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Allegra N. LeGrande is affiliated with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the United States. Their research spans several areas within Earth and environmental sciences, focusing predominantly on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 63 publications in this main field, and Environmental Science, represented by 31 publications.

The scientist's subfields of study include Atmospheric Science with 47 publications, Global and Planetary Change with 27, Oceanography with 8, Ecology with 3, and Paleontology with 3. Their work covers a range of main research topics, including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (48 publications), Climate variability and models (38), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (16), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (8), Tree-ring climate responses (8), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (8), and Cryospheric studies and observations (6).

Recent publications by Allegra N. LeGrande include the following:

  • GISS-E2.1: Configurations and Climatology, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations, 2021, Climate of the past
  • Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations, 2020, Climate of the past
  • CMIP6 Historical Simulations (1850-2014) With GISS-E2.1, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Large-scale features of Last Interglacial climate: results from evaluating the lig127k simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)-Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP4), 2021, Climate of the past

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Kostas Tsigaridis (8 joint publications)
  • Gerrit Lohmann (7 joint publications)
  • Martin Werner (6 joint publications)
  • Francesco S. R. Pausata (6 joint publications)
  • Susanne E. Bauer (5 joint publications)

LeGrande regularly publishes in several scientific venues. The most frequent among these are:

  • Climate of the past (9 publications)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (5 publications)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (3 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (3 publications)
  • Communications Earth & Environment (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Global gridded data set of the oxygen isotopic composition in seawater

    Allegra N. LeGrande;Gavin A. Schmidt

  • Configuration and Assessment of the GISS ModelE2 Contributions to the CMIP5 Archive

    Gavin A. Schmidt;Max Kelley;Larissa Nazarenko;Reto Ruedy

  • Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 °C global warming could be dangerous

    James E. Hansen;Makiko H. Sato;Paul Hearty;Reto Ruedy

  • GISS-E2.1: Configurations and Climatology.

    Maxwell Kelley;Gavin A. Schmidt;Larissa S. Nazarenko;Larissa S. Nazarenko;Susanne E. Bauer

  • Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I

    Donald J. Wuebbles;David W. Fahey;Kathy A. Hibbard;Jeff R. Arnold

  • Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and Modern Observations that 2{\deg}C Global Warming is Dangerous

    James Hansen;Makiko Sato;Paul Hearty;Reto Ruedy

  • Rapid early Holocene deglaciation of the Laurentide ice sheet

    Anders E. Carlson;Allegra N. LeGrande;Delia W. Oppo;Rosemarie E. Came

  • Water isotope expressions of intrinsic and forced variability in a coupled ocean‐atmosphere model

    Gavin A. Schmidt;Allegra N. LeGrande;Georg Hoffmann

  • Past and future polar amplification of climate change: climate model intercomparisons and ice-core constraints

    Valérie Masson-Delmotte;Masa Kageyama;Pascale Braconnot;S. Charbit

  • Precipitation change in the United States

    David R. Easterling;Jeff Arnold;Thomas Knutson;Kenneth Kunkel

  • The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 2: Two interglacials, scientific objective and experimental design for Holocene and Last Interglacial simulations

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Pascale Braconnot;Sandy P. Harrison;Daniel J Lunt

  • The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: Preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations

    Masa Kageyama;Sandy P. Harrison;Marie L. Kapsch;Marcus Lofverstrom

  • Using palaeo-climate comparisons to constrain future projections in CMIP5

    G. A. Schmidt;J. D. Annan;P. J. Bartlein;B. I. Cook

  • Ch. 7: Precipitation Change in the United States. Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I

    D.R. Easterling;J.R. Arnold;T. Knutson;K.E. Kunkel

  • Sources of Holocene variability of oxygen isotopes in paleoclimate archives

    A. N. LeGrande;G. A. Schmidt

  • The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 3: The last millennium, scientific objective, and experimental design for the PMIP4 past1000 simulations

    Johann H. Jungclaus;Edouard Bard;Mélanie Baroni;Pascale Braconnot

  • A model–data comparison for a multi-model ensemble of early Eocene atmosphere–ocean simulations: EoMIP

    Dan J Lunt;T. Dunkley Jones;T. Dunkley Jones;M. Heinemann;M. Huber

  • The PMIP4 Contribution to CMIP6-Part 4: Scientific Objectives and Experimental Design of the PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum Experiments and PMIP4 Sensitivity Experiments

    Masa Kageyama;Samuel Albani;Pascale Braconnot;Sandy P Harrison

  • Consistent simulations of multiple proxy responses to an abrupt climate change event.

    A. N. LeGrande;G. A. Schmidt;D. T. Shindell;C. V. Field

  • The Model Intercomparison Project on the climatic response to Volcanic forcing (VolMIP) : experimental design and forcing input data for CMIP6

    Davide Zanchettin;Myriam Khodri;Claudia Timmreck;Matthew Toohey;Matthew Toohey

  • Model, proxy and isotopic perspectives on the East African Humid Period

    Jessica E. Tierney;Sophie C. Lewis;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook;Allegra N. LeGrande

Frequent Co-Authors

Gavin A. Schmidt
Gavin A. Schmidt Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Anders E. Carlson
Anders E. Carlson Oregon State University
Kostas Tsigaridis
Kostas Tsigaridis Columbia University
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Pascale Braconnot
Pascale Braconnot Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Susanne E. Bauer
Susanne E. Bauer Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Ron L. Miller
Ron L. Miller Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Michael F. Wehner
Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kenneth E. Kunkel
Kenneth E. Kunkel North Carolina State University
David R. Easterling
David R. Easterling National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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