2026 Annalisa Griffa: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	45	6552	6294	128	128	142	5870

Overview

Annalisa Griffa is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with significant contributions to Environmental Science. Within these broad fields, their work concentrates on subfields such as Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Pollution, Global and Planetary Change, and Ocean Engineering.

The main topics covered in Griffa's research include:

Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
Climate Variability and Models
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

Griffa has contributed to several publications, with frequent appearances in prominent journals such as Ocean Science, the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, the Journal of Physical Oceanography, Frontiers in Marine Science, and the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Griffa include:

Coastal high-frequency radars in the Mediterranean - Part 1: Status of operations and a framework for future development, 2022, Ocean Science
Diurnal Cycling of Submesoscale Dynamics: Lagrangian Implications in Drifter Observations and Model Simulations of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography
Submesoscale Kinematic Properties in Summer and Winter Surface Flows in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
Coastal high-frequency radars in the Mediterranean - Part 2: Applications in support of science priorities and societal needs, 2022, Ocean Science
Submesoscale Vorticity and Divergence in the Alboran Sea: Scale and Depth Dependence, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science

Frequent co-authors with whom Griffa has collaborated include Maristella Berta, Anne Molcard, Tamay M. Özgökmen, Lorenzo Corgnati, and Marcello G. Magaldi.

Best Publications

Submesoscale dispersion in the vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Andrew C. Poje;Tamay M. Özgökmen;Bruce L. Lipphardt;Brian K. Haus

298
Citations
Seasonality of the submesoscale dynamics in the Gulf Stream region

Jean Alberto Mensa;Zulema Garraffo;Annalisa Griffa;Tamay Mehmet Özgökmen

238
Citations
Applications of stochastic particle models to oceanographic problems

Annalisa Griffa

183
Citations
Floating debris in the Ligurian Sea, north-western Mediterranean

Stefano Aliani;Annalisa Griffa;Anne Molcard

172
Citations
The Global High Frequency Radar Network

Hugh Roarty;Thomas Cook;Lisa Hazard;Doug George

164
Citations
Assimilation of drifter observations for the reconstruction of the Eulerian circulation field

Anne Molcard;Leonid I. Piterbarg;Annalisa Griffa;Tamay M. Özgökmen

143
Citations
Transport Properties in the Adriatic Sea as Deduced from Drifter Data

Pierpaolo Falco;Annalisa Griffa;Pierre-Marie Poulain;Enrico Zambianchi

138
Citations
New High-Tech Flexible Networks for the Monitoring of Deep-Sea Ecosystems

Jacopo Aguzzi;Damianos Chatzievangelou;Simone Marini;Emanuela Fanelli

137
Citations
Lagrangian data in a high-resolution numerical simulation of the North Atlantic : I. Comparison with in situ drifter data

Zulema D Garraffo;Arthur J Mariano;Annalisa Griffa;Carmela Veneziani

135
Citations
HF Radar activity in European coastal seas: Next steps toward a Pan-European HF Radar network

Anna Rubio;Julien Mader;Lorenzo Corgnati;Carlo Mantovani

129
Citations
Oceanic Turbulence and Stochastic Models from Subsurface Lagrangian Data for the Northwest Atlantic Ocean

Milena Veneziani;Annalisa Griffa;Andy M. Reynolds;Arthur J. Mariano

127
Citations
Eddy-mean flow decomposition and eddy-diffusivity estimates in the tropical Pacific Ocean: 1. Methodology

Sonia Bauer;Mark S. Swenson;Annalisa Griffa;Arthur J. Mariano

121
Citations
Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 4

Karina von Schuckmann;Pierre-Yves Le Traon;Neville Smith;Ananda Pascual

117
Citations
MedArgo: a drifting profiler program in the Mediterranean Sea

Pierre-Marie Poulain;R. Barbanti;Jordi Font;Antonio Cruzado

111
Citations
Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 3

Karina von Schuckmann;Pierre-Yves Le Traon;Neville Smith;Ananda Pascual

110
Citations
Lagrangian Analysis and Prediction of Coastal and Ocean Dynamics

Annalisa Griffa;A. D. Kirwan;Arthur J. Mariano;Tamay Özgökmen

107
Citations
Combining Litter Observations with a Regional Ocean Model to Identify Sources and Sinks of Floating Debris in a Semi-enclosed Basin: The Adriatic Sea

Daniel F. Carlson;Daniel F. Carlson;Giuseppe Suaria;Stefano Aliani;Erick Fredj

105
Citations
On the Predictability of Lagrangian Trajectories in the Ocean

Tamay M. Özgökmen;Annalisa Griffa;Annalisa Griffa;Arthur J. Mariano;Leonid I. Piterbarg

98
Citations
Relative dispersion in the Liguro-Provençal basin: From sub-mesoscale to mesoscale

K. Schroeder;A.C. Haza;A. Griffa;T.M. Özgökmen

98
Citations
Estimates of turbulence parameters from Lagrangian data using a stochastic particle model

Annalisa Griffa;Kenneth Owens;Leonid Piterbarg;Boris Rozovskii

97
Citations
Particle diffusion in a meandering jet

Stephanie Dutkiewicz;Annalisa Griffa;Donald B. Olson

93
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tamay M. Özgökmen University of Miami

Pierre-Marie Poulain National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics

Arthur J. Mariano University of Miami

Patrick J. Hogan United States Naval Research Laboratory

Nadia Pinardi University of Bologna

Katrin Schroeder National Research Council (CNR)

Brian K. Haus University of Miami

Shuyi S. Chen University of Washington

Eric P. Chassignet Florida State University

Jacopo Chiggiato National Research Council (CNR)

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