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H. Damon Matthews

H. Damon Matthews

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
55
Citations
19271
World Ranking
3763
National Ranking
156

Overview

H. Damon Matthews is affiliated with Concordia University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on global and planetary change. The scientist's work spans various interconnected subfields, including economics and econometrics, environmental engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, as well as sociology and political science.

Their research addresses multiple critical topics within the environmental sciences. These include climate change policy and economics, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, environmental impact and sustainability, global energy and sustainability research, climate variability and models, climate change and health impacts, and energy, environment, and transportation policies.

Matthews has published extensively, contributing to prominent academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Climate Change
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Biogeosciences
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Earth's Future

The scientist's recent papers highlight their involvement in climate change and carbon budget research. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Current global efforts are insufficient to limit warming to 1.5°C" (2022), published in Science
  • "Is there warming in the pipeline? A multi-model analysis of the Zero Emissions Commitment from CO 2" (2020), published in Biogeosciences
  • "An integrated approach to quantifying uncertainties in the remaining carbon budget" (2021), published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Opportunities and challenges in using remaining carbon budgets to guide climate policy" (2020), published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets" (2022), published in Nature Climate Change

Frequent collaborators in Matthews's research include Kirsten Zickfeld, Anders Bjørn, Shannon M. Lloyd, Joeri Rogelj, and Nadine Mengis. These coauthors have contributed repeatedly to projects and publications with Matthews, indicating ongoing collaborative research efforts within the climate and sustainability science community.

Best Publications

  • Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

    Pierre Friedlingstein;P. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Laurent Bopp

  • Future CO2 Emissions and Climate Change from Existing Energy Infrastructure

    Steven J. Davis;Ken Caldeira;H. Damon Matthews

  • The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions

    H. Damon Matthews;Nathan P. Gillett;Peter A. Stott;Kirsten Zickfeld

  • The UVic earth system climate model: Model description, climatology, and applications to past, present and future climates

    Andrew J. Weaver;Michael Eby;Edward C. Wiebe;Cecilia M. Bitz

  • Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

    Josep G. Canadell;Pedro M.S. Monteiro;Marcos H. Costa;Leticia Cotrim Da Cunha

  • Stabilizing climate requires near-zero emissions

    H. Damon Matthews;Ken Caldeira

  • Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C

    Richard J. Millar;Richard J. Millar;Jan S. Fuglestvedt;Pierre Friedlingstein;Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj

  • Current global efforts are insufficient to limit warming to 1.5°C

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  • Future changes in climate, ocean circulation, ecosystems, and biogeochemical cycling simulated for a business-as-usual CO2 emission scenario until year 4000 AD

    Andreas Schmittner;Andreas Oschlies;H. Damon Matthews;Eric D. Galbraith

  • Global cooling updates: Reflective roofs and pavements

    Hashem Akbari;H. Damon Matthews

  • Setting cumulative emissions targets to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Michael Eby;H. Damon Matthews;Andrew J. Weaver

  • Transient climate–carbon simulations of planetary geoengineering

    H. Damon Matthews;Ken Caldeira

  • Constraining the Ratio of Global Warming to Cumulative CO2 Emissions Using CMIP5 Simulations

    Nathan P. Gillett;Vivek K. Arora;Damon Matthews;Myles R. Allen

  • The role of land surface dynamics in glacial inception: a study with the UVic Earth System Model

    K. J. Meissner;A. J. Weaver;H. D. Matthews;P. M. Cox

  • Natural and anthropogenic climate change: incorporating historical land cover change, vegetation dynamics and the global carbon cycle

    H. D. Matthews;A. J. Weaver;K. J. Meissner;N. P. Gillett

  • A real-time Global Warming Index

    K. Haustein;M. R. Allen;M. R. Allen;P. M. Forster;F. E. L. Otto

  • The long-term effect of increasing the albedo of urban areas

    Hashem Akbari;H Damon Matthews;Donny Seto

  • Long-term climate commitments projected with climate-carbon cycle models

    G.-K. Plattner;R. Knutti;F. Joos;T.F. Stocker

  • Is there warming in the pipeline? A multi-model analysis of the Zero Emissions Commitment from CO 2

    Andrew H. MacDougall;Thomas L. Frölicher;Thomas L. Frölicher;Chris D. Jones;Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj

  • On the proportionality between global temperature change and cumulative CO2 emissions during periods of net negative CO2 emissions

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Andrew H MacDougall;H Damon Matthews

  • Radiative forcing of climate by historical land cover change

    H. Damon Matthews;Andrew J. Weaver;Michael Eby;Katrin J. Meissner

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirsten Zickfeld
Kirsten Zickfeld Simon Fraser University
Joeri Rogelj
Joeri Rogelj Imperial College London
Michael Eby
Michael Eby University of Victoria
Andrew J. Weaver
Andrew J. Weaver University of Victoria
Lawrence A. Mysak
Lawrence A. Mysak McGill University Health Centre
Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford
Piers M. Forster
Piers M. Forster University of Leeds
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Andreas Schmittner
Andreas Schmittner Oregon State University
Reto Knutti
Reto Knutti ETH Zurich

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