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Graeme L. Stephens

Graeme L. Stephens

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
102
Citations
40812
World Ranking
328
National Ranking
147

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For elucidation of Earth's cloud system and radiation balance.
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2003 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Graeme L. Stephens is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans several key areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, totaling over 50 publications in each field.

Their work primarily focuses on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Aerospace Engineering. The main topics addressed in their research are:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Graeme L. Stephens include:

  • "Ambitious partnership needed for reliable climate prediction," 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • "The future of Earth system prediction: Advances in model-data fusion," 2022, Science Advances
  • "Earth's water reservoirs in a changing climate," 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "An Overview of CMIP5 and CMIP6 Simulated Cloud Ice, Radiation Fields, Surface Wind Stress, Sea Surface Temperatures, and Precipitation Over Tropical and Subtropical Oceans," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Revisiting the Land-Ocean Contrasts in Deep Convective Cloud Intensity Using Global Satellite Observations," 2023, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent publication venues for Stephens include:

  • Environmental Research Communications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Surveys in Geophysics
  • Nature Climate Change

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Graeme L. Stephens are:

  • Jonathan H. Jiang
  • Wei-Liang Lee
  • Jia-Yuh Yu
  • Kuan-Man Xu
  • Eric J. Fetzer

Awards and recognitions received by Stephens include:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2018
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2015, for elucidation of Earth's cloud system and radiation balance
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2005
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2003

Best Publications

  • The CloudSat mission and the A-train: a new dimension of space-based observations of clouds and precipitation

    Graeme L. Stephens;Deborah G. Vane;Ronald J. Boain;Gerald G. Mace

  • Cloud Feedbacks in the Climate System: A Critical Review

    Graeme L. Stephens

  • Radiation Profiles in Extended Water Clouds. II: Parameterization Schemes

    G. L. Stephens

  • An update on Earth's energy balance in light of the latest global observations

    Graeme L. Stephens;Juilin Li;Martin Wild;Carol Anne Clayson

  • CloudSat mission: Performance and early science after the first year of operation

    Graeme L. Stephens;Deborah G. Vane;Simone Tanelli;Eastwood Im

  • The future of evapotranspiration: global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources.

    Joshua B. Fisher;Forrest S. Melton;Elizabeth M. Middleton;Christopher Hain;Christopher Hain

  • The Relevance of the Microphysical and Radiative Properties of Cirrus Clouds to Climate and Climatic Feedback

    Graeme L. Stephens;Si-Chee Tsay;Paul W. Stackhouse;Piotr J. Flatau

  • Improving our fundamental understanding of the role of aerosol−cloud interactions in the climate system

    John H. Seinfeld;Christopher Bretherton;Kenneth S. Carslaw;Hugh Coe

  • The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

    D Crisp;RM Atlas;FM Breon;LR Brown

  • Dreary state of precipitation in global models

    Graeme L. Stephens;Tristan L'Ecuyer;Richard Forbes;Andrew Gettelmen

  • Hydrometeor Detection Using Cloudsat—An Earth-Orbiting 94-GHz Cloud Radar

    Roger Marchand;Gerald G. Mace;Thomas Ackerman;Graeme Stephens

  • Radiation Profiles in Extended Water Clouds. I: Theory

    G. L. Stephens

  • A description of hydrometeor layer occurrence statistics derived from the first year of merged Cloudsat and CALIPSO data

    Gerald G. Mace;Qiuqing Zhang;Mark Vaughan;Roger Marchand

  • Ch. 2: Our Changing Climate. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment

    J. Walsh;D. Wuebbles;K. Hayhoe;J. Kossin

  • A new global water vapor dataset

    David L. Randel;Thomas J. Greenwald;Thomas H. Vonder Haar;Graeme L. Stephens

  • A new polarized atmospheric radiative transfer model

    K.F. Evans;G.L. Stephens

  • The Parameterization of Radiation for Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Models

    Graeme L. Stephens

  • Cloud ice: A climate model challenge with signs and expectations of progress

    Duane E. Waliser;Jui-Lin F. Li;Christopher P. Woods;Richard T. Austin

  • Rainfall retrieval over the ocean with spaceborne W‐band radar

    John Matthew Haynes;Tristan S L'Ecuyer;Graeme L Stephens;Steven D Miller

  • The contribution of cloud and radiation anomalies to the 2007 Arctic sea ice extent minimum

    Jennifer E. Kay;Jennifer E. Kay;Tristan L'Ecuyer;Andrew Gettelman;Graeme Stephens

  • Evaluation of cloud and water vapor simulations in CMIP5 climate models using NASA “A-Train” satellite observations

    Jonathan H. Jiang;Hui Su;Chengxing Zhai;Vincent S. Perun

Frequent Co-Authors

Tristan L'Ecuyer
Tristan L'Ecuyer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Matthew Lebsock
Matthew Lebsock Jet Propulsion Lab
Kentaroh Suzuki
Kentaroh Suzuki University of Tokyo
Jonathan H. Jiang
Jonathan H. Jiang California Institute of Technology
Jim Haywood
Jim Haywood University of Exeter
Steven D. Miller
Steven D. Miller Colorado State University
Takashi Nakajima
Takashi Nakajima Tokai University
Armin Sorooshian
Armin Sorooshian University of Arizona
Duane E. Waliser
Duane E. Waliser Jet Propulsion Lab
Ali Behrangi
Ali Behrangi University of Arizona

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