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57
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Gerald R. North 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 Gerald R. North sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 229 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gerald R. North 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 Gerald R. North sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1987 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Gerald R. North is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields related to environmental and earth sciences, including environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. The scientist's work covers various subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, mechanics of materials, and water science and technology.

The main topics addressed in their publications include climate variability and models, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, geology and paleoclimatology research, cryospheric studies and observations, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and hydrology and watershed management studies.

Gerald R. North has published extensively with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering
  • Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists

Their recent papers include:

  • Energy balance models in climate science (2024), published in Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering
  • From Physics to Climate Science (2020), published in Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists

The scientist has collaborated frequently with co-authors including Samuel S. P. Shen.

In addition to journal publications, Gerald R. North has contributed to book literature. Notably, they authored a book published by Cambridge University Press titled Statistics and Data Visualization in Climate Science with R and Python (2023).

Recognition for their work includes being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2004 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1987.

Best Publications

  • Sampling Errors in the Estimation of Empirical Orthogonal Functions

    Gerald R. North;Thomas L. Bell;Robert F. Cahalan;Fanthune J. Moeng

  • The status of the tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM) after two years in orbit

    C. Kummerow;J. Simpson;O. Thiele;W. Barnes

  • A Proposed Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Satellite

    Joanne Simpson;Robert F. Adler;Gerald R. North

  • Energy Balance Climate Models

    Gerald R. North;Robert F. Cahalan;James A. Coakley

  • Theory of Energy-Balance Climate Models.

    Gerald R. North

  • Filtering of milankovitch cycles by earth's geography

    David A. Short;John G. Mengel;Thomas J. Crowley;William T. Hyde

  • Empirical Orthogonal Functions: The Medium is the Message

    Adam H. Monahan;John C. Fyfe;Maarten H. P. Ambaum;David B. Stephenson

  • Surface temperature reconstructions for the last 2000 years

    Gerald R North;Ian Kraucunas

  • Analytical Solution to a Simple Climate Model with Diffusive Heat Transport.

    Gerald R. North

  • Simple Energy Balance Model Resolving the Seasons and the Continents' Application to the Astronomical Theory of the Ice Ages

    G. R. North;J. G. Mengel;D. A. Short

  • Abrupt Climate Change and Extinction Events in Earth History

    Thomas J. Crowley;Gerald R. North

  • Empirical Orthogonal Functions and Normal Modes

    Gerald R. North

  • Differences between seasonal and mean annual energy balance model calculations of climate and climate sensitivity

    Gerald R. North;James A. Coakley

  • EOFs of Harmonizable Cyclostationary Processes

    Kwang-Y. Kim;Gerald R. North

  • Estimation of mean rain rate: Application to satellite observations

    Benjamin Kedem;Long S. Chiu;Gerald R. North

  • EOFs of One-Dimensional Cyclostationary Time Series: Computations, Examples, and Stochastic Modeling

    Kwang-Y. Kim;Gerald R. North;Jianping Huang

  • The Small Ice Cap Instability in Diffusive Climate Models

    Gerald R. North

  • Sampling errors for satellite-derived tropical rainfall - Monte Carlo study using a space-time stochastic model

    Thomas L. Bell;A. Abdullah;Russell L. Martin;Gerald R. North

  • A Comparison of Gamma and Lognormal Distributions for Characterizing Satellite Rain Rates from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

    Hye-Kyung Cho;Kenneth P. Bowman;Gerald R. North

  • Role of seasonality in the evolution of climate during the last 100 million years

    Thomas J. Crowley;David A. Short;John G. Mengel;Gerald R. North

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan B. Valdés
Juan B. Valdés University of Arizona
Kwang-Yul Kim
Kwang-Yul Kim Seoul National University
Kenneth P. Bowman
Kenneth P. Bowman Texas A&M University
Robert F. Cahalan
Robert F. Cahalan Goddard Space Flight Center
Ping Yang
Ping Yang Texas A&M University
Jianping Huang
Jianping Huang Lanzhou University
Marc G. Genton
Marc G. Genton King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Joanne Simpson
Joanne Simpson Goddard Space Flight Center
Gabriele C. Hegerl
Gabriele C. Hegerl University of Edinburgh
David J. Karoly
David J. Karoly Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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