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  • 2013 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Gregory C. Johnson is affiliated with the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in the United States. The research predominantly spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science. Additional subfields of study include Environmental Chemistry and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The scientist's work addresses key topics including Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate variability and models, Marine and coastal ecosystems, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics. Further research interests extend to Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses.

Publications by Gregory C. Johnson appear frequently in several notable venues. These include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Earth system science data
  • Surveys in Geophysics

Frequent co-authors contributing to collaborative research projects are:

  • John M. Lyman
  • Sarah G. Purkey
  • Susan Wijffels
  • Tim Boyer
  • Dean Roemmich

Some recent notable publications include:

  • "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
  • "Satellite and Ocean Data Reveal Marked Increase in Earth's Heating Rate," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Warming trends increasingly dominate global ocean," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Heat stored in the Earth system 1960-2020: where does the energy go?", 2023, Earth system science data

Gregory C. Johnson has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Expanding Oxygen-Minimum Zones in the Tropical Oceans

    Lothar Stramma;Gregory C. Johnson;Janet Sprintall;Volker Mohrholz

  • Circulation, mixing, and production of Antarctic Bottom Water

    A.H. Orsi;G.C. Johnson;J.L. Bullister

  • Warming of Global Abyssal and Deep Southern Ocean Waters between the 1990s and 2000s: Contributions to Global Heat and Sea Level Rise Budgets*

    Sarah G. Purkey;Gregory C. Johnson

  • Ocean oxygen minima expansions and their biological impacts

    Lothar Stramma;Sunke Schmidtko;Lisa A. Levin;Gregory C. Johnson

  • The Argo Program : observing the global ocean with profiling floats

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

  • A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change

    J. P. Abraham;M. Baringer;N. L. Bindoff;N. L. Bindoff;N. L. Bindoff;T. Boyer

  • Global sea-level budget 1993 - present

    Anny Cazenave;Benoit Meyssignac;Michael Ablain

  • Quantifying Antarctic Bottom Water and North Atlantic Deep Water volumes

    Gregory C. Johnson

  • Robust warming of the global upper ocean

    John M. Lyman;John M. Lyman;Simon A. Good;Viktor V. Gouretski;Masayoshi Ishii

  • Direct measurements of upper ocean currents and water properties across the tropical Pacific during the 1990s

    Gregory C Johnson;Bernadette M Sloyan;William S Kessler;Kristene E McTaggart

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

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

  • 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

  • Observed changes in top-of-the-atmosphere radiation and upper-ocean heating consistent within uncertainty

    Norman G. Loeb;John M. Lyman;John M. Lyman;Gregory C. Johnson;Richard P. Allan

  • Energy budget constraints on climate response

    Alexander Otto;Friederike E. L. Otto;Olivier Boucher;John Church

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • Antarctic Bottom Water Warming and Freshening: Contributions to Sea Level Rise, Ocean Freshwater Budgets, and Global Heat Gain*

    Sarah G. Purkey;Gregory C. Johnson

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • On the size of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

    Gregory C. Johnson;Harry L. Bryden

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

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

  • Global ocean surface velocities from drifters: Mean, variance, El Niño–Southern Oscillation response, and seasonal cycle

    Rick Lumpkin;Gregory C. Johnson

  • Satellite and Ocean Data Reveal Marked Increase in Earth's Heating Rate

    Norman G. Loeb;Gregory C. Johnson;Tyler J. Thorsen;John M. Lyman;John M. Lyman

  • MIMOC: A global monthly isopycnal upper‐ocean climatology with mixed layers

    Sunke Schmidtko;Sunke Schmidtko;Gregory C. Johnson;John M. Lyman;John M. Lyman

  • Interior pycnocline flow from the subtropical to the Equatorial Pacific Ocean

    Gregory C. Johnson;Michael J. McPhaden

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Wijffels
Susan Wijffels Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Catia M. Domingues
Catia M. Domingues National Oceanography Centre
Masayoshi Ishii
Masayoshi Ishii Japan Meteorological Agency
Timothy P. Boyer
Timothy P. Boyer National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Dean Roemmich
Dean Roemmich University of California, San Diego
Christopher L. Sabine
Christopher L. Sabine University of Hawaii at Manoa
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
Lynne D. Talley
Lynne D. Talley University of California, San Diego
Don P. Chambers
Don P. Chambers University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Nicolas Gruber
Nicolas Gruber ETH Zurich

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