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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Ronald J. Stouffer is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions to subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, oceanography, and economics and econometrics.

Their work addresses a range of topics including climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate change policy and economics, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Ronald J. Stouffer has authored several papers recently published in respected journals. Noteworthy publications include:

  • "Context for interpreting equilibrium climate sensitivity and transient climate response from the CMIP6 Earth system models," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) of CMIP6," 2021, Earth System Dynamics
  • "Representation of Southern Ocean Properties across Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Generations: CMIP3 to CMIP6," 2020, Journal of Climate
  • "Comparison of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity Estimates From Slab Ocean, 150-Year, and Longer Simulations," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "The Role of Continental Topography in the Present-Day Ocean's Mean Climate," 2021, Journal of Climate

Frequent co-authors include John P. Krasting, J. L. Russell, John P. Dunne, Michael Winton, and Julio T. Bacmeister.

Their research has been published primarily in the following venues:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Science Advances
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

In 2012, Ronald J. Stouffer was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Best Publications

  • An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design

    Karl E. Taylor;Ronald J. Stouffer;Gerald A. Meehl

  • Overview of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) experimental design and organization

    Veronika Eyring;Sandrine Bony;Gerald A. Meehl;Catherine A. Senior

  • The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment

    Richard H. Moss;Jae A. Edmonds;Kathy A. Hibbard;Martin R. Manning

  • Stationarity Is Dead: Whither Water Management?

    P. C. D. Milly;Julio Betancourt;Malin Falkenmark;Robert M. Hirsch

  • Climate Change 2007 Synthesis report

    Lenny Bernstein;Peter Bosch;Osvaldo Canziani;Zhenlin Chen

  • THE WCRP CMIP3 Multimodel Dataset: A New Era in Climate Change Research

    Gerald A. Meehl;Curt Covey;Thomas Delworth;Mojib Latif

  • GFDL's CM2 global coupled climate models. Part I: Formulation and simulation characteristics

    Thomas L. Delworth;Anthony J. Broccoli;Anthony Rosati;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • Projections of Future Climate Change

    U. Cubasch;G. A. Meehl;G. J. Boer;R. J. Stouffer

  • Sensitivity of a global climate model to an increase of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere

    Syukuro Manabe;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • GFDL’s ESM2 Global Coupled Climate–Carbon Earth System Models. Part I: Physical Formulation and Baseline Simulation Characteristics

    John P. Dunne;Jasmin G. John;Alistair J. Adcroft;Stephen M. Griffies

  • Transient Responses of a Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Model to Gradual Changes of Atmospheric CO2. Part I. Annual Mean Response

    S. Manabe;R. J. Stouffer;M. J. Spelman;K. Bryan

  • Two Stable Equilibria of a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model

    S. Manabe;R. J. Stouffer

  • Simulated response of the ocean carbon cycle to anthropogenic climate warming

    Jorge L. Sarmiento;Tertia M. C. Hughes;Ronald J. Stouffer;Syukuro Manabe

  • Investigating the Causes of the Response of the Thermohaline Circulation to Past and Future Climate Changes

    Ronald J. Stouffer;J. Yin;J. M. Gregory;J. M. Gregory;K. W. Dixon

  • The dynamical core, physical parameterizations, and basic simulation characteristics of the atmospheric component AM3 of the GFDL global coupled model CM3

    Leo J. Donner;Bruce L. Wyman;Richard S. Hemler;Larry W. Horowitz

  • Interdecadal Variations of the Thermohaline Circulation in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model

    T. Delworth;S. Manabe;R. J. Stouffer

  • Response of ocean ecosystems to climate warming

    Jorge L. Sarmiento;Richard D. Slater;Richard T. Barber;Laurent Bopp

  • Response of the ITCZ to Northern Hemisphere cooling

    Anthony J. Broccoli;Kristina A. Dahl;Kristina A. Dahl;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • Decadal Prediction: Can It Be Skillful?

    Gerald A. Meehl;Lisa M. Goddard;James Murphy;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • Context for interpreting equilibrium climate sensitivity and transient climate response from the CMIP6 Earth system models.

    Gerald A. Meehl;Catherine A. Senior;Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Gregory Flato

  • Thenextgenerationofscenariosforclimate change research and assessment

    RichardH . Moss;Timothy R. Carter;Seita Emori;Mikiko Kainuma

  • Overview of the Coupled MOdel Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) Experimental Design and Organization

    Eyring;S Bony;G A Meehl;C A Senior

Frequent Co-Authors

Syukuro Manabe
Syukuro Manabe Princeton University
Gerald A. Meehl
Gerald A. Meehl National Center for Atmospheric Research
Thomas L. Delworth
Thomas L. Delworth Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Anthony J. Broccoli
Anthony J. Broccoli Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michael Winton
Michael Winton Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Sergey Malyshev
Sergey Malyshev Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Karl E. Taylor
Karl E. Taylor Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Thomas R. Knutson
Thomas R. Knutson Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
John P. Dunne
John P. Dunne Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

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