2026 David Rind: 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	102	324	303	145	132	297	49668

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

David Rind is a researcher affiliated with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the United States. Their work mainly focuses on climate science, addressing different aspects of Earth and planetary systems through modeling and analysis. Their contributions span environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular emphasis on global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science.

Their recent publications include research on climate models and simulation of atmospheric processes. Notable papers include:

GISS Model E2.2: A Climate Model Optimized for the Middle Atmosphere-Model Structure, Climatology, Variability, and Climate Sensitivity (2020), published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
GISS Model E2.2: A Climate Model Optimized for the Middle Atmosphere-2. Validation of Large-Scale Transport and Evaluation of Climate Response (2020), published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
GISS-E2.1: Configurations and Climatology (2020), published in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
CMIP6 Historical Simulations (1850-2014) With GISS-E2.1 (2020), published in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Future Climate Change Under SSP Emission Scenarios With GISS-E2.1 (2022), published in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

The main topics in their research involve:

Climate variability and models
Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
Atmospheric ozone and climate
Meteorological phenomena and simulations
Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
Oceanographic and atmospheric processes
Cryospheric studies and observations

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

Journal of Climate
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Geophysical Research Letters
Communications Earth & Environment

David Rind collaborates regularly with other researchers in the climate science community. Frequent coauthors include Larissa Nazarenko, Clara Orbe, Gavin A. Schmidt, Gary L. Russell, and Anastasia Romanou.

The subfields associated with their work span:

Global and planetary change
Atmospheric science
Oceanography
Astronomy and astrophysics
Environmental chemistry

In recognition of their contributions, David Rind was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2013.

Best Publications

Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing

Piers Forster;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy;Paulo Artaxo;Terje Berntsen

6259
Citations
Efficacy of climate forcings

J. Hansen;J. Hansen;M. Sato;R. Ruedy;L. Nazarenko

1694
Citations
Climate Sensitivity: Analysis of Feedback Mechanisms

J. Hansen;A. Lacis;D. Rind;G. Russell

1579
Citations
Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

J. Hansen;D. Johnson;A. Lacis;S. Lebedeff

1576
Citations
Does the ocean–atmosphere system have more than one stable mode of operation?

Wallace S. Broecker;Dorothy M. Peteet;David Rind

1522
Citations
Efficient Three-Dimensional Global Models for Climate Studies: Models I and II

J. Hansen;G. Russell;D. Rind;P. Stone

1493
Citations
Global climate changes as forecast by Goddard Institute for Space Studies three-dimensional model

J. Hansen;I. Fung;A. Lacis;D. Rind

1458
Citations
Present-Day Atmospheric Simulations Using GISS ModelE: Comparison to In Situ, Satellite, and Reanalysis Data

Gavin A. Schmidt;Reto Ruedy;James E. Hansen;Igor Aleinov

1062
Citations
Trends in Antarctic annual sea ice retreat and advance and their relation to El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Southern Annular Mode variability

S. E. Stammerjohn;S. E. Stammerjohn;D. G. Martinson;D. G. Martinson;R. C. Smith;X. Yuan

1057
Citations
A simple lightning parameterization for calculating global lightning distributions

Colin Price;David Rind

1011
Citations
Solar Forcing of Regional Climate Change During the Maunder Minimum

Drew T. Shindell;Gavin A. Schmidt;Michael E. Mann;David Rind

951
Citations
Increased polar stratospheric ozone losses and delayed eventual recovery owing to increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations

Drew T. Shindell;David Rind;Patrick Lonergan

760
Citations
Climate-induced changes in forest disturbance and vegetation

Jonathan T. Overpeck;David Rind;Richard Goldberg

754
Citations
Configuration and Assessment of the GISS ModelE2 Contributions to the CMIP5 Archive

Gavin A. Schmidt;Max Kelley;Larissa Nazarenko;Reto Ruedy

735
Citations
Solar cycle variability, ozone, and climate

Drew Shindell;David Rind;Nambeth Balachandran;Judith Lean

732
Citations
Regions of rapid sea ice change: An inter‐hemispheric seasonal comparison

Sharon Stammerjohn;Sharon Stammerjohn;Robert Massom;Robert Massom;David Rind;Douglas Martinson

728
Citations
Atmospheric CO2: Principal Control Knob Governing Earth’s Temperature

Andrew A. Lacis;Gavin A. Schmidt;David Rind;Reto A. Ruedy

708
Citations
GISS-E2.1: Configurations and Climatology.

Maxwell Kelley;Gavin A. Schmidt;Larissa S. Nazarenko;Larissa S. Nazarenko;Susanne E. Bauer

616
Citations
Terrestrial Conditions at the Last Glacial Maximum and CLIMAP Sea-Surface Temperature Estimates: Are They Consistent?

D. Rind;D. Peteet

566
Citations
Potential evapotranspiration and the likelihood of future drought

D. Rind;R. Goldberg;J. Hansen;C. Rosenzweig

503
Citations
Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)

S. Joussaume;K. E. Taylor;P. Braconnot;J. F.B. Mitchell

500
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary L. Russell Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Andrew A. Lacis Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Drew T. Shindell Duke University

James Hansen Columbia University

Gavin A. Schmidt Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Douglas G. Martinson Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Judith Lean United States Naval Research Laboratory

Ron L. Miller Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Reto Ruedy Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Anastasia Romanou Goddard Institute for Space Studies

External Links

Personal website of David Rind

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