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Toshio Suga

Toshio Suga

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
41
Citations
6741
World Ranking
5499
National Ranking
143

Toshio Suga 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 Toshio Suga sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 126 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Toshio Suga 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 Toshio Suga sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Toshio Suga is a researcher affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan. Their work spans several areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Oceanography and related subfields.

The scientist's research primarily covers topics such as:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Key subfields within their work include:

  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Geology
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Suga has published extensively in several scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Journal of Oceanography
  • Earth system science data
  • Annual Review of Marine Science

Among notable papers associated with or relevant to their field of study 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 1960-2020: where does the energy go?" (2023, Earth system science data)
  • "Argo-Two Decades: Global Oceanography, Revolutionized" (2021, Annual Review of Marine Science)
  • "The Technological, Scientific, and Sociological Revolution of Global Subsurface Ocean Observing" (2021, Oceanography)
  • "Unsupervised Clustering of Argo Temperature and Salinity Profiles in the Mid-Latitude Northwest Pacific Ocean and Revealed Influence of the Kuroshio Extension Variability on the Vertical Structure Distribution" (2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)

Suga frequently collaborates with other researchers including Susan Wijffels, Dean Roemmich, Gregory C. Johnson, Shigeki Hosoda, and Nathalie Zilberman.

Best Publications

  • Fifteen years of ocean observations with the global Argo array

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

  • Changing Ocean, Marine Ecosystems, and Dependent Communities

    Nathaniel L. Bindoff;William W.L. Cheung;James G. Kairo;Javier Arístegui

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

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

  • 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

  • The North Pacific climatology of winter mixed layer and Mode waters

    Toshio Suga;Kazunori Motoki;Yoshikazu Aoki;Alison M. Macdonald

  • Thermostad Distribution in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: The Central Mode Water and the Subtropical Mode Water

    Toshio Suga;Yukiko Takei;Kimio Hanawa

  • Global surface layer salinity change detected by Argo and its implication for hydrological cycle intensification

    Shigeki Hosoda;Toshio Suga;Toshio Suga;Nobuyuki Shikama;Keisuke Mizuno

  • The mixed-layer climatology in the northwestern part of the north pacific subtropical gyre and the formation area of subtropical mode water

    Toshio Suga;Kimio Hanawa

  • Subtropical Mode Water in the 137°E Section

    Toshio Suga;Kimio Hanawa;Yoshiaki Toba

  • The subtropical mode water circulation in the North Pacific

    Toshio Suga;Kimio Hanawa

  • Oceanic fronts and jets around Japan: A review

    Shinichiro Kida;Humio Mitsudera;Shigeru Aoki;Xinyu Guo

  • Improved description of global mixed-layer depth using Argo profiling floats

    Shigeki Hosoda;Tsuyoshi Ohira;Kanako Sato;Toshio Suga;Toshio Suga

  • Argo: The challenge of continuing 10 years of progress

    D Roemmich;M Belboch;H Freeland;SL Garzoli

  • Trend and Variability in Global Upper‐Ocean Stratification Since the 1960s

    Ryohei Yamaguchi;Toshio Suga;Toshio Suga

  • North Pacific Tropical Water: its climatology and temporal changes associated with the climate regime shift in the 1970s

    Toshio Suga;Ayato Kato;Kimio Hanawa

  • Temporal Variability of Winter Mixed Layer in the Mid- to High-Latitude North Pacific

    Eitarou Oka;Eitarou Oka;Lynne D. Talley;Toshio Suga;Toshio Suga

  • ARGO - a decade of progress

    Howard Freeland;Dean Roemmich;Silvia L. Garzoli;Pierre-Yves Le Traon

  • Surface thermal conditions in the western North Pacific during the ENSO events

    Kimio Hanawa;Tomowo Watanabe;Naoto Iwasaka;Toshio Suga

  • An Isopycnally Averaged North Pacific Climatology

    A. M. Macdonald;T. Suga;R. G. Curry

  • Ventilation of the North Pacific subtropical pycnocline and mode water formation

    Toshio Suga;Toshio Suga;Yoshikazu Aoki;Hiroko Saito;Kimio Hanawa

  • Antarctic Intermediate Water circulation in the tropical and subtropical South Atlantic

    Toshio Suga;Lynne D. Talley

Frequent Co-Authors

Kimio Hanawa
Kimio Hanawa Tohoku University
Dean Roemmich
Dean Roemmich University of California, San Diego
Susan Wijffels
Susan Wijffels Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Howard J. Freeland
Howard J. Freeland Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Bo Qiu
Bo Qiu University of Hawaii at Manoa
Brian A. King
Brian A. King National Oceanography Centre
M. Ravichandran
M. Ravichandran Ministry of Earth Sciences
Stephen C. Riser
Stephen C. Riser University of Washington
Masao Ishii
Masao Ishii Japan Meteorological Agency
Andreas Sterl
Andreas Sterl Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

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