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37
Citations
9366
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8766
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3131

Chris E. Forest 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 Chris E. Forest sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 110 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Chris E. Forest 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 Chris E. Forest sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Chris E. Forest is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with substantial contributions to Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Civil and Structural Engineering, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including Climate variability and models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate change impacts on agriculture, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, and Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Chris E. Forest include:

  • The response of maize, sorghum, and soybean yield to growing-phase climate revealed with machine learning, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Distributed and localized cooling with thermoelectrics, 2021, Joule
  • The role of internal climate variability in projecting Antarctica's contribution to future sea-level rise, 2020, Climate Dynamics
  • Assessing and reducing the environmental impact of dairy production systems in the northern US in a changing climate, 2021, Agricultural Systems
  • Attention to values helps shape convergence research, 2022, Climatic Change

Frequent co-authors working with Chris E. Forest include:

  • Klaus Keller
  • Robert E. Nicholas
  • Jennifer Morris
  • Andrei Sokolov
  • John Reilly

Key publication venues where Forest's research has appeared consist of:

  • Nature Communications
  • Climate Dynamics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Joule

Their research frequently emphasizes climate dynamics and environmental impacts, with a cross-disciplinary approach reflected in subfields such as atmospheric science and engineering resilience. Scientific inquiries often focus on both natural systems, like ice dynamics and climate variability, and human-related systems such as agriculture and infrastructure vulnerability.

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of climate models

    G. M. Flato;J. Marotzke;B. Abiodun;Pascale Braconnot

  • Quantifying Uncertainties in Climate System Properties with the Use of Recent Climate Observations

    Chris E. Forest;Peter H. Stone;Andrei P. Sokolov;Myles R. Allen

  • Uncertainty Analysis of Climate Change and Policy Response

    Mort David. Webster;Chris Eliot. Forest;John M. Reilly;Mustafa H.M. Babiker

  • Probabilistic forecast for twenty-first-century climate based on uncertainties in emissions (without policy) and climate parameters.

    A. P. Sokolov;P. H. Stone;C. E. Forest;R. Prinn

  • Long-Term climate change commitment and reversibility: An EMIC intercomparison

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;Kaitlin Alexander

  • Paleobotanical evidence of Eocene and Oligocene paleoaltitudes in midlatitude western North America

    Jack A. Wolfe;Chris E. Forest;Peter Molnar

  • Uncertainty and Climate Change Assessments

    John Reilly;Peter H. Stone;Chris E. Forest;Mort D. Webster

  • Historical and idealized climate model experiments: an intercomparison of Earth system models of intermediate complexity

    Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;K. Alexander;K. Zickfeld

  • Paleobotanical evidence for high altitudes in Nevada during the Miocene

    Jack A. Wolfe;Howard E. Schorn;Howard E. Schorn;Howard E. Schorn;Chris E. Forest;Chris E. Forest;Chris E. Forest;Peter Molnar;Peter Molnar;Peter Molnar

  • MIT Integrated Global System Model (IGSM) Version 2: Model Description and Baseline Evaluation

    Andrei P. Sokolov;C. Adam. Schlosser;Stephanie. Dutkiewicz;Sergey. Paltsev

  • Industrial-era global ocean heat uptake doubles in recent decades

    Peter J. Gleckler;Paul J. Durack;Ronald J. Stouffer;Gregory C. Johnson

  • Estimated PDFs of climate system properties including natural and anthropogenic forcings

    Chris Eliot. Forest;Peter H. Stone;Andrei P. Sokolov

  • 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

  • Analysis of climate policy targets under uncertainty

    Mort Webster;Andrei P. Sokolov;John M. Reilly;Chris E. Forest

  • Paleoaltimetry incorporating atmospheric physics and botanical estimates of paleoclimate

    Chris E. Forest;Jack A. Wolfe;Peter Molnar;Kerry A. Emanuel

  • Techniques for using emitting probes for potential measurement in rf plasmas

    E. Y. Wang;N. Hershkowitz;T. Intrator;C. Forest

  • Palaeoaltimetry from energy conservation principles

    Chris E. Forest;Peter Molnar;Kerry A. Emanuel

  • Analysis of climate signals in the crop yield record of sub-Saharan Africa

    Alexis L. Hoffman;Armen R. Kemanian;Chris E. Forest

  • Ensemble climate predictions using climate models and observational constraints.

    Peter A Stott;Chris E Forest

  • Constraining uncertainties in climate models using climate change detection techniques

    Chris Eliot. Forest;Myles R. Allen;Myles R. Allen;Peter H. Stone;Andrei P. Sokolov

  • Avoiding dangerous climate change

    M. R. Allen;N. Andronova;B. Booth;S. Dessai

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Keller
Klaus Keller Dartmouth College
Peter Stone
Peter Stone The University of Texas at Austin
David W. Kicklighter
David W. Kicklighter Marine Biological Laboratory
Gary Shaffer
Gary Shaffer University of Magallanes
Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford

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