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Andrey Ganopolski 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 Andrey Ganopolski sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 242 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Andrey Ganopolski 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 Andrey Ganopolski sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Andrey Ganopolski is affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Their research spans key areas in Earth and Environmental Sciences, particularly focusing on complex climate systems and their historical and future dynamics.

The primary fields of study for Ganopolski include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, their work addresses several subfields, notably:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Anthropology

The main research topics covered by their publications are:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance

Ganopolski has been involved in multiple recent publications, including:

  • Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Climate effects on archaic human habitats and species successions, 2022, Nature
  • Reduced-complexity model for the impact of anthropogenic CO 2 emissions on future glacial cycles, 2021, Earth System Dynamics
  • The Earth system model CLIMBER-X v1.0 - Part 1: Climate model description and validation, 2022, Geoscientific model development
  • The Earth system model CLIMBER-X v1.0 - Part 2: The global carbon cycle, 2023, Geoscientific model development

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Ganopolski include:

  • Matteo Willeit
  • Dennis Höning
  • Christine Kaufhold
  • Stefanie Talento
  • Volker Klemann

Ganopolski publishes regularly in a number of scientific venues. Among the most frequent are:

  • Climate of the past
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Geoscientific model development

In addition to their articles, Ganopolski has contributed to book literature with a forthcoming title:

  • Quaternary Climate Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, 2025

Their professional recognition includes membership in the Academia Europaea since 2016.

Best Publications

  • Rapid changes of glacial climate simulated in a coupled climate model.

    Andrey Ganopolski;Stefan Rahmstorf

  • Information from paleoclimate archives

    Valerie Masson-Delmotte;Michael Schulz;A Abe-Ouchi;J Beer

  • Earth system models of intermediate complexity: closing the gap in the spectrum of climate system models

    M. Claussen;LA Mysak;AJ Weaver;Michel Crucifix

  • Simulation of an abrupt change in Saharan vegetation in the mid-Holocene

    Martin Claussen;Claudia Kubatzki;Victor Brovkin;Andrey Ganopolski

  • Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

    A. Berger;M. Crucifix;D.A. Hodell

  • CLIMBER-2: a climate system model of intermediate complexity. Part I: model description and performance for present climate

    V. Petoukhov;A. Ganopolski;V. Brovkin;M. Claussen

  • Simulation of modern and glacial climates with a coupled global model of intermediate complexity

    Andrey Ganopolski;Stefan Rahmstorf;Vladimir Petoukhov;Martin Claussen

  • Thermohaline circulation hysteresis: A model intercomparison

    Stefan Rahmstorf;Michel Crucifix;Andrey Ganopolski;Hugues Goosse

  • North Pacific seasonality and the glaciation of North America 2.7 million years ago

    Gerald H. Haug;Andrey Ganopolski;Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Antoni Rosell-Mele

  • The Influence of Vegetation-Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction on Climate During the Mid-Holocene

    Andrey Ganopolski;Claudia Kubatzki;Martin Claussen;Victor Brovkin

  • Carbon cycle, vegetation, and climate dynamics in the Holocene: Experiments with the CLIMBER-2 model

    Victor Brovkin;Jørgen Bendtsen;Martin Claussen;Martin Claussen;Andrey Ganopolski

  • Long-term global warming scenarios computed with an efficient coupled climate model

    Stefan Rahmstorf;Andrey Ganopolski

  • Biogeophysical versus biogeochemical feedbacks of large‐scale land cover change

    Martin Claussen;Victor Brovkin;Andrey Ganopolski

  • Multistability and critical thresholds of the Greenland ice sheet

    Alexander Robinson;Alexander Robinson;Alexander Robinson;Reinhard Calov;Andrey Ganopolski

  • Abrupt glacial climate changes due to stochastic resonance.

    Andrey Ganopolski;Stefan Rahmstorf

  • On the stability of the atmosphere‐vegetation system in the Sahara/Sahel region

    Victor Brovkin;Martin Claussen;Vladimir Petoukhov;Andrey Ganopolski

  • Possible solar origin of the 1,470-year glacial climate cycle demonstrated in a coupled model

    Holger Braun;Marcus Christl;Stefan Rahmstorf;Andrey Ganopolski

  • Mid-Pleistocene transition in glacial cycles explained by declining CO2 and regolith removal

    M. Willeit;A. Ganopolski;R. Calov;Victor Brovkin

  • A global analysis of erosion of sandy beaches and sea-level rise: An application of DIVA

    Jochen Hinkel;Robert James Nicholls;Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol;Zheng B. Wang

  • CLIMBER-2: a climate system model of intermediate complexity. Part II: model sensitivity

    A. Ganopolski;V. Petoukhov;S. Rahmstorf;V. Brovkin

  • Lowering of glacial atmospheric CO2 in response to changes in oceanic circulation and marine biogeochemistry

    Victor Brovkin;Andrey Ganopolski;David Archer;Stefan Rahmstorf

  • The modern and glacial overturning circulation in the Atlantic ocean in PMIP coupled model simulations

    S.L. Weber;S.S. Drijfhout;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Michel Crucifix

  • The role of orbital forcing, carbon dioxide and regolith in 100 kyr glacial cycles

    A. Ganopolski;R. Calov

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E. J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H. A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Claussen
Martin Claussen Universität Hamburg
Victor Brovkin
Victor Brovkin Max Planck Society
Stefan Rahmstorf
Stefan Rahmstorf Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Frank Lamy
Frank Lamy Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Helge W Arz
Helge W Arz Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Axel Timmermann
Axel Timmermann Pusan National University
Olaf Dellwig
Olaf Dellwig Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Norbert R Nowaczyk
Norbert R Nowaczyk University of Potsdam
Jürgen Pätzold
Jürgen Pätzold University of Bremen
Tobias Friedrich
Tobias Friedrich Hasso Plattner Institute

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