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59
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2012
National Ranking
875

Overview

Janet Sprintall is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial number of publications in this field. They also contribute to Environmental Science, reflecting a broad interest in understanding planetary processes and environmental dynamics.

Their specialized expertise includes the subfields of Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Geology. The main research topics cover:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine and fisheries research

Janet Sprintall has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography

Their recent published papers are:

  • Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects, 2021, Science
  • Deep-reaching acceleration of global mean ocean circulation over the past two decades, 2020, Science Advances
  • Mechanisms of tropical Pacific decadal variability, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Review on observational studies of western tropical Pacific Ocean circulation and climate, 2020, Journal of Oceanology and Limnology
  • Heat and freshwater changes in the Indian Ocean region, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Several frequent co-authors appear throughout their work, including:

  • Fan Wang
  • Sophie Cravatte
  • Michael J. McPhaden
  • Shijian Hu
  • Nathalie Zilberman

Best Publications

  • Expanding Oxygen-Minimum Zones in the Tropical Oceans

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

  • Evidence of the barrier layer in the surface layer of the tropics

    Janet Sprintall;Matthias Tomczak

  • Pacific western boundary currents and their roles in climate

    Dunxin Hu;Lixin Wu;Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Alex Sen Gupta

  • Direct estimates of the Indonesian Throughflow entering the Indian Ocean: 2004-2006

    Janet Sprintall;Susan E. Wijffels;Robert Molcard;Indra Jaya

  • Southern Ocean mixed-layer depth from Argo float profiles

    Shenfu Dong;Janet Sprintall;Sarah T. Gille;Lynne Talley

  • The Indonesian throughflow during 2004–2006 as observed by the INSTANT program

    A.L. Gordon;J. Sprintall;H.M. Van Aken;D. Susanto

  • The Indonesian seas and their role in the coupled ocean–climate system

    Janet Sprintall;Arnold L. Gordon;Ariane Koch-Larrouy;Tong Lee

  • A semiannual Indian Ocean forced Kelvin wave observed in the Indonesian seas in May 1997

    Janet Sprintall;Arnold L. Gordon;Ragu Murtugudde;R. Dwi Susanto

  • An Assessment of the Southern Ocean Mixed Layer Heat Budget

    Shenfu Dong;Sarah T. Gille;Janet Sprintall

  • Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects.

    Scott Power;Scott Power;Matthieu Lengaigne;Antonietta Capotondi;Antonietta Capotondi;Myriam Khodri

  • Location of the Antarctic Polar Front from AMSR-E Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Measurements

    Shenfu Dong;Janet Sprintall;Sarah T. Gille

  • The Indonesian Throughflow response to Indo‐Pacific climate variability

    Janet Sprintall;Adèle Révelard

  • SUSTAINED MONITORING OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN AT DRAKE PASSAGE: PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PRIORITIES

    Michael P. Meredith;Philip L. Woodworth;Teresa K. Chereskin;David P. Marshall

  • INSTANT: A new international array to measure the Indonesian Throughflow

    Janet Sprintall;Susan Wijffels;Arnold L. Gordon;Amy Ffield

  • The Southwest Pacific Ocean circulation and climate experiment (SPICE)

    Alexandre Ganachaud;Sophie Cravatte;A. Melet;A. Melet;A. Schiller

  • Deep-reaching acceleration of global mean ocean circulation over the past two decades

    Shijian Hu;Janet Sprintall;Cong Guan;Michael J. McPhaden

  • Characteristics and variability of the Indonesian throughflow water at the outflow straits

    Agus Atmadipoera;Agus Atmadipoera;Robert Molcard;Gurvan Madec;Susan Wijffels

  • Detecting Change in the Indonesian Seas

    J Sprintall;AL Gordon;SE Wijffels;M Feng

  • Deep expression of the Indonesian Throughflow : Indonesian Intermediate Water in the South Equatorial Current

    Lynne D. Talley;Janet Sprintall

  • Seasonal to interannual upper-ocean variability in the Drake Passage

    Janet Sprintall

  • Velocity structure and transport of the Indonesian Throughflow in the major straits restricting flow into the Indian Ocean

    Susan L. Hautala;Janet Sprintall;James T. Potemra;Jackson C. Chong

  • Dynamics of the South Java Current in the Indo‐Australian Basin

    Janet Sprintall;Jackson Chong;Fadli Syamsudin;Werner Morawitz

  • The JADE and WOCE I10/IR6 Throughflow sections in the southeast Indian Ocean. Part 1: water mass distribution and variability

    Susan Wijffels;Janet Sprintall;Michele Fieux;Nan Bray

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah T. Gille
Sarah T. Gille University of California, San Diego
Arnold L. Gordon
Arnold L. Gordon Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Susan Wijffels
Susan Wijffels Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Sophie Cravatte
Sophie Cravatte Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
William S. Kessler
William S. Kessler Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Dean Roemmich
Dean Roemmich University of California, San Diego
Wenju Cai
Wenju Cai Ocean University of China
Bo Qiu
Bo Qiu University of Hawaii at Manoa
Teresa K. Chereskin
Teresa K. Chereskin University of California, San Diego
Meghan F. Cronin
Meghan F. Cronin Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

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