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List of climate scientists

January 01, 1970

This list of climate scientists contains famous or otherwise notable persons who have contributed to the study of climate science. The list is compiled manually, so will not be complete, up to date, or comprehensive. See also Category:Climatologists. The list includes scientists from several specialities or disciplines.

Climate scientists study the climate system, including the statistics of the Earth's temperature (top) and precipitation (bottom).

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  • Sherwood Idso (1942-), American, former research physicist with US Department of Agriculture

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This list of climate scientists contains famous or otherwise notable persons who have contributed to the study of climate science The list is compiled manually so will not be complete up to date or comprehensive See also Category Climatologists The list includes scientists from several specialities or disciplines Climate scientists study the climate system including the statistics of the Earth s temperature top and precipitation bottom Contents A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T V W ZA editWaleed Abdalati American director of Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies former chief scientist of NASA Nerilie Abram 1977 Australian paleoclimatologist at Australian National University Ernest Afiesimama Nigerian weatherman former senior associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics Myles Allen head of the Climate Dynamics group at University of Oxford s Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department Lead author IPCC Third Assessment Report Review editor Fourth Assessment Report Richard Alley 1957 Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Science American Earth s cryosphere and global climate change Kevin Anderson Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and is an adviser to the British Government on climate change James Annan British climatologist with Blue Skies Research UK Julie Arblaster Australian climatologist at The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research in CSIRO David Archer American professor of oceanography at University of Chicago Svante Arrhenius 1859 1927 Swedish greenhouse effectB editSallie Baliunas American astrophysicist solar variation Elizabeth A Barnes American climate scientist working on earth science statistics Eric J Barron 1944 American geophysicist President of Pennsylvania State University Roger G Barry 1935 2018 British American polar climatologist first director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center Robin Bell American polar geophysicist President elect of the American Geophysical Union Martin Beniston Swiss climate scientist Lennart Bengtsson 1935 Swedish meteorologist and climate scientist Andre Berger 1942 Belgian modeling climatic changes at the geological and at the century time scales Richard A Betts Head of the Climate Impacts strategic area at the Met Office Hadley Centre John W Birks American atmospheric chemist and co developer of the nuclear winter theory Jacob Bjerknes 1897 1975 Norwegian American meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes 1862 1951 Norwegian forecasting numerical models Bert Bolin 1925 2007 Swedish meteorologist first chair of the IPCC Gerard C Bond 1940 2005 American geologist and paleoclimate researcher Jason Box American professor of glaciology at Ohio State University Raymond S Bradley American historical temperatures paleoclimatology and climate variability Keith Briffa 1952 2017 United Kingdom dendrochronology temperature history Wallace Smith Broecker 1931 2019 American Pleistocene geochronology radiocarbon dating and chemical oceanography Harold E Brooks 1959 American meteorologist severe convective storm and tornado climatology as well as conducive atmospheric environments Keith Browning British meteorologist mesoscale meteorology sparklesC editRobert Cahalan American climate physics energy balance radiative transfer remote sensing solar radiation Ken Caldeira American climate engineering ocean acidification atmospheric chemistry Guy Stewart Callendar February 1898 October 1964 English steam engineer and inventor who proposed what eventually became known as the Callendar effect the theory that linked rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to global temperature Mark Cane American modeling and prediction of the El Nino Southern Oscillation Anny Cazenave French oceanographer specializing in satellite altimetry Robert D Cess American atmospheric scientist emeritus professor at Stony Brook University Jule G Charney 1917 1981 American meteorologist pioneer in numerical weather modeling John Christy director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville Best known with Roy Spencer for developing the first version of the satellite temperature record John A Church 1951 Australian oceanographer chair of the World Climate Research Programme Ralph J Cicerone 1943 2016 American atmospheric