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Anand Gnanadesikan publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anand Gnanadesikan sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 202 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Anand Gnanadesikan D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anand Gnanadesikan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Anand Gnanadesikan is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. Subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Artificial Intelligence also form part of their academic contributions.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including but not limited to:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate variability and models
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Anand Gnanadesikan has frequently published in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Climate

Recent scholarly articles attributed to the scientist or their close collaborators include:

  • "Interannual SAM Modulation of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Does Not Account for Its Long-Term Trends, Pointing to a Limited Role for Ozone Depletion" (2021), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "ENSO Teleconnection to Eastern African Summer Rainfall in Global Climate Models: Role of the Tropical Easterly Jet" (2020), published in Journal of Climate
  • "Abundant and persistent sulfur-oxidizing microbial populations are responsive to hypoxia in the Chesapeake Bay" (2022), published in Environmental Microbiology
  • "Scaling Global Warming Impacts on Ocean Ecosystems: Lessons From a Suite of Earth System Models" (2020), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Can machine learning extract the mechanisms controlling phytoplankton growth from large-scale observations? - A proof-of-concept study" (2021), published in Biogeosciences

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Marie-Aude Pradal
  • Christopher Holder
  • Rui Jin
  • Thomas W. N. Haine
  • Jennifer Sleeman

Best Publications

  • Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms

    James C. Orr;Victoria J. Fabry;Olivier Aumont;Laurent Bopp

  • GFDL's CM2 global coupled climate models. Part I: Formulation and simulation characteristics

    Thomas L. Delworth;Anthony J. Broccoli;Anthony Rosati;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • A synthesis of global particle export from the surface ocean and cycling through the ocean interior and on the seafloor

    John P. Dunne;Jorge L. Sarmiento;Anand Gnanadesikan

  • The Role of Eddies in Determining the Structure and Response of the Wind-Driven Southern Hemisphere Overturning: Results from the Modeling Eddies in the Southern Ocean (MESO) Project

    Robert Hallberg;Anand Gnanadesikan

  • A Simple Predictive Model for the Structure of the Oceanic Pycnocline

    Anand Gnanadesikan

  • Empirical and mechanistic models for the particle export ratio

    John P. Dunne;Robert A. Armstrong;Anand Gnanadesikan;Jorge L. Sarmiento

  • Formulation of an ocean model for global climate simulations

    S. M. Griffies;A. Gnanadesikan;K. W. Dixon;J. P. Dunne

  • The Southern Ocean biogeochemical divide

    I. Marinov;I. Marinov;A. Gnanadesikan;J. R. Toggweiler;J. L. Sarmiento

  • The Southern Hemisphere Westerlies in a Warming World: Propping Open the Door to the Deep Ocean

    Joellen L. Russell;Keith W. Dixon;Anand Gnanadesikan;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • The GFDL CM3 Coupled Climate Model: Characteristics of the Ocean and Sea Ice Simulations

    Stephen M. Griffies;Michael Winton;Leo J. Donner;Larry W. Horowitz

  • GFDL's CM2 Global Coupled Climate Models. Part II: The Baseline Ocean Simulation

    Anand Gnanadesikan;Keith W. Dixon;Stephen M. Griffies;V. Balaji

  • Evaluating Global Ocean Carbon Models: The Importance of Realistic Physics

    Scott C. Doney;Keith Lindsay;K. Caldeira;J.-M. Campin;J.-M. Campin

  • Isoneutral Diffusion in a z-Coordinate Ocean Model

    Stephen M. Griffies;Anand Gnanadesikan;Ronald C. Pacanowski;Vitaly D. Larichev

  • Evaluation of ocean carbon cycle models with data-based metrics

    K. Matsumoto;Jorge L. Sarmiento;Robert M. Key;Olivier Aumont

  • A new estimate of the CaCO3 to organic carbon export ratio

    J. L. Sarmiento;J. Dunne;A. Gnanadesikan;A. Gnanadesikan;R. M. Key

  • Transient Response in a Z-Level Ocean Model That Resolves Topography with Partial Cells

    Ronald C. Pacanowski;Anand Gnanadesikan

  • Impacts of Shortwave Penetration Depth on Large-Scale Ocean Circulation and Heat Transport

    Colm Sweeney;Anand Gnanadesikan;Stephen M. Griffies;Matthew J. Harrison

  • Regional impacts of iron-light colimitation in a global biogeochemical model

    E. D. Galbraith;E. D. Galbraith;A. Gnanadesikan;J. P. Dunne;M. R. Hiscock

  • Simulation of Density-Driven Frictional Downslope Flow in Z-Coordinate Ocean Models

    Michael Winton;Robert Hallberg;Anand Gnanadesikan

  • On the Relationship of the Circumpolar Current to Southern Hemisphere Winds in Coarse-Resolution Ocean Models

    Anand Gnanadesikan;Robert W. Hallberg

  • Oceanic ventilation and biogeochemical cycling: Understanding the physical mechanisms that produce realistic distributions of tracers and productivity

    Anand Gnanadesikan;John P. Dunne;Robert M. Key;Katsumi Matsumoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Jorge L. Sarmiento
Jorge L. Sarmiento Princeton University
John P. Dunne
John P. Dunne Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Robert Hallberg
Robert Hallberg Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Nicolas Gruber
Nicolas Gruber ETH Zurich
J. R. Toggweiler
J. R. Toggweiler Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Yasuhiro Yamanaka
Yasuhiro Yamanaka Hokkaido University
Robert M. Key
Robert M. Key Princeton University
Peter Olson
Peter Olson University of New Mexico
Scott C. Doney
Scott C. Doney University of Virginia

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