2026 Christopher J. Poulsen: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	64	1512	1351	673	586	273	13352

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Fellow of the Geological Society of America
Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Christopher J. Poulsen is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these broader disciplines, their work spans several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, Ecology, and Oceanography.

The topics covered in their research encompass a range of areas related to geological and climatic studies. These include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Climate variability and models, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Geological formations and processes, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Christopher J. Poulsen has contributed to numerous scientific publications. Notable recent papers include:

Past climates inform our future, 2020, Science
Glacial cooling and climate sensitivity revisited, 2020, Nature
Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum, 2021, Nature
The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations, 2021, Climate of the past
DeepMIP: model intercomparison of early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO) large-scale climate features and comparison with proxy data, 2021, Climate of the past

Their frequent co-authors include Jiang Zhu, Jessica E. Tierney, Jean-Baptiste Ladant, Sophia I. Macarewich, and Isabel P. Montañez.

Christopher J. Poulsen's work appears regularly in several scientific publication venues, notably:

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Climate of the past
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recognition for their work includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017 and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

Super ENSO and Global Climate Oscillations at Millennial Time Scales

Lowell Stott;Christopher Poulsen;Steve Lund;Robert Thunell

768
Citations
The Late Paleozoic Ice Age: An Evolving Paradigm

Isabel P. Montañez;Christopher J. Poulsen

683
Citations
Past climates inform our future

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

574
Citations
Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum.

Matthew B Osman;Jessica E Tierney;Jiang Zhu;Robert Tardif

496
Citations
Glacial cooling and climate sensitivity revisited

Jessica Erin Tierney;Jiang Zhu;Jiang Zhu;Jonathan King;Steven Brewster Malevich

450
Citations
Palaeoclimate across the Late Pennsylvanian–Early Permian tropical palaeolatitudes: A review of climate indicators, their distribution, and relation to palaeophysiographic climate factors

Neil J. Tabor;Christopher J. Poulsen

385
Citations
Influence of Andean uplift on climate and paleoaltimetry estimates

Todd A. Ehlers;Christopher J. Poulsen

311
Citations
Influence of the Andes Mountains on South American moisture transport, convection, and precipitation

Nadja Insel;Christopher J. Poulsen;Todd A. Ehlers;Todd A. Ehlers

296
Citations
The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: Preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations

Masa Kageyama;Sandy P. Harrison;Marie L. Kapsch;Marcus Lofverstrom

290
Citations
Simulation of the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum

Y. You;Matthew Huber;R. D. Müller;C. J. Poulsen

275
Citations
Climate, pCO2 and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial-interglacial cycles

Isabel P. Montañez;Jennifer C. McElwain;Christopher J. Poulsen;Joseph D. White

265
Citations
Response of the Mid-Cretaceous global oceanic circulation to tectonic and CO2 forcings

Christopher J. Poulsen;Eric J. Barron;Michael A. Arthur;William H. Peterson

240
Citations
Climate and vegetational regime shifts in the late Paleozoic ice age earth

William A. DiMichele;I. P. Montañez;C. J. Poulsen;Neil J. Tabor

236
Citations
Late Paleozoic tropical climate response to Gondwanan deglaciation

Christopher J. Poulsen;David Pollard;Isabel P. Montañez;David Rowley

201
Citations
Simulation of Eocene extreme warmth and high climate sensitivity through cloud feedbacks

Jiang Zhu;Christopher J. Poulsen;Jessica E. Tierney

198
Citations
Onset of convective rainfall during gradual late miocene rise of the central andes

Christopher J. Poulsen;Todd A. Ehlers;Todd A. Ehlers;Nadja Insel

191
Citations
Tectonic Evolution of the Central Andean Plateau and Implications for the Growth of Plateaus

Carmala N. Garzione;Nadine McQuarrie;Nicholas D. Perez;Nicholas D. Perez;Todd A. Ehlers

181
Citations
Impact of ocean dynamics on the simulation of the neoproterozoic “snowball Earth”

Christopher J. Poulsen;Raymond T. Pierrehumbert;Robert L. Jacob

176
Citations
Controls on Permo-Carboniferous precipitation over tropical Pangaea A GCM sensitivity study

Cheryl E. Peyser;Christopher J. Poulsen

167
Citations
Did the rifting of the Atlantic Ocean cause the Cretaceous thermal maximum

Christopher J. Poulsen;Andrew S. Gendaszek;Robert L. Jacob

157
Citations
DeepMIP: model intercomparison of early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO) large-scale climate features and comparison with proxy data

Daniel J. Lunt;Fran J. Bragg;Wing Le Chan;David Karel Hutchinson

151
Citations
The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: experimental design for model simulations of the EECO, PETM, and pre-PETM (version 1.0)

Daniel J. Lunt;Matthew Huber;Eleni Anagnostou;Michiel L. J. Baatsen

126
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiang Zhu National Center for Atmospheric Research

Todd A. Ehlers University of Glasgow

Isabel P. Montañez University of California, Davis

Jessica E. Tierney University of Arizona

David Pollard Pennsylvania State University

William A. DiMichele Smithsonian Institution

Jennifer C. McElwain Trinity College Dublin

Kenneth G. MacLeod University of Missouri

Gregory J. Hakim University of Washington

Silke Voigt Goethe University Frankfurt

External Links

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