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Overview

Robert D. Hetland is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research spans multiple aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on oceanography, atmospheric science, and global and planetary change.

The scientist has contributed extensively to fields such as environmental science and water science and technology, exploring topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, meteorological phenomena, and hydrology. Their main topics of work include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Robert D. Hetland are the following publications:

  • Including the effects of subsurface currents on buoyant particles in Lagrangian particle tracking models: Model development and its application to the study of riverborne plastics over the Louisiana/Texas shelf, 2021, Ocean Modelling
  • Contrasting effects of lake breeze and urbanization on heat stress in Chicago metropolitan area, 2023, Urban Climate
  • Rapid vertical exchange at fronts in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Surface Water CO2 variability in the Gulf of Mexico (1996-2017), 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Hurricane Harvey Caused Unprecedented Freshwater Inflow to Galveston Bay, 2020, Estuaries and Coasts

Their work has appeared repeatedly in specific publication venues, indicating an ongoing engagement with specialized journals. Frequent venues for Robert D. Hetland's research include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Collaboration plays a significant role in Robert D. Hetland's research output, with frequent coauthors listed as:

  • Lixin Qu
  • Daijiro Kobashi
  • Dylan Schlichting
  • Yun Qian
  • TC Chakraborty

Best Publications

  • True Colors of Oceanography: Guidelines for Effective and Accurate Colormap Selection

    Kristen Thyng;Chad Greene;Robert Hetland;Heather Zimmerle

  • The science of hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: a review.

    T. S. Bianchi;S. F. DiMarco;Jr H. Cowan;R. D. Hetland

  • Mixing and Transport in Coastal River Plumes

    Alexander R. Horner-Devine;Robert D. Hetland;Daniel G. MacDonald

  • How does the character of oxygen demand control the structure of hypoxia on the Texas–Louisiana continental shelf?

    Robert D. Hetland;Steven F. DiMarco

  • Relating River Plume Structure to Vertical Mixing

    Robert D. Hetland

  • Quantifying the Contributions of Tidal Straining and Gravitational Circulation to Residual Circulation in Periodically Stratified Tidal Estuaries

    Hans Burchard;Robert D. Hetland

  • A coupled physical-biological model of the Northern Gulf of Mexico shelf: model description, validation and analysis of phytoplankton variability

    K. Fennel;R. Hetland;Y. Feng;S. DiMarco

  • Drivers of Residual Estuarine Circulation in Tidally Energetic Estuaries: Straight and Irrotational Channels with Parabolic Cross Section

    Hans Burchard;Robert D. Hetland;Elisabeth Schulz;Henk M. Schuttelaars

  • Sensitivity of hypoxia predictions for the northern Gulf of Mexico to sediment oxygen consumption and model nesting

    Katja Fennel;Jiatang Hu;Jiatang Hu;Arnaud Laurent;Martinho Marta-Almeida

  • Forecasting Gulf's Hypoxia: The Next 50 Years?

    Dubravko Justić;Victor J. Bierman;Donald Scavia;Robert D. Hetland

  • A mechanism for offshore initiation of harmful algal blooms in the coastal Gulf of Maine

    D. J. Mcgillicuddy;R. P. Signell;C. A. Stock;B. A. Keafer

  • Observations of the Eastern Maine Coastal Current and its offshore extensions in 1994

    Neal R. Pettigrew;David W. Townsend;Huijie Xue;John P. Wallinga

  • An Idealized Study of the Structure of Long, Partially Mixed Estuaries*

    Robert D. Hetland;W. Rockwell Geyer

  • A numerical investigation of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya freshwater transport, filling and flushing times on the Texas‐Louisiana Shelf

    Xiaoqian Zhang;Robert D. Hetland;Martinho Marta-Almeida;Steven F. DiMarco

  • Efficient tools for marine operational forecast and oil spill tracking

    Martinho Marta-Almeida;Manuel Ruiz-Villarreal;Janini Pereira;Pablo Otero

  • Turbulent dissipation in a near‐field river plume: A comparison of control volume and microstructure observations with a numerical model

    Daniel G. MacDonald;Daniel G. MacDonald;Louis Goodman;Louis Goodman;Robert D. Hetland

  • The effects of mixing and spreading on density in near-field river plumes

    Robert D. Hetland

  • A Loop Current-Induced Jet Along the Edge of the West Florida Shelf

    Robert D. Hetland;Ya Hsueh;Robert R. Leben;Pearn P. Niiler

  • Multivariable statistical regression models of the areal extent of hypoxia over the Texas–Louisiana continental shelf

    David R Forrest;Robert D Hetland;Steven F DiMarco

  • Dispersal of Mississippi and Atchafalaya sediment on the Texas–Louisiana shelf: Model estimates for the year 1993

    Kehui Xu;Courtney K. Harris;Robert D. Hetland;James M. Kaihatu

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven F. DiMarco
Steven F. DiMarco Texas A&M University
Katja Fennel
Katja Fennel Dalhousie University
Dubravko Justic
Dubravko Justic Louisiana State University
Hans Burchard
Hans Burchard Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Lie-Yauw Oey
Lie-Yauw Oey Princeton University
Don P. Chambers
Don P. Chambers University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Peter G. Brewer
Peter G. Brewer Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Andrew J. Manning
Andrew J. Manning Plymouth University
Michael C. Murrell
Michael C. Murrell Environmental Protection Agency
Lisa Campbell
Lisa Campbell Texas A&M University

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