2026 Anastasios A. Tsonis: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	38	8546	8203	3054	2838	169	7377

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

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Environmental Sciences

8546

8203

3054

2838

169

7377

Environmental Sciences

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7377

World Ranking

8546

National Ranking

3054

Overview

Anastasios A. Tsonis is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions to both global and planetary change as well as molecular biology.

Their work encompasses a diverse range of topics including:

Climate variability and models
Complex systems and time series analysis
Meteorological phenomena and simulations
Advanced thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
Fractal and DNA sequence analysis
Machine learning in bioinformatics
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Tsonis has produced research articles published in several frequent venues, including:

Entropy
Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists
Human Genomics
Climate Dynamics
World

Among recent papers associated with or linked to Tsonis are:

"Environmental Determinism vs. Social Dynamics: Prehistorical and Historical Examples" (2022), published in World
"On the cause-and-effect relations between aerosols, water vapor, and clouds over East Asia" (2021), published in Theoretical and Applied Climatology
"On the interconnections among major climate modes and their common driving factors" (2020), published in Earth System Dynamics
"Lorenz-63 Model as a Metaphor for Transient Complexity in Climate" (2021), published in Entropy
"An application of slow feature analysis to the genetic sequences of coronaviruses and influenza viruses" (2021), published in Human Genomics

Tsonis has also contributed to book publications, including "Aristotle's Meteorologica: Meteorology Then and Now" released by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd eBooks in 2020.

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Tsonis's work. Frequent coauthors include:

Geli Wang
Wenxu Lu
Christos Zerefos
Peicai Yang
Sergey Kravtsov

Best Publications

What Do Networks Have to Do with Climate

Anastasios A. Tsonis;Kyle L. Swanson;Paul J. Roebber

444
Citations
The architecture of the climate network

A.A. Tsonis;P.J. Roebber

405
Citations
The weather attractor over very short timescales

A. A. Tsonis;J. B. Elsner

319
Citations
Functional box-counting and multiple elliptical dimensions in rain.

S. Lovejoy;D. Schertzer;A. A. Tsonis

295
Citations
A new dynamical mechanism for major climate shifts

Anastasios A. Tsonis;Kyle Swanson;Sergey Kravtsov

293
Citations
Topology and predictability of El Niño and La Niña networks.

Anastasios A. Tsonis;Kyle L. Swanson

262
Citations
Nonlinear Prediction, Chaos, and Noise

J. B. Elsner;A. A. Tsonis

235
Citations
Singular spectrum analysis

James B. Elsner;Anastasios A. Tsonis

234
Citations
Has the climate recently shifted

Kyle L. Swanson;Anastasios A. Tsonis

207
Citations
Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and Northern Hemisphere’s climate variability

Marcia Glaze Wyatt;Sergey Kravtsov;Anastasios A. Tsonis

192
Citations
On the Role of Atmospheric Teleconnections in Climate

Anastasios A. Tsonis;Kyle L. Swanson;Geli Wang

166
Citations
Chaos, Strange Attractors, and Weather.

A. A. Tsonis;J. B. Elsner

163
Citations
Estimating the Dimension of Weather and Climate Attractors: Important Issues about the Procedure and Interpretation

A. A. Tsonis;J. B. Elsner;K. P. Georgakakos

146
Citations
Long-term natural variability and 20th century climate change

Kyle L. Swanson;George Sugihara;Anastasios A. Tsonis

141
Citations
Periodicity in DNA coding sequences: implications in gene evolution.

Anastasios A. Tsonis;James B. Elsner;Panagiotis A. Tsonis

134
Citations
An Introduction to Atmospheric Thermodynamics

Anastasios A. Tsonis

126
Citations
Widespread increases in low-frequency variability of precipitation over the past century

A. A. Tsonis

124
Citations
Dynamical evidence for causality between galactic cosmic rays and interannual variation in global temperature

Anastasios A. Tsonis;Ethan R. Deyle;Robert M. May;George Sugihara

123
Citations
Community structure and dynamics in climate networks

Anastasios A. Tsonis;Geli Wang;Kyle L. Swanson;Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues

116
Citations
An evaluation of extrapolation techniques for the short‐term prediction of rain amounts

A.A. Tsonis;G.L. Austin

99
Citations
Advances in Nonlinear Geosciences

Anastasios A. Tsonis

61
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James B. Elsner Florida State University

Panagiotis A. Tsonis University of Dayton

George Sugihara University of California, San Diego

Konstantine P. Georgakakos Hydrologic Research Center

Judith A. Curry Georgia Institute of Technology

Witold F. Krajewski University of Iowa

Robert M. May University of Oxford

Leila M. V. Carvalho University of California, Santa Barbara

Shaun Lovejoy McGill University

Daniel A. Lidar University of Southern California

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