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Paul A. O'Gorman

Paul A. O'Gorman

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
46
Citations
13799
World Ranking
5945
National Ranking
2152

Paul A. O'Gorman 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 Paul A. O'Gorman sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 100 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paul A. O'Gorman 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 Paul A. O'Gorman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Paul A. O'Gorman is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their body of work spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Water Science and Technology, and Computational Mechanics.

Their research prominently focuses on topics such as Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Paul A. O'Gorman has authored several papers published in notable venues. Selected recent papers include:

  • Stable machine-learning parameterization of subgrid processes for climate modeling at a range of resolutions (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Towards advancing scientific knowledge of climate change impacts on short-duration rainfall extremes (2021), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • On the future zonal contrasts of equatorial Pacific climate: Perspectives from Observations, Simulations, and Theories (2022), published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Climate-invariant machine learning (2024), published in Science Advances
  • Response of Vertical Velocities in Extratropical Precipitation Extremes to Climate Change (2020), published in Journal of Climate

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Climate, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their work. Frequent coauthors include Janni Yuval, Tristan H. Abbott, Peidong Wang, Ziwei Li, and Andrew Williams, reflecting substantial research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • More extreme precipitation in the world’s dry and wet regions

    Markus G. Donat;Andrew L. Lowry;Lisa V. Alexander;Paul A. O’Gorman

  • The physical basis for increases in precipitation extremes in simulations of 21st-century climate change

    Paul Ambrose O'Gorman;Tapio Schneider

  • Understanding the regional pattern of projected future changes in extreme precipitation

    S. Pfahl;P. A. O’Gorman;E. M. Fischer

  • Precipitation Extremes Under Climate Change

    Paul A. O’Gorman

  • WATER VAPOR AND THE DYNAMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGES

    Tapio Schneider;Paul A. O'Gorman;Xavier J. Levine

  • Storm track processes and the opposing influences of climate change

    T. A. Shaw;M. Baldwin;E. A. Barnes;Rodrigo Caballero

  • Using Machine Learning to Parameterize Moist Convection: Potential for Modeling of Climate, Climate Change, and Extreme Events

    Paul A. O'Gorman;John G. Dwyer

  • Sensitivity of tropical precipitation extremes to climate change

    Paul Ambrose O'Gorman

  • The Response of Precipitation Minus Evapotranspiration to Climate Warming: Why the “Wet-Get-Wetter, Dry-Get-Drier” Scaling Does Not Hold over Land

    Michael P. Byrne;Paul Ambrose O'Gorman

  • Percentile indices for assessing changes in heavy precipitation events

    Christoph Schär;Nikolina Ban;Erich M. Fischer;Jan Rajczak

  • Trends in continental temperature and humidity directly linked to ocean warming.

    Michael Patrick Byrne;Paul O'Gorman

  • How closely do changes in surface and column water vapor follow Clausius-Clapeyron scaling in climate change simulations?

    P A O'Gorman;C J Muller

  • The Hydrological Cycle over a Wide Range of Climates Simulated with an Idealized GCM

    Paul A. O'Gorman;Tapio Schneider

  • Energetic constraints on precipitation under climate change

    Paul A. O’Gorman;Richard P. Allan;Michael P. Byrne;Michael Previdi

  • Relative humidity changes in a warmer climate

    Steven C. Sherwood;Steven C. Sherwood;William Ingram;William Ingram;Yoko Tsushima;Masaki Satoh;Masaki Satoh

  • Intensification of precipitation extremes with warming in a cloud resolving model

    Caroline Muller;Paul Ambrose O'Gorman;Larissa E. Back

  • Stable machine-learning parameterization of subgrid processes for climate modeling at a range of resolutions

    Janni Yuval;Paul A. O’Gorman

  • Contrasting responses of mean and extreme snowfall to climate change

    Paul Ambrose O'Gorman

  • Scaling of Precipitation Extremes over a Wide Range of Climates Simulated with an Idealized GCM

    Paul Ambrose O'Gorman;Tapio Schneider

  • An energetic perspective on the regional response of precipitation to climate change

    C. J. Muller;P. A. O’Gorman

  • Percentile indices for assessing changes in heavy precipitation events

    Christoph Schär;Nikolina Ban;Jan Rajczak;Jürg Schmidli

Frequent Co-Authors

Tapio Schneider
Tapio Schneider California Institute of Technology
Stephan Pfahl
Stephan Pfahl Freie Universität Berlin
William Ingram
William Ingram University of Oxford
Masaki Satoh
Masaki Satoh University of Tokyo
Steven C. Sherwood
Steven C. Sherwood University of New South Wales
D. I. Pullin
D. I. Pullin California Institute of Technology

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