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Timothy J. Dunkerton 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 Timothy J. Dunkerton sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 142 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Timothy J. Dunkerton 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 Timothy J. Dunkerton sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Timothy J. Dunkerton is affiliated with Northwest Research Associates in the United States. Their research contributions primarily fall under the broad discipline of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics addressed in Dunkerton's work include Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Climate variability and models, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Among recent publications, Dunkerton has contributed to the following papers:

  • Summertime stationary waves integrate tropical and extratropical impacts on tropical cyclone activity (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Finite-time circulation changes from topological rearrangement of distinguished curves and non-advective fluxes (2020), Tropical Cyclone Research and Review

The list of frequent co-authors includes:

  • Zhuo Wang
  • Gan Zhang
  • Fei-Fei Jin
  • Blake Rutherford

Dunkerton's research outputs have appeared in venues such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Tropical Cyclone Research and Review, indicating a focus on peer-reviewed scientific journals related to atmospheric and cyclone research.

Best Publications

  • The quasi-biennial oscillation

    M. P. Baldwin;L. J. Gray;T. J. Dunkerton;K. Hamilton

  • Stratospheric harbingers of anomalous weather regimes.

    Mark P. Baldwin;Timothy J. Dunkerton

  • Propagation of the Arctic Oscillation from the stratosphere to the troposphere

    Mark P. Baldwin;Timothy J. Dunkerton

  • Tropical tropopause layer

    Stephan Andreas Fueglistaler;A. E. Dessler;T. J. Dunkerton;I. Folkins

  • Stratospheric memory and skill of extended-range weather forecasts

    Mark P. Baldwin;David B. Stephenson;David W. J. Thompson;Timothy J. Dunkerton

  • The role of gravity waves in the quasi-biennial oscillation

    Timothy J. Dunkerton

  • Tropical cyclogenesis in a tropical wave critical layer: easterly waves

    T. J. Dunkerton;M. T. Montgomery;Z. Wang

  • Generation of Inertia–Gravity Waves in a Simulated Life Cycle of Baroclinic Instability

    Donal O'sullivan;Timothy J. Dunkerton

  • On the Mean Meridional Mass Motions of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere

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  • Climatology of the semiannual oscillation of the tropical middle atmosphere

    Rolando R. Garcia;Timothy J. Dunkerton;Ruth S. Lieberman;Robert A. Vincent

  • Impact of monsoon circulations on the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere

    Andrew Gettelman;Douglas E. Kinnison;Timothy J. Dunkerton;Guy P. Brasseur;Guy P. Brasseur

  • A spectral parameterization of mean-flow forcing due to breaking gravity waves

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  • Some Eulerian and Lagrangian Diagnostics for a Model Stratospheric Warming

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  • Climatology of the Equatorial Lower Stratosphere

    Timothy J. Dunkerton;Donald P. Delisi

  • Quasi-biennial Modulation of Planetary-Wave Fluxes in the Northern Hemisphere Winter

    Timothy J. Dunkerton;Mark P. Baldwin

  • Vertical velocity, vertical diffusion, and dilution by midlatitude air in the tropical lower stratosphere

    Philip W. Mote;Timothy J. Dunkerton;Michael E. McIntyre;Eric A. Ray

  • Theory of the Mesopause Semiannual Oscillation

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  • Estimates of momentum flux associated with equatorial Kelvin and gravity waves

    Kaoru Sato;Timothy J. Dunkerton

  • Observed correlations between winter-mean tropospheric and stratospheric circulation anomalies

    Mark P. Baldwin;Xinhua Cheng;Timothy J. Dunkerton

  • The Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud-Systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) Experiment: Scientific Basis, New Analysis Tools, and Some First Results

    Michael T. Montgomery;Christopher Davis;Timothy Dunkerton;Zhuo Wang

  • Fluxes of Heat and Constituents Due to Convectively Unstable Gravity Waves

    David C. Fritts;Timothy J. Dunkerton

  • Evolution of potential vorticity in the winter stratosphere of January‐February 1979

    Timothy J. Dunkerton;Donald P. Delisi

  • Evidence of meridional motion in the summer lower stratosphere adjacent to monsoon regions

    Timothy J. Dunkerton

  • Quasi‐biennial modulation of the southern hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex

    Mark P. Baldwin;Timothy J. Dunkerton

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark P. Baldwin
Mark P. Baldwin University of Exeter
Philip W. Mote
Philip W. Mote Oregon State University
Kaoru Sato
Kaoru Sato University of Tokyo
Lesley J. Gray
Lesley J. Gray University of Oxford
Hugh C. Pumphrey
Hugh C. Pumphrey University of Edinburgh
Shingo Watanabe
Shingo Watanabe Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Kevin Hamilton
Kevin Hamilton University of Hawaii at Manoa
David B. Stephenson
David B. Stephenson University of Exeter
Alan O'Neill
Alan O'Neill University of Reading
David C. Fritts
David C. Fritts G & A Technical Software (United States)

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