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Overview

Patrick Heimbach is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant contribution to Oceanography and Atmospheric Science as main subfields. Their work also addresses Global and Planetary Change, Artificial Intelligence, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main research themes Patrick Heimbach explores include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate variability and models
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Among Patrick Heimbach's recent published papers are the following:

  • The imperative of physics-based modeling and inverse theory in computational science, 2021, Nature Computational Science
  • Synopsis of the ECCO Central Production Global Ocean and Sea-Ice State Estimate, Version 4 Release 4, 2021, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Freshwater in the Arctic Ocean 2010-2019, 2021, Ocean science
  • Distinct sources of interannual subtropical and subpolar Atlantic overturning variability, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • The Arctic Subpolar Gyre sTate Estimate: Description and Assessment of a Data-Constrained, Dynamically Consistent Ocean-Sea Ice Estimate for 2002-2017, 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Patrick Heimbach include:

  • An T. Nguyen
  • Helen Pillar
  • Ian Fenty
  • Gaël Forget
  • Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan

Patrick Heimbach's work is often published through venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Ocean science
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • ECCO version 4: an integrated framework for non-linear inverse modeling and global ocean state estimation

    G. Forget;J.-M. Campin;P. Heimbach;P. Heimbach;C. N. Hill

  • An Eddy-Permitting Southern Ocean State Estimate

    Matthew R. Mazloff;Patrick Heimbach;Carl Wunsch

  • ECCO2: High Resolution Global Ocean and Sea Ice Data Synthesis

    D. Menemenlis;J. Campin;P. Heimbach;C. Hill

  • North Atlantic warming and the retreat of Greenland's outlet glaciers

    Fiammetta Straneo;Patrick Heimbach

  • Global ocean circulation during 1992-1997, estimated from ocean observations and a general circulation model

    D Stammer;C Wunsch;R Giering;C Eckert

  • Practical global oceanic state estimation

    Carl Wunsch;Patrick Heimbach

  • North Atlantic simulations in Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part I: Mean states

    Gokhan Danabasoglu;Steve G. Yeager;David Bailey;Erik Behrens

  • An improved algorithm for the retrieval of ocean wave spectra from synthetic aperture radar image spectra

    Susanne Hasselmann;Claus Bruning;Klaus Hasselmann;Patrick Heimbach

  • OMIP contribution to CMIP6: experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project

    Stephen M. Griffies;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Paul J. Durack;Alistair J. Adcroft

  • Challenges and Prospects in Ocean Circulation Models

    Baylor Fox-Kemper;Alistair Adcroft;Alistair Adcroft;Claus W. Böning;Eric P. Chassignet

  • Global reconstruction of historical ocean heat storage and transport

    Laure Zanna;Samar Khatiwala;Jonathan M. Gregory;Jonathan Ison

  • Global Observing Needs in the Deep Ocean

    Lisa A. Levin;Brian J. Bett;Andrew R. Gates;Patrick Heimbach

  • Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Observed Transport and Variability

    Eleanor Frajka-Williams;Isabelle J. Ansorge;Johanna Baehr;Harry L. Bryden

  • Volume, heat, and freshwater transports of the global ocean circulation 1993-2000, estimated from a general circulation model constrained by World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) data

    D. Stammer;C. Wunsch;R. Giering;C. Eckert

  • Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program: A New International Ocean Observing System

    M. Susan Lozier;Sheldon Bacon;Amy S. Bower;Stuart A. Cunningham

  • The Global General Circulation of the Ocean Estimated by the ECCO-Consortium

    Carl Wunsch;Patrick Heimbach;Rui Ponte;Ichiro Fukumori

  • Decadal Trends in Sea Level Patterns: 1993–2004

    Carl Wunsch;Rui M. Ponte;Patrick Heimbach

  • Seasonal variability of submarine melt rate and circulation in an East Greenland fjord

    R. Sciascia;R. Sciascia;Fiamma Straneo;Claudia Cenedese;Patrick Heimbach

  • Estimating Eddy Stresses by Fitting Dynamics to Observations Using a Residual-Mean Ocean Circulation Model and Its Adjoint

    David Ferreira;John Marshall;Patrick Heimbach

  • North Atlantic simulations in Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part II: Inter-annual to decadal variability

    Gokhan Danabasoglu;Steve G. Yeager;Who M. Kim;Erik Behrens

  • Global General Circulation of the Ocean Estimated by the ECCO-Consortium

    Carl Wunsch;Patrick Heimbach;Rui M. Ponte;Ichiro Fukumori

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl Wunsch
Carl Wunsch Harvard University
Rui M. Ponte
Rui M. Ponte Atmospheric and Environmental Research
Simona Masina
Simona Masina Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Ichiro Fukumori
Ichiro Fukumori California Institute of Technology
Armin Köhl
Armin Köhl Universität Hamburg
Gokhan Danabasoglu
Gokhan Danabasoglu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Magdalena Balmaseda
Magdalena Balmaseda European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Simon J. Marsland
Simon J. Marsland Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Dimitris Menemenlis
Dimitris Menemenlis California Institute of Technology

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