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39
Citations
9656
World Ranking
8236
National Ranking
2938

Overview

Harper L. Simmons is affiliated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular emphasis on Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. Simmons has contributed notably to subfields such as Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, and Geology.

Their work covers a variety of main topics including Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing. Additional areas of focus are Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Underwater Acoustics Research, and Climate change and permafrost.

Simmons has been published frequently in several scientific venues. The most recurrent of these is the Journal of Physical Oceanography, where they have 7 publications. Other venues include Oceanography, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Nature Communications, and Frontiers in Marine Science.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Simmons include:

  • A warm jet in a cold ocean (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Whither the Chukchi Slope Current? (2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography)
  • Improving Situational Awareness in the Arctic Ocean (2020, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • Estimates of Near-Inertial Wind Power Input Using Novel In Situ Wind Measurements from Minimet Surface Drifters in the Iceland Basin (2022, Journal of Physical Oceanography)
  • Formation and circulation of newly ventilated winter water in the western Beaufort Sea (2023, Progress In Oceanography)

Among frequent co-authors, Simmons has collaborated multiple times with Jennifer MacKinnon, Luc Rainville, Matthew H. Alford, Thilo Klenz, and Elizabeth C. Fine. These collaborations suggest interdisciplinary work and strong ties within the oceanographic and atmospheric science communities.

Best Publications

  • Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs)

    Stephen M. Griffies;Arne Biastoch;Claus W. Böning;Frank Bryan

  • The formation and fate of internal waves in the South China Sea

    Matthew H. Alford;Matthew H. Alford;Thomas Peacock;Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Jonathan D. Nash

  • Global Patterns of Diapycnal Mixing from Measurements of the Turbulent Dissipation Rate

    Amy F. Waterhouse;Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Jonathan D. Nash;Matthew H. Alford

  • A Technical Guide to MOM4

    Stephen M. Griffies;Matthew J. Harrison;Ronald C. Pacanowski;Anthony Rosati

  • Tidally driven mixing in a numerical model of the ocean general circulation

    Harper L. Simmons;Harper L. Simmons;Steven R. Jayne;Louis C.St. Laurent;Andrew J. Weaver

  • Estimating tidally driven mixing in the deep ocean

    L. C. St. Laurent;H. L. Simmons;S. R. Jayne

  • Near-Inertial Internal Gravity Waves in the Ocean

    Matthew H. Alford;Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Harper L. Simmons;Jonathan D. Nash

  • One More Step Toward a Warmer Arctic

    Igor V. Polyakov;Agnieszka Beszczynska;Eddy C. Carmack;Igor A. Dmitrenko

  • Arctic Ocean warming contributes to reduced polar ice cap

    Igor V. Polyakov;Leonid A. Timokhov;Vladimir A. Alexeev;Sheldon Bacon

  • Internal wave generation in a global baroclinic tide model

    Harper L. Simmons;Harper L. Simmons;Robert W. Hallberg;Brian K. Arbic

  • Climate Process Team on Internal Wave–Driven Ocean Mixing

    Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Zhongxiang Zhao;Caitlin B. Whalen;Amy F. Waterhouse

  • Energy Flux and Dissipation in Luzon Strait: Two Tales of Two Ridges

    Matthew H. Alford;Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Jonathan D. Nash;Harper Simmons

  • Variability of the Intermediate Atlantic Water of the Arctic Ocean over the Last 100 Years

    I. V. Polyakov;G. V. Alekseev;L. A. Timokhov;U. S. Bhatt

  • Global Observations of Open-Ocean Mode-1 M2Internal Tides

    Zhongxiang Zhao;Matthew H. Alford;James B. Girton;Luc Rainville

  • Speed and Evolution of Nonlinear Internal Waves Transiting the South China Sea

    Matthew H. Alford;Ren-Chieh Lien;Harper Simmons;Jody Klymak

  • The accuracy of surface elevations in forward global barotropic and baroclinic tide models

    Brian K. Arbic;Stephen T. Garner;Robert W. Hallberg;Harper L. Simmons;Harper L. Simmons

  • Toward a warmer Arctic Ocean: Spreading of the early 21st century Atlantic Water warm anomaly along the Eurasian Basin margins

    Igor A. Dmitrenko;Igor A. Dmitrenko;Igor V. Polyakov;Sergey A. Kirillov;Leonid A. Timokhov

  • A global model of the marine ecosystem for long-term simulations: sensitivity to ocean mixing, buoyancy forcing, particle sinking, and dissolved organic matter cycling

    A Schmittner;Andreas Oschlies;Xavier Giraud;Michael Eby

  • 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

  • Three-Dimensional Double-Ridge Internal Tide Resonance in Luzon Strait

    Maarten C. Buijsman;Jody M. Klymak;Sonya Legg;Matthew H. Alford

  • Towards a warmer Arctic Ocean: Spreading of the early 21st century Atlantic water warmer anomaly along the Eurasian Basin margins

    Igor Dmitrenko;I. V. Polaykov;Sergey A. Kirillov;Leonid A. Timokhov

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew H. Alford
Matthew H. Alford University of California, San Diego
Jennifer MacKinnon
Jennifer MacKinnon University of California, San Diego
Robert Pinkel
Robert Pinkel University of California, San Diego
Jonathan D. Nash
Jonathan D. Nash Oregon State University
Jody M. Klymak
Jody M. Klymak University of Victoria
Luc Rainville
Luc Rainville University of Washington
Igor V. Polyakov
Igor V. Polyakov University of Alaska Fairbanks
Daniel L. Rudnick
Daniel L. Rudnick Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Brian K. Arbic
Brian K. Arbic University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Maarten C. Buijsman
Maarten C. Buijsman University of Southern Mississippi

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