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Overview

Susan Wijffels is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research spans significant contributions to Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their main research topics encompass Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate Variability and Models, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, and Marine and Fisheries Research.

Wijffels has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Climate
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Earth system science data
  • Marine Technology Society Journal

Among their recent papers are:

  • Argo Data 1999-2019: Two Million Temperature-Salinity Profiles and Subsurface Velocity Observations From a Global Array of Profiling Floats, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go?, 2020, Earth system science data
  • Argo-Two Decades: Global Oceanography, Revolutionized, 2021, Annual Review of Marine Science
  • Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence, 2025, Earth system science data
  • Global Oceans, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Frequent co-authors of Susan Wijffels include:

  • Gregory C. Johnson
  • Dean Roemmich
  • John M. Lyman
  • Nathalie Zilberman
  • Brian King

Best Publications

  • Ocean Salinities Reveal Strong Global Water Cycle Intensification During 1950 to 2000

    Paul J. Durack;Susan E. Wijffels;Susan E. Wijffels;Richard J. Matear;Richard J. Matear

  • Improved estimates of upper-ocean warming and multi-decadal sea-level rise

    Catia M. Domingues;John A. Church;John A. Church;Neil J. White;Neil J. White;Peter J. Gleckler

  • Fifty-Year Trends in Global Ocean Salinities and Their Relationship to Broad-Scale Warming

    Paul J. Durack;Susan E. Wijffels

  • Direct estimates of the Indonesian Throughflow entering the Indian Ocean: 2004-2006

    Janet Sprintall;Susan E. Wijffels;Robert Molcard;Indra Jaya

  • Fifteen years of ocean observations with the global Argo array

    Stephen C. Riser;Howard J. Freeland;Dean Roemmich;Susan Wijffels

  • Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006

    Dean Roemmich;John Church;John Gilson;Didier Monselesan

  • Global sea-level budget 1993 - present

    Anny Cazenave;Benoit Meyssignac;Michael Ablain

  • Annual and interannual variations of the Leeuwin Current at 32°S

    Ming Feng;Gary Meyers;Alan Pearce;Susan Wijffels

  • On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

    Dean Roemmich;Matthew H. Alford;Hervé Claustre;Kenneth Johnson

  • The Indonesian throughflow during 2004–2006 as observed by the INSTANT program

    A.L. Gordon;J. Sprintall;H.M. Van Aken;D. Susanto

  • An Intersection of Oceanic Waveguides: Variability in the Indonesian Throughflow Region

    Susan Wijffels;Gary Meyers

  • The Indonesian seas and their role in the coupled ocean–climate system

    Janet Sprintall;Arnold L. Gordon;Ariane Koch-Larrouy;Tong Lee

  • Argo Data 1999–2019: Two Million Temperature-Salinity Profiles and Subsurface Velocity Observations From a Global Array of Profiling Floats

    Annie P.S. Wong;Susan E. Wijffels;Stephen C. Riser;Sylvie Pouliquen

  • Transport of freshwater by the oceans

    Susan E. Wijffels;Raymond W. Schmitt;Harry L. Bryden;Anders Stigebrandt

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

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

  • Observed temperature trends in the Indian Ocean over 1960–1999 and associated mechanisms

    Gaël Alory;Gaël Alory;Susan Wijffels;Gary Meyers;Gary Meyers

  • Challenges in quantifying changes in the global water cycle

    Gabriele C. Hegerl;Emily Black;Richard P. Allan;William J. Ingram

  • State of the Climate in 2014

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

  • Decadal Spinup of the South Pacific Subtropical Gyre

    D. Roemmich;J. Gilson;R. Davis;P. Sutton

  • Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go?

    Karina von Schuckmann;Lijing Cheng;Matthew D. Palmer;James Hansen

  • Changing Expendable Bathythermograph Fall Rates and Their Impact on Estimates of Thermosteric Sea Level Rise

    Susan E. Wijffels;Josh Willis;Catia M. Domingues;Paul Barker

  • Argo profiling floats bring new era of in situ ocean observations

    John Gould;Dean Roemmich;Susan Wijffels;Howard Freeland

Frequent Co-Authors

Catia M. Domingues
Catia M. Domingues National Oceanography Centre
Dean Roemmich
Dean Roemmich University of California, San Diego
Gregory C. Johnson
Gregory C. Johnson Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
John A. Church
John A. Church University of New South Wales
Janet Sprintall
Janet Sprintall University of California, San Diego
Gary Meyers
Gary Meyers University of Tasmania
Timothy P. Boyer
Timothy P. Boyer National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ming Feng
Ming Feng Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Brian A. King
Brian A. King National Oceanography Centre
Masayoshi Ishii
Masayoshi Ishii Japan Meteorological Agency

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