidence from microscopic analysis	6
Global coarse-grained mesoscale eddy statistics based on integrated kinetic energy and enstrophy correlations	6
Observation-based estimates of volume, heat, and freshwater exchanges between the subpolar North Atlantic interior, its boundary currents, and the atmosphere	6
Assessment of Indonesian Throughflow transports from ocean reanalyses with mooring-based observations	6
Seasonal variation of the sound-scattering zooplankton vertical distribution in the oxygen-deficient waters of the NE Black Sea	6
Decomposing oceanic temperature and salinity change using ocean carbon change	6
Ensemble reconstruction of missing satellite data using a denoising diffusion model: application to chlorophyll a concentration in the Black Sea	5
Ocean 2D eddy energy fluxes from small mesoscale processes with SWOT	5
Modeling the interannual variability in Maipo and Rapel river plumes off central Chile	5
The Polar Front in the northwestern Barents Sea: structure, variability and mixing	5
Contrasting two major Arctic coastal polynyas: the role of sea ice in driving diel vertical migrations of zooplankton in the Laptev and Beaufort seas	5
Response of the sea surface temperature to heatwaves during the France 2022 meteorological summer	5
Sensitive dependence of trajectories on tracer seeding positions – coherent structures in German Bight backward drift simulations	5
Exploring variability in climate change projections on the Nemunas River and Curonian Lagoon: coupled SWAT and SHYFEM modeling approach	5
Expanding seawater carbon dioxide and methane measuring capabilities with a Seaglider	5
Intensified upwelling: normalized sea surface temperature trends expose climate change in coastal areas	5
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	5
Improving the thermocline calculation over the global ocean	5
Planktonic cnidarian responses to contrasting thermohaline and circulation seasonal scenarios in a tropical western boundary current system	5
Revisiting the global mean ocean mass budget over 2005–2020	5
Dense water formation in the eastern Mediterranean under a global warming scenario	5
Altered Weddell Sea warm- and dense-water pathways in response to 21st-century climate change	5
Surface factors controlling the volume of accumulated Labrador Sea Water	5
Global variability of high-nutrient low-chlorophyll regions using neural networks and wavelet coherence analysis	5
Technical note: Extending sea level time series for the analysis of extremes with statistical methods and neighbouring station data	5
Predictability of marine heatwaves: assessment based on the ECMWF seasonal forecast system	5
Causes of uncertainties in the representation of the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone in CMIP5 models	5
Freshwater in the Arctic Ocean 2010–2019	5
Coastal high-frequency radars in the Mediterranean – Part 2: Applications in support of science priorities and societal needs	5
Effects of sea level rise and tidal flat growth on tidal dynamics and geometry of the Elbe estuary	5
Multiple timescale variations in fronts in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan	5