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Overview

Rick Lumpkin is affiliated with the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in the United States. Their research mainly focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science. Additional subfields include Ocean Engineering and Environmental Engineering.

The primary topics of their work encompass Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Climate variability and models, Marine and fisheries research, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Marine and coastal plant biology, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Lumpkin has contributed to various scientific publications across multiple respected venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Progress In Oceanography
  • Environmental Data Science

Their recent papers cover diverse marine and atmospheric subjects. Notable publications are:

  • The establishment of a pelagic Sargassum population in the tropical Atlantic: Biological consequences of a basin-scale long distance dispersal event (2020, Progress In Oceanography)
  • A Road Map to IndOOS-2: Better Observations of the Rapidly Warming Indian Ocean (2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • Improving transport predictions of pelagic Sargassum (2020, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology)
  • Dispersion of Surface Drifters in the Tropical Atlantic (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • Highly variable upper and abyssal overturning cells in the South Atlantic (2020, Science Advances)

Lumpkin frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Renellys C. Perez
  • Gustavo Goñi
  • Joaquín Triñanes
  • Nathan F. Putman
  • Shenfu Dong

Best Publications

  • Global Ocean Meridional Overturning

    Rick Lumpkin;Kevin Speer

  • Lagrangian Analysis and Prediction of Coastal and Ocean Dynamics: Measuring surface currents with Surface Velocity Program drifters: the instrument, its data, and some recent results

    Rick Lumpkin;Mayra Pazos

  • THE PIRATA PROGRAM History, Accomplishments, and Future Directions *

    Bernard Bourles;Rick Lumpkin;Michael J. McPhaden;Fabrice Hernandez

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Global ocean surface velocities from drifters: Mean, variance, El Niño–Southern Oscillation response, and seasonal cycle

    Rick Lumpkin;Gregory C. Johnson

  • Near-surface circulation in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean

    Rick Lumpkin;Silvia L. Garzoli

  • Toward the integrated marine debris observing system

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

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • The establishment of a pelagic Sargassum population in the tropical Atlantic: Biological consequences of a basin-scale long distance dispersal event

    Elizabeth M. Johns;Rick Lumpkin;Nathan F. Putman;Ryan H. Smith

  • Advances in the Application of Surface Drifters.

    Rick Lumpkin;Tamay Özgökmen;Luca Centurioni

  • An improved near-surface velocity climatology for the global ocean from drifter observations

    Lucas C. Laurindo;Arthur J. Mariano;Rick Lumpkin

  • A global surface drifter data set at hourly resolution

    Shane Elipot;Rick Lumpkin;Renellys C. Perez;Jonathan M. Lilly

  • Surface drifter pair spreading in the North Atlantic

    Rick Lumpkin;Shane Elipot

  • Large-Scale Vertical and Horizontal Circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean

    Rick Lumpkin;Kevin Speer

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • The Response of the Surface Circulation of the Arabian Sea to Monsoonal Forcing

    Lisa M. Beal;V. Hormann;R. Lumpkin;G. R. Foltz

  • Interannual to decadal changes in the western South Atlantic's surface circulation

    Rick Lumpkin;Silvia Garzoli

  • Lagrangian Eddy Scales in the Northern Atlantic Ocean

    Rick Lumpkin;Anne-Marie Treguier;Kevin Speer

  • An estimate of Lagrangian eddy statistics and diffusion in the mixed layer of the Southern Ocean

    J. B. Sallée;Kevin Speer;R. Morrow;R. Lumpkin

  • Dissolved organic nitrogen in the global surface ocean: Distribution and fate

    Robert T. Letscher;Robert T. Letscher;Dennis A. Hansell;Craig A. Carlson;Rick Lumpkin

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Gustavo Goni
Gustavo Goni Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Joaquin Trinanes
Joaquin Trinanes National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Gregory R. Foltz
Gregory R. Foltz Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Silvia L. Garzoli
Silvia L. Garzoli Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Peter Brandt
Peter Brandt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Michael J. McPhaden
Michael J. McPhaden Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Edmo J. D. Campos
Edmo J. D. Campos Universidade de São Paulo
Lisan Yu
Lisan Yu Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Christopher S. Meinen
Christopher S. Meinen Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory

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