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8201
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Gilbert P. Compo 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 Gilbert P. Compo sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 120 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Gilbert P. Compo 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 Gilbert P. Compo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Gilbert P. Compo is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research spans several areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with extensive work on climate variability, meteorological phenomena, and oceanographic processes.

The main fields of study in which Gilbert P. Compo has published include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of their research focus on:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The core topics addressed in their work comprise:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Gilbert P. Compo has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Laura Slivinski
  • Prashant D. Sardeshmukh
  • Ed Hawkins
  • Chesley McColl
  • Clive Wilkinson

Their publications appear mainly in the following scientific venues, with multiple articles in some:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Energies
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Gilbert P. Compo include:

  • "An Evaluation of the Performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 3," 2020, Journal of Climate
  • "On the Development of GFDL's Decadal Prediction System: Initialization Approaches and Retrospective Forecast Assessment," 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Evaluation and Bias Correction of the ERA5 Reanalysis over the United States for Wind and Solar Energy Applications," 2024, Energies
  • "Uncertainties in Ocean Latent Heat Flux Variations over Recent Decades in Satellite-Based Estimates and Reduced Observation Reanalyses," 2020, Journal of Climate
  • "Influence of warming and atmospheric circulation changes on multidecadal European flood variability," 2022, Climate of the Past

Best Publications

  • A Practical Guide to Wavelet Analysis.

    Christopher Torrence;Gilbert P. Compo

  • The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project

    Gilbert P Compo;Gilbert P Compo;J. S. Whitaker;Prashant D Sardeshmukh;Prashant D Sardeshmukh;N. Matsui;N. Matsui

  • Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis system

    Laura C. Slivinski;Laura C. Slivinski;Gilbert P. Compo;Gilbert P. Compo;Jeffrey S. Whitaker;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh

  • ENSO-Forced Variability of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

    Matthew Newman;Gilbert P. Compo;Michael A. Alexander

  • Feasibility of a 100-Year Reanalysis Using Only Surface Pressure Data

    Gilbert P. Compo;Jeffrey S. Whitaker;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh

  • Introduction to the SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) and overview of the reanalysis systems

    Masatomo Fujiwara;Jonathon S. Wright;Gloria L. Manney;Lesley J. Gray

  • Reanalysis without Radiosondes Using Ensemble Data Assimilation

    Jeffrey S. Whitaker;Gilbert P. Compo;Xue Wei;Thomas M. Hamill

  • An Evaluation of the Performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 3

    L. C. Slivinski;L. C. Slivinski;G. P. Compo;G. P. Compo;P. D. Sardeshmukh;P. D. Sardeshmukh;J. S. Whitaker

  • Changes of Probability Associated with El Niño

    Prashant D. Sardeshmukh;Gilbert P. Compo;Cécile Penland

  • The International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) Initiative

    Rob Allan;Philip Brohan;Gilbert P. Compo;Roger Stone

  • Removing ENSO-Related Variations from the Climate Record

    Gilbert P. Compo;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh

  • The International Surface Pressure Databank version 2

    Thomas A. Cram;Gilbert P. Compo;Gilbert P. Compo;Xungang Yin;Robert J. Allan

  • The horizontal and vertical structure of east Asian winter monsoon pressure surges

    Gilbert P. Compo;George N. Kiladis;Peter J. Webster

  • Trends and low frequency variability of extra-tropical cyclone activity in the ensemble of twentieth century reanalysis

    Xiaolan L. Wang;Y. Feng;G. P. Compo;G. P. Compo;V. R. Swail

  • The Asian monsoon, the tropospheric biennial oscillation, and the Indian Ocean zonal mode in the NCAR CSM

    Johannes Loschnigg;Gerald A. Meehl;Peter J. Webster;Julie M. Arblaster

  • Continental heat anomalies and the extreme melting of the Greenland ice surface in 2012 and 1889

    William Neff;William Neff;Gilbert P. Compo;Gilbert P. Compo;F. Martin Ralph;Matthew D. Shupe;Matthew D. Shupe

  • Oceanic influences on recent continental warming

    Gilbert P. Compo;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh

  • An ensemble of ocean reanalyses for 1815–2013 with sparse observational input

    Benjamin S. Giese;Howard F. Seidel;Gilbert P. Compo;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh

  • Need for Caution in Interpreting Extreme Weather Statistics

    Prashant D. Sardeshmukh;Gilbert P. Compo;Cécile Penland

  • A Comparison of Variational and Ensemble-Based Data Assimilation Systems for Reanalysis of Sparse Observations

    Jeffrey S. Whitaker;Gilbert P. Compo;Jean-Noël Thépaut

  • A roadmap to climate data rescue services

    Stefan Brönnimann;Stefan Brönnimann;Yuri Brugnara;Yuri Brugnara;Rob J. Allan;Manola Brunet

Frequent Co-Authors

Prashant D. Sardeshmukh
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Stefan Brönnimann
Stefan Brönnimann University of Bern
Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
Rob Allan
Rob Allan Met Office
Manola Brunet
Manola Brunet University of East Anglia
Xiaolan L. Wang
Xiaolan L. Wang Environment and Climate Change Canada
Russell S. Vose
Russell S. Vose National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Maurizio Maugeri
Maurizio Maugeri University of Milan
Jürg Luterbacher
Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen
Pavel Ya. Groisman
Pavel Ya. Groisman North Carolina State University

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