2026 Timothy J. Dunkerton: 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	62	2564	2443	1031	953	142	18760

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

2462
Citations
Stratospheric harbingers of anomalous weather regimes.

Mark P. Baldwin;Timothy J. Dunkerton

2293
Citations
Propagation of the Arctic Oscillation from the stratosphere to the troposphere

Mark P. Baldwin;Timothy J. Dunkerton

1386
Citations
Tropical tropopause layer

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

1159
Citations
Stratospheric memory and skill of extended-range weather forecasts

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

680
Citations
The role of gravity waves in the quasi-biennial oscillation

Timothy J. Dunkerton

628
Citations
Tropical cyclogenesis in a tropical wave critical layer: easterly waves

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

495
Citations
Generation of Inertia–Gravity Waves in a Simulated Life Cycle of Baroclinic Instability

Donal O'sullivan;Timothy J. Dunkerton

403
Citations
On the Mean Meridional Mass Motions of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere

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379
Citations
Climatology of the semiannual oscillation of the tropical middle atmosphere

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

302
Citations
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

296
Citations
A spectral parameterization of mean-flow forcing due to breaking gravity waves

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277
Citations
Some Eulerian and Lagrangian Diagnostics for a Model Stratospheric Warming

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250
Citations
Climatology of the Equatorial Lower Stratosphere

Timothy J. Dunkerton;Donald P. Delisi

246
Citations
Quasi-biennial Modulation of Planetary-Wave Fluxes in the Northern Hemisphere Winter

Timothy J. Dunkerton;Mark P. Baldwin

218
Citations
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

205
Citations
Theory of the Mesopause Semiannual Oscillation

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205
Citations
Estimates of momentum flux associated with equatorial Kelvin and gravity waves

Kaoru Sato;Timothy J. Dunkerton

198
Citations
Observed correlations between winter-mean tropospheric and stratospheric circulation anomalies

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

192
Citations
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

186
Citations
Fluxes of Heat and Constituents Due to Convectively Unstable Gravity Waves

David C. Fritts;Timothy J. Dunkerton

184
Citations
Evolution of potential vorticity in the winter stratosphere of January‐February 1979

Timothy J. Dunkerton;Donald P. Delisi

178
Citations
Evidence of meridional motion in the summer lower stratosphere adjacent to monsoon regions

Timothy J. Dunkerton

172
Citations
Quasi‐biennial modulation of the southern hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex

Mark P. Baldwin;Timothy J. Dunkerton

159
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark P. Baldwin University of Exeter

Philip W. Mote Oregon State University

Kaoru Sato University of Tokyo

Lesley J. Gray University of Oxford

Hugh C. Pumphrey University of Edinburgh

Shingo Watanabe Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Kevin Hamilton University of Hawaii at Manoa

David B. Stephenson University of Exeter

Alan O'Neill University of Reading

David C. Fritts G & A Technical Software (United States)

External Links

Personal website of Timothy J. Dunkerton

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