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Carsten Eden 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 Carsten Eden sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 171 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Carsten Eden 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 Carsten Eden sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Carsten Eden is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and focuses on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences, particularly oceanography. Their academic output includes 46 publications in this main field, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Global and Planetary Change, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's work centers on topics related to oceanographic and atmospheric processes, ocean waves and remote sensing, climate variability and models, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, meteorological phenomena and simulations, solar and space plasma dynamics, as well as ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics. These topics represent the thematic breadth of their research contributions.

Carsten Eden has published extensively in several scientific venues, most notably in the Journal of Physical Oceanography with nine papers. Other frequent publication outlets include the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and Ocean Dynamics.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Carsten Eden include:

  • "On PSI Interactions in Internal Gravity Wave Fields and the Decay of Baroclinic Tides," 2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • "A Closure for Lee Wave Drag on the Large-Scale Ocean Circulation," 2021, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • "Changes in Global Ocean Circulation due to Isopycnal Diffusion," 2022, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • "Gravity Wave Generation in Balanced Sheared Flow Revisited," 2022, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • "Towards a Global Spectral Energy Budget for Internal Gravity Waves in the Ocean," 2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers such as Dirk Olbers, Manita Chouksey, Friederike Pollmann, Pablo Sebastia Saez, and Brenda Quinn, reflecting a network of coauthorship across multiple studies and publications.

Best Publications

  • Mechanism of Interannual to Decadal Variability of the North Atlantic Circulation

    Carsten Eden;Jürgen Willebrand

  • North Atlantic Interdecadal Variability: Oceanic response to the North Atlantic Oscillation (1865-1997)

    Carsten Eden;Thomas Jung

  • An estimate of Lorenz energy cycle for the world ocean based on the 1/10º STORM/NCEP simulation

    Jin Song von Storch;Carsten Eden;Irina Fast;Helmuth Haak

  • Challenges and Prospects in Ocean Circulation Models

    Baylor Fox-Kemper;Alistair Adcroft;Alistair Adcroft;Claus W. Böning;Eric P. Chassignet

  • Towards a mesoscale eddy closure

    Carsten Eden;Richard J. Greatbatch

  • Sources of Eddy Kinetic Energy in the Labrador Sea

    Carsten Eden;Claus W. Böning

  • The Parallel Ocean Program (POP) reference manual: Ocean component of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM)

    R. Smith;P. Jones;P. Briegleb;O. Bryan

  • Break-up of the Atlantic deep western boundary current into eddies at 8° S

    Marcus Dengler;Friedrich Schott;Carsten Eden;Peter Brandt

  • The influence of high-resolution wind stress field on the power input to near-inertial motions in the ocean

    Antonija Rimac;Jin Song von Storch;Carsten Eden;Helmuth Haak

  • Effects of mesoscale eddy/wind interactions on biological new production and eddy kinetic energy

    Carsten Eden;Heiner Dietze

  • On the Loss of Wind-Induced Near-Inertial Energy to Turbulent Mixing in the Upper Ocean

    Xiaoming Zhai;Richard J. Greatbatch;Carsten Eden;Toshiyuki Hibiya

  • Eddy length scales in the North Atlantic Ocean

    Carsten Eden

  • A Global Model for the Diapycnal Diffusivity Induced by Internal Gravity Waves

    Dirk Olbers;Carsten Eden

  • Generation of tropical instability waves in the Atlantic Ocean

    K. von Schuckmann;Peter Brandt;Carsten Eden

  • A damped decadal oscillation in the North Atlantic climate system

    Carsten Eden;Richard John Greatbatch

  • Towards the impact of eddies on the response of the Southern Ocean to climate change

    Jan Viebahn;Carsten Eden

  • Signal propagation related to the North Atlantic overturning

    J. Getzlaff;C. W. Böning;C. Eden;A. Biastoch

  • An Energy Compartment Model for Propagation, Nonlinear Interaction, and Dissipation of Internal Gravity Waves

    Carsten Eden;Dirk Olbers

  • A Diagnosis of Thickness Fluxes in an Eddy-Resolving Model

    Carsten Eden;Richard John Greatbatch;Jürgen Willebrand

  • Interpreting Eddy Fluxes

    Carsten Eden;Richard J. Greatbatch;Dirk Olbers

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Greatbatch
Richard J. Greatbatch GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Andreas Oschlies
Andreas Oschlies GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Peter Brandt
Peter Brandt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Markus Jochum
Markus Jochum University of Copenhagen
Claus W. Böning
Claus W. Böning GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Marcus Dengler
Marcus Dengler GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Simon J. Marsland
Simon J. Marsland Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Axel Timmermann
Axel Timmermann Pusan National University
Gokhan Danabasoglu
Gokhan Danabasoglu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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