2026 Jason E. Smerdon: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	58	3212	3074	1240	1150	216	17125

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

1643
Citations
Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

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

1077
Citations
Global warming and 21st century drying

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

1027
Citations
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

948
Citations
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

907
Citations
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021

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857
Citations
Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012–2014

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

638
Citations
European summer temperatures since Roman times

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

476
Citations
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

388
Citations
Detection of Human Influence on a New, Validated 1500-Year Temperature Reconstruction

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

347
Citations
Twentieth-century hydroclimate changes consistent with human influence

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

315
Citations
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

308
Citations
A reconstruction of global hydroclimate and dynamical variables over the Common Era

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

272
Citations
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

269
Citations
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

242
Citations
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

235
Citations
Climate models as a test bed for climate reconstruction methods: pseudoproxy experiments

Jason E. Smerdon

220
Citations
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

217
Citations
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

211
Citations
North American megadroughts in the Common Era: reconstructions and simulations

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

187
Citations
Pan-Continental Droughts in North America over the Last Millennium

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

176
Citations
Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012-2015

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

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin I. Cook Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Richard Seager Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Hugo Beltrami St. Francis Xavier University

Justin S. Mankin Dartmouth College

Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

A. Park Williams Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Henry N. Pollack University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Kevin J. Anchukaitis University of Arizona

Eduardo Zorita Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research

Toby R. Ault Cornell University

External Links

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