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44
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15627
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6579
National Ranking
2345

Overview

Benjamin M. Sanderson is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research spans across Environmental Science with significant contributions in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's work covers several primary topics, including:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Benjamin M. Sanderson has published in various venues frequently. The most common publication venues include:

  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Clinical Oncology
  • Nature
  • Nature Climate Change

Selected recent papers are:

  • "Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) of CMIP6," 2021, Earth System Dynamics
  • "A machine learning approach to emulation and biophysical parameter estimation with the Community Land Model, version 5," 2020, Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography
  • "Overconfidence in climate overshoot," 2024, Nature
  • "A fiery wake-up call for climate science," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Assessing the costs of historical inaction on climate change," 2020, Scientific Reports

Their frequent coauthors, often collaborating on climate and environmental studies, include:

  • Roland Séférian
  • Zebedee Nicholls
  • Rosie A. Fisher
  • Charles D. Koven
  • David M. Lawrence

Best Publications

  • The Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) for CMIP6

    Brian C. O'Neill;Claudia Tebaldi;Detlef P. Van Vuuren;Detlef P. Van Vuuren;Veronika Eyring

  • The Community Land Model version 5 : description of new features, benchmarking, and impact of forcing uncertainty

    David M. Lawrence;Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;Keith W. Oleson

  • Taking climate model evaluation to the next level

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

  • Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) of CMIP6

    Claudia Tebaldi;Kevin Debeire;Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Erich Fischer

  • Precipitation variability increases in a warmer climate

    Angeline G. Pendergrass;Reto Knutti;Reto Knutti;Flavio Lehner;Clara Deser

  • A climate model projection weighting scheme accounting for performance and interdependence

    Reto Knutti;Reto Knutti;Jan Sedláček;Benjamin M. Sanderson;Ruth Lorenz

  • Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I

    Donald J. Wuebbles;David W. Fahey;Kathy A. Hibbard;Jeff R. Arnold

  • A Representative Democracy to Reduce Interdependency in a Multimodel Ensemble

    Benjamin M. Sanderson;Reto Knutti;Peter Caldwell

  • Climate System Response to External Forcings and Climate Change Projections in CCSM4

    Gerald A Meehl;Warren M Washington;Julie Michelle Arblaster;Aixue Hu

  • Projected drought risk in 1.5°C and 2°C warmer climates

    Flavio Lehner;Sloan John Coats;Thomas F. Stocker;Thomas F. Stocker;Angeline G. Pendergrass

  • Climate Change Projections in CESM1(CAM5) Compared to CCSM4

    Gerald A. Meehl;Warren M. Washington;Julie M. Arblaster;Aixue Hu

  • What would it take to achieve the Paris temperature targets

    Benjamin M. Sanderson;Brian C. O'Neill;Claudia Tebaldi

  • Towards constraining climate sensitivity by linear analysis of feedback patterns in thousands of perturbed-physics GCM simulations

    Benjamin M. Sanderson;C. Piani;W. J. Ingram;W. J. Ingram;D. A. Stone

  • Skill and independence weighting for multi-model assessments

    Benjamin M. Sanderson;Michael Wehner;Reto Knutti;Reto Knutti

  • Community climate simulations to assess avoided impacts in 1.5 and 2 °C futures

    Benjamin M. Sanderson;Yangyang Xu;Claudia Tebaldi;Michael Wehner

  • Addressing interdependency in a multimodel ensemble by interpolation of model properties

    Benjamin M. Sanderson;Reto Knutti;Peter Caldwell

  • Broad range of 2050 warming from an observationally constrained large climate model ensemble

    Daniel J Rowlands;Daniel J Rowlands;David J Frame;Duncan Ackerley;Duncan Ackerley;Tolu Aina

  • Statistical significance of climate sensitivity predictors obtained by data mining

    Peter M. Caldwell;Christopher S. Bretherton;Mark D. Zelinka;Stephen A. Klein

  • Selecting a climate model subset to optimise key ensemble properties

    Nadja Herger;Gab Abramowitz;Reto Knutti;Reto Knutti;Oliver Angélil

  • Does extreme precipitation intensity depend on the emissions scenario

    Angeline G. Pendergrass;Flavio Lehner;Benjamin M. Sanderson;Yangyang Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Reto Knutti
Reto Knutti ETH Zurich
Rosie A. Fisher
Rosie A. Fisher National Center for Atmospheric Research
Flavio Lehner
Flavio Lehner Cornell University
Brian C. O'Neill
Brian C. O'Neill Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
David M. Lawrence
David M. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research
William Ingram
William Ingram University of Oxford
Claudia Tebaldi
Claudia Tebaldi Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Michael F. Wehner
Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford
Gerald A. Meehl
Gerald A. Meehl National Center for Atmospheric Research

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