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6839
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Dorian S. Abbot 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 Dorian S. Abbot sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 165 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dorian S. Abbot 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 Dorian S. Abbot sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Dorian S. Abbot is a researcher affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their scholarly work spans several interconnected fields, including Physics and Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Environmental Science. The subfields that dominate their contributions incorporate Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Oceanography.

The scientist's research topics reflect a focus on climate, planetary science, and astrophysical phenomena. Notable themes in their work include Climate Variability and Models, Astro and Planetary Science, Stellar, Planetary, and Galactic Studies, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Scientific Research and Discoveries, and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

Recent significant publications by Dorian S. Abbot include:

  • "The Effect of Ocean Salinity on Climate and Its Implications for Earth's Habitability" (2022), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Spatial Radiative Feedbacks from Internal Variability Using Multiple Regression" (2020), published in Journal of Climate
  • "The Effect of Substellar Continent Size on Ocean Dynamics of Proxima Centauri b" (2020), published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • "Probing the Capability of Future Direct-imaging Missions to Spectrally Constrain the Frequency of Earth-like Planets" (2021), published in The Astronomical Journal
  • "Revealing the Statistics of Extreme Events Hidden in Short Weather Forecast Data" (2023), published in AGU Advances

Dorian S. Abbot has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, contributing to a body of work that includes:

  • Jonathan Weare (17 joint publications)
  • Robert J. Webber (10 joint publications)
  • Stephanie L. Olson (9 joint publications)
  • Justin Finkel (8 joint publications)
  • Jun Yang (8 joint publications)

The scholar has published extensively in well-known venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University), with 15 publications
  • The Astrophysical Journal, with 7 publications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), with 6 publications
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, with 3 publications
  • The Astronomical Journal, with 3 publications

Dorian S. Abbot's work has been recognized with awards, including being named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

    Paul F. Hoffman;Paul F. Hoffman;Dorian S. Abbot;Yosef Ashkenazy;Douglas I. Benn

  • Stabilizing Cloud Feedback Dramatically Expands the Habitable Zone of Tidally Locked Planets

    Jun Yang;Nicolas B. Cowan;Dorian S. Abbot

  • Quantifying the seasonal and interannual variability of North American isoprene emissions using satellite observations of the formaldehyde column

    Paul I. Palmer;Paul I. Palmer;Dorian S. Abbot;Tzung-May Fu;Daniel J. Jacob

  • STRONG DEPENDENCE OF THE INNER EDGE OF THE HABITABLE ZONE ON PLANETARY ROTATION RATE

    Jun Yang;Gwenaël Boué;Gwenaël Boué;Daniel C. Fabrycky;Dorian S. Abbot

  • Seasonal and interannual variability of North American isoprene emissions as determined by formaldehyde column measurements from space

    Dorian S. Abbot;Paul I. Palmer;Randall V. Martin;Kelly V. Chance

  • The Jormungand global climate state and implications for Neoproterozoic glaciations

    Dorian S. Abbot;Aiko Voigt;Daniel Koll

  • Constraining global isoprene emissions with Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) formaldehyde column measurements

    Changsub Shim;Yuhang Wang;Yunsoo Choi;Paul I. Palmer

  • INDICATION OF INSENSITIVITY OF PLANETARY WEATHERING BEHAVIOR AND HABITABLE ZONE TO SURFACE LAND FRACTION

    Dorian S. Abbot;Nicolas B. Cowan;Fred J. Ciesla

  • Mudball: Surface dust and Snowball Earth deglaciation

    Dorian S. Abbot;Dorian S. Abbot;Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

  • Sea ice, high-latitude convection, and equable climates

    Dorian S. Abbot;Eli Tziperman

  • TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE AND ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION OF DRY TIDALLY LOCKED ROCKY EXOPLANETS

    Daniel D. B. Koll;Dorian S. Abbot

  • DECIPHERING THERMAL PHASE CURVES OF DRY, TIDALLY LOCKED TERRESTRIAL PLANETS

    Daniel D. B. Koll;Dorian S. Abbot

  • Feedback temperature dependence determines the risk of high warming

    Jonah Bloch-Johnson;Raymond T. Pierrehumbert;Dorian S. Abbot

  • The Atmospheric Circulation and Climate of Terrestrial Planets Orbiting Sun-like and M Dwarf Stars over a Broad Range of Planetary Parameters

    Thaddeus D. Komacek;Dorian S. Abbot

  • Initiation of a Marinoan Snowball Earth in a state-of-the-art atmosphere-ocean general circulation model

    A. Voigt;D. S. Abbot;R. T. Pierrehumbert;J. Marotzke

  • A Statistical Comparative Planetology Approach to the Hunt for Habitable Exoplanets and Life Beyond the Solar System

    Jacob L. Bean;Dorian S. Abbot;Eliza M.-R. Kempton

  • No Snowball on Habitable Tidally Locked Planets

    Jade Checlair;Kristen Menou;Dorian S. Abbot

  • Ocean Dynamics and the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone for Tidally Locked Terrestrial Planets

    Jun Yang;Dorian S. Abbot;Daniel D. B. Koll;Yongyun Hu

  • Persistence of a freshwater surface ocean after a snowball Earth

    Jun Yang;Malte F. Jansen;Francis A. Macdonald;Dorian S. Abbot

  • Thermal Phases of Earth-Like Planets: Estimating Thermal Inertia from Eccentricity, Obliquity, and Diurnal Forcing

    Nicolas B. Cowan;Aiko Voigt;Dorian S. Abbot

  • A high‐latitude convective cloud feedback and equable climates

    Dorian S. Abbot;Eli Tziperman

  • Water Cycling between Ocean and Mantle: Super-Earths Need Not Be Waterworlds

    Nicolas B. Cowan;Dorian S. Abbot

  • The Atmosphere

    Dorian S. Abbot

Frequent Co-Authors

Aiko Voigt
Aiko Voigt Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Eli Tziperman
Eli Tziperman Harvard University
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert University of Oxford
Edwin S. Kite
Edwin S. Kite University of Chicago
David Archer
David Archer University of Chicago
David Pollard
David Pollard Pennsylvania State University
Paul I. Palmer
Paul I. Palmer University of Edinburgh
Kelly Chance
Kelly Chance Harvard University
Adam P. Showman
Adam P. Showman University of Arizona
Stephen R. Kane
Stephen R. Kane University of California, Riverside

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