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85
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29175
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743
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Stephen A. Klein 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 Stephen A. Klein sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 207 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stephen A. Klein 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 Stephen A. Klein sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stephen A. Klein is affiliated with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science. The scientist's work spans various subfields, including education, oceanography, and general agricultural and biological sciences.

Their scholarly output covers key topics such as climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, education systems and policy, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes.

Stephen A. Klein has published research in multiple esteemed venues, including:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Climate
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Geoscientific Model Development

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Klein include:

  • "Causes of Higher Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6 Models" (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence" (2020), published in Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Observational Constraints on Low Cloud Feedback Reduce Uncertainty of Climate Sensitivity" (2021), published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Observed Sensitivity of Low-Cloud Radiative Effects to Meteorological Perturbations over the Global Oceans" (2020), published in Journal of Climate
  • "Evaluating Climate Models' Cloud Feedbacks Against Expert Judgment" (2022), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Frequent collaborators in Klein's research include Mark D. Zelinka, Peter Caldwell, Xue Zheng, Yunyan Zhang, and Timothy A. Myers.

In addition to research articles, Klein has contributed to book publications. These include works published by the University Press of Mississippi eBooks and Johns Hopkins University, notably "Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country" (2020) and "Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country: The Benton County Civil Rights Movement" (2020).

Best Publications

  • The Seasonal Cycle of Low Stratiform Clouds

    Stephen A. Klein;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Remote Sea Surface Temperature Variations during ENSO: Evidence for a Tropical Atmospheric Bridge

    Stephen A. Klein;Brian J. Soden;Ngar Cheung Lau

  • Causes of Higher Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6 Models

    Mark D. Zelinka;Timothy A. Myers;Daniel T. McCoy;Stephen Po‐Chedley

  • An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence

    S C Sherwood;M J Webb;J D Annan;K C Armour

  • 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

  • The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Overview and Evaluation at Standard Resolution

    Jean Christophe Golaz;Peter M. Caldwell;Luke P. Van Roekel;Mark R. Petersen

  • COSP: Satellite simulation software for model assessment

    Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo;M Webb;S Bony;H Chepfer

  • Taking climate model evaluation to the next level

    Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Peter M. Cox;Gregory M. Flato;Peter J. Gleckler

  • Comparing clouds and their seasonal variations in 10 atmospheric general circulation models with satellite measurements

    M. H. Zhang;W. Y. Lin;S. A. Klein;S. A. Klein;J. T. Bacmeister

  • Validation and Sensitivities of Frontal Clouds Simulated by the ECMWF Model

    Stephen A. Klein;Christian Jakob

  • Global simulations of ice nucleation and ice supersaturation with an improved cloud scheme in the Community Atmosphere Model

    A. Gettelman;Xiaohong Liu;S.J. Ghan;H. Morrison

  • Identification of human-induced changes in atmospheric moisture content

    B. D. Santer;C. Mears;F. J. Wentz;K. E. Taylor

  • Evidence for climate change in the satellite cloud record

    Joel R. Norris;Robert J. Allen;Amato T. Evan;Mark D. Zelinka

  • Progressing emergent constraints on future climate change

    Alex Hall;Peter Cox;Chris Huntingford;Stephen Klein

  • Consistency of modelled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere

    B. D. Santer;P. W. Thorne;L. Haimberger;K. E. Taylor

  • Amplification of Surface Temperature Trends and Variability in the Tropical Atmosphere

    Benjamin D. Santer;Tom M. L. Wigley;Carl Mears;Frank J. Wentz

  • Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment. I: single-layer cloud

    Stephen A. Klein;Renata B. McCoy;Hugh Morrison;Andrew S. Ackerman

  • Computing and Partitioning Cloud Feedbacks Using Cloud Property Histograms. Part I: Cloud Radiative Kernels

    Mark D. Zelinka;Stephen A. Klein;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • An Overview of the Atmospheric Component of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model

    P. J. Rasch;S. Xie;P.-L. Ma;W. Lin

  • Exposing Global Cloud Biases in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) Using Satellite Observations and Their Corresponding Instrument Simulators

    J. E. Kay;B. R. Hillman;B. R. Hillman;S. A. Klein;Y. Zhang

  • The Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) contribution to CMIP6.

    Mark J. Webb;Timothy Andrews;Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo;Sandrine Bony

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaocheng Xie
Shaocheng Xie Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Mark D. Zelinka
Mark D. Zelinka Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Robert Pincus
Robert Pincus University of Colorado Boulder
James S. Boyle
James S. Boyle Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Joel R. Norris
Joel R. Norris University of California, San Diego
Alex Hall
Alex Hall University of California, Los Angeles
Jean-Christophe Golaz
Jean-Christophe Golaz Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Xiaohong Liu
Xiaohong Liu Texas A&M University
Kuan-Man Xu
Kuan-Man Xu Langley Research Center
Leo J. Donner
Leo J. Donner Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

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