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78
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1045
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460

Yochanan Kushnir 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 Yochanan Kushnir sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 223 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yochanan Kushnir 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 Yochanan Kushnir sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% 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

  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Yochanan Kushnir is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with extensive work in atmospheric and climate-related disciplines.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these, their subfields of study are:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Archeology
  • Earth-Surface Processes

Kushnir's research topics cover a range of climate and atmospheric phenomena, such as:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales" (2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • "Mechanisms of Winter Precipitation Variability in the European-Mediterranean Region Associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation" (2020, Journal of Climate)
  • "Impact of the North Atlantic Warming Hole on Sensible Weather" (2020, Journal of Climate)
  • "The effects of anthropogenic and volcanic aerosols and greenhouse gases on twentieth century Sahel precipitation" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Recent applications and potential of near-term (interannual to decadal) climate predictions" (2023, Frontiers in Climate)

The most frequent publication venues for Kushnir's work include:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Frequent collaborators working with Kushnir are:

  • Mingfang Ting
  • Richard Seager
  • Michela Biasutti
  • Jennifer Nakamura
  • Lisa Goddard

In recognition of contributions to the field, Kushnir was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • An overview of the North Atlantic Oscillation

    James W. Hurrell;Yochanan Kushnir;Geir Ottersen;Martin Visbeck

  • Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America

    Richard Seager;Mingfang Ting;Isaac Held;Isaac Held;Yochanan Kushnir

  • Analyses of global sea surface temperature 1856–1991

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

  • Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought.

    Colin P. Kelley;Shahrzad Mohtadi;Mark A. Cane;Richard Seager

  • The North Atlantic Oscillation: climatic significance and environmantal impact

    James W Hurrell;Yochanan Kushnir;Geir Ottersen;Martin Visbeck

  • Interdecadal Variations in North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature and Associated Atmospheric Conditions

    Yochanan Kushnir

  • North atlantic climate variability: Phenomena, impacts and mechanisms

    John Marshall;Yochanan Kushnir;David Battisti;Ping Chang

  • The North Atlantic Oscillation

    James W. Hurrell;Yochanan Kushnir;Martin Visbeck

  • Atmospheric GCM Response to Extratropical SST Anomalies: Synthesis and Evaluation*

    Y. Kushnir;W. A. Robinson;I. Bladé;N. M. J. Hall

  • The North Atlantic Oscillation: Climate Significance and Environmental Impact

    James W. Hurrell;Yochanan Kushnir;Geir Ottersen;Martin Visbeck

  • Twentieth-century sea surface temperature trends

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

  • Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

    Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Yochanan Kushnir;Keith R. Briffa

  • Interannual Variability of Caribbean Rainfall, ENSO, and the Atlantic Ocean

    Alessandra Giannini;Yochanan Kushnir;Mark A. Cane

  • Forced and Internal Twentieth-Century SST Trends in the North Atlantic*

    Mingfang Ting;Yochanan Kushnir;Richard Seager;Cuihua Li

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

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

  • Mechanisms of Hemispherically Symmetric Climate Variability

    Richard Seager;Nili Harnik;Yochanan Kushnir;Walter A. Robinson

  • Modeling of Tropical Forcing of Persistent Droughts and Pluvials over Western North America: 1856–2000*

    Richard Seager;Yochanan Kushnir;Celine Herweijer;Naomi H. Naik

  • The Decadal Climate Prediction Project (DCPP) contribution to CMIP6

    George J. Boer;Douglas M. Smith;Christophe Cassou;Francisco Doblas-Reyes

  • Have Aerosols Caused the Observed Atlantic Multidecadal Variability

    Rong Zhang;Thomas L. Delworth;Rowan Sutton;Daniel L. R. Hodson

  • A verification framework for interannual-to-decadal predictions experiments

    L. Goddard;A. Kumar;A. Solomon;D. Smith

  • Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in

    Richard Seager;Mingfang Ting;Isaac Held;Yochanan Kushnir

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Seager
Richard Seager Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Mingfang Ting
Mingfang Ting Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Mark A. Cane
Mark A. Cane Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Naomi Naik
Naomi Naik Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Alessandra Giannini
Alessandra Giannini Columbia University
Martin Visbeck
Martin Visbeck GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Steven L. Goldstein
Steven L. Goldstein Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Alexey Kaplan
Alexey Kaplan Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Andrew W. Robertson
Andrew W. Robertson Columbia University
James W. Hurrell
James W. Hurrell Colorado State University

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