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2026
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2023

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
103
Citations
53481
World Ranking
229
National Ranking
96

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award

Overview

Ken Caldeira is affiliated with the Carnegie Institution for Science in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with significant contributions to subfields such as electrical and electronic engineering, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, energy engineering and power technology, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist's work spans a range of topics including integrated energy systems optimization, hybrid renewable energy systems, climate change policy and economics, energy and environment impacts, climate variability and models, energy, environment, and transportation policies, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Ken Caldeira has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • iScience
  • Advances in Applied Energy
  • Communications Earth & Environment

Among the notable papers authored or coauthored by Caldeira are:

  • "Role of Long-Duration Energy Storage in Variable Renewable Electricity Systems," 2020, Joule
  • "Geophysical constraints on the reliability of solar and wind power worldwide," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Global land and water limits to electrolytic hydrogen production using wind and solar resources," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "The role of concentrated solar power with thermal energy storage in least-cost highly reliable electricity systems fully powered by variable renewable energy," 2022, Advances in Applied Energy
  • "Stylized least-cost analysis of flexible nuclear power in deeply decarbonized electricity systems considering wind and solar resources worldwide," 2022, Nature Energy

Frequent collaborators with Ken Caldeira include Lei Duan, Steven J. Davis, Tyler Ruggles, Govindasamy Bala, and Nathan S. Lewis. The collaboration counts indicate repeated coauthorship, reflecting ongoing partnerships in research.

Best Publications

  • Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;P. J. Mumby;A. J. Hooten;Robert S. Steneck

  • Oceanography: anthropogenic carbon and ocean pH.

    Ken Caldeira;Michael E. Wickett

  • Net-Zero Emissions Energy Systems

    Steven J Davis;Nathan S. Lewis;Matthew Shaner;Sonia Aggarwal

  • Consumption-based accounting of CO2 emissions

    Steven J. Davis;Ken Caldeira

  • Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet

    Martin I. Hoffert;Ken Caldeira;Gregory Benford;David R. Criswell

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • Future CO2 Emissions and Climate Change from Existing Energy Infrastructure

    Steven J. Davis;Ken Caldeira;H. Damon Matthews

  • Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide

    J Raven;K Caldeira;H Elderfield;O Hoegh-Guldberg

  • Ocean model predictions of chemistry changes from carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere and ocean

    Ken Caldeira;Michael E. Wickett

  • Combined climate and carbon-cycle effects of large-scale deforestation.

    G. Bala;K. Caldeira;M. Wickett;T. J. Phillips

  • Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide

    David Archer;Michael Eby;Victor Brovkin;Andy Ridgwell

  • Energy implications of future stabilization of atmospheric CO2 content

    Martin I. Hoffert;Ken Caldeira;Atul K. Jain;Erik F. Haites

  • Country-level social cost of carbon

    Katharine Ricke;Laurent Drouet;Ken Caldeira;Massimo Tavoni;Massimo Tavoni

  • Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5 °C climate target

    Dan Tong;Dan Tong;Qiang Zhang;Yixuan Zheng;Yixuan Zheng;Ken Caldeira

  • Stabilizing climate requires near-zero emissions

    H. Damon Matthews;Ken Caldeira

  • The supply chain of CO2 emissions.

    Steven J. Davis;Glen P. Peters;Ken Caldeira

  • Historical trends in the jet streams

    Cristina L. Archer;Ken Caldeira

  • Seasonal rhythms of net primary production and particulate organic carbon flux to depth describe the efficiency of biological pump in the global ocean

    Michael J. Lutz;Ken Caldeira;Robert B. Dunbar;Michael J. Behrenfeld

  • Role of Long-Duration Energy Storage in Variable Renewable Electricity Systems

    Jacqueline A. Dowling;Katherine Z. Rinaldi;Tyler H. Ruggles;Steven J. Davis

  • Protecting climate with forests

    Robert B. Jackson;James T. Randerson;Josep G. Canadell;Ray G. Anderson

  • Coral reefs may start dissolving when atmospheric CO2 doubles

    Jacob Silverman;Jacob Silverman;Boaz Lazar;Long Cao;Ken Caldeira

  • Transient climate–carbon simulations of planetary geoengineering

    H. Damon Matthews;Ken Caldeira

  • Climate Sensitivity Uncertainty and the Need for Energy Without CO2 Emission

    Ken Caldeira;Atul K. Jain;Martin I. Hoffert

  • Anthropogenic carbon and ocean pH

    K. Caldeira;M. E. Wickett;P. B. Duffy;J. P. Barry

  • Committed Emissions from Existing Energy Infrastructure Jeopardize 1.5 °C Climate Target

    S. J. Davis;D. Tong;Z. Qiang;Y. Zheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Govindasamy Bala
Govindasamy Bala Indian Institute of Science
Roderick A. Hyde
Roderick A. Hyde Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Steven J. Davis
Steven J. Davis Stanford University
Jordin T. Kare
Jordin T. Kare Microsoft (United States)
Clarence T. Tegreene
Clarence T. Tegreene Microsoft (United States)
Charles Whitmer
Charles Whitmer Microsoft (United States)
Michael R. Rampino
Michael R. Rampino New York University
John Latham
John Latham University of Manchester
James C. Orr
James C. Orr French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Victoria Y. H. Wood
Victoria Y. H. Wood Microsoft (United States)

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