2026 Benjamin D. Santer: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	78	1057	1003	465	428	168	27302

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2011 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1998 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Benjamin D. Santer is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research spans environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and oceanography. The scientist's work addresses multiple topics including climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Santer has contributed to several recent papers that explore various dimensions of climate science. These include:

Quantifying contributions of natural variability and anthropogenic forcings on increased fire weather risk over the western United States (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Observed Temperature Changes in the Troposphere and Stratosphere from 1979 to 2018 (2020), published in Journal of Climate
Human influence on joint changes in temperature, rainfall and continental aridity (2020), published in Nature Climate Change
Significant impact of forcing uncertainty in a large ensemble of climate model simulations (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Natural variability contributes to model-satellite differences in tropical tropospheric warming (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, most notably:

Qiang Fu (8 publications)
Stephen Po-Chedley (8 publications)
Susan Solomon (6 publications)
C. Bonfils (5 publications)
John C. Fyfe (5 publications)

Benjamin D. Santer's research has been published in several recurring venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (7 publications)
Journal of Climate (6 publications)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (4 publications)
Nature Climate Change (2 publications)
Nature (1 publication)

The scientist's main fields of study reflect an emphasis on environmental science (25 publications) and earth and planetary sciences (18 publications). Their subfields of study highlight a focus on global and planetary change (23 publications), atmospheric science (16 publications), and to a lesser extent, oceanography (2 publications), astronomy and astrophysics, and ecology.

Benjamin D. Santer has received several distinctions including being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation. They were also elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

Best Publications

The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)

William D. Collins;Cecilia M. Bitz;Maurice L. Blackmon;Gordon B. Bonan

2847
Citations
Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States

Tim P. Barnett;David W. Pierce;Hugo G. Hidalgo;Celine Bonfils

1573
Citations
An Overview of the Results of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP I)

W. Lawrence Gates;James S. Boyle;Curt Covey;Clyde G. Dease

999
Citations
Statistical significance of trends and trend differences in layer-average atmospheric temperature time series

B. D. Santer;T. M. L. Wigley;J. S. Boyle;D. J. Gaffen

765
Citations
Selecting global climate models for regional climate change studies

David W. Pierce;Tim P. Barnett;Benjamin D. Santer;Peter J. Gleckler

736
Citations
A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere

B. D. Santer;K. E. Taylor;T. M. L. Wigley;T. C. Johns

716
Citations
Taking climate model evaluation to the next level

Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Peter M. Cox;Gregory M. Flato;Peter J. Gleckler

703
Citations
Time-dependent greenhouse warming computations with a coupled ocean-atmosphere model

Ulrich Cubasch;Klaus Hasselmann;Heinke Höck;Ernst Maier-Reimer

689
Citations
Penetration of Human-Induced Warming into the World's Oceans

Tim P. Barnett;David W. Pierce;Krishna M. AchutaRao;Peter J. Gleckler

645
Citations
Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change

Peter U. Clark;Jeremy D. Shakun;Shaun A. Marcott;Alan C. Mix

604
Citations
Contributions of Anthropogenic and Natural Forcing to Recent Tropopause Height Changes

B. D. Santer;M. F. Wehner;T. M. L. Wigley;R. Sausen

602
Citations
The Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project (DAMIP v1.0)contribution to CMIP6

Nathan P. Gillett;Hideo Shiogama;Bernd Funke;Gabriele Hegerl

534
Citations
Volcanic contribution to decadal changes in tropospheric temperature

Benjamin D. Santer;Céline Bonfils;Jeffrey F. Painter;Mark D. Zelinka

517
Citations
Detecting greenhouse-gas-induced climate change with an optimal fingerprint method

Gabriele C. Hegerl;Hans von Storch;Klaus Hasselmann;Benjamin D. Santer

466
Citations
Climate forcings in Goddard Institute for Space Studies SI2000 simulations

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

430
Citations
Identification of human-induced changes in atmospheric moisture content

B. D. Santer;C. Mears;F. J. Wentz;K. E. Taylor

406
Citations
Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown

John C. Fyfe;Gerald A. Meehl;Matthew H. England;Michael E. Mann

402
Citations
Consistency of modelled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere

B. D. Santer;P. W. Thorne;L. Haimberger;K. E. Taylor

387
Citations
Developing climate scenarios from equilibrium GCM results

Benjamin D. Santer;Tom M. L. Wigley;Michael E. Schlesinger;John F. B. Mitchell

383
Citations
Amplification of Surface Temperature Trends and Variability in the Tropical Atmosphere

Benjamin D. Santer;Tom M. L. Wigley;Carl Mears;Frank J. Wentz

380
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl E. Taylor Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Céline Bonfils Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Tom M. L. Wigley University of Adelaide

Carl A. Mears Remote Sensing Systems (United States)

Ulrich Cubasch Freie Universität Berlin

Philip Jones University of East Anglia

Susan Solomon MIT

Gerald A. Meehl National Center for Atmospheric Research

Frank J. Wentz Remote Sensing Systems (United States)

Mark D. Zelinka Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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