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Patrice Klein publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrice Klein sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 128 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Patrice Klein D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrice Klein sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Patrice Klein is a researcher affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their scientific work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a focus on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science. The research also touches on Astronomy and Astrophysics and Molecular Biology as subfields.

The scientist's work addresses core topics such as Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate variability and models, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Marine and coastal ecosystems, and Astro and Planetary Science.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Remote Sensing
  • Nature Physics
  • Fluids

Some of the more recent papers authored by or involving Patrice Klein include:

  • High-Frequency Submesoscale Motions Enhance the Upward Vertical Heat Transport in the Global Ocean (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • A Deep Learning Approach to Spatiotemporal Sea Surface Height Interpolation and Estimation of Deep Currents in Geostrophic Ocean Turbulence (2020), Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Local Air-Sea Interactions at Ocean Mesoscale and Submesoscale in a Western Boundary Current (2022), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Synthesizing Sea Surface Temperature and Satellite Altimetry Observations Using Deep Learning Improves the Accuracy and Resolution of Gridded Sea Surface Height Anomalies (2023), Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Bi-Directional Energy Cascades in the Pacific Ocean From Equator to Subarctic Gyre (2022), Geophysical Research Letters

Among frequent coauthors collaborating with Patrice Klein are Héctor Torres, Dimitris Menemenlis, Lia Siegelman, Alexander Wineteer, and Ernesto Rodríguez.

Best Publications

  • The oceanic vertical pump induced by mesoscale and submesoscale turbulence.

    Patrice Klein;Guillaume Lapeyre

  • Impact of sub-mesoscale physics on production and subduction of phytoplankton in an oligotrophic regime

    Marina Levy;Patrice Klein;Anne-Marie Treguier

  • Ocean submesoscales as a key component of the global heat budget

    Zhan Su;Jinbo Wang;Patrice Klein;Andrew F. Thompson

  • Dynamics of the Upper Oceanic Layers in Terms of Surface Quasigeostrophy Theory

    G. Lapeyre;P. Klein

  • Upper Ocean Turbulence from High-Resolution 3D Simulations

    Patrice Klein;Bach Lien Hua;Guillaume Lapeyre;Xavier Capet

  • Impact of oceanic-scale interactions on the seasonal modulation of ocean dynamics by the atmosphere

    Hideharu Sasaki;Patrice Klein;Bo Qiu;Yoshikazu Sasai

  • Altimetry for the future: building on 25 years of progress

    Saleh Abdalla;Abdolnabi Abdeh Kolahchi;Michaël Ablain;Susheel Adusumilli

  • Seasonality in Transition Scale from Balanced to Unbalanced Motions in the World Ocean

    Bo Qiu;Shuiming Chen;Patrice Klein;Jinbo Wang

  • Partitioning Ocean Motions Into Balanced Motions and Internal Gravity Waves: A Modeling Study in Anticipation of Future Space Missions

    Hector S. Torres;Patrice Klein;Patrice Klein;Dimitris Menemenlis;Bo Qiu

  • Modifications of gyre circulation by sub-mesoscale physics

    Marina Lévy;Patrice Klein;Anne-Marie Tréguier;Doroteaciro Iovino

  • Potential use of microwave sea surface temperatures for the estimation of ocean currents

    Jordi Isern-Fontanet;Bertrand Chapron;Guillaume Lapeyre;Patrice Klein

  • Do Altimeter Wavenumber Spectra Agree with the Interior or Surface Quasigeostrophic Theory

    P. Y. Le Traon;P. Klein;Bach Lien Hua;G. Dibarboure

  • Large-scale impacts of submesoscale dynamics on phytoplankton: Local and remote effects

    Marina Lévy;Doroteaciro Iovino;Laure Resplandy;Patrice Klein

  • Effects of wind-stress variability on nutrient transport into the mixed layer.

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  • Three‐dimensional reconstruction of oceanic mesoscale currents from surface information

    Jordi Isern-Fontanet;Guillaume Lapeyre;Patrice Klein;Bertrand Chapron

  • Enhanced upward heat transport at deep submesoscale ocean fronts

    Lia Siegelman;Lia Siegelman;Patrice Klein;Patrice Klein;Pascal Rivière;Andrew F. Thompson

  • An exact criterion for the stirring properties of nearly two-dimensional turbulence

    B. L. Hua;P. Klein

  • Does the tracer gradient vector align with the strain eigenvectors in 2D turbulence

    G. Lapeyre;P. Klein;B. L. Hua

  • Submesoscale transition from geostrophic flows to internal waves in the northwestern Pacific upper ocean

    Bo Qiu;Toshiya Nakano;Shuiming Chen;Patrice Klein

  • Oceanic Restratification Forced by Surface Frontogenesis

    Guillaume Lapeyre;Patrice Klein;Bach Lien Hua

  • Dynamic Interpolation of Sea Surface Height and Potential Applications for Future High-Resolution Altimetry Mapping

    Clement Ubelmann;Patrice Klein;Lee-Lueng Fu

  • Scattering of inertial waves by an ocean front - Comments

    Patrice Klein;Anne-Marie Treguier

  • Surface kinetic energy transfer in surface quasi-geostrophic flows

    Xavier Capet;Patrice Klein;Bach Lien Hua;Guillaume Lapeyre

Frequent Co-Authors

Hideharu Sasaki
Hideharu Sasaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Marina Lévy
Marina Lévy Sorbonne University
Anne-Marie Treguier
Anne-Marie Treguier French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Gurvan Madec
Gurvan Madec Sorbonne University
Bo Qiu
Bo Qiu University of Hawaii at Manoa
Bertrand Chapron
Bertrand Chapron French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Lee-Lueng Fu
Lee-Lueng Fu Jet Propulsion Lab
Joseph Pedlosky
Joseph Pedlosky Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
P. Y. Le Traon
P. Y. Le Traon French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
James C. McWilliams
James C. McWilliams University of California, Los Angeles

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