2026 Bruce T. Anderson: 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	39	8278	7945	2956	2745	130	7533

Overview

Bruce T. Anderson is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these broad fields, Anderson has concentrated on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics covered in Anderson's work encompass Climate variability and models, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Marine animal studies overview, and Marine and fisheries research.

Anderson has published in various academic venues, with frequent contributions to journals such as Climate Dynamics and the Journal of Climate. Other publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Annual Review of Marine Science, and GeoHealth.

Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability (2022, Annual Review of Marine Science)
Testing the Trade Wind Charging Mechanism and Its Influence on ENSO Variability (2020, Journal of Climate)
Ocean Dynamics are Key to Extratropical Forcing of El Niño (2021, Journal of Climate)
Web-Based Data to Quantify Meteorological and Geographical Effects on Heat Stroke: Case Study in China (2022, GeoHealth)
Northeast Pacific marine heatwaves linked to Kuroshio Extension variability (2023, Communications Earth & Environment)

Frequent co-authors in Anderson's work include Valentina Pivotti, Jason C. Furtado, Soumi Chakravorty, Renellys C. Perez, and Benjamin S. Giese. These collaborations highlight a range of research partnerships contributing to Anderson's scientific contributions.

Best Publications

Past and future changes in climate and hydrological indicators in the US Northeast

Katharine Hayhoe;Cameron P Wake;Thomas G Huntington;Lifeng Luo

1091
Citations
Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands

L. Xu;R.B. Myneni;F.S. Chapin Iii;T.V. Callaghan

660
Citations
Central Pacific El Niño and decadal climate change in the North Pacific Ocean

E. Di Lorenzo;K. M. Cobb;J. C. Furtado;N. Schneider

398
Citations
Regional climate change projections for the Northeast USA

Katharine Hayhoe;Cameron P Wake;Bruce T. Anderson;Xin-Zhong Liang

367
Citations
Coupled vegetation-precipitation variability observed from satellite and climate records

Alexander Lotsch;Mark A. Friedl;Bruce T. Anderson;Compton J. Tucker

230
Citations
Photochemistry of HOx in the upper troposphere at northern midlatitudes

L. Jaeglé;Daniel James Jacob;W. H. Brune;I. Faloona

228
Citations
Low ozone in the marine boundary layer of the tropical Pacific Ocean: Photochemical loss, chlorine atoms, and entrainment

H. B. Singh;G. L. Gregory;B. Anderson;E. Browell

210
Citations
Investigation of a Large-Scale Mode of Ocean-Atmosphere Variability and Its Relation to Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

Bruce T. Anderson

205
Citations
ENSO and meridional modes: A null hypothesis for Pacific climate variability

E. Di Lorenzo;G. Liguori;Niklas Schneider;J. C. Furtado

200
Citations
Assessment of ozone photochemistry in the western North Pacific as inferred from PEM‐West A observations during the fall 1991

D. D. Davis;J. Crawford;G. Chen;W. Chameides

195
Citations
The Saharan Air Layer and the Fate of African Easterly Waves—NASA's AMMA Field Study of Tropical Cyclogenesis

Edward J. Zipser;Cynthia H. Twohy;Si Chee Tsay;K. Lee Thornhill

177
Citations
Global and regional changes in exposure to extreme heat and the relative contributions of climate and population change.

Zhao Liu;Bruce Anderson;Kai Yan;Weihua Dong

175
Citations
Response of terrestrial ecosystems to recent Northern Hemispheric drought

Alexander Lotsch;Mark A. Friedl;Bruce T. Anderson;Compton J. Tucker

171
Citations
Interannual covariability in Northern Hemisphere air temperatures and greenness associated with El Niño‐Southern Oscillation and the Arctic Oscillation

Wolfgang Buermann;Wolfgang Buermann;Bruce Anderson;Compton J. Tucker;Robert Earl Dickinson

161
Citations
Triggering of El Niño onset through trade wind–induced charging of the equatorial Pacific

Bruce T. Anderson;Renellys C. Perez;Alicia Karspeck

156
Citations
Linkages between the North Pacific Oscillation and central tropical Pacific SSTs at low frequencies

Jason C. Furtado;Emanuele Di Lorenzo;Bruce T. Anderson;Niklas Schneider

134
Citations
The Relation between the North Atlantic Oscillation and SSTs in the North Atlantic Basin

Weile Wang;Bruce T. Anderson;Robert K. Kaufmann;Ranga B. Myneni

133
Citations
Photostationary state analysis of the NO2‐NO system based on airborne observations from the western and central North Pacific

J. Crawford;D. Davis;G. Chen;J. Bradshaw

129
Citations
Tropical Pacific sea‐surface temperatures and preceding sea level pressure anomalies in the subtropical North Pacific

Bruce T. Anderson

128
Citations
An Assessment of Ozone Photochemistry in the Extratropical Western North Pacific: Impact of Continental Outflow During the Late Winter/Early Spring

J. Crawford;D. Davis;G. Chen;J. Bradshaw

124
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald R. Blake University of California, Irvine

G. W. Sachse Langley Research Center

Robert W. Talbot University of Houston

Gerald L. Gregory Langley Research Center

Guido D. Salvucci Boston University

Ranga B. Myneni Boston University

J. D. Bradshaw University of Canterbury

Scott T. Sandholm Georgia Institute of Technology

Douglas D. Davis Georgia Institute of Technology

Edward V. Browell Langley Research Center

External Links

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