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46686
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1238
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Linda O. Mearns 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 Linda O. Mearns sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 197 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Linda O. Mearns 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 Linda O. Mearns sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Regional Climate Projections. Chapter 11

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

  • Regional climate projections

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

  • 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

  • Introduction to special section : Regional climate modeling revisited

    Filippo Giorgi;Linda O. Mearns

  • 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

  • Approaches to the simulation of regional climate change: A review

    Filippo Giorgi;Linda O. Mearns

  • Guidelines for Use of Climate Scenarios Developed from Statistical Downscaling Methods

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

  • 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

  • Climate Change and Forest Fire Potential in Russian and Canadian Boreal Forests

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

  • 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

  • Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A Regional Climate Change Assessment Program for North America

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

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

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

  • Fire as a fundamental ecological process: research advances and frontiers

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

  • 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

  • New Assessment Methods and the Characterisation of Future Conditions

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

  • Towards process-informed bias correction of climate change simulations

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

  • U.S. Agriculture and Climate Change: New Results

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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Filippo Giorgi
Filippo Giorgi International Centre for Theoretical Physics
William J. Gutowski
William J. Gutowski Iowa State University
Roger Jones
Roger Jones King's College London
Raymond W. Arritt
Raymond W. Arritt Iowa State University
William E. Easterling
William E. Easterling Pennsylvania State University
René Laprise
René Laprise University of Quebec at Montreal
Cynthia Rosenzweig
Cynthia Rosenzweig Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Daniel Caya
Daniel Caya University of Quebec at Montreal
Katharine Hayhoe
Katharine Hayhoe Texas Tech University

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