2026 Thomas L. Delworth: 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	94	498	470	225	208	250	39548

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Thomas L. Delworth is a researcher affiliated with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in the United States, with extensive contributions to Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research focuses on several main topics:

Climate variability and models
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
Cryospheric studies and observations

Thomas L. Delworth has published papers in multiple venues, with frequent publications in:

Journal of Climate
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Geophysical Research Letters
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Among their recent papers are:

"Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects," 2020, Nature Climate Change
"North Atlantic climate far more predictable than models imply," 2020, Nature
"SPEAR: The Next Generation GFDL Modeling System for Seasonal to Multidecadal Prediction and Projection," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
"Detected climatic change in global distribution of tropical cyclones," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Increasing risk of another Cape Town "Day Zero" drought in the 21st century," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Thomas L. Delworth frequently collaborates with other researchers, with notable coauthors including:

William Cooke
Liping Zhang
Nathaniel C. Johnson
Liwei Jia
Feiyu Lu

Their contributions have been recognized through awards such as the Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2018.

Best Publications

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

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

2800
Citations
Increasing risk of great floods in a changing climate

P C D Milly;R T Wetherald;K A Dunne;T L Delworth

2257
Citations
GFDL's CM2 global coupled climate models. Part I: Formulation and simulation characteristics

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

2063
Citations
Observed and simulated multidecadal variability in the Northern Hemisphere

T. L. Delworth;M. E. Mann

1447
Citations
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

1138
Citations
Interdecadal Variations of the Thermohaline Circulation in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model

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

1110
Citations
Impact of Atlantic multidecadal oscillations on India/Sahel rainfall and Atlantic hurricanes

Rong Zhang;Thomas L. Delworth

1063
Citations
Simulated Tropical Response to a Substantial Weakening of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation

Rong Zhang;Thomas L. Delworth

916
Citations
Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

Clara Deser;Flavio Lehner;Keith B. Rodgers;Toby R. Ault

847
Citations
Anthropogenic warming of earth's climate system

Sydney Levitus;John I. Antonov;Julian Wang;Thomas L. Delworth

748
Citations
Simulated Climate and Climate Change in the GFDL CM2.5 High-Resolution Coupled Climate Model

Thomas L. Delworth;Anthony Rosati;Whit Anderson;Alistair J. Adcroft

645
Citations
The influence of potential evaporation on the variabilities of simulated soil wetness and climate

Thomas L. Delworth;Syukuro Manabe

606
Citations
Quantifying the uncertainty in forecasts of anthropogenic climate change

Myles R. Allen;Peter A. Stott;John F. B. Mitchell;Reiner Schnur

606
Citations
Simulation of Sahel drought in the 20th and 21st centuries.

I. M. Held;T. L. Delworth;J. Lu;K. L. Findell

588
Citations
Probing the Fast and Slow Components of Global Warming by Returning Abruptly to Preindustrial Forcing

Isaac M. Held;Michael Winton;Ken Takahashi;Thomas Delworth

580
Citations
Southern Hemisphere Atmospheric Circulation Response to Global Warming

Paul J. Kushner;Isaac M. Held;Thomas L. Delworth

571
Citations
The ocean's response to North Atlantic Oscillation variability

Martin Visbeck;Eric P. Chassignet;Ruth G. Curry;Thomas L. Delworth

542
Citations
Enhanced warming of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean under climate change

Vincent S. Saba;Stephen M. Griffies;Whit G. Anderson;Michael Winton

516
Citations
On the Seasonal Forecasting of Regional Tropical Cyclone Activity

G. A. Vecchi;T. Delworth;R. Gudgel;S. Kapnick

448
Citations
Impacts on Ocean Heat from Transient Mesoscale Eddies in a Hierarchy of Climate Models

Stephen M. Griffies;Michael Winton;Whit G. Anderson;Rusty Benson

438
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel A. Vecchi Princeton University

Fanrong Zeng Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Anthony Rosati National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Hiroyuki Murakami National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Andrew T. Wittenberg Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Rong Zhang National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Rym Msadek Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Ronald J. Stouffer University of Arizona

Thomas R. Knutson Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

External Links

Personal website of Thomas L. Delworth

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