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Environmental Sciences
USA
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
111
Citations
47888
World Ranking
189
National Ranking
88

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Best Publications

  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)

    G. Danabasoglu;J. F. Lamarque;J. Bacmeister;D. A. Bailey

  • Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation

    Jeremy D. Shakun;Peter U. Clark;Feng He;Shaun A. Marcott

  • Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum - Part 1: experiments and large-scale features

    P. Braconnot;B. Otto-Bliesner;S. Harrison;S. Joussaume

  • Transient Simulation of Last Deglaciation with a New Mechanism for Bølling-Allerød Warming

    Z. Liu;B. L. Otto-Bliesner;F. He;E. C. Brady

  • Simulating Arctic climate warmth and icefield retreat in the last interglaciation.

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Shawn J. Marshall;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Gifford H. Miller

  • Evaluation of climate models using palaeoclimatic data

    Pascale Braconnot;Sandy P. Harrison;Masa Kageyama;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Holocene thermal maximum in the western Arctic (0-180°W)

    D. S. Kaufman;T.A. Ager;N.J. Anderson;P.M. Anderson

  • Information from paleoclimate archives

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

  • Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling

    Darrell S. Kaufman;David P. Schneider;Nicholas P. McKay;Caspar M. Ammann

  • Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained by sea‐ice/ocean feedbacks

    Gifford H. Miller;Gifford H. Miller;Áslaug Geirsdóttir;Yafang Zhong;Darren J. Larsen;Darren J. Larsen

  • Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene Climate in CCSM3

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Esther C. Brady;Gabriel Clauzet;Robert Tomas

  • Paleoclimatic Evidence for Future Ice-Sheet Instability and Rapid Sea-Level Rise

    Jonathan T. Overpeck;Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Gifford H. Miller;Daniel R. Muhs

  • Chinese cave records and the East Asia Summer Monsoon

    Zhengyu Liu;Zhengyu Liu;Xinyu Wen;E.C. Brady;B. Otto-Bliesner

  • Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation

    Peter U. Clark;Jeremy D. Shakun;Paul A. Baker;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

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

  • Climate Variability and Change since 850 CE: An Ensemble Approach with the Community Earth System Model

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Esther C. Brady;John Fasullo;Alexandra Jahn

  • Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates.

    Kevin Burke;John Williams;Mark Chandler;Alan Haywood

  • Past climates inform our future

    Jessica E. Tierney;Christopher J. Poulsen;Isabel P. Montañez;Tripti Bhattacharya

  • The Holocene temperature conundrum

    Zhengyu Liu;Zhengyu Liu;Jiang Zhu;Yair Rosenthal;Xu Zhang

  • Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

    Connor Nolan;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Judy R.M. Allen;Patricia M. Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Esther C. Brady
Esther C. Brady National Center for Atmospheric Research
Zhengyu Liu
Zhengyu Liu The Ohio State University
Nan Rosenbloom
Nan Rosenbloom National Center for Atmospheric Research
Alan M. Haywood
Alan M. Haywood University of Leeds
Zhongshi Zhang
Zhongshi Zhang NORCE Research
Daniel J. Lunt
Daniel J. Lunt University of Bristol
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen
Pascale Braconnot
Pascale Braconnot Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Feng He
Feng He University of Wisconsin–Madison

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