2026 Luca Centurioni: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	35	7724	7156	2617	2314	115	3948

Overview

Luca Centurioni is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change. Additional areas of study include Earth-Surface Processes and Pollution.

The scientist's main research topics include:

Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Climate variability and models
Marine and coastal ecosystems
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Centurioni has published extensively in several key venues, notably:

Journal of Physical Oceanography
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Ocean science
Geophysical Research Letters

Recent representative publications include:

"Progress in understanding of Indian Ocean circulation, variability, air-sea exchange, and impacts on biogeochemistry" (2021), published in Ocean science
"West Coast Forecast Challenges and Development of Atmospheric River Reconnaissance" (2020), published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
"Emergence of a neopelagic community through the establishment of coastal species on the high seas" (2021), published in Nature Communications
"Frontal Convergence and Vertical Velocity Measured by Drifters in the Alboran Sea" (2021), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
"Extent and reproduction of coastal species on plastic debris in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre" (2023), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution

Frequent collaborators include Verena Hormann, Pierre-Marie Poulain, Andrey Shcherbina, F. Martin Ralph, and James D. Doyle. The extent of collaboration ranges from 6 to 15 joint works with these coauthors.

Best Publications

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

721
Citations
Mean Dynamic Topography of the Ocean Derived from Satellite and Drifting Buoy Data Using Three Different Techniques

Nikolai Maximenko;Peter Niiler;Marie-Helene Rio;Oleg Melnichenko

314
Citations
Observations of Inflow of Philippine Sea Surface Water into the South China Sea through the Luzon Strait

Luca R. Centurioni;Pearn P. Niiler;Dong-Kyu Lee

285
Citations
Toward the integrated marine debris observing system

Nikolai Maximenko;Paolo Corradi;Kara Lavender Law;Erik Van Sebille

283
Citations
Advances in the Application of Surface Drifters.

Rick Lumpkin;Tamay Özgökmen;Luca Centurioni

210
Citations
Impact of typhoons on the ocean in the pacific

E.A. D'Asaro;P. G. Black;L. R. Centurioni;Y.-T. Chang

186
Citations
Removing Spurious Low-Frequency Variability in Drifter Velocities

Rick Lumpkin;Semyon A. Grodsky;Luca Centurioni;Marie-Helene Rio

139
Citations
Permanent Meanders in the California Current System

L. R. Centurioni;J. C. Ohlmann;P. P. Niiler

131
Citations
On the surface currents of the Caribbean Sea

Luca R. Centurioni;Pearn P. Niiler

114
Citations
Typhoon-ocean interaction in the western North Pacific : Part 1

Eric D'Asaro;Peter Black;Luca Centurioni;Patrick Harr

111
Citations
SEASONAL AND MESOSCALE VARIABILITY OF THE KUROSHIO NEAR ITS ORIGIN

Rudnick Dl;Jan S;Centurioni L;Lee Cm

109
Citations
Global In-Situ Observations of Essential Climate and Ocean Variables at the Air-Sea Interface

Luca R Centurioni;Jonathan D Turton;Rick Lumpkin;Lancelot Braasch

91
Citations
The nascent Kuroshio of Lamon Bay

Arnold L. Gordon;Pierre Flament;Cesar Villanoy;Luca Centurioni

83
Citations
Emergence of a neopelagic community through the establishment of coastal species on the high seas.

Linsey E. Haram;James T. Carlton;Luca Centurioni;Mary Crowley

81
Citations
West Coast Forecast Challenges and Development of Atmospheric River Reconnaissance

F. Martin Ralph;Forest Cannon;Vijay Tallapragada;Christopher A. Davis

79
Citations
ASIRI: An Ocean–Atmosphere Initiative for Bay of Bengal

Hemantha W. Wijesekera;Emily Shroyer;Amit Tandon;M. Ravichandran

73
Citations
Mesoscale Dongsha Cyclonic Eddy in the northern South China Sea by drifter and satellite observations

Chun-Hoe Chow;Jian-Hwa Hu;Luca R. Centurioni;Pearn P. Niiler

70
Citations
Sea surface salinity under rain cells: SMOS satellite and in situ drifters observations

Jacqueline Boutin;Nicolas Martin;Gilles Reverdin;Simon Morisset

69
Citations
Circulation and Intrusions Northeast of Taiwan: Chasing and Predicting Uncertainty in the Cold Dome

Glen Gawarkiewicz;Sen Jan;Pierre Lermusiaux;Julie McClean

67
Citations
Global Perspectives on Observing Ocean Boundary Current Systems

Robert E. Todd;Francisco P. Chavez;Sophie Clayton;Sophie Cravatte

57
Citations
Mean Structure and Variability of the Cold Dome Northeast of Taiwan

Sen Jan;Chung Chi Chen;Ya Ling Tsai;Yiing Jiang Yang

55
Citations
Observations of the cold wake of Typhoon Fanapi (2010)

Rosalinda K. Mrvaljevic;Peter G. Black;Luca R. Centurioni;Ya-Ting Chang

54
Citations
A Global Ocean Observing System for Measuring Sea Level Atmospheric Pressure: Effects and Impacts on Numerical Weather Prediction

Luca Centurioni;András Horányi;Carla Cardinali;Etienne Charpentier

54
Citations
Frontal Convergence and Vertical Velocity Measured by Drifters in the Alboran Sea

Daniel R. Tarry;Sebastian Essink;Ananda Pascual;Simón Ruiz

54
Citations
Freshwater export pathways from the Bay of Bengal

Verena Hormann;Luca R. Centurioni;Arnold L. Gordon

48
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Luc Rainville University of Washington

Amala Mahadevan Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Craig M. Lee University of Washington

Eric A. D'Asaro University of Washington

Daniel L. Rudnick Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Sen Jan National Taiwan University

Ren-Chieh Lien University of Washington

Pierre-Marie Poulain National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics

Jennifer MacKinnon University of California, San Diego

Tamay M. Özgökmen University of Miami

External Links

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