2026 Michael Ghil: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	89	608	574	16	16	455	34221

Research.com Recognitions

1998 - Member of Academia Europaea
1995 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
1991 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Michael Ghil is a researcher primarily affiliated with École Normale Supérieure in France. Their work spans multiple fields related to environmental and earth sciences, focusing extensively on climate variability and modeling.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Environmental Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields that figure prominently in their research are:

Global and Planetary Change
Atmospheric Science
Economics and Econometrics
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Computer Networks and Communications

The primary topics addressed by Michael Ghil cover:

Climate variability and models
Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Statistical and numerical algorithms

Among their recent publications are:

The physics of climate variability and climate change, 2020, Reviews of Modern Physics
Theoretical and paleoclimatic evidence for abrupt transitions in the Earth system, 2022, Environmental Research Letters
Evaluating the Performance of Climate Models Based on Wasserstein Distance, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
Orbital insolation variations, intrinsic climate variability, and Quaternary glaciations, 2022, Climate of the past
Dansgaard-Oeschger-like events of the penultimate climate cycle: the loess point of view, 2020, Climate of the past

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael Ghil include:

Denis-Didier Rousseau
Witold Bagniewski
Eviatar Bach
Denisse Sciamarella
Gisela D. Charó

Their publications are often found in the following venues:

Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Scientific Reports
Climate of the past

Michael Ghil has been recognized as a member of Academia Europaea since 1998, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 1995, and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation since 1991.

Best Publications

Advanced spectral methods for climatic time series

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

2649
Citations
Singular-spectrum analysis: a toolkit for short, noisy chaotic signals

Robert Vautard;Pascal Yiou;Michael Ghil

1966
Citations
Singular spectrum analysis in nonlinear dynamics, with applications to paleoclimatic time series

Robert Vautard;Michael Ghil

1618
Citations
Data assimilation in meteorology and oceanography

Michael Ghil;Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli

1259
Citations
Unified Notation for Data Assimilation : Operational, Sequential and Variational (gtSpecial IssueltData Assimilation in Meteology and Oceanography: Theory and Practice)

Kayo Ide;Philippe Courtier;Michael Ghil;Andrew C. Lorenc

1184
Citations
Interdecadal oscillations and the warming trend in global temperature time series

Michael Ghil;Robert Vautard

694
Citations
Topics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Atmospheric Dynamics, Dynamo Theory, and Climate Dynamics

Michael Ghil;Stephen Childress

670
Citations
El Niño on the Devil's Staircase: Annual Subharmonic Steps to Chaos

Fei-Fei Jin;J. David Neelin;Michael Ghil

625
Citations
Turbulence and predictability in geophysical fluid dynamics and climate dynamics

Michael Ghil;Roberto Benzi;Giorgio Parisi

605
Citations
Advanced data assimilation in strongly nonlinear dynamical systems

Robert N. Miller;Michael Ghil;Francois Gauthiez

542
Citations
Persistent Anomalies, Blocking and Variations in Atmospheric Predictability

B. Legras;Michael Ghil

540
Citations
Spatio-temporal filling of missing points in geophysical data sets

Dmitri Kondrashov;Michael Ghil;Michael Ghil

422
Citations
Cluster Analysis of Typhoon Tracks. Part I: General Properties

Suzana J. Camargo;Andrew W. Robertson;Scott J. Gaffney;Padhraic Smyth

404
Citations
Multiple Flow Regimes in the Northern Hemisphere Winter. Part I: Methodology and Hemispheric Regimes

Masahide Kimoto;Michael Ghil

397
Citations
Statistics and Dynamics of Persistent Anomalies

Kingtse C. Mo;Michael Ghil

392
Citations
The physics of climate variability and climate change

Michael Ghil;Valerio Lucarini

373
Citations
Cluster Analysis of Typhoon Tracks. Part II: Large-Scale Circulation and ENSO

Suzana J. Camargo;Andrew W. Robertson;Scott J. Gaffney;Padhraic Smyth

365
Citations
Trends, interdecadal and interannual oscillations in global sea-surface temperatures

Vincent Moron;Robert Vautard;Michael Ghil

346
Citations
Software expedites singular‐spectrum analysis of noisy time series

Michael D. Dettinger;Michael Ghil;Christopher M. Strong;William Weibel

336
Citations
Stochastic climate dynamics: Random attractors and time-dependent invariant measures

Mickaël D. Chekroun;Mickaël D. Chekroun;Eric Simonnet;Michael Ghil;Michael Ghil

314
Citations
Multiple Equilibria, Periodic, and Aperiodic Solutions in a Wind-Driven, Double-Gyre, Shallow-Water Model

Shi Jiang;Fei-fei Jin;Michael Ghil

301
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew W. Robertson Columbia University

Denis-Didier Rousseau University of Montpellier

Stéphane Hallegatte World Bank

Pascal Yiou French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

Yuri Shprits University of Potsdam

Marc Bocquet École des Ponts ParisTech

William M. Kaula University of California, Los Angeles

Eric Calais École Normale Supérieure

Padhraic Smyth University of California, Irvine

Henk A. Dijkstra Utrecht University

External Links

Personal website of Michael Ghil Google Scholar page

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