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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2011 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  • 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1995 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Isaac M. Held is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography. Additional areas of study include Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main research topics covered by their work include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements.

Isaac M. Held has authored numerous papers published in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication sources include:

  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (10 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (6 publications)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (3 publications)
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2 publications)
  • Nature Geoscience (1 publication)

Their notable recent publications include:

  • "The GFDL Earth System Model Version 4.1 (GFDL-ESM 4.1): Overall Coupled Model Description and Simulation Characteristics," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Projections of tropical heat stress constrained by atmospheric dynamics," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "Large-scale control on the frequency of tropical cyclones and seeds: a consistent relationship across a hierarchy of global atmospheric models," 2020, Climate Dynamics
  • "Climate Sensitivity of GFDL's CM4.0," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Manabe's Radiative-Convective Equilibrium," 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Isaac M. Held has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Pablo Zurita-Gotor (10 joint publications)
  • John P. Dunne (6 joint publications)
  • Alistair Adcroft (6 joint publications)
  • John P. Krasting (6 joint publications)
  • Elena Shevliakova (6 joint publications)

Throughout their career, Isaac M. Held has received several recognitions, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020
  • BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2011
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2003
  • Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 1995

Best Publications

  • Regional Climate Projections. Chapter 11

    J H Christensen;B Hewitson;A Busuioc;A Chen

  • Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming

    Isaac M. Held;Brian J. Soden

  • Tropical cyclones and climate change

    Thomas R. Knutson;John L. McBride;Johnny Chan;Kerry Emanuel

  • Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America

    Richard Seager;Mingfang Ting;Isaac Held;Isaac Held;Yochanan Kushnir

  • GFDL's CM2 global coupled climate models. Part I: Formulation and simulation characteristics

    Thomas L. Delworth;Anthony J. Broccoli;Anthony Rosati;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • Water vapor feedback and global warming

    Isaac M. Held;Brian J. Soden

  • An Assessment of Climate Feedbacks in Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Models

    Brian J. Soden;Isaac M. Held

  • Modeled Impact of Anthropogenic Warming on the Frequency of Intense Atlantic Hurricanes

    Morris A. Bender;Thomas R. Knutson;Robert E. Tuleya;Joseph J. Sirutis

  • Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing

    Gabriel A. Vecchi;Brian J. Soden;Andrew T. Wittenberg;Isaac M. Held

  • The dynamical core, physical parameterizations, and basic simulation characteristics of the atmospheric component AM3 of the GFDL global coupled model CM3

    Leo J. Donner;Bruce L. Wyman;Richard S. Hemler;Larry W. Horowitz

  • A proposal for the intercomparison of the dynamical cores of atmospheric general circulation models

    Isaac M. Held;Max J. Suarez

  • Nonlinear axially symmetric circulations in a nearly inviscid atmosphere

    Isaac M. Held;Arthur Y. Hou

  • Modeling Tropical Convergence Based on the Moist Static Energy Budget

    J. David Neelin;Isaac M. Held

  • The GFDL Earth System Model Version 4.1 (GFDL-ESM 4.1): Overall Coupled Model Description and Simulation Characteristics

    J. P. Dunne;L. W. Horowitz;A. J. Adcroft;P. Ginoux

  • Quantifying Climate Feedbacks Using Radiative Kernels

    Brian J. Soden;Isaac M. Held;Robert C. Colman;Karen M. Shell

  • Simulations of Global Hurricane Climatology, Interannual Variability, and Response to Global Warming Using a 50-km Resolution GCM

    Ming Zhao;Isaac M. Held;Shian Jiann Lin;Gabriel Andres Vecchi

  • The Response of the ITCZ to Extratropical Thermal Forcing: Idealized Slab-Ocean Experiments with a GCM

    Sarah M. Kang;Isaac M. Held;Dargan M. W. Frierson;Ming Zhao

  • The Gap between Simulation and Understanding in Climate Modeling

    Isaac M. Held

  • Surface quasi-geostrophic dynamics

    Isaac M. Held;Raymond T. Pierrehumbert;Stephen T. Garner;Kyle L. Swanson

  • Evaporation-Wind Feedback and Low-Frequency Variability in the Tropical Atmosphere

    J. David Neelin;Isaac M. Held;Kerry H. Cook

  • Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in

    Richard Seager;Mingfang Ting;Isaac Held;Yochanan Kushnir

Frequent Co-Authors

Ming Zhao
Ming Zhao Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Thomas R. Knutson
Thomas R. Knutson Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Gabriel A. Vecchi
Gabriel A. Vecchi Princeton University
Michael Winton
Michael Winton Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Yi Ming
Yi Ming Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Thomas L. Delworth
Thomas L. Delworth Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Brian J. Soden
Brian J. Soden University of Miami
John P. Dunne
John P. Dunne Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Larry W. Horowitz
Larry W. Horowitz Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

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