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2831
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Sarah T. Gille publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sarah T. Gille sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 242 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Sarah T. Gille D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sarah T. Gille sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 53 D-Index — 63rd percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Sarah T. Gille is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans across Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, and Ecology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Sarah T. Gille has published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • Journal of Climate

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Sarah T. Gille are:

  • "Tropical teleconnection impacts on Antarctic climate changes", 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Ocean Mesoscale and Frontal-Scale Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions and Influence on Large-Scale Climate: A Review", 2023, Journal of Climate
  • "Effects of Buoyancy and Wind Forcing on Southern Ocean Climate Change", 2020, Journal of Climate
  • "Wave-Current Interactions at Meso- and Submesoscales: Insights from Idealized Numerical Simulations", 2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • "Weddell Sea Phytoplankton Blooms Modulated by Sea Ice Variability and Polynya Formation", 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Collaborations have been an important aspect of their research career. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Matthew R. Mazloff
  • Bruce D. Cornuelle
  • Lynne D. Talley
  • Marcel du Plessis
  • Sebastiaan Swart

Sarah T. Gille received the award of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Warming of the Southern Ocean since the 1950s.

    Sarah T. Gille

  • Global Observations of Fine-Scale Ocean Surface Topography With the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission

    Rosemary Morrow;Lee-Lueng Fu;Fabrice Ardhuin;Mounir Benkiran

  • Atlantic-induced pan-tropical climate change over the past three decades

    Xichen Li;Shang Ping Xie;Sarah T. Gille;Changhyun Yoo

  • Southern Ocean mixed-layer depth from Argo float profiles

    Shenfu Dong;Janet Sprintall;Sarah T. Gille;Lynne Talley

  • Decadal-Scale Temperature Trends in the Southern Hemisphere Ocean

    Sarah T. Gille

  • Mesoscale to submesoscale wavenumber spectra in Drake Passage

    Cesar B. Rocha;Teresa K. Chereskin;Sarah T. Gille;Dimitris Menemenlis

  • Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere surface climate

    Julie M. Jones;Sarah T. Gille;Hugues Goosse;Nerilie J. Abram

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

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

  • Tropical teleconnection impacts on Antarctic climate changes

    Xichen Li;Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Gerald A. Meehl;Dake Chen

  • High-Latitude Ocean and Sea Ice Surface Fluxes: Challenges for Climate Research

    Mark A. Bourassa;Mark A. Bourassa;Sarah T. Gille;Cecilia Bitz;David Carlson

  • Small-scale open-ocean currents have large effects on wind-wave heights

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Sarah T. Gille;Dimitris Menemenlis;Cesar B. Rocha

  • Recent Southern Ocean warming and freshening driven by greenhouse gas emissions and ozone depletion

    Neil C. Swart;Sarah T. Gille;John C. Fyfe;Nathan P. Gillett

  • Air-Sea Fluxes With a Focus on Heat and Momentum

    Meghan F. Cronin;Chelle Leigh Gentemann;James B Edson;Iwao Ueki

  • Seasonality of submesoscale dynamics in the Kuroshio Extension

    Cesar B. Rocha;Sarah T. Gille;Teresa K. Chereskin;Dimitris Menemenlis

  • Mean sea surface height of the Antarctic circumpolar current from Geosat data : method and application

    Sarah T. Gille

  • An Assessment of the Southern Ocean Mixed Layer Heat Budget

    Shenfu Dong;Sarah T. Gille;Janet Sprintall

  • Location of the Antarctic Polar Front from AMSR-E Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Measurements

    Shenfu Dong;Janet Sprintall;Sarah T. Gille

  • Eddies Enhance Biological Production in the Weddell-Scotia Confluence of the Southern Ocean

    M. Kahru;B. G. Mitchell;S. T. Gille;C. D. Hewes

  • Gulf Stream surface transport and statistics at 69°W from the Geosat altimeter

    Kathryn A. Kelly;Sarah T. Gille

  • Southern Ocean wind‐driven entrainment enhances satellite chlorophyll‐a through the summer

    Magdalena M. Carranza;Sarah T. Gille

  • High-latitude ocean and sea ice surface fluxes: requirements and challenges for climate research

    Mark Bourassa;Sarah Tragler Gille;Cecilia M. Bitz;David Carlson

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet Sprintall
Janet Sprintall University of California, San Diego
Mark A. Bourassa
Mark A. Bourassa Florida State University
Lynne D. Talley
Lynne D. Talley University of California, San Diego
Bruce D. Cornuelle
Bruce D. Cornuelle University of California, San Diego
Teresa K. Chereskin
Teresa K. Chereskin University of California, San Diego
David T. Sandwell
David T. Sandwell University of California, San Diego
Kevin Speer
Kevin Speer Florida State University
Simon A. Josey
Simon A. Josey National Oceanography Centre
Dean Roemmich
Dean Roemmich University of California, San Diego
Dimitris Menemenlis
Dimitris Menemenlis California Institute of Technology

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