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Richard S. Lindzen

Richard S. Lindzen

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
69
Citations
21512
World Ranking
1748
National Ranking
733

Richard S. Lindzen 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 Richard S. Lindzen sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 229 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard S. Lindzen 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 Richard S. Lindzen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% 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

  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1977 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1977 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1970 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • 1969 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1969 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Richard S. Lindzen is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Paleontology.

The main topics covered in Lindzen's work include Climate variability and models, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Some of the recent papers authored by Lindzen are:

  • The Iris Effect: A Review, 2021, Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences
  • An oversimplified picture of the climate behavior based on a single process can lead to distorted conclusions, 2020, The European Physical Journal Plus
  • Erratum to: An oversimplified picture of the climate behavior based on a single process can lead to distorted conclusions, 2021, The European Physical Journal Plus
  • Reassessing the Climate Change Narrative, 2024, Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences

Lindzen has frequently published in venues such as the Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences and The European Physical Journal Plus, with two publications in each.

Their frequent co-authors include Yong-Sang Choi, Pablo Zurita-Gotor, and John R. Christy.

Throughout their career, Richard S. Lindzen has received several awards and honors, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1992
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1977
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1977
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1970
  • James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1969
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1969

Best Publications

  • Turbulence and stress owing to gravity wave and tidal breakdown

    R. S. Lindzen

  • On the role of sea surface temperature gradients in forcing low-level winds and convergence in the tropics

    Richard S. Lindzen;Sumant Nigam

  • A Theory of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation

    Richard S. Lindzen;James R. Holton

  • An Updated Theory for the Quasi-Biennial Cycle of the Tropical Stratosphere

    James R. Holton;Richard S. Lindzen

  • Atmospheric Tides

    Richard S. Lindzen;Sydney Chapman

  • Some Coolness Concerning Global Warming

    Richard S. Lindzen

  • Hadley Circulations for Zonally Averaged Heating Centered off the Equator

    Richard S. Lindzen;Arthur V. Hou

  • Wave-CISK in the Tropics

    Richard S. Lindzen

  • A Simple Approximate Result for the Maximum Growth Rate of Baroclinic Instabilities

    R. S. Lindzen;Brian Farrell

  • Does The Earth Have an Adaptive Infrared Iris

    Richard S. Lindzen;Ming Dah Chou;Arthur Y. Hou

  • Thermally driven diurnal tide in the atmosphere

    R. S. Lindzen

  • Banded Convective Activity and Ducted Gravity Waves

    R. S. Lindzen;K. K. Tung

  • PLANETARY WAVES ON BETA-PLANES

    Richard D. Lindzen

  • Dynamics in atmospheric physics

    Richard A Lindzen

  • Atmospheric Tides: Thermal and Gravitational

    Sydney Chapman;Richard S. Lindzen

  • Effects of Mean Winds and Horizontal Temperature Gradients on Solar and Lunar Semidiurnal Tides in the Atmosphere

    Richard S. Lindzen;Siu-shung Hong

  • A Theory of Stationary Long Waves. Part I: A Simple Theory of Blocking

    K. K. Tung;R. S. Lindzen

  • Distribution of Tropical Tropospheric Water Vapor

    De-Zheng Sun;Richard S. Lindzen

  • Axially symmetric steady-state models of the basic state for instability and climate studies

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  • Reconciling observations of global temperature change

    Richard S. Lindzen;Constantine Giannitsis

  • Consistent vertical and horizontal resolution

    Richard S. Lindzen;Michael Fox-Rabinovitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur Y. Hou
Arthur Y. Hou Goddard Space Flight Center
Brian D. Farrell
Brian D. Farrell Harvard University
Jeffrey M. Forbes
Jeffrey M. Forbes University of Colorado Boulder
Edwin K. Schneider
Edwin K. Schneider George Mason University
James R. Holton
James R. Holton University of Washington
Aiguo Dai
Aiguo Dai University at Albany, State University of New York
Daniel R. Marsh
Daniel R. Marsh National Center for Atmospheric Research
Ka-Kit Tung
Ka-Kit Tung University of Washington
Mark R. Schoeberl
Mark R. Schoeberl Science and Technology Corporation (United States)
Petros J. Ioannou
Petros J. Ioannou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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