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Earth Science

D-Index
35
Citations
6899
World Ranking
7464
National Ranking
2550

Best Publications

  • Probabilistic 21st and 22nd Century Sea-Level Projections at a Global Network of Tide-Gauge Sites

    Robert E. Kopp;Radley M. Horton;Christopher M. Little;Jerry X. Mitrovica

  • Global assessment of coral bleaching and required rates of adaptation under climate change

    Simon D. Donner;William J. Skirving;Christopher M. Little;Michael Oppenheimer

  • A Review of the Role of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and Associated Climate Impacts

    Rong Zhang;Rowan Sutton;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Young Oh Kwon

  • Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise

    Tamsin L Edwards;Sophie Nowicki;Sophie Nowicki;Ben Marzeion;Regine Hock;Regine Hock

  • Climate change: New dimensions in disaster risk, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience

    Allan Lavell;Michael Oppenheimer;Cherif Diop;Jeremy Hess

  • Experimental protocol for sea level projections from ISMIP6 stand-alone ice sheet models

    Sophie Nowicki;Heiko Goelzer;Heiko Goelzer;Hélène Seroussi;Anthony J. Payne

  • Geographic Variability of Sea-Level Change

    Robert E. Kopp;Carling C. Hay;Carling C. Hay;Christopher M. Little;Jerry X. Mitrovica

  • Usable Science for Managing the Risks of Sea-Level Rise.

    Robert E. Kopp;Elisabeth A. Gilmore;Christopher M. Little;Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba

  • Joint projections of US East Coast sea level and storm surge

    Christopher M. Little;Radley M. Horton;Robert E. Kopp;Michael Oppenheimer

  • Future Sea Level Change Under Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 and Phase 6 Scenarios From the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets

    Antony J. Payne;Sophie Nowicki;Sophie Nowicki;Ayako Abe‐Ouchi;Cecile Agosta

  • River-discharge effects on United States Atlantic and Gulf coast sea-level changes.

    Christopher G. Piecuch;Klaus Bittermann;Andrew C. Kemp;Rui M. Ponte

  • Mechanisms underlying recent decadal changes in subpolar North Atlantic Ocean heat content

    Christopher G. Piecuch;Rui M. Ponte;Christopher M. Little;Martha W. Buckley

  • How ice shelf morphology controls basal melting

    Christopher M. Little;Anand Gnanadesikan;Michael Oppenheimer

  • The relationship between U.S. East Coast Sea Level and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review

    Christopher M. Little;Aixue Hu;Chris W. Hughes;Chris W. Hughes;Gerard D. McCarthy

  • Expert judgement and uncertainty quantification for climate change

    Michael Oppenheimer;Christopher M. Little;Roger M. Cooke

  • New York City Panel on Climate Change 2015 Report. Chapter 2: Sea level rise and coastal storms.

    Radley Horton;Christopher Little;Vivien Gornitz;Daniel Bader

  • Estimating Greenland tidewater glacier retreat driven by submarine melting

    Donald A. Slater;Fiamma Straneo;Denis Felikson;Christopher M. Little

  • A protocol for calculating basal melt rates in the ISMIP6 Antarctic ice sheet projections

    Nicolas C. Jourdain;Xylar Asay-Davis;Tore Hattermann;Tore Hattermann;Fiammetta Straneo

  • CMIP5 model selection for ISMIP6 ice sheet model forcing: Greenland and Antarctica

    Alice Barthel;Cécile Agosta;Christopher M. Little;Tore Hattermann;Tore Hattermann

  • Twenty-first century ocean forcing of the Greenland ice sheet for modelling of sea level contribution

    Donald A. Slater;Denis Felikson;Fiamma Straneo;Heiko Goelzer;Heiko Goelzer

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