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  • 2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

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Andrew A. Lacis is affiliated with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. The subfields they work in include global and planetary change, atmospheric science, aerospace engineering, ecology, and civil and structural engineering.

Their work covers several main topics such as atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric ozone and climate, climate variability and models, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, calibration and measurement techniques, and meteorological phenomena and simulations.

Andrew A. Lacis has contributed frequently to a number of academic journals, including:

  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Oxford Open Climate Change

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Lacis include:

  • "GISS-E2.1: Configurations and Climatology", 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Scattering and absorbing aerosols in the climate system", 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Global warming in the pipeline", 2023, Oxford Open Climate Change
  • "CMIP6 Historical Simulations (1850-2014) With GISS-E2.1", 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "GISS Model E2.2: A Climate Model Optimized for the Middle Atmosphere-Model Structure, Climatology, Variability, and Climate Sensitivity", 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Lacis has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Gary L. Russell
  • Larissa Nazarenko
  • Barbara E. Carlson
  • Reto Rüedy
  • George Tselioudis

In 2011, Andrew A. Lacis was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Best Publications

  • A parameterization for the absorption of solar radiation in the earth's atmosphere

    Andrew A. Lacis;James Hansen

  • Efficacy of climate forcings

    J. Hansen;J. Hansen;M. Sato;R. Ruedy;L. Nazarenko

  • Climate Sensitivity: Analysis of Feedback Mechanisms

    J. Hansen;A. Lacis;D. Rind;G. Russell

  • Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

    J. Hansen;D. Johnson;A. Lacis;S. Lebedeff

  • Efficient Three-Dimensional Global Models for Climate Studies: Models I and II

    J. Hansen;G. Russell;D. Rind;P. Stone

  • Global climate changes as forecast by Goddard Institute for Space Studies three-dimensional model

    J. Hansen;I. Fung;A. Lacis;D. Rind

  • The influence on climate forcing of mineral aerosols from disturbed soils

    Ina Tegen;Ina Tegen;Andrew A. Lacis;Inez Fung;Inez Fung

  • Global warming in the twenty-first century: An alternative scenario

    James Hansen;Makiko Sato;Reto Ruedy;Andrew Lacis

  • Calculation of radiative fluxes from the surface to top of atmosphere based on ISCCP and other global data sets: Refinements of the radiative transfer model and the input data

    Yuanchong Zhang;William B. Rossow;Andrew A. Lacis;Valdar Oinas

  • A description of the correlated k distribution method for modeling nongray gaseous absorption, thermal emission, and multiple scattering in vertically inhomogeneous atmospheres

    Andrew A. Lacis;Valdar Oinas

  • Earth's Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications

    James Hansen;Larissa Nazarenko;Reto Ruedy;Makiko Sato

  • Intercomparison and interpretation of climate feedback processes in 19 atmospheric general circulation models

    R. D. Cess;G. L. Potter;J. P. Blanchet;G. J. Boer

  • Present-Day Atmospheric Simulations Using GISS ModelE: Comparison to In Situ, Satellite, and Reanalysis Data

    Gavin A. Schmidt;Reto Ruedy;James E. Hansen;Igor Aleinov

  • Modeling of particle size distribution and its influence on the radiative properties of mineral dust aerosol

    Ina Tegen;Andrew A. Lacis

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

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

  • Radiative forcing of climate by changes in the vertical distribution of ozone

    Andrew A. Lacis;Donald J. Wuebbles;Jennifer A. Logan

  • Greenhouse effects due to man-made perturbations of trace gases

    W. C. Wang;Y. L. Yung;A. A. Lacis;T. Mo

  • Near-Global Survey of Effective Droplet Radii in Liquid Water Clouds Using ISCCP Data.

    Qingyuan Han;William B. Rossow;Andrew A. Lacis

  • Atmospheric CO2: Principal Control Knob Governing Earth’s Temperature

    Andrew A. Lacis;Gavin A. Schmidt;David Rind;Reto A. Ruedy

  • GISS-E2.1: Configurations and Climatology.

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

  • Climate forcings in the Industrial era

    James E. Hansen;Makiko Sato;Andrew Lacis;Reto Ruedy

Frequent Co-Authors

James Hansen
James Hansen Columbia University
Brian Cairns
Brian Cairns Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Reto Ruedy
Reto Ruedy Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Michael I. Mishchenko
Michael I. Mishchenko Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Gary L. Russell
Gary L. Russell Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Makiko Sato
Makiko Sato Columbia University
David Rind
David Rind Goddard Institute for Space Studies
William B. Rossow
William B. Rossow City College of New York
Larissa Nazarenko
Larissa Nazarenko Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Ron L. Miller
Ron L. Miller Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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