2026 Dean Roemmich: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	62	1655	1481	729	635	141	15918

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For breakthroughs in ocean observations that have advanced the understanding of Earth's climate system.
2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Dean Roemmich is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on Oceanography as a subfield. Other notable subfields include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Ocean Engineering.

Their work covers a range of main topics such as:

Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Marine and coastal ecosystems
Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
Climate variability and models
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Roemmich has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with frequent publications in venues including:

Frontiers in Marine Science
Geophysical Research Letters
Earth system science data
Annual Review of Marine Science
Oceanography

Some of their recent papers are:

"Argo Data 1999-2019: Two Million Temperature-Salinity Profiles and Subsurface Velocity Observations From a Global Array of Profiling Floats," 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
"Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go?," 2020, Earth system science data
"Heat stored in the Earth system 1960-2020: where does the energy go?," 2023, Earth system science data
"Argo-Two Decades: Global Oceanography, Revolutionized," 2021, Annual Review of Marine Science
"Spatial Variability of Antarctic Bottom Water in the Australian Antarctic Basin From 2018-2020 Captured by Deep Argo," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dean Roemmich include:

Brian King
Susan Wijffels
Gregory C. Johnson
Nathalie Zilberman
Sarah G. Purkey

Recognition for their contributions to ocean observation and climate system understanding includes being named a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for breakthroughs in ocean observations advancing Earth's climate system knowledge. They were also elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2010.

Best Publications

The 2004-2008 mean and annual cycle of temperature, salinity, and steric height in the global ocean from the Argo Program

Dean Roemmich;John Gilson

1231
Citations
Climatic Warming and the Decline of Zooplankton in the California Current

Dean Roemmich;John McGowan

1156
Citations
The Argo Program : observing the global ocean with profiling floats

Dean Roemmich;Gregory C. Johnson;Stephen C. Riser;Russ E. Davis

689
Citations
Fifteen years of ocean observations with the global Argo array

Stephen C. Riser;Howard J. Freeland;Dean Roemmich;Susan Wijffels

599
Citations
Interannual variability in upper ocean heat content, temperature, and thermosteric expansion on global scales

Josh K. Willis;Dean Roemmich;Bruce Cornuelle

556
Citations
Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006

Dean Roemmich;John Church;John Gilson;Didier Monselesan

532
Citations
Global sea-level budget 1993 - present

Anny Cazenave;Benoit Meyssignac;Michael Ablain

497
Citations
Two transatlantic sections: meridional circulation and heat flux in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean

Dean Roemmich;Carl Wunsch

483
Citations
On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

Dean Roemmich;Matthew H. Alford;Hervé Claustre;Kenneth Johnson

424
Citations
An Argo mixed layer climatology and database

James Holte;Lynne D. Talley;John Gilson;Dean Roemmich

392
Citations
Argo Data 1999–2019: Two Million Temperature-Salinity Profiles and Subsurface Velocity Observations From a Global Array of Profiling Floats

Annie P.S. Wong;Susan E. Wijffels;Stephen C. Riser;Sylvie Pouliquen

384
Citations
Decadal Spinup of the South Pacific Subtropical Gyre

D. Roemmich;J. Gilson;R. Davis;P. Sutton

326
Citations
Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go?

Karina von Schuckmann;Lijing Cheng;Matthew D. Palmer;James Hansen

325
Citations
Argo profiling floats bring new era of in situ ocean observations

John Gould;Dean Roemmich;Susan Wijffels;Howard Freeland

312
Citations
Eddy Transport of Heat and Thermocline Waters in the North Pacific: A Key to Interannual/Decadal Climate Variability?

Dean Roemmich;John Gilson

309
Citations
Ocean heat transport across 24゜ N in the Pacific

Harry L. Bryden;Dean H. Roemmich;John A. Church

309
Citations
Measuring Global Ocean Heat Content to Estimate the Earth Energy Imbalance

Benoit Meyssignac;Tim Boyer;Zhongxiang Zhao;Maria Z. Hakuba;Maria Z. Hakuba

249
Citations
The Argo Project: Global Ocean Observations for Understanding and Prediction of Climate Variability

Dean H. Roemmich;Russ E. Davis;Stephen C. Riser;W. B. Owens

206
Citations
Heat stored in the Earth system 1960–2020: where does the energy go?

Unknown

204
Citations
Seasonal evolution of upper ocean thermal structure between Tasmania and Antarctica

S.R. Rintoul;J.R. Donguy;D.H. Roemmich

202
Citations
Argo: The Global Array of Profiling Floats

Dean Roemmich;Olaf Boebel;Yves Desaubies;Howard Freeland

196
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Wijffels Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Gregory C. Johnson Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Stephen C. Riser University of Washington

Bruce D. Cornuelle University of California, San Diego

Brian A. King National Oceanography Centre

Janet Sprintall University of California, San Diego

Catia M. Domingues National Oceanography Centre

Howard J. Freeland Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Toshio Suga Tohoku University

Detlef Stammer Universität Hamburg

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