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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
109
Citations
49186
World Ranking
213
National Ranking
96

Clara Deser 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 Clara Deser sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 291 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Clara Deser 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 Clara Deser sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 109 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Clara Deser is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a strong focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography. Their work also touches on Water Science and Technology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their primary research topics include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, and climate change and permafrost.

Clara Deser has contributed to a range of publications, frequently appearing in venues such as the Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Nature Climate Change, and Nature Geoscience.

Recent papers include:

  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (2020), Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects (2020), Nature Climate Change
  • Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6 (2020), Earth System Dynamics
  • Ubiquity of human-induced changes in climate variability (2021), Earth System Dynamics
  • Robust but weak winter atmospheric circulation response to future Arctic sea ice loss (2022), Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors include Adam S. Phillips, Isla R. Simpson, Keith B. Rodgers, Nan Rosenbloom, and Pedro DiNezio.

Clara Deser was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)

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

  • The Community Earth System Model (CESM) large ensemble project: a community resource for studying climate change in the presence of internal climate variability

    Jennifer E Kay;Clara Deser;Adam S Phillips;A Mai

  • Uncertainty in climate change projections: the role of internal variability

    Clara Deser;Adam Phillips;Vincent Bourdette;Haiyan Teng

  • North Atlantic climate variability: The role of the North Atlantic Oscillation

    James W. Hurrell;Clara Deser

  • The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Revisited

    Matthew Newman;Matthew Newman;Michael A. Alexander;Toby R. Ault;Kim M. Cobb

  • Global warming pattern formation: sea surface temperature and rainfall.

    Shang Ping Xie;Clara Deser;Gabriel Andres Vecchi;Jian Ma

  • Sea surface temperature variability: Patterns and mechanisms

    Clara Deser;Michael A. Alexander;Shang-Ping Xie;Adam S. Phillips

  • Surface Climate Variations over the North Atlantic Ocean during Winter: 1900–1989

    Clara Deser;Maurice L. Blackmon

  • Communication of the role of natural variability in future North American climate

    Clara Deser;Reto Knutti;Susan Solomon;Adam S. Phillips

  • Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

    Clara Deser;Flavio Lehner;Keith B. Rodgers;Toby R. Ault

  • Arctic Sea Ice Variability in the Context of Recent Atmospheric Circulation Trends

    Clara Deser;John E. Walsh;Michael S. Timlin

  • Pacific Interdecadal Climate Variability: Linkages between the Tropics and the North Pacific during Boreal Winter since 1900

    Clara Deser;Adam S. Phillips;James W. Hurrell

  • The Influence of Sea-Surface Temperature on Surface Wind in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific: Seasonal and Interannual Variability

    J. M. Wallace;T. P. Mitchell;C. Deser

  • Precipitation variability increases in a warmer climate

    Angeline G. Pendergrass;Reto Knutti;Reto Knutti;Flavio Lehner;Clara Deser

  • Why the Western Pacific Subtropical High Has Extended Westward since the Late 1970s

    Tianjun Zhou;Rucong Yu;Jie Zhang;Helge Drange

  • The Seasonal Atmospheric Response to Projected Arctic Sea Ice Loss in the Late Twenty-First Century

    Clara Deser;Robert Tomas;Michael Alexander;David Lawrence

  • On the Teleconnectivity of the "Arctic Oscillation"

    Clara Deser

  • Projecting North American Climate over the Next 50 Years: Uncertainty due to Internal Variability

    Clara Deser;Adam S. Phillips;Michael A. Alexander;Brian V. Smoliak

  • Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6

    Flavio Lehner;Flavio Lehner;Clara Deser;Nicola Maher;Jochem Marotzke

  • Twentieth century tropical sea surface temperature trends revisited.

    Clara Deser;Adam S. Phillips;Michael A. Alexander

  • Upper-Ocean Thermal Variations in the North Pacific during 1970-1991.

    Clara Deser;Michael A. Alexander;Michael S. Timlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam S. Phillips
Adam S. Phillips National Center for Atmospheric Research
Michael A. Alexander
Michael A. Alexander National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Robert A. Tomas
Robert A. Tomas National Center for Atmospheric Research
Flavio Lehner
Flavio Lehner Cornell University
James A. Screen
James A. Screen University of Exeter
Lorenzo M. Polvani
Lorenzo M. Polvani Columbia University
Isla R. Simpson
Isla R. Simpson National Center for Atmospheric Research
Shang-Ping Xie
Shang-Ping Xie University of California, San Diego
Antonietta Capotondi
Antonietta Capotondi National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jennifer E. Kay
Jennifer E. Kay University of Colorado Boulder

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