2026 Raymond T. Pierrehumbert: 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	74	1328	1260	108	104	232	22868

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2006 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
1996 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Raymond T. Pierrehumbert is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within physics and astronomy, as well as earth and planetary sciences, reflecting a broad interdisciplinary engagement.

Their primary fields of study include:

Physics and Astronomy
Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, their work focuses on several subfields such as:

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Atmospheric Science
Geophysics
Global and Planetary Change
Instrumentation

Key topics explored in their publications cover:

Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Astro and Planetary Science
Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
High-pressure geophysics and materials

Their research output includes numerous papers published in prominent scientific journals. Frequent publication venues consist of:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Astrophysical Journal
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Journal of Geophysical Research Planets

Selected recent papers exemplify the diversity of their work:

"Agriculture's Contribution to Climate Change and Role in Mitigation Is Distinct From Predominantly Fossil CO2-Emitting Sectors" (2021), published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
"Demonstrating GWP*: a means of reporting warming-equivalent emissions that captures the contrasting impacts of short- and long-lived climate pollutants" (2020), published in Environmental Research Letters
"Indicate separate contributions of long-lived and short-lived greenhouse gases in emission targets" (2022), published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
"Vertically Resolved Magma Ocean-Protoatmosphere Evolution: H₂, H₂O, CO₂, CH₄, CO, O₂, and N₂ as Primary Absorbers" (2021), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
"K2 and Spitzer phase curves of the rocky ultra-short-period planet K2-141 b hint at a tenuous rock vapor atmosphere" (2022), published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Collaborations are an integral part of their research, with frequent co-authors including:

Tim Lichtenberg
Shang-Min Tsai
Mark Hammond
Vivien Parmentier
Xianyu Tan

In addition to articles, they have contributed to book literature, including a publication by Oxford University Press:

Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction (2021)

Their professional recognition includes fellowships with notable scientific organizations:

Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2020)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015)
Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2006)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1996)

Best Publications

Abrupt climate change

RB Alley;Jochem Marotzke;WD Nordhaus;JT Overpeck

1702
Citations
Principles of Planetary Climate

Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

802
Citations
Surface quasi-geostrophic dynamics

Isaac M. Held;Raymond T. Pierrehumbert;Stephen T. Garner;Kyle L. Swanson

669
Citations
The two- and three-dimensional instabilities of a spatially periodic shear layer

R. T. Pierrehumbert;S. E. Widnall

629
Citations
Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change

Peter U. Clark;Jeremy D. Shakun;Shaun A. Marcott;Alan C. Mix

604
Citations
Thermostats, Radiator Fins, and the Local Runaway Greenhouse

R. T. Pierrehumbert

599
Citations
Warming Early Mars with Carbon Dioxide Clouds That Scatter Infrared Radiation

François Forget;Raymond T. Pierrehumbert;Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

538
Citations
A new approach to stable isotope-based paleoaltimetry: implications for paleoaltimetry and paleohypsometry of the High Himalaya since the Late Miocene

David B Rowley;Raymond T Pierrehumbert;Brian S Currie

513
Citations
Upstream Effects of Mesoscale Mountains

R. T. Pierrehumbert;B. Wyman

444
Citations
A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL

Giovanna Tinetti;Pierre Drossart;Paul Eccleston;Paul Hartogh

434
Citations
Abrupt climate change: Inevitable surprises

R.B. Alley;Jochem Marotzke;W. Nordhaus

391
Citations
Global Chaotic Mixing on Isentropic Surfaces

R. T. Pierrehumbert;H. Yang

370
Citations
Agriculture's Contribution to Climate Change and Role in Mitigation Is Distinct From Predominantly Fossil CO2-Emitting Sectors.

John Lynch;Michelle Cain;Michelle Cain;David Frame;Raymond Pierrehumbert

366
Citations
Dynamics of Weather Regimes: Quasi-Stationary Waves and Blocking.

Brian B. Reinhold;Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

357
Citations
Climate impacts of cultured meat and beef cattle.

John Lynch;Raymond Pierrehumbert

341
Citations
Climate of the Neoproterozoic

R.T. Pierrehumbert;D. S. Abbott;A. Voigt;D. Koll

330
Citations
HYDROGEN GREENHOUSE PLANETS BEYOND THE HABITABLE ZONE

Raymond Pierrehumbert;Eric Gaidos

310
Citations
Demonstrating GWP*: a means of reporting warming-equivalent emissions that captures the contrasting impacts of short- and long-lived climate pollutants

John Lynch;Michelle Cain;Raymond T Pierrehumbert;Myles Allen;Myles Allen

291
Citations
The hydrologic cycle in deep-time climate problems.

Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

275
Citations
New use of global warming potentials to compare cumulative and short-lived climate pollutants

Myles R. Allen;Myles R. Allen;Jan S. Fuglestvedt;Keith P. Shine;Andy Reisinger

267
Citations
A Palette of Climates for Gliese 581g

R. T. Pierrehumbert

256
Citations
Local and Global Baroclinic Instability of Zonally Varying Flow

R. T. Pierrehumbert

249
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dorian S. Abbot University of Chicago

Yannick Donnadieu Aix-Marseille University

Yves Goddéris Paul Sabatier University

Myles R. Allen University of Oxford

Jonathan J. Fortney University of California, Santa Cruz

Stephen R. Kane University of California, Riverside

Aiko Voigt Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Isaac M. Held Princeton University

Drake Deming University of Maryland, College Park

Jean-Michel Desert University of Amsterdam

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