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Henk A. Dijkstra

Henk A. Dijkstra

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
67
Citations
15952
World Ranking
1981
National Ranking
57

Overview

Henk A. Dijkstra is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and focuses on research intersecting Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their scholarship spans over 210 publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 145 in Environmental Science, emphasizing interdisciplinary studies.

Their research covers several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Dijkstra's work frequently addresses topics such as:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Notable recent papers include:

  • Physics-based early warning signal shows that AMOC is on tipping course, 2024, Science Advances
  • Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris, 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • Closing the Mediterranean Marine Floating Plastic Mass Budget: Inverse Modeling of Sources and Sinks, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • The middle to late Eocene greenhouse climate modelled using the CESM 1.0.5, 2020, Climate of the past
  • Quantification and interpretation of the climate variability record, 2020, Global and Planetary Change

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Dijkstra include:

  • René M. van Westen
  • Anna S. von der Heydt
  • Fred W. Wubs
  • Julie D. Pietrzak
  • Carine G. van der Boog

Their publications are commonly found in journals such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Ocean Science
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

In addition to journal articles, Dijkstra has contributed to academic books, including one titled Bifurcation Analysis of Fluid Flows, published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.

Best Publications

  • On the role of the Agulhas system in ocean circulation and climate

    Lisa M. Beal;Wilhelmus P. M. De Ruijter;Arne Biastoch;Rainer Zahn

  • Nonlinear Physical Oceanography: A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Large Scale Ocean Circulation and El Niño,

    Henk A. Dijkstra

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E.J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H.A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

  • Western Europe is warming much faster than expected

    G.J. van Oldenborgh;S.S. Drijfhout;A. van Ulden;R.J. Haarsma

  • Low-frequency variability of the large-scale ocean circulation: A dynamical systems approach

    Henk A. Dijkstra;Henk A. Dijkstra;Michael Ghil;Michael Ghil

  • Nonlinear Climate Dynamics

    Henk A. Dijkstra

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E. J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H. A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

  • When can we expect extremely high surface temperatures

    Andreas Sterl;Camiel Severijns;Henk Dijkstra;Wilco Hazeleger

  • Climate variability

    Unknown

  • Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris

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  • Numerical Bifurcation Methods and their Application to Fluid Dynamics: Analysis beyond Simulation

    Henk A. Dijkstra;Fred W. Wubs;Andrew K. Cliffe;Eusebius Doedel

  • The mid‐Cretaceous North Atlantic nutrient trap: Black shales and OAEs

    João Trabucho Alexandre;Erik Tuenter;Gijs A. Henstra;Gijs A. Henstra;Kees J. van der Zwan

  • Impact of Interbasin Exchange on the Atlantic Overturning Circulation

    Wilbert Weijer;Wilhelmus P. M. de Ruijter;Henk A. Dijkstra;Peter Jan van Leeuwen

  • Nonlinear Physical Oceanography

    Henk A. Dijkstra

  • Effect of ocean gateways on the global ocean circulation in the late Oligocene and early Miocene

    Anna von der Heydt;Henk A. Dijkstra

  • Frequency- or amplitude-dependent effects of the Atlantic meridional overturning on the tropical Pacific Ocean

    G. J. van Oldenborgh;L. A. te Raa;L. A. te Raa;H. A. Dijkstra;S. Y. Philip

  • Instability of the Thermohaline Ocean Circulation on Interdecadal Timescales

    Lianke A. Te Raa;Henk A. Dijkstra

  • Projections of global changes in precipitation extremes from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 models

    Andrea Toreti;Philippe Naveau;Matteo Zampieri;Anne Schindler

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and the Tropical Climatology. Part I: The Dangers of Flux Correction

    J. Dayid Neelin;Henk A. Dijkstra

  • Response of the Atlantic Ocean circulation to Greenland Ice Sheet melting in a strongly‐eddying ocean model

    W. Weijer;M. E. Maltrud;M. W. Hecht;H. A. Dijkstra

  • On the physics of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

    Henk A. Dijkstra;Lianke te Raa;Maurice Schmeits;Jeroen Gerrits

  • The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: experimental design for model simulations of the EECO, PETM, and pre-PETM (version 1.0)

    Daniel J. Lunt;Matthew Huber;Eleni Anagnostou;Michiel L. J. Baatsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Anna von der Heydt
Anna von der Heydt Utrecht University
Sybren Drijfhout
Sybren Drijfhout University of Southampton
W. P. M. de Ruijter
W. P. M. de Ruijter Utrecht University
Peter K Bijl
Peter K Bijl Utrecht University
J. David Neelin
J. David Neelin University of California, Los Angeles
Stefan C. Dekker
Stefan C. Dekker Utrecht University
Erik van Sebille
Erik van Sebille Utrecht University
Henri E. Bal
Henri E. Bal Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Michael Ghil
Michael Ghil École Normale Supérieure
Appy Sluijs
Appy Sluijs Utrecht University

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