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6801
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5629
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2044

E. Joseph Metzger 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 E. Joseph Metzger 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.

E. Joseph Metzger 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 E. Joseph Metzger sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

E. Joseph Metzger is affiliated with the United States Naval Research Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with notable focus areas including Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

The researcher has contributed extensively to topics related to oceanographic and atmospheric processes, climate variability and models, ocean waves and remote sensing, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and climate change and permafrost.

Frequent publication venues for Metzger's work include Ocean Dynamics, Ocean Modelling, Earth and Space Science, Communications Earth & Environment, and Geophysical Research Letters. Their collaborations often involve colleagues such as Zhitao Yu, Neil P Barton, Clark Rowley, Yalin Fan, and Igor Shulman.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "The Navy's Earth System Prediction Capability: A New Global Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Sea Ice Prediction System Designed for Daily to Subseasonal Forecasting" (2020, Earth and Space Science)
  • "Ensemble forecasting greatly expands the prediction horizon for ocean mesoscale variability" (2021, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • "The Impact of an Intense Cyclone on Short-Term Sea Ice Loss in a Fully Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Model" (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • "Analyzing the impact of CryoSat-2 ice thickness initialization on seasonal Arctic Sea Ice prediction" (2020, Annals of Glaciology)
  • "Intraseasonal variability of the Indonesian throughflow associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation" (2021, Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography)

Best Publications

  • Coupled dynamics of the South China Sea, the Sulu Sea, and the Pacific Ocean

    E. Joseph Metzger;Harley E. Hurlburt

  • Decade-scale trans-Pacific propagation and warming effects of an El Niño anomaly

    G. A. Jacobs;H. E. Hurlburt;J. C. Kindle;E. J. Metzger

  • US Navy Operational Global Ocean and Arctic Ice Prediction Systems

    E. Joseph Metzger;Ole Martin Smedstad;Prasad Thoppil;Harley Hurlburt

  • Concurrent simulation of the eddying general circulation and tides in a global ocean model

    Brian K. Arbic;Alan J. Wallcraft;E. Joseph Metzger

  • The Subseasonal Experiment (SubX): A Multimodel Subseasonal Prediction Experiment

    Kathy Pegion;Ben P. Kirtman;Emily Becker;Dan C. Collins

  • South China Sea throughflow impact on the Indonesian throughflow

    Arnold L. Gordon;Bruce A. Huber;E. Joseph Metzger;R. Dwi Susanto

  • Dynamics of the Kuroshio/Oyashio current system using eddy-resolving models of the North Pacific Ocean

    Harley E. Hurlburt;Alan J. Wallcraft;William J. Schmitz;Patrick J. Hogan

  • The Nondeterministic Nature of Kuroshio Penetration and Eddy Shedding in the South China Sea

    E. Joseph Metzger;Harley E. Hurlburt

  • An evaluation of the barotropic and internal tides in a high‐resolution global ocean circulation model

    J. F. Shriver;Brian K. Arbic;J. G. Richman;R. D. Ray

  • A Primer on Global Internal Tide and Internal Gravity Wave Continuum Modeling in HYCOM and MITgcm

    Brian K. Arbic;Matthew H. Alford;Joseph K. Ansong;Maarten C. Buijsman

  • Inferring dynamics from the wavenumber spectra of an eddying global ocean model with embedded tides

    James G. Richman;Brian K. Arbic;Jay F. Shriver;E. Joseph Metzger

  • Generalized Vertical Coordinates for Eddy-Resolving Global and Coastal Ocean Forecasts

    Eric P Chassignet;Harley E Hurlburt;Ole M Smedstad;George R Halliwell

  • Navy Real-time Global Modeling Systems

    Robert C. Rhodes;Harley E. Hurlburt;Alan J. Wallcraft;Charlie N. Barron

  • Simulated and observed circulation in the Indonesian Seas: 1/12° global HYCOM and the INSTANT observations

    E.J. Metzger;H.E. Hurlburt;X. Xu;Jay F. Shriver

  • Statistical inference of weakly correlated subthermocline fields from satellite altimeter data

    Harley E. Hurlburt;Daniel N. Fox;E. Joseph Metzger

  • Software Design Description for the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM), Version 2.2

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  • An operational Eddy resolving 1/16° global ocean nowcast/forecast system

    Ole Martin Smedstad;Harley E. Hurlburt;E.Joseph Metzger;Robert C. Rhodes

  • Upper Ocean Sensitivity to Wind Forcing in the South China Sea

    E. Joseph Metzger

  • Tropical wave-induced oceanic eddies at Cabo Corrientes and the María Islands, Mexico

    Luis Zamudio;Harley E. Hurlburt;E. Joseph Metzger;Charles E. Tilburg

  • Seafloor Topography and Ocean Circulation

    Sarah T. Gille;E. J. Metzger;Robin Tokmakian

  • Mesoscale variability in the boundary currents of the Alaska Gyre

    Stephen R. Okkonen;Gregg A. Jacobs;E. Joseph Metzger;Harley E. Hurlburt

  • High-Resolution Global and Basin-Scale Ocean Analyses and Forecasts

    Harley E Hurlburt;Gary B Brassington;Yann Drillet;Masafumi Kamachi

Frequent Co-Authors

Harley E. Hurlburt
Harley E. Hurlburt United States Naval Research Laboratory
Alan J. Wallcraft
Alan J. Wallcraft United States Naval Research Laboratory
Jay F. Shriver
Jay F. Shriver United States Naval Research Laboratory
Patrick J. Hogan
Patrick J. Hogan United States Naval Research Laboratory
Brian K. Arbic
Brian K. Arbic University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Toshiaki Shinoda
Toshiaki Shinoda Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
Matthew D. Shupe
Matthew D. Shupe University of Colorado Boulder
Eric P. Chassignet
Eric P. Chassignet Florida State University
Christopher W. Fairall
Christopher W. Fairall National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Laurent Bertino
Laurent Bertino Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

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