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Richard J. Greatbatch is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research primarily covers Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Environmental Science. Their main subfields of study include Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science, along with work in Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Chemistry.

They have contributed to several research topics such as Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate variability and models, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Marine and coastal ecosystems.

Frequent co-authors in their scientific work include Martin Claus, Peter Brandt, Swantje Bastin, Xueen Chen, and Kevin G. Lamb.

Their research has been published in various venues, notably:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Ocean Science
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Atmospheric Science Letters

Recent papers involving or related to their field include:

  • "The Submesoscale Kinetic Energy Cascade: Mesoscale Absorption of Submesoscale Mixed Layer Eddies and Frontal Downscale Fluxes" (2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography)
  • "Predictability of European winter 2019/20: Indian Ocean dipole impacts on the NAO" (2020, Atmospheric Science Letters)
  • "Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulations of Internal Tides in the Angolan Upwelling Region" (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)
  • "Nonstationarity of the link between the Tropics and the summer East Atlantic pattern" (2021, Atmospheric Science Letters)
  • "Equatorial Deep Jets and Their Influence on the Mean Equatorial Circulation in an Idealized Ocean Model Forced by Intraseasonal Momentum Flux Convergence" (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)

Best Publications

  • A note on the representation of steric sea level in models that conserve volume rather than mass

    Richard J. Greatbatch

  • Multidecadal Thermohaline Circulation Variability Driven by Atmospheric Surface Flux Forcing

    Thomas L. Delworth;Richard J. Greatbatch

  • Western boundary currents regulated by interaction between ocean eddies and the atmosphere

    Xiaohui Ma;Xiaohui Ma;Zhao Jing;Zhao Jing;Ping Chang;Ping Chang;Xue Liu;Xue Liu

  • Challenges and Prospects in Ocean Circulation Models

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

  • A diagnosis of interpentadal circulation changes in the North Atlantic

    Richard J. Greatbatch;Augustus F. Fanning;Allan D. Goulding;Sydney Levitus

  • Towards a mesoscale eddy closure

    Carsten Eden;Richard J. Greatbatch

  • Physical processes that impact the evolution of global mean sea level in ocean climate models

    Stephen M. Griffies;Richard John Greatbatch

  • An exploratory model study of sediment transport sources and deposits in the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, and East China Sea

    Changwei Bian;Wensheng Jiang;Richard John Greatbatch

  • Changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation influence CO2 uptake in the North Atlantic over the past 2 decades

    H. Thomas;Friederike Prowe;I.D. Lima;S.C. Doney

  • A Reexamination of the polar Halocline Catastrophe and Implications for Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Modeling

    Sheng Zhang;Richard J. Greatbatch;Charles A. Lin

  • On the role of circulation and mixing in the ventilation of oxygen minimum zones with a focus on the eastern tropical North Atlantic

    Peter Brandt;Hermann W. Bange;Donata Banyte;Marcus Dengler

  • An Interdecadal Oscillation in an Idealized Ocean Basin Forced by Constant Heat Flux.

    Richard J. Greatbatch;Sheng Zhang

  • Distributions of suspended sediment concentration in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea based on field surveys during the four seasons of 2011

    Changwei Bian;Wensheng Jiang;Qi Quan;Tao Wang

  • An assessment of global and regional sea level for years 1993-2007 in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations

    Stephen M. Griffies;Jianjun Yin;Paul J. Durack;Paul Goddard

  • The Submesoscale Kinetic Energy Cascade: Mesoscale Absorption of Submesoscale Mixed Layer Eddies and Frontal Downscale Fluxes

    René Schubert;Jonathan Gula;Richard John Greatbatch;Burkard Baschek

  • Enhanced vertical propagation of storm-induced near-inertial energy in an eddying ocean channel model

    Xiaoming Zhai;Richard J. Greatbatch;Jun Zhao

  • Multi-year current time series in the eastern North Atlantic ocean

    Thomas J. Müller;Gerold Siedler

  • On the Response of the Ocean to a Moving Storm: The Nonlinear Dynamics

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  • Interannual atmospheric variability forced by the deep equatorial Atlantic Ocean

    Peter Brandt;Andreas Funk;Verena Hormann;Verena Hormann;Marcus Dengler

  • On the Loss of Wind-Induced Near-Inertial Energy to Turbulent Mixing in the Upper Ocean

    Xiaoming Zhai;Richard J. Greatbatch;Carsten Eden;Toshiyuki Hibiya

  • The formation of a subsurface anticyclonic eddy in the Peru-Chile Undercurrent and its impact on the near-coastal salinity, oxygen, and nutrient distributions

    Sören Thomsen;Torsten Kanzow;Gerd Krahmann;Richard John Greatbatch;Richard John Greatbatch

  • Exploring the Relationship between Eddy-Induced Transport Velocity, Vertical Momentum Transfer, and the Isopycnal Flux of Potential Vorticity

    Richard J. Greatbatch

  • The North Atlantic Oscillation

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  • On the role of circulation and mixing in the ventilation of oxygen minimum zones with a focus on the eastern tropical North Atlantic

    Peter Brandt;Hermann Werner Bange;Donata Banyte;Marcus Dengler

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Brandt
Peter Brandt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Jinyu Sheng
Jinyu Sheng Dalhousie University
Marcus Dengler
Marcus Dengler GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Carsten Eden
Carsten Eden Universität Hamburg
Thomas Jung
Thomas Jung Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Mojib Latif
Mojib Latif GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Wonsun Park
Wonsun Park GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Arne Körtzinger
Arne Körtzinger GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Claus W. Böning
Claus W. Böning GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Simon J. Marsland
Simon J. Marsland Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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