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Overview

Benjamin S. Giese is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of their work include climate variability and models, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Giese has contributed to several scientific publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • Testing the Trade Wind Charging Mechanism and Its Influence on ENSO Variability, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • The 20th century global warming signature on the ocean at global and basin scales as depicted from historical reanalyses, 2021, International Journal of Climatology
  • Ocean Dynamics are Key to Extratropical Forcing of El Niño, 2021, Journal of Climate

Frequent co-authors in Giese's research include Soumi Chakravorty, Renellys C. Perez, Bruce T. Anderson, Sarah M. Larson, and Valentina Pivotti.

The primary venues where Giese's work has been published are the Journal of Climate and the International Journal of Climatology.

Best Publications

  • A Reanalysis of Ocean Climate Using Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA)

    James A. Carton;Benjamin S. Giese

  • Understanding ENSO Diversity

    Antonietta Capotondi;Andrew T. Wittenberg;Matthew Newman;Emanuele Di Lorenzo

  • Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis system

    Laura C. Slivinski;Laura C. Slivinski;Gilbert P. Compo;Gilbert P. Compo;Jeffrey S. Whitaker;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh

  • A Simple Ocean Data Assimilation Analysis of the Global Upper Ocean 1950–95. Part I: Methodology

    James A. Carton;Gennady Chepurin;Xianhe Cao;Benjamin Giese

  • Enhanced warming over the global subtropical western boundary currents

    Lixin Wu;Wenju Cai;Liping Zhang;Hisashi Nakamura

  • El Niño variability in simple ocean data assimilation (SODA), 1871–2008

    Benjamin S. Giese;Sulagna Ray

  • Decadal and interannual SST variability in the tropical Atlantic Ocean

    James A. Carton;Xianhe Cao;Benjamin S. Giese;Arlindo M. Da Silva

  • Sea level rise and the warming of the oceans in the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) ocean reanalysis

    James A. Carton;Benjamin S. Giese;Semyon A. Grodsky

  • Variations in global mean sea level associated with the 1997–1998 ENSO event: Implications for measuring long term sea level change

    R. S. Nerem;D. P. Chambers;E. W. Leuliette;Gary T. Mitchum

  • Southern hemisphere origins of the 1976 climate shift

    Benjamin S. Giese;S. Cristina Urizar;Neven S. Fučkar

  • Impact of the extratropical Pacific on equatorial variability

    JoAnn Lysne;Ping Chang;Benjamin Giese

  • Comparison of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation between 1960 and 2007 in six ocean reanalysis products

    A. R. Karspeck;Detlef Stammer;Armin Köhl;G. Danabasoglu

  • An ensemble of ocean reanalyses for 1815–2013 with sparse observational input

    Benjamin S. Giese;Howard F. Seidel;Gilbert P. Compo;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh

  • Middepth circulation of the eastern tropical South Pacific and its link to the oxygen minimum zone

    Rena Czeschel;Lothar Stramma;Franziska U. Schwarzkopf;Benjamin S. Giese

  • Aspects of the Kelvin wave response to episodic wind forcing

    Benjamin S. Giese;D. E. Harrison

  • Episodes of surface westerly winds as observed from islands in the western tropical Pacific

    D. E. Harrison;Benjamin S. Giese

  • Estimates of Europa's ice shell thickness from elastically-supported topography

    F. Nimmo;B. Giese;R. T. Pappalardo

  • Modelling tidal energetics of the Columbia River Estuary

    B.S. Giese;D.A. Jay

  • Interannual and Decadal Variability in the Tropical and Midlatitude Pacific Ocean

    Benjamin S. Giese;James A. Carton

  • Sea Surface Salinity Variability during the Indian Ocean Dipole and ENSO Events in the Tropical Indian Ocean

    Gary Grunseich;Bulusu Subrahmanyam;V. S. N. Murty;Benjamin S. Giese

  • Eastern equatorial Pacific response to three composite westerly wind types

    Benjamin S. Giese;D. E. Harrison

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Carton
James A. Carton University of Maryland, College Park
Gilbert P. Compo
Gilbert P. Compo National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
D. E. Harrison
D. E. Harrison Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Lothar Stramma
Lothar Stramma GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Boris Dewitte
Boris Dewitte Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones (CEAZA)
Manola Brunet
Manola Brunet University of East Anglia
Magdalena Balmaseda
Magdalena Balmaseda European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Russell S. Vose
Russell S. Vose National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Maurizio Maugeri
Maurizio Maugeri University of Milan

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