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Christopher J. Zappa

Christopher J. Zappa

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Earth Science

D-Index
32
Citations
4813
World Ranking
8592
National Ranking
2812

Overview

Christopher J. Zappa is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialized emphasis on Oceanography and Atmospheric Science.

Their research covers several subfields within Earth and Planetary Sciences, including:

  • Oceanography
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology

They address a range of scientific topics, with significant attention to:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Christopher J. Zappa's recent publications include:

  • Using Ship-Deployed High-Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for the Study of Ocean Surface and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Processes, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Co-production of knowledge reveals loss of Indigenous hunting opportunities in the face of accelerating Arctic climate change, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Guide to best practices to study the ocean's surface., 2021, IOC of UNESCO (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission)
  • Observations of submesoscale eddy-driven heat transport at an ice shelf calving front, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Air-Sea Trace Gas Fluxes: Direct and Indirect Measurements, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Nathan J. M. Laxague
  • James B. Edson
  • Carson R. Witte
  • Una Kim Miller
  • Ajit Subramaniam

Christopher J. Zappa has published multiple articles in various well-known scientific journals. Key publication venues where their work appears include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Scaling the gas transfer velocity and hydraulic geometry in streams and small rivers

    Peter A. Raymond;Christopher J. Zappa;David Butman;Thomas L. Bott

  • Environmental turbulent mixing controls on air-water gas exchange in marine and aquatic systems

    Christopher J. Zappa;Wade R. McGillis;Peter A. Raymond;James B. Edson

  • The Coupled Boundary Layers and Air–Sea Transfer Experiment in Low Winds

    James Edson;Timothy Crawford;Jerry Crescenti;Tom Farrar

  • Air‐sea CO2 exchange in the equatorial Pacific

    Wade R. McGillis;Wade R. McGillis;James B. Edson;Christopher J. Zappa;Jonathan D. Ware

  • Antarctic ice shelf potentially stabilized by export of meltwater in surface river

    Robin E. Bell;Winnie Chu;Winnie Chu;Jonathan Kingslake;Jonathan Kingslake;Indrani Das

  • Variation in Surface Turbulence and the Gas Transfer Velocity over a Tidal Cycle in a Macro-tidal Estuary

    Christopher J. Zappa;Peter A. Raymond;Eugene A. Terray;Wade R. McGillis

  • Defining and quantifying microscale wave breaking with infrared imagery

    A. T. Jessup;Christopher J. Zappa;Harry Yeh

  • Air–Sea Interactions from Westerly Wind Bursts During the November 2011 MJO in the Indian Ocean

    James N. Moum;Simon P. de Szoeke;William D. Smyth;James B. Edson

  • Retrieval of short ocean wave slope using polarimetric imaging

    Christopher J Zappa;Michael L Banner;Michael L Banner;Howard Schultz;Andres Corrada-Emmanuel

  • Sea surface microlayer in a changing ocean – A perspective

    Oliver Wurl;Werner Ekau;William M. Landing;Christopher J. Zappa

  • Transfer Across the Air-Sea Interface

    Christoph S. Garbe;Anna Rutgersson;Jacqueline Boutin;Gerrit de Leeuw;Gerrit de Leeuw;Gerrit de Leeuw

  • Direct covariance measurement of CO2 gas transfer velocity during the 2008 Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment: Wind speed dependency

    J. B. Edson;C. W. Fairall;L. Bariteau;Christopher J. Zappa

  • Scalar flux profile relationships over the open ocean

    James B. Edson;Christopher J. Zappa;Christopher J. Zappa;J. A. Ware;Wade R. McGillis;Wade R. McGillis

  • A Parameter Model of Gas Exchange for the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone

    B. Loose;Wade R. McGillis;D. Perovich;Christopher J. Zappa

  • Influence of rain on air-sea gas exchange: Lessons from a model ocean

    David T. Ho;David T. Ho;Christopher J. Zappa;Christopher J. Zappa;Wade R. McGillis;Wade R. McGillis;Larry F. Bliven

  • Basal channels drive active surface hydrology and transverse ice shelf fracture

    Christine F. Dow;Won Sang Lee;Jamin S. Greenbaum;Chad A. Greene

  • Rain‐induced turbulence and air‐sea gas transfer

    Christopher J. Zappa;David T. Ho;Wade R. McGillis;Wade R. McGillis;Michael L. Banner

  • Constraining Southern Ocean Air-Sea-Ice Fluxes Through Enhanced Observations

    Sebastiaan Swart;Sebastiaan Swart;Sarah T. Gille;Bruno Delille;Simon Josey

  • An overview of sea state conditions and air-sea fluxes during RaDyO

    Christopher J. Zappa;Michael L. Banner;Howard Schultz;Johannes R. Gemmrich

  • Co-production of knowledge reveals loss of Indigenous hunting opportunities in the face of accelerating Arctic climate change

    Donna D W Hauser;Alex V Whiting;Andrew R Mahoney;John Goodwin

  • Air-sea CO2 exchange in the equatorial Pacific : Air-Sea Exchange

    Wade R. Mcgillis;James B. Edson;Christopher J. Zappa;Jonathan D. Ware

Frequent Co-Authors

Wade R. McGillis
Wade R. McGillis Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
James B. Edson
James B. Edson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Christopher W. Fairall
Christopher W. Fairall National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Michael L. Banner
Michael L. Banner University of New South Wales
Robert A. Weller
Robert A. Weller Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Robin E. Bell
Robin E. Bell Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Peter Schlosser
Peter Schlosser Arizona State University
David T. Ho
David T. Ho University of Hawaii System
J. E. Hare
J. E. Hare Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Byron Blomquist
Byron Blomquist University of Colorado Boulder

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