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Wolfgang Roether

Wolfgang Roether

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
7580
World Ranking
6728
National Ranking
435

Wolfgang Roether publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfgang Roether sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 120 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Wolfgang Roether D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfgang Roether sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Wolfgang Roether is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany. Their professional profile indicates a focus on academic research within this institution.

Information regarding Wolfgang Roether's recent papers, co-authors, frequent publication venues, book publications, main fields and subfields of study, main topics of work, and awards won is not available. Therefore, a detailed overview of these aspects cannot be provided at this time.

This profile reflects the current available data on Wolfgang Roether's academic and research contributions as indexed in the provided source.

Best Publications

  • Recent Changes in Eastern Mediterranean Deep Waters

    Wolfgang Roether;Beniamino B. Manca;Birgit Klein;Davide Bregant

  • Recent changes in deep water formation and spreading in the eastern Mediterranean Sea: a review

    Alex Lascaratos;Wolfgang Roether;Kostas Nittis;Birgit Klein

  • The large deep water transient in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Birgit Klein;Wolfgang Roether;Beniamino B. Manca;Davide Bregant

  • General Circulation of the Eastern Mediterranean

    A.R. Robinson;P. Malanotte-Rizzoli;A. Hecht;A. Michelato

  • Transient Eastern Mediterranean deep waters in response to the massive dense-water output of the Aegean Sea in the 1990s

    Wolfgang Roether;Birgit Klein;Beniamino Bruno Manca;Alexander Theocharis

  • Isotope composition of air moisture over the Mediterranean Sea: an index of the air–sea interaction pattern

    J. R. Gat;B. Klein;Y. Kushnir;W. Roether

  • Chlorofluoromethane and oxygen in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Reiner Schlitzer;Wolfgang Roether;Harald Oster;Hans-Georg Junghans

  • Eastern Mediterranean deep water renewal on the basis of chlorofluoromethane and tritium data

    Wolfgang Roether;Reiner Schlitzer

  • Physical forcing and physical/biochemical variability of the Mediterranean Sea: a review of unresolved issues and directions for future research

    P. Malanotte-Rizzoli;V. Artale;G. L. Borzelli-Eusebi;S. Brenner

  • The Bremen mass spectrometric facility for the measurement of helium isotopes, neon, and tritium in water†

    Jürgen Sültenfuss;Wolfgang Roether;Monika Rhein

  • Evolution and status of the Eastern Mediterranean Transient (1997–1999)

    A. Theocharis;B. Klein;K. Nittis;W. Roether

  • Tracers Determine Movement of Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration

    Unknown

  • The rates of tritium input to the world oceans

    Unknown

  • Short-circuiting of the overturning circulation in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

    Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;David P. Stevens;Andrew J. Watson;Wolfgang Roether

  • Evidence of deep- and bottom-water formation in the western Weddell Sea

    Oliver Huhn;Hartmut H. Hellmer;Monika Rhein;Christian Rodehacke

  • The North Atlantic tritium distribution in 1972

    J. L. Sarmiento;C. G. H. Rooth;W. Roether

  • The formation rate of North Atlantic Deep Water and Eighteen Degree Water calculated from CFC-11 inventories observed during WOCE

    Deborah A. LeBel;William M. Smethie;Monika Rhein;Dagmar Kieke

  • Tritium and90Sr in North Atlantic surface water

    Unknown

  • Property distributions and transient-tracer ages in Levantine Intermediate Water in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Wolfgang Roether;Birgit Klein;Volker Beitzel;Beniamino B. Manca

  • Temporal evolution of CFC 11 and CFC 12 concentrations in the ocean interior

    Peter Beining;Wolfgang Roether

  • Changes in ventilation of the Mediterranean Sea during the past 25 year

    Anke Schneider;Toste Tanhua;W. Roether;R. Steinfeldt

  • Excess 3He in the ocean surface layer

    Gerhard Fuchs;Wolfgang Roether;Peter Schlosser

  • Downward Movement of Soil Moisture Traced by Means of Hydrogen Isotopes

    Unknown

  • Is the Adriatic returning to dominate the production of Eastern Mediterranean Deep Water

    Birgit Klein;Wolfgang Roether;Giuseppe Civitarese;Miroslav Gacic

Frequent Co-Authors

Monika Rhein
Monika Rhein University of Bremen
Hartmut Hellmer
Hartmut Hellmer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Reiner Schlitzer
Reiner Schlitzer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Nurit Kress
Nurit Kress Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Miroslav Gačić
Miroslav Gačić National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
John L. Bullister
John L. Bullister National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Emin Özsoy
Emin Özsoy Middle East Technical University
Philippe Jean-Baptiste
Philippe Jean-Baptiste French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Peter Schlosser
Peter Schlosser Arizona State University

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