2026 Meghan F. Cronin: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	44	6721	6453	2398	2226	138	7817

Overview

Meghan F. Cronin is affiliated with the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in the United States and has a research focus primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work encompasses significant contributions to Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science, with additional involvement in Aerospace Engineering and Environmental Chemistry subfields.

The researcher has published extensively on various topics, including:

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

Cronin's recent papers include the following:

"Global Oceans," 2023, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
"Developing an Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) for the global ocean," 2022, ICES Journal of Marine Science
"Cold Pools Observed by Uncrewed Surface Vehicles in the Central and Eastern Tropical Pacific," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
"Diurnal Cycles of Near-Surface Currents Across the Tropical Pacific," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
"Observing Extreme Ocean and Weather Events Using Innovative Saildrone Uncrewed Surface Vehicles," 2023, Oceanography

Cronin has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Dongxiao Zhang
Sebastiaan Swart
Samantha M. Wills
James B. Edson
J. E. Jack Reeves Eyre

Their work has appeared frequently in scientific venues such as:

Geophysical Research Letters
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
Frontiers in Marine Science
Oceanography
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Best Publications

Causes and impacts of the 2014 warm anomaly in the NE Pacific

Nicholas A. Bond;Meghan F. Cronin;Howard Freeland;Nathan Mantua

1391
Citations
On the role of the Agulhas system in ocean circulation and climate

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

718
Citations
Western Boundary Currents and Frontal Air–Sea Interaction: Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extension

Kathryn A. Kelly;R. Justin Small;R. M. Samelson;Bo Qiu

343
Citations
High-Latitude Ocean and Sea Ice Surface Fluxes: Challenges for Climate Research

Mark A. Bourassa;Mark A. Bourassa;Sarah T. Gille;Cecilia Bitz;David Carlson

240
Citations
Air-Sea Fluxes With a Focus on Heat and Momentum

Meghan F. Cronin;Chelle Leigh Gentemann;James B Edson;Iwao Ueki

222
Citations
The upper ocean heat balance in the western equatorial Pacific warm pool during September–December 1992

Meghan F. Cronin;Michael J. McPhaden

197
Citations
Satellite and in situ observations for advancing global earth surface modelling: A review

Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anna Agusti-Panareda;Clement Albergel;Gabriele Arduini

196
Citations
Annual Cycle and Depth Penetration of Wind-Generated Near-Inertial Internal Waves at Ocean Station Papa in the Northeast Pacific

Matthew H. Alford;Meghan F. Cronin;Jody M. Klymak

166
Citations
Quantifying upper ocean turbulence driven by surface waves

E. A. D'Asaro;J. Thomson;A. Y. Shcherbina;R. R. Harcourt

154
Citations
Barrier layer formation during westerly wind bursts

Meghan F. Cronin;Michael J. McPhaden

146
Citations
TropFlux wind stresses over the tropical oceans: evaluation and comparison with other products

B. Praveen Kumar;Jérôme Vialard;Matthieu Lengaigne;Matthieu Lengaigne;V. S. N. Murty

141
Citations
Eddy–Mean Flow Interaction in the Gulf Stream at 68°W. Part I: Eddy Energetics

Meghan Cronin;D. Randolph Watts

134
Citations
Estimating diffusivity from the mixed layer heat and salt balances in the North Pacific

Meghan F. Cronin;Noel A. Pelland;Steven R. Emerson;William R. Crawford

132
Citations
Upper ocean salinity balance in the western equatorial Pacific

Meghan F. Cronin;Michael J. McPhaden

126
Citations
Horizontal and vertical structure of easterly waves in the Pacific ITCZ

Yolande L. Serra;George N. Kiladis;Meghan F. Cronin

123
Citations
Near-Surface Shear Flow in the Tropical Pacific Cold Tongue Front*

Meghan F. Cronin;William S. Kessler

118
Citations
Autonomous seawater p CO 2 and pH time series from 40 surface buoys and the emergence of anthropogenic trends

Adrienne J. Sutton;Richard A. Feely;Stacy Maenner-Jones;Sylvia Musielwicz;Sylvia Musielwicz

111
Citations
An assessment of buoy-derived and numerical weather prediction surface heat fluxes in the tropical Pacific

Meghan F. Cronin;Christopher W. Fairall;Michael J. McPhaden

109
Citations
Waves and the equilibrium range at Ocean Weather Station P

J. Thomson;E. A. D'Asaro;M. F. Cronin;W. E. Rogers

99
Citations
Surface temperature and salinity variations between Tasmania and Antarctica, 1993-1999

Meghan F. Cronin;Michael J. McPhaden

96
Citations
High-latitude ocean and sea ice surface fluxes: requirements and challenges for climate research

Mark Bourassa;Sarah Tragler Gille;Cecilia M. Bitz;David Carlson

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. McPhaden Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Adrienne Sutton Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Nicholas A. Bond Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean

Tomoki Tozuka University of Tokyo

Robert A. Weller Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Christopher W. Fairall National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Christopher L. Sabine University of Hawaii at Manoa

Janet Sprintall University of California, San Diego

William S. Kessler Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Lisa M. Beal University of Miami

External Links

Personal website of Meghan F. Cronin

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