2026 Delia W Oppo: 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	76	680	600	330	281	376	18461

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Delia W Oppo is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work addresses a variety of main topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Climate Variability and Models.

Delia W Oppo has published numerous papers in several notable scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Nature Geoscience
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Oppo include:

"Assessing the potential capability of reconstructing glacial Atlantic water masses and AMOC using multiple proxies in CESM," 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
"Comparing paleo-oxygenation proxies (benthic foraminiferal surface porosity, I/Ca, authigenic uranium) on modern sediments and the glacial Arabian Sea," 2022, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
"Exceptional 20th Century Ocean Circulation in the Northeast Atlantic," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
"The Impact of Astronomical Forcing on Surface and Thermocline Variability Within the Western Pacific Warm Pool Over the Past 160 kyr," 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
"Reconstructing the Oxygen Depth Profile in the Arabian Sea During the Last Glacial Period," 2023, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Oppo include:

Wanyi Lu
Zhengyu Liu
David Thornalley
Jean Lynch-Stieglitz
Kassandra M Costa

Oppo was recognized with the award of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2014.

Best Publications

Deepwater source variations during the last climatic cycle and their impact on the global deepwater circulation

J. C. Duplessy;N. J. Shackleton;R. G. Fairbanks;L. Labeyrie

1327
Citations
A 0.5-Million-Year Record of Millennial-Scale Climate Variability in the North Atlantic

Jerry F. McManus;Delia W. Oppo;James L. Cullen

1022
Citations
Glacial water mass geometry and the distribution of δ13C of ΣCO2 in the western Atlantic Ocean

William B. Curry;Delia W. Oppo

742
Citations
Evolution of Atlantic―Pacific δ13C gradients over the last 2.5 m.y.

M.E. Raymo;W.F. Ruddiman;N.J. Shackleton;D.W. Oppo

488
Citations
The mid-Pleistocene climate transition: a deep sea carbon isotopic perspective

M.E. Raymo;D.W. Oppo;W. Curry

476
Citations
Variability in the deep and intermediate water circulation of the Atlantic Ocean during the past 25,000 years: Northern Hemisphere modulation of the Southern Ocean

Delia W. Oppo;Richard G. Fairbanks

424
Citations
Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years

David J. R. Thornalley;David J. R. Thornalley;Delia W. Oppo;Pablo Ortega;Jon I. Robson

423
Citations
Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores over the last 40 thousand years

Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C. Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

417
Citations
2,000-year-long temperature and hydrology reconstructions from the Indo-Pacific warm pool

Delia W. Oppo;Yair Rosenthal;Braddock K. Linsley

389
Citations
Palaeo-oceanography: Deepwater variability in the Holocene epoch

Delia W. Oppo;Jerry F. McManus;James L. Cullen

384
Citations
Rapid early Holocene deglaciation of the Laurentide ice sheet

Anders E. Carlson;Allegra N. LeGrande;Delia W. Oppo;Rosemarie E. Came

367
Citations
Abrupt Climate Events 500,000 to 340,000 Years Ago: Evidence from Subpolar North Atlantic Sediments

D. W. Oppo;J. F. McManus;J. F. McManus;J. L. Cullen;J. L. Cullen

326
Citations
North Atlantic forcing of tropical Indian Ocean climate

Mahyar Mohtadi;Matthias Prange;Delia W. Oppo;Ricardo De Pol-Holz

321
Citations
The amplitude and phasing of climate change during the last deglaciation in the Sulu Sea, western equatorial Pacific

Yair Rosenthal;Delia W. Oppo;Braddock K. Linsley

297
Citations
Mid-depth circulation of the subpolar north atlantic during the last glacial maximum.

D. W. Oppo;S. J. Lehman

296
Citations
Millennial-scale climate instability during the early Pleistocene epoch

M. E. Raymo;K. Ganley;S. Carter;D. W. Oppo

265
Citations
Stability of North Atlantic water masses in face of pronounced climate variability during the Pleistocene

Maureen E. Raymo;Delia W. Oppo;B. P. Flower;D. A. Hodell

255
Citations
Suborbital timescale variability of North Atlantic Deep Water during the past 200,000 years

Delia W. Oppo;Scott J. Lehman

253
Citations
Robust global ocean cooling trend for the pre-industrial Common Era

Helen V. McGregor;Michael N. Evans;Hugues Goosse;Guillaume Leduc

251
Citations
Evolution and demise of the Last Interglacial warmth in the subpolar North Atlantic

Delia W. Oppo;Jerry F. McManus;James L. Cullen

240
Citations
Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years, supplement to: Thornalley, David JR; Oppo, Delia W; Ortega, Pablo; Robson, Jon I; Brierley, Chris M; Davis, Renee; Hall, Ian R; Moffa-Sanchez, Paola; Rose, Neil L; Spooner, Peter T; Yashayaev, Igor M; Keigwin, Lloyd D (2018): Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years. Nature, 556(7700), 227-230

David Jr Thornalley;Delia W Oppo;Pablo Ortega;Jon I Robson

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Antje H L Voelker Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera

Jerry F. McManus Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Jean Lynch-Stieglitz Georgia Institute of Technology

Thomas M. Marchitto University of Colorado Boulder

Anders E. Carlson Oregon State University

Konrad A Hughen Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux

Claire Waelbroeck Sorbonne University

Yair Rosenthal Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Stéphanie Desprat University of Bordeaux

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