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D-Index
39
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5921
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8362
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630

David Ferreira 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 David Ferreira sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 101 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Ferreira 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 David Ferreira sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

David Ferreira is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research principally revolves around Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a notable focus on specific subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Parasitology.

The scientist's work spans various topics including Climate variability and models, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Frequent publication venues for their research include Geophysical Research Letters, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Communications Earth & Environment, Climate Dynamics, and the Journal of Climate.

David Ferreira has collaborated extensively with a number of co-authors, including Fabien Roquet, Jake Aylmer, D. L. Feltham, Robert C. J. Wills, and James Rae.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by David Ferreira include:

  • Tendencies, variability and persistence of sea surface temperature anomalies, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Wind-Driven Evolution of the North Pacific Subpolar Gyre Over the Last Deglaciation, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Unique thermal expansion properties of water key to the formation of sea ice on Earth, 2022, Science Advances
  • Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño changes, 2023, Nature Climate Change
  • 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, Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

    Paul F. Hoffman;Paul F. Hoffman;Dorian S. Abbot;Yosef Ashkenazy;Douglas I. Benn

  • The Relationship between ITCZ Location and Cross-Equatorial Atmospheric Heat Transport: From the Seasonal Cycle to the Last Glacial Maximum

    Aaron Donohoe;John Marshall;David Ferreira;David Mcgee

  • Changes in ITCZ location and cross-equatorial heat transport at the Last Glacial Maximum, Heinrich Stadial 1, and the mid-Holocene

    David McGee;Aaron Donohoe;John Marshall;David Ferreira

  • The ocean's role in setting the mean position of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone

    J. Marshall;A. Donohoe;David Ferreira;D. McGee

  • Antarctic Ocean and Sea Ice Response to Ozone Depletion: A Two-Time-Scale Problem

    David Ferreira;John C. Marshall;Cecilia Bitz;Susan Solomon

  • The Dependence of Southern Ocean Meridional Overturning on Wind Stress

    Ryan Patrick Abernathey;John Marshall;David Ferreira

  • Estimating Eddy Stresses by Fitting Dynamics to Observations Using a Residual-Mean Ocean Circulation Model and Its Adjoint

    David Ferreira;John Marshall;Patrick Heimbach

  • The ocean's role in polar climate change: asymmetric Arctic and Antarctic responses to greenhouse gas and ozone forcing.

    John Marshall;Kyle C. Armour;Jeffery R. Scott;Yavor Kostov

  • What processes drive the ocean heat transport

    Raffaele Ferrari;David Ferreira

  • Climate determinism revisited: multiple equilibria in a complex climate model

    David Ferreira;John C. Marshall;Brian Edward James Rose

  • Will high-resolution global ocean models benefit coupled predictions on short-range to climate timescales?

    Helene T. Hewitt;Michael J. Bell;Eric P. Chassignet;Arnaud Czaja

  • Fast and slow responses of Southern Ocean sea surface temperature to SAM in coupled climate models

    Yavor Kostov;Yavor Kostov;John Marshall;Ute Hausmann;Kyle C. Armour

  • Tendencies, variability and persistence of sea surface temperature anomalies

    Claire E. Bulgin;Claire E. Bulgin;Christopher J. Merchant;Christopher J. Merchant;David Ferreira

  • Localization of Deep Water Formation: Role of Atmospheric Moisture Transport and Geometrical Constraints on Ocean Circulation

    David Ferreira;John Marshall;Jean-Michel Campin

  • Sea ice–ocean coupling using a rescaled vertical coordinate z*

    Jean-Michel Campin;John Marshall;David Ferreira

  • The vertical structure of ocean heat transport

    G. Boccaletti;R. Ferrari;A. Adcroft;David Ferreira

  • Northern Hemisphere monsoon response to mid-Holocene orbital forcing and greenhouse gas-induced global warming

    Roberta D'Agostino;Jürgen Bader;Jürgen Bader;Simona Bordoni;David Ferreira

  • Diagnostics of isopycnal mixing in a circumpolar channel

    Ryan Patrick Abernathey;David Ferreira;Andreas Klocker;Andreas Klocker

  • The Transient Atmospheric Response to Midlatitude SST Anomalies

    David Ferreira;Claude Frankignoul

  • Mean Climate and Variability of the Atmosphere and Ocean on an Aquaplanet

    John Marshall;David Ferreira;Jean-Michel Campin;Daniel Enderton

  • Atlantic-Pacific Asymmetry in Deep-Water Formation

    David Ferreira;Paola Cessi;Helen K. Coxall;Agatha de Boer

Frequent Co-Authors

Kyle C. Armour
Kyle C. Armour University of Washington
Jonathan M. Gregory
Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading
Darryn W. Waugh
Darryn W. Waugh Johns Hopkins University
Claude Frankignoul
Claude Frankignoul Sorbonne University
Yannick Donnadieu
Yannick Donnadieu Aix-Marseille University
Lorenzo M. Polvani
Lorenzo M. Polvani Columbia University
John Methven
John Methven University of Reading
Cecilia M. Bitz
Cecilia M. Bitz University of Washington

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