2026 Linda O. Mearns: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	75	1238	532	197	46686

Overview

Linda O. Mearns was affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research predominantly focused on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions spanning global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and related subfields.

The research topics addressed by Linda O. Mearns included:

Climate variability and models
Meteorological phenomena and simulations
Cryospheric studies and observations
Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
Climate change and permafrost
Climate change impacts on agriculture
Demographic modeling and climate adaptation

Their work was published in various academic outlets, with frequent publications in:

Climatic Change
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
UNC Libraries
Earth's Future
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Among the recent papers they co-authored were:

"Regional climate change projections from NA-CORDEX and their relation to climate sensitivity," 2020, Climatic Change
"SSP-Based Land-Use Change Scenarios: A Critical Uncertainty in Future Regional Climate Change Projections," 2021, Earth's Future
"U.S. Extreme Precipitation Weather Types Increased in Frequency During the 20th Century," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
"An analysis of the disagreement about added value by regional climate models," 2020, Synthese
"Use-Inspired, Process-Oriented GCM Selection: Prioritizing Models for Regional Dynamical Downscaling," 2023, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Key frequent co-authors in Linda O. Mearns's work included:

Rao Kotamarthi
Katharine Hayhoe
Donald J. Wuebbles
Jennifer M. Jacobs
Jennifer Jurado

Linda O. Mearns contributed extensively to topics involving climate change modeling, regional climate projections, and the assessment of meteorological and environmental phenomena. Their research encompassed both theoretical and applied aspects of atmospheric and environmental sciences, including downscaling methods for climate models and the analysis of extreme weather events.

Best Publications

Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling, and Impacts

David R. Easterling;Gerald A. Meehl;Camille Parmesan;Stanley A. Changnon

5972
Citations
Regional Climate Projections. Chapter 11

J H Christensen;B Hewitson;A Busuioc;A Chen

5580
Citations
Regional climate projections

J. H. Christensen;B. Hewitson;A. Busuioc;A. Chen

5269
Citations
Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

3266
Citations
Introduction to special section : Regional climate modeling revisited

Filippo Giorgi;Linda O. Mearns

1395
Citations
The Importance of Land-Cover Change in Simulating Future Climates

Johannes J. Feddema;Johannes J. Feddema;Keith W. Oleson;Keith W. Oleson;Gordon B. Bonan;Gordon B. Bonan;Linda O. Mearns;Linda O. Mearns

1382
Citations
Approaches to the simulation of regional climate change: A review

Filippo Giorgi;Linda O. Mearns

1276
Citations
Guidelines for Use of Climate Scenarios Developed from Statistical Downscaling Methods

R. L. Wilby;S. P. Charles;E. Zorita;B. Timbal

1251
Citations
Calculation of average, uncertainty range, and reliability of regional climate changes from AOGCM simulations via the reliability ensemble averaging (REA) method

Filippo Giorgi;Linda O. Mearns

960
Citations
Climate Change and Forest Fire Potential in Russian and Canadian Boreal Forests

B. J. Stocks;M. A. Fosberg;T. J. Lynham;L. Mearns

930
Citations
Trends in Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Issues Related to Modeling Extremes in Projections of Future Climate Change

Gerald A. Meehl;Francis Zwiers;Jenni Evans;Thomas Knutson

851
Citations
Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections

F. Giorgi;J. Christensen;M. Hulme;H. von Storch

829
Citations
Quantifying Uncertainty in Projections of Regional Climate Change: A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Multimodel Ensembles

Claudia Tebaldi;Richard L. Smith;Doug Nychka;Linda O. Mearns

779
Citations
An Introduction to Trends in Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Observations, Socioeconomic Impacts, Terrestrial Ecological Impacts, and Model Projections*

Gerald A. Meehl;Thomas Karl;David R. Easterling;Stanley Changnon

775
Citations
A Regional Climate Change Assessment Program for North America

Linda O. Mearns;William Gutowski;Richard Jones;Ruby Leung

686
Citations
Extreme High-Temperature Events: Changes in their probabilities with Changes in Mean Temperature

Linda O. Mearns;Richard W. Katz;Stephen H. Schneider

680
Citations
Fire as a fundamental ecological process: research advances and frontiers

Kendra K. McLauchlan;Philip E. Higuera;Jessica Miesel;Brendan M. Rogers

653
Citations
Case study of the effects of atmospheric aerosols and regional haze on agriculture: an opportunity to enhance crop yields in China through emission controls?

W. L. Chameides;H. Yu;S. C. Liu;M. Bergin

631
Citations
New Assessment Methods and the Characterisation of Future Conditions

T. R. Carter;R. N. Jones;X. Lu;S. Bhadwal

617
Citations
Towards process-informed bias correction of climate change simulations

Douglas Maraun;Theodore G. Shepherd;Martin Widmann;Giuseppe Zappa

556
Citations
U.S. Agriculture and Climate Change: New Results

J. Reilly;F. Tubiello;B. McCarl;D. Abler

550
Citations
The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program: Overview of Phase I Results

Linda O. Mearns;Ray Arritt;Sébastien Biner;Melissa S. Bukovsky

550
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Filippo Giorgi International Centre for Theoretical Physics

William J. Gutowski Iowa State University

Roger Jones King's College London

Raymond W. Arritt Iowa State University

William E. Easterling Pennsylvania State University

René Laprise University of Quebec at Montreal

Cynthia Rosenzweig Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Richard G. Jones Met Office

Daniel Caya University of Quebec at Montreal

Katharine Hayhoe Texas Tech University

External Links

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