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58
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3212
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Jason E. Smerdon 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 Jason E. Smerdon sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 216 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jason E. Smerdon 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 Jason E. Smerdon sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jason E. Smerdon is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences, with a significant emphasis on global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science.

Their work spans several key topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Hydrology and drought analysis
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations

Smerdon has contributed multiple publications to prominent scientific journals. Frequently publishing venues include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Earth's Future
  • Climate of the Past
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Smerdon are:

  • Twenty-First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios, 2020, Earth's Future
  • Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought, 2020, Science
  • Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020-2021, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Six hundred years of South American tree rings reveal an increase in severe hydroclimatic events since mid-20th century, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Benjamin I. Cook
  • Park Williams
  • Richard Seager
  • Nathan Steiger
  • Justin Mankin

The body of Smerdon's work mainly covers analysis and projections related to drought, megadrought phenomena, and hydroclimatic events, integrating climate modeling and paleoclimate data such as tree-ring records to address environmental variability.

Best Publications

  • Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains

    Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook;Toby R. Ault;Jason E. Smerdon

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • Global warming and 21st century drying

    Benjamin I. Cook;Jason E. Smerdon;Richard Seager;Sloan John Coats

  • Twenty-First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios

    B. I. Cook;B. I. Cook;J. S. Mankin;J. S. Mankin;K. Marvel;K. Marvel;A. P. Williams

  • Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought.

    A. Park Williams;Edward R. Cook;Jason E. Smerdon;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook

  • Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021

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  • Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012–2014

    A. Park Williams;Richard Seager;John T. Abatzoglou;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook

  • European summer temperatures since Roman times

    J. Luterbacher;J.P. Werner;J.E. Smerdon;L. Fernández-Donado

  • Multidecadal variability in East African hydroclimate controlled by the Indian Ocean

    Jessica E. Tierney;Jason E. Smerdon;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Richard Seager

  • Detection of Human Influence on a New, Validated 1500-Year Temperature Reconstruction

    Gabriele C. Hegerl;Thomas J. Crowley;Myles Allen;William T. Hyde

  • Twentieth-century hydroclimate changes consistent with human influence

    Kate Marvel;Kate Marvel;Benjamin I. Cook;Céline J. W. Bonfils;Paul J. Durack

  • Projected drought risk in 1.5°C and 2°C warmer climates

    Flavio Lehner;Sloan John Coats;Thomas F. Stocker;Thomas F. Stocker;Angeline G. Pendergrass

  • A reconstruction of global hydroclimate and dynamical variables over the Common Era

    Nathan J. Steiger;Jason E. Smerdon;Edward R. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook

  • The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 3: The last millennium, scientific objective, and experimental design for the PMIP4 past1000 simulations

    Johann H. Jungclaus;Edouard Bard;Mélanie Baroni;Pascale Braconnot

  • Relative impacts of mitigation, temperature, and precipitation on 21st-century megadrought risk in the American Southwest.

    Toby R. Ault;Justin S. Mankin;Benjamin I. Cook;Jason E. Smerdon

  • Revising midlatitude summer temperatures back to A.D. 600 based on a wood density network

    Lea Schneider;Jason E. Smerdon;Ulf Büntgen;Rob J. S. Wilson;Rob J. S. Wilson

  • Climate models as a test bed for climate reconstruction methods: pseudoproxy experiments

    Jason E. Smerdon

  • Mid-Latitude Freshwater Availability Reduced by Projected Vegetation Responses to Climate Change

    Justin S. Mankin;Justin S. Mankin;Richard Seager;Jason E. Smerdon;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook

  • Six hundred years of South American tree rings reveal an increase in severe hydroclimatic events since mid-20th century.

    Mariano S Morales;Edward R Cook;Jonathan Barichivich;Jonathan Barichivich;Duncan A Christie

  • North American megadroughts in the Common Era: reconstructions and simulations

    Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook;Edward R. Cook;Jason E. Smerdon;Richard Seager

  • Pan-Continental Droughts in North America over the Last Millennium

    Benjamin I. Cook;Jason E. Smerdon;Richard Seager;Edward R. Cook

  • Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012-2015

    P. Williams;R. Seager;J. T. Abatzoglou;B. Cook

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin I. Cook
Benjamin I. Cook Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Richard Seager
Richard Seager Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Hugo Beltrami
Hugo Beltrami St. Francis Xavier University
Justin S. Mankin
Justin S. Mankin Dartmouth College
Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
A. Park Williams
A. Park Williams Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Henry N. Pollack
Henry N. Pollack University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kevin J. Anchukaitis
Kevin J. Anchukaitis University of Arizona
Eduardo Zorita
Eduardo Zorita Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Toby R. Ault
Toby R. Ault Cornell University

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