2026 Alberto C. Naveira Garabato: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	68	1172	1038	118	104	228	13736

Overview

Alberto C. Naveira Garabato is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with a substantial emphasis on Oceanography and Atmospheric Science.

Their work spans several subfields, including Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Earth-Surface Processes. The largest proportion of their publications relates to Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Climate variability and models, Cryospheric studies and observations, and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing.

Alberto C. Naveira Garabato has contributed to multiple papers, including the following recent publications:

"Summertime increases in upper-ocean stratification and mixed-layer depth" (2021) in Nature
"Internal wave-driven mixing: governing processes and consequences for climate" (2020) in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
"Recent recovery of Antarctic Bottom Water formation in the Ross Sea driven by climate anomalies" (2020) in Nature Geoscience
"Kinetic Energy Transfers between Mesoscale and Submesoscale Motions in the Open Ocean's Upper Layers" (2021) in Journal of Physical Oceanography
"Poleward shift of Circumpolar Deep Water threatens the East Antarctic Ice Sheet" (2022) in Nature Climate Change

The scientist collaborates frequently with several colleagues. The most frequent co-authors include Carl Spingys, Bieito Fernández Castro, Alessandro Silvano, Michael P. Meredith, and Jean-Baptiste Sallée.

Their research has been published primarily in the following venues:

Journal of Physical Oceanography
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
Geophysical Research Letters
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Scientific Reports

Best Publications

Global Patterns of Diapycnal Mixing from Measurements of the Turbulent Dissipation Rate

Amy F. Waterhouse;Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Jonathan D. Nash;Matthew H. Alford

562
Citations
Widespread Intense Turbulent Mixing in the Southern Ocean

Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;Kurt L. Polzin;Brian A. King;Karen J. Heywood

508
Citations
On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

Dean Roemmich;Matthew H. Alford;Hervé Claustre;Kenneth Johnson

424
Citations
State of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate system

Paul Andrew Mayewski;M. P. Meredith;C. P. Summerhayes;J. Turner

367
Citations
State of the Climate in 2014

Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

332
Citations
The Discovery of New Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Communities in the Southern Ocean and Implications for Biogeography

Alex D. Rogers;Paul A. Tyler;Douglas P. Connelly;Jonathan T. Copley

309
Citations
Summertime increases in upper-ocean stratification and mixed-layer depth.

Jean-Baptiste Sallée;Violaine Pellichero;Violaine Pellichero;Camille Akhoudas;Etienne Pauthenet

300
Citations
On the export of Antarctic Bottom Water from the Weddell Sea

Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;Elaine L. McDonagh;David P. Stevens;Karen J. Heywood

261
Citations
Open-Ocean Submesoscale Motions: A Full Seasonal Cycle of Mixed Layer Instabilities from Gliders

Andrew F. Thompson;Ayah Lazar;Christian Buckingham;Alberto C. Naveira Garabato

235
Citations
Modification and pathways of Southern Ocean Deep Waters in the Scotia Sea

Alberto C Naveira Garabato;Karen J Heywood;David P Stevens

231
Citations
The Arctic Circumpolar Boundary Current

Yevgeny Aksenov;Vladimir V. Ivanov;Vladimir V. Ivanov;Vladimir V. Ivanov;A. J. George Nurser;Sheldon Bacon

213
Citations
Internal wave-driven mixing: governing processes and consequences for climate

Caitlin B. Whalen;Casimir de Lavergne;Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;Jody M. Klymak

202
Citations
Deep-ocean mixing driven by small-scale internal tides

Clément Vic;Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;J. A. Mattias Green;Amy F. Waterhouse

200
Citations
Finescale Parameterizations of Turbulent Dissipation

Kurt L. Polzin;Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;Tycho N. Huussen;Bernadette M. Sloyan

198
Citations
The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: Present Knowledge and Future Challenges

M. Vernet;Walter Geibert;Mario Hoppema;P.J. Brown

195
Citations
Sensitivity of the Overturning Circulation in the Southern Ocean to Decadal Changes in Wind Forcing

Michael P. Meredith;Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;Andrew McC. Hogg;Riccardo Farneti

191
Citations
Export of nutrients from the Arctic Ocean

Sinhué Torres-Valdés;Takamasa Tsubouchi;Sheldon Bacon;Alberto C. Naveira-Garabato

187
Citations
Eddy stirring in the Southern Ocean

A. C. Naveira Garabato;R. Ferrari;K. L. Polzin

185
Citations
SUSTAINED MONITORING OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN AT DRAKE PASSAGE: PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PRIORITIES

Michael P. Meredith;Philip L. Woodworth;Teresa K. Chereskin;David P. Marshall

172
Citations
Internal waves and turbulence in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Stephanie N. Waterman;Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;Kurt L. Polzin

171
Citations
Variability of Subantarctic Mode Water and Antarctic Intermediate Water in the Drake Passage during the Late-Twentieth and Early-Twenty-First Centuries

Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;Loïc Jullion;David P. Stevens;Karen J. Heywood

163
Citations
State of the Climate in 2016

Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

161
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael P. Meredith British Antarctic Survey

Karen J. Heywood University of East Anglia

Paul R. Holland British Antarctic Survey

Kurt L. Polzin Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Sheldon Bacon National Oceanography Centre

A. J. George Nurser National Oceanography Centre

Brian A. King National Oceanography Centre

Adrian Jenkins Durham University

Andrew J. Watson University of Exeter

Jean-Baptiste Sallée Sorbonne University

External Links

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