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Anthony G. Barnston

Anthony G. Barnston

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
56
Citations
16816
World Ranking
3572
National Ranking
1363

Anthony G. Barnston 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 Anthony G. Barnston sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 116 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Anthony G. Barnston 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 Anthony G. Barnston sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Anthony G. Barnston is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and is engaged in research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Oceanography, and Artificial Intelligence.

The researcher focuses on several principal topics in their publications, notably Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, and Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Daily Autocorrelation and Mean Temperature/Moisture Rise as Determining Factors for Future Heat-Wave Patterns in the United States (2020, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology)
  • Verification of operational Niño3.4 SST forecasts produced in South Africa since the 2015 El Niño event (2025, Environmental Development)

These works reflect involvement in both climate pattern analysis and forecasting, highlighting aspects of temperature and moisture trends as well as forecast verification for ocean surface temperatures linked to climate phenomena such as El Niño.

Frequent collaborators in the research include Bradfield Lyon, Ethan Coffel, Radley M. Horton, and Willem A. Landman, indicating a networked approach to studies in related domains.

Publications have appeared predominantly in venues such as the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology and Environmental Development. These journals align with the research themes on climate variability, meteorology, and environmental dynamics.

Best Publications

  • Classification, seasonality and persistence of low-frequency atmospheric circulation patterns

    Anthony G. Barnston;Robert E. Livezey

  • The North American multimodel ensemble: Phase-1 seasonal-to-interannual prediction; phase-2 toward developing intraseasonal prediction

    Ben P. Kirtman;Dughong Min;Johnna M. Infanti;James L. Kinter

  • Skill of Real-Time Seasonal ENSO Model Predictions During 2002–11: Is Our Capability Increasing?

    Anthony G. Barnston;Michael K. Tippett;Michelle L. L'Heureux;Shuhua Li

  • Predictive Skill of Statistical and Dynamical Climate Models in SST Forecasts during the 1997-98 El Niño Episode and the 1998 La Niña Onset.

    Anthony G. Barnston;Michael H. Glantz;Yuxiang He

  • Predictability of June–September Rainfall in Ethiopia

    Diriba Korecha;Anthony G. Barnston

  • Correspondence among the correlation, RMSE, and Heidke forecast verification measures; refinement of the Heidke score

    Anthony G. Barnston

  • Observing and Predicting the 2015/16 El Niño

    Michelle L. L’Heureux;Ken Takahashi;Andrew B. Watkins;Anthony G. Barnston

  • Prediction of ENSO Episodes Using Canonical Correlation Analysis

    Anthony G. Barnston;Chester F. Ropelewski

  • Long-Lead Seasonal Forecasts—Where Do We Stand?

    Anthony G. Barnston;Huug M. van den Dool;David R. Rodenhuis;Chester R. Ropelewski

  • Linear Statistical Short-Term Climate Predictive Skill in the Northern Hemisphere

    Anthony G. Barnston

  • The Effect of Irrigation on Warm Season Precipitation in the Southern Great Plains.

    Anthony G. Barnston;Paul T. Schickedanz

  • Tropical cyclone genesis potential index in climate models

    Suzana J. Camargo;Adam H. Sobel;Anthony G. Barnston;Kerry A. Emanuel

  • Specification and Prediction of Global Surface Temperature and Precipitation from Global SST Using CCA

    Anthony G. Barnston;Thomas M. Smith

  • Multimodel Ensembling in Seasonal Climate Forecasting at IRI

    Anthony G. Barnston;Simon J. Mason;Lisa M. Goddard;David G. Dewitt

  • Dominant Factors Influencing the Seasonal Predictability of U.S. Precipitation and Surface Air Temperature

    R. W. Higgins;A. Leetmaa;Y. Xue;A. Barnston

  • Evaluation of the IRI's “Net Assessment” Seasonal Climate Forecasts: 1997–2001

    Lisa M. Goddard;Anthony G. Barnston;Simon J. Mason

  • Deterministic skill of ENSO predictions from the North American Multimodel Ensemble.

    Anthony G. Barnston;Michael K. Tippett;Meghana Ranganathan;Michelle L. L’Heureux

  • Weather changes associated with hospitalizations for cardiovascular diseases and stroke in California, 1983–1998

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  • ENSO and the Spatial Extent of Interannual Precipitation Extremes in Tropical Land Areas

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  • Clustering of eastern North Pacific tropical cyclone tracks: ENSO and MJO effects

    Suzana J. Camargo;Suzana J. Camargo;Andrew W. Robertson;Anthony G. Barnston;Michael Ghil;Michael Ghil

  • Verification of the First 11 Years of IRI’s Seasonal Climate Forecasts

    Anthony G. Barnston;Shuhua Li;Simon J. Mason;David G. Dewitt

  • An analysis of multimodel ensemble predictions for seasonal climate anomalies

    Peitao Peng;Arun Kumar;Huug van den Dool;Anthony G. Barnston

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael K. Tippett
Michael K. Tippett Columbia University
Suzana J. Camargo
Suzana J. Camargo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Lisa M. Goddard
Lisa M. Goddard Columbia University
Simon J. Mason
Simon J. Mason Columbia University
Stephen E. Zebiak
Stephen E. Zebiak Columbia University
Adam H. Sobel
Adam H. Sobel Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Ants Leetmaa
Ants Leetmaa National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Martin P. Hoerling
Martin P. Hoerling National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Yochanan Kushnir
Yochanan Kushnir Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Michael Ghil
Michael Ghil École Normale Supérieure

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