2026 Stephen E. Zebiak: 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	56	3558	3401	1355	1253	126	21302

Overview

Stephen E. Zebiak is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with particular expertise in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Soil Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology.

The main topics of Zebiak's work encompass climate change impacts on agriculture, agricultural risk and resilience, agricultural innovations and practices, agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, food waste reduction and sustainability, global energy and sustainability research, and climate variability and models.

Their publication record includes papers in the following venues:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Climate Risk Management
Global Food Security
Atmospheric and Climate Sciences
Frontiers in Climate

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Zebiak include:

"Perspective article: Actions to reconfigure food systems," published in Global Food Security, 2020
"Skill Assessment of North American Multi-Models Ensemble (NMME) for June-September (JJAS) Seasonal Rainfall over Ethiopia," published in Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, 2021
"Country-specific challenges to improving effectiveness, scalability and sustainability of agricultural climate services in Africa," published in Frontiers in Climate, 2022
"Climate information services enhance farmers' resilience to climate change: Impacts on agricultural productivity," published in Climate Risk Management, 2025
"Climate Information Services Enhance Farmers' Resilience to Climate Change: Impacts on Agricultural Productivity," published in SSRN Electronic Journal, 2024

Frequent co-authors of Zebiak include Dawit Solomon, Seneshaw Tamru, James E. Hansen, Abonesh Tesfaye, and Bart Minten.

Best Publications

A Model El Niño–Southern Oscillation

Stephen E. Zebiak;Mark A. Cane

2400
Citations
ENSO as an Integrating Concept in Earth Science

Michael J. McPhaden;Stephen E. Zebiak;Michael H. Glantz

2212
Citations
Experimental forecasts of El Niño

Mark A. Cane;Stephen E. Zebiak;Sean C. Dolan

1076
Citations
Air–Sea Interaction in the Equatorial Atlantic Region

Stephen E. Zebiak

884
Citations
Current Approaches to Seasonal to Interannual Climate Predictions

Lisa M. Goddard;Simon J. Mason;Stephen E. Zebiak;Chester F. Ropelewski

807
Citations
A Theory for El Niño and the Southern Oscillation

Mark A. Cane;Stephen E. Zebiak

779
Citations
ENSO theory

Unknown

750
Citations
An Ocean Dynamical Thermostat

Amy C. Clement;Richard Seager;Mark A. Cane;Stephen E. Zebiak

707
Citations
Twentieth-century sea surface temperature trends

Mark A. Cane;Amy C. Clement;Alexey Kaplan;Yochanan Kushnir

677
Citations
Predictability of El Niño over the past 148 years

Dake Chen;Dake Chen;Mark A. Cane;Alexey Kaplan;Stephen E. Zebiak

667
Citations
Volcanic and Solar Forcing of the Tropical Pacific over the Past 1000 Years

Michael E. Mann;Mark A. Cane;Stephen E. Zebiak;Amy Clement

553
Citations
The relationships between tropical Pacific and Atlantic SST and northeast Brazil monthly precipitation

Cintia Bertacchi Uvo;Carlos A. Repelli;Stephen E. Zebiak;Yochanan Kushnir

529
Citations
An Improved Procedure for EI Niño Forecasting: Implications for Predictability

Dake Chen;Stephen E. Zebiak;Antonio J. Busalacchi;Mark A. Cane

454
Citations
Potential applications of subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) predictions

Christopher J. White;Christopher J. White;Henrik Carlsen;Andrew W. Robertson;Richard J.T. Klein

452
Citations
STOIC: a study of coupled model climatology and variability in tropical ocean regions

M. K. Davey;M. Huddleston;K. R. Sperber;P. Braconnot

442
Citations
ENSIP: The El Niño simulation intercomparison project

Mojib Latif;K. Sperber;J. Arblaster;P. Braconnot

362
Citations
Long-Lead Seasonal Forecasts—Where Do We Stand?

Anthony G. Barnston;Huug M. van den Dool;David R. Rodenhuis;Chester R. Ropelewski

357
Citations
A review of ENSO prediction studies

M. Latif;T. P. Barnett;M. A. Cane;M. Flügel

343
Citations
A Study of Self-excited Oscillations of the Tropical Ocean–Atmosphere System. Part II: Nonlinear Cases

Matthias Münnich;Mark A. Cane;Stephen E. Zebiak

337
Citations
A Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA)

Jacques Servain;Antonio J. Busalacchi;Michael J. McPhaden;Antonio D. Moura

324
Citations
An improved procedure for El Nino forecasting: implications for predictability

D Chen;S. E. Zebiak;A. J. Busalacchi;M. A. Cane

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Cane Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Dake Chen Columbia University in the City of New York

Yochanan Kushnir Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Alexey Kaplan Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

James Hansen Columbia University

Richard Seager Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Warren M. Washington National Center for Atmospheric Research

Lisa M. Goddard Columbia University

Amy C. Clement University of Miami

Eli Tziperman Harvard University

External Links

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