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Michael Ghil 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 Ghil sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 455 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Michael Ghil 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 Ghil sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 89 D-Index — 94th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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

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

    Robert Vautard;Pascal Yiou;Michael Ghil

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

    Robert Vautard;Michael Ghil

  • Data assimilation in meteorology and oceanography

    Michael Ghil;Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli

  • 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

  • Interdecadal oscillations and the warming trend in global temperature time series

    Michael Ghil;Robert Vautard

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

    Michael Ghil;Stephen Childress

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

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

  • Turbulence and predictability in geophysical fluid dynamics and climate dynamics

    Michael Ghil;Roberto Benzi;Giorgio Parisi

  • Advanced data assimilation in strongly nonlinear dynamical systems

    Robert N. Miller;Michael Ghil;Francois Gauthiez

  • Persistent Anomalies, Blocking and Variations in Atmospheric Predictability

    B. Legras;Michael Ghil

  • Spatio-temporal filling of missing points in geophysical data sets

    Dmitri Kondrashov;Michael Ghil;Michael Ghil

  • Cluster Analysis of Typhoon Tracks. Part I: General Properties

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

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

    Masahide Kimoto;Michael Ghil

  • Statistics and Dynamics of Persistent Anomalies

    Kingtse C. Mo;Michael Ghil

  • The physics of climate variability and climate change

    Michael Ghil;Valerio Lucarini

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

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

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

    Vincent Moron;Robert Vautard;Michael Ghil

  • Software expedites singular‐spectrum analysis of noisy time series

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

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

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

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

    Shi Jiang;Fei-fei Jin;Michael Ghil

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew W. Robertson
Andrew W. Robertson Columbia University
Denis-Didier Rousseau
Denis-Didier Rousseau University of Montpellier
Pascal Yiou
Pascal Yiou French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Yuri Shprits
Yuri Shprits University of Potsdam
Marc Bocquet
Marc Bocquet École des Ponts ParisTech
William M. Kaula
William M. Kaula University of California, Los Angeles
Eric Calais
Eric Calais École Normale Supérieure
Padhraic Smyth
Padhraic Smyth University of California, Irvine
Henk A. Dijkstra
Henk A. Dijkstra Utrecht University

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