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103
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Michael E. Mann 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 Michael E. Mann sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 400 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael E. Mann 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 Michael E. Mann sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Michael E. Mann is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography as key subfields.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Michael E. Mann has contributed to numerous research papers, particularly in notable scientific journals. Recent publications include:

  • Climate change will affect global water availability through compounding changes in seasonal precipitation and evaporation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Climate change threatens terrestrial water storage over the Tibetan Plateau, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Past and future ocean warming, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Climate change will accelerate the high-end risk of compound drought and heatwave events, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors working with Michael E. Mann include Lijing Cheng, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Abraham, Jiang Zhu, and Shannon Christiansen.

The scientist commonly publishes in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Climate Change

Michael E. Mann has several book publications, including titles released by oekom verlag in 2024: Propagandaschlacht ums Klima; Wie wir die Anstifter klimapolitischer Untätigkeit besiegen and Moment der Entscheidung; Wie wir mit Lehren aus der Erdgeschichte die Klimakrise überleben können. Additionally, The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet was published in 2021 by Internet Archive.

Awards received by Michael E. Mann include membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2020 and being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly

    Michael E. Mann;Zhihua Zhang;Scott Rutherford;Raymond S. Bradley

  • Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries

    Michael E. Mann;Raymond S. Bradley;Malcolm K. Hughes

  • Northern Hemisphere Temperatures During the Past Millennium: Inferences, Uncertainties, and Limitations

    Michael E. Mann;Raymond S. Bradley;Malcolm K. Hughes

  • Advanced spectral methods for climatic time series

    Michael Ghil;M. R. Allen;M. D. Dettinger;Kayo Ide

  • Robust estimation of background noise and signal detection in climatic time series

    Michael E. Mann;Jonathan M. Lees

  • Proxy-based reconstructions of hemispheric and global surface temperature variations over the past two millennia

    Michael E. Mann;Zhihua Zhang;Malcolm K. Hughes;Raymond S. Bradley

  • Observed and simulated multidecadal variability in the Northern Hemisphere

    T. L. Delworth;M. E. Mann

  • A signature of persistent natural thermohaline circulation cycles in observed climate

    Jeff R. Knight;Robert J. Allan;Chris K. Folland;Michael Vellinga

  • Climate over past millennia

    P. D. Jones;M. E. Mann

  • Global surface temperatures over the past two millennia

    Michael E. Mann;Philip D. Jones

  • Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation

    Stefan Rahmstorf;Jason E. Box;Georg Feulner;Michael E. Mann

  • Climate change will affect global water availability through compounding changes in seasonal precipitation and evaporation.

    Goutam Konapala;Goutam Konapala;Ashok K. Mishra;Yoshihide Wada;Michael E. Mann

  • Solar Forcing of Regional Climate Change During the Maunder Minimum

    Drew T. Shindell;Gavin A. Schmidt;Michael E. Mann;David Rind

  • Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year

    Eric J. Steig;David P. Schneider;Scott D. Rutherford;Michael E. Mann

  • Atlantic hurricane trends linked to climate change

    Michael E. Mann;Kerry A. Emanuel

  • High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects:

    P.D. Jones;K.R. Briffa;T.J. Osborn;J.M. Lough

  • Little Ice Age

    Michael E Mann

  • Climate related sea-level variations over the past two millennia

    Andrew C. Kemp;Benjamin P. Horton;Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Michael E. Mann

  • The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science

    I. Allison;N. L. Bindoff;R. A. Bindschadler;P. M. Cox

  • Volcanic and Solar Forcing of the Tropical Pacific over the Past 1000 Years

    Michael E. Mann;Mark A. Cane;Stephen E. Zebiak;Amy Clement

Frequent Co-Authors

Malcolm K. Hughes
Malcolm K. Hughes University of Arizona
Stefan Rahmstorf
Stefan Rahmstorf Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Gavin A. Schmidt
Gavin A. Schmidt Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Raymond S. Bradley
Raymond S. Bradley University of Massachusetts Amherst
Drew T. Shindell
Drew T. Shindell Duke University
Caspar M. Ammann
Caspar M. Ammann National Center for Atmospheric Research
Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
Matthew H. England
Matthew H. England University of New South Wales
Hugues Goosse
Hugues Goosse Université Catholique de Louvain

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