chemist President of U S National Academy of Sciences Danielle Claar American marine scientist studying effect of climate on coral symbionts and parasites Allison Crimmins American head of the National Climate Assessment Harmon Craig 1926 2003 pioneering American geochemist Paul J Crutzen 1933 2021 Dutch stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry and their role in the biogeochemical cycles and climate Heidi Cullen American meteorologist chief scientist for Climate Central Balfour Currie OC 1902 1981 Canadian climatologist at University of Saskatchewan Judith Curry American climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of TechnologyD editWilli Dansgaard 1922 2011 Danish climatologist Scott Denning American atmospheric scientist and professor at Colorado State University Andrew Dessler American atmospheric scientist and professor at Texas A amp M University P C S Devara Indian climatologist and professor at Amity University Gurgaon Robert E Dickinson American climatologist professor at University of Texas at Austin Mark Dyurgerov died 2009 Russian American glaciologistE editSylvia Earle 1935 American marine biologist Don Easterbrook 1935 American Professor Emeritus of Geology at Western Washington University Tamsin Edwards British climate scientist at King s College London Arnt Eliassen dynamic meteorologist Kerry Emanuel 1955 American atmospheric dynamics specializing in hurricanes Matthew England 1966 Australian physical oceanographer and climate dynamicist Ian G Enting Australian mathematical physicist at University of MelbourneF editJoe Farman British ozone hole above Antarctica Christopher Field American climate scientist with the Carnegie Institution for Science Eunice Newton Foote 1819 1888 American scientist first to demonstrate that increased atmospheric levels of CO2 would result in heating of the atmosphere Piers Forster British professor of Physical Climate Change at University of Leeds Joseph Fourier 1768 1830 French greenhouse effect Jennifer Francis climate change in the Arctic Benjamin Franklin 1706 1790 first mapped the course of the Gulf Stream for use in sending mail from the United States to Europe Chris Freeman Welsh professor of biogeochemistry Eigil Friis Christensen 1944 2018 Danish geophysicist Inez Fung American climate modeling biogeochemical cycles and climate change Yevgraf Yevgrafovich Fyodorov 1880 1965 Russian climatologistG editFrancis Galton 1822 1911 coined the term anticyclone Filippo Giorgi 1959 Italian atmospheric physicist International Centre for Theoretical Physics Peter Gleick 1956 American hydroclimatologist hydrologic impacts of climate change snowfall snowmelt responses water adaptation strategies consequences of sea level rise Kenneth M Golden American applied mathematician percolation theory and diffusion process models of sea ice professor at University of Utah Natalya Gomez climate ice sheet solid earth modeler Canadian professor at McGill University Jonathan M Gregory climate modeler British professor at University of Reading Jean Grove 1927 2001 British glaciologist the Little Ice AgeH editJoanna Haigh 1954 British Co Director of Grantham Institute at Imperial College London solar variability Edmund Halley published a map of the trade winds in 1686 after a voyage to the southern hemisphere Gordon Hamilton 1966 2016 Scottish Associate Research Professor Climatology Group of the University of Maine James E Hansen 1941 American planetary atmospheres remote sensing numerical models and global warming Kenneth Hare OC FRSC 1919 2002 Canadian climatologist Klaus Hasselmann German oceanographer and climate modeller founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Ed Hawkins British climate scientist at University of Reading and designer of data visualization graphics Katharine Hayhoe Canadian Atmospheric science global climate models Gabriele C Hegerl 1963 Professor of Climate System Science at the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences Isaac Held German American atmospheric physicist researcher at GFDL Ann Henderson Sellers 1952 Australian climate change risk evaluation Ellie Highwood Professor of Climate Physics at the University of Reading David A Hodell 1958 British paleoclimatologist professor at Cambridge University Ove Hoegh Guldberg Australian oceanographer at University of Queensland Greg Holland Australian meteorology researcher at NCAR Brian Hoskins British climatologist and professor at University of Reading John T Houghton 1931 2020 British atmospheric physics remote sensing Malcolm K Hughes British meso climatologist professor at University of Arizona Mike Hulme 1960 British climate impacts climate modelling climate and culture Thomas Sterry Hunt 1826 1892 American first scientist to connect carbon dioxide to climate changeI editSherwood Idso 1942 American former research physicist with US Department of AgricultureJ editEystein Jansen 1953 Norwegian professor of paleoceanography at University of Bergen and former director of Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research Phil Jones 1952 British instrumental climate change palaeