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D-Index
56
Citations
16807
World Ranking
3573
National Ranking
1364

James A. Carton 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 James A. Carton sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 173 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

James A. Carton 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 James A. Carton sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

James A. Carton is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with additional work in Environmental Science. Within these fields, they concentrate on subfields such as Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science, among others.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate variability and models
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Among their recent publications are:

  • Remarkable 2023 North Atlantic Ocean Warming, 2025, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Record High Sea Surface Temperatures in 2023, 2024, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Trends and Variability in Earth's Energy Imbalance and Ocean Heat Uptake Since 2005, 2024, Surveys in Geophysics
  • Understanding Differences in Sea Surface Temperature Intercomparisons, 2023, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • GEOS-S2S Version 2: The GMAO High-Resolution Coupled Model and Assimilation System for Seasonal Prediction, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Their frequent coauthors include Eric Hackert, Boyin Huang, Ligang Chen, Garrett Graham, and Huai-Min Zhang. The scientist has published multiple papers in venues such as:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Modeling Earth Systems and Environment
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Best Publications

  • The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)

    William D. Collins;Cecilia M. Bitz;Maurice L. Blackmon;Gordon B. Bonan

  • A Reanalysis of Ocean Climate Using Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA)

    James A. Carton;Benjamin S. Giese

  • A Simple Ocean Data Assimilation Analysis of the Global Upper Ocean 1950–95. Part I: Methodology

    James A. Carton;Gennady Chepurin;Xianhe Cao;Benjamin Giese

  • SODA3: A New Ocean Climate Reanalysis

    James A. Carton;Gennady A. Chepurin;Ligang Chen

  • Tropical Atlantic Variability: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Impacts

    Shang-Ping Xie;James A. Carton

  • Satellite evidence of hurricane‐induced phytoplankton blooms in an oceanic desert

    S. M. Babin;J. A. Carton;T. D. Dickey;J. D. Wiggert

  • A verification framework for interannual-to-decadal predictions experiments

    L. Goddard;A. Kumar;A. Solomon;D. Smith

  • On the representation error in data assimilation

    T. Janjic;N. Bormann;M. Bocquet;J. A. Carton

  • Decadal and interannual SST variability in the tropical Atlantic Ocean

    James A. Carton;Xianhe Cao;Benjamin S. Giese;Arlindo M. Da Silva

  • A Simple Ocean Data Assimilation Analysis of the Global Upper Ocean 1950-95. Part II: Results

    James A. Carton;Gennady Chepurin;Xianhe Cao

  • Sea level rise and the warming of the oceans in the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) ocean reanalysis

    James A. Carton;Benjamin S. Giese;Semyon A. Grodsky

  • The Community Climate System Model: CCSM3

    W D Collins;M Blackmon;C Bitz;G Bonan

  • Warm Events in the Tropical Atlantic

    James A. Carton;Bohua Huang

  • Climate Fluctuations of Tropical Coupled Systems—The Role of Ocean Dynamics

    P. Chang;T. Yamagata;P. Schopf;S. K. Behera

  • A New Model of the Oceanic Evaporation Duct

    Steven M. Babin;George S. Young;James A. Carton

  • Structure of Interannual-to-Decadal Climate Variability in the Tropical Atlantic Sector

    Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas;James A. Carton;Sumant Nigam

  • Seasonal mixed layer heat budget of the tropical Atlantic Ocean

    Gregory R. Foltz;Semyon A. Grodsky;James A. Carton;Michael J. McPhaden

  • DISTINGUISHING THE ROLES OF NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENICALLY FORCED DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY Implications for Prediction

    Amy Solomon;Lisa M. Goddard;Arun Kumar;James Carton

  • Earth's climate : the ocean-atmosphere interaction

    Chunzai Wang;Shang-Ping Xie;James A. Carton

  • An assessment of ten ocean reanalyses in the polar regions

    Petteri Uotila;Hugues Goosse;Keith Haines;Matthieu Chevallier

  • Haline hurricane wake in the Amazon/Orinoco plume: AQUARIUS/SACD and SMOS observations

    Semyon A. Grodsky;Nicolas Reul;Gary Lagerloef;Gilles Reverdin

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin S. Giese
Benjamin S. Giese Texas A&M University
Sumant Nigam
Sumant Nigam University of Maryland, College Park
Eugenia Kalnay
Eugenia Kalnay University of Maryland, College Park
Bertrand Chapron
Bertrand Chapron French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Frank O. Bryan
Frank O. Bryan National Center for Atmospheric Research
Gary Lagerloef
Gary Lagerloef Science Applications International Corporation (United States)
Detlef Stammer
Detlef Stammer Universität Hamburg
Keith Haines
Keith Haines University of Reading
Ichiro Fukumori
Ichiro Fukumori California Institute of Technology
Magdalena Balmaseda
Magdalena Balmaseda European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

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