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D-Index
94
Citations
39548
World Ranking
498
National Ranking
225

Thomas L. Delworth 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 Thomas L. Delworth sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 250 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas L. Delworth 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 Thomas L. Delworth sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% 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

  • 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

  • Increasing risk of great floods in a changing climate

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

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

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

  • Observed and simulated multidecadal variability in the Northern Hemisphere

    T. L. Delworth;M. E. Mann

  • 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

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

    Rong Zhang;Thomas L. Delworth

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

    Rong Zhang;Thomas L. Delworth

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

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

  • Anthropogenic warming of earth's climate system

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

  • 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

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

    Thomas L. Delworth;Syukuro Manabe

  • Quantifying the uncertainty in forecasts of anthropogenic climate change

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

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

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

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

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

  • Southern Hemisphere Atmospheric Circulation Response to Global Warming

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

  • The ocean's response to North Atlantic Oscillation variability

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

  • Enhanced warming of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean under climate change

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

  • On the Seasonal Forecasting of Regional Tropical Cyclone Activity

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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel A. Vecchi
Gabriel A. Vecchi Princeton University
Fanrong Zeng
Fanrong Zeng Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Anthony Rosati
Anthony Rosati National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Hiroyuki Murakami
Hiroyuki Murakami National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Andrew T. Wittenberg
Andrew T. Wittenberg Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Rong Zhang
Rong Zhang National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Rym Msadek
Rym Msadek Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ronald J. Stouffer
Ronald J. Stouffer University of Arizona
Thomas R. Knutson
Thomas R. Knutson Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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