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1457
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Karl E. Taylor 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 Karl E. Taylor sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 191 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Karl E. Taylor 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 Karl E. Taylor sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Karl E. Taylor is affiliated with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States. Their research activity spans multiple aspects of environmental and earth sciences, with a focus on climate-related studies.

The scientist's work is prominently situated within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their studies delve into several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Information Systems and Management, Plant Science, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

Within these areas, Taylor has contributed to topics such as Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Plant responses to elevated CO2, and NMR spectroscopy and applications.

Taylor's publications have appeared frequently in these venues:

  • Geoscientific model development
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Science Advances
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Recent papers associated with Taylor include:

  • Causes of Higher Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6 Models, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Context for interpreting equilibrium climate sensitivity and transient climate response from the CMIP6 Earth system models, 2020, Science Advances
  • The CMIP6 Data Request (DREQ, version 01.00.31), 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • Exceptional stratospheric contribution to human fingerprints on atmospheric temperature, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Documenting numerical experiments in support of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), 2020, Geoscientific model development

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Taylor include:

  • Paul J. Durack
  • Martin Juckes
  • Matthew Mizielinski
  • Mark D. Zelinka
  • Peter J. Gleckler

Best Publications

  • An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design

    Karl E. Taylor;Ronald J. Stouffer;Gerald A. Meehl

  • Overview of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) experimental design and organization

    Veronika Eyring;Sandrine Bony;Gerald A. Meehl;Catherine A. Senior

  • Summarizing multiple aspects of model performance in a single diagram

    Karl E. Taylor

  • THE WCRP CMIP3 Multimodel Dataset: A New Era in Climate Change Research

    Gerald A. Meehl;Curt Covey;Thomas Delworth;Mojib Latif

  • Causes of Higher Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6 Models

    Mark D. Zelinka;Timothy A. Myers;Daniel T. McCoy;Stephen Po‐Chedley

  • Performance metrics for climate models

    P. J. Gleckler;K. E. Taylor;C. Doutriaux

  • Intercomparison and interpretation of climate feedback processes in 19 atmospheric general circulation models

    R. D. Cess;G. L. Potter;J. P. Blanchet;G. J. Boer

  • Physics of Climate

    José P. Peixoto;Abraham H. Oort;Curt Covey;Karl Taylor

  • An Overview of the Results of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP I)

    W. Lawrence Gates;James S. Boyle;Curt Covey;Clyde G. Dease

  • Forcing, feedbacks and climate sensitivity in CMIP5 coupled atmosphere-ocean climate models

    Timothy Andrews;Jonathan M. Gregory;Jonathan M. Gregory;Mark J. Webb;Karl E. Taylor

  • Interpretation of Cloud-Climate Feedback as Produced by 14 Atmospheric General Circulation Models

    R. D. Cess;G. L. Potter;J. P. Blanchet;G. J. Boer

  • Statistical significance of trends and trend differences in layer-average atmospheric temperature time series

    B. D. Santer;T. M. L. Wigley;J. S. Boyle;D. J. Gaffen

  • Context for interpreting equilibrium climate sensitivity and transient climate response from the CMIP6 Earth system models.

    Gerald A. Meehl;Catherine A. Senior;Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Gregory Flato

  • A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere

    B. D. Santer;K. E. Taylor;T. M. L. Wigley;T. C. Johns

  • Contributions of Anthropogenic and Natural Forcing to Recent Tropopause Height Changes

    B. D. Santer;M. F. Wehner;T. M. L. Wigley;R. Sausen

  • A Summary of the CMIP5 Experiment Design

    Karl E. Taylor;Ronald J. Stouffer;Gerald A. Meehl;Peter Cox

  • Volcanic contribution to decadal changes in tropospheric temperature

    Benjamin D. Santer;Céline Bonfils;Jeffrey F. Painter;Mark D. Zelinka

  • An overview of results from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project

    Curt Covey;Krishna M. AchutaRao;Ulrich Cubasch;Phil Jones

  • Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)

    S. Joussaume;K. E. Taylor;P. Braconnot;J. F.B. Mitchell

  • The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)

    Ben Kravitz;Alan Robock;Olivier Boucher;Hauke Schmidt

  • Overview of the Coupled MOdel Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) Experimental Design and Organization

    Eyring;S Bony;G A Meehl;C A Senior

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin D. Santer
Benjamin D. Santer Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Peter J. Gleckler
Peter J. Gleckler Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Gerald A. Meehl
Gerald A. Meehl National Center for Atmospheric Research
Tom M. L. Wigley
Tom M. L. Wigley University of Adelaide
Jonathan M. Gregory
Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading
Veronika Eyring
Veronika Eyring University of Bremen
Michael F. Wehner
Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
James S. Boyle
James S. Boyle Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Ronald J. Stouffer
Ronald J. Stouffer University of Arizona
Mark D. Zelinka
Mark D. Zelinka Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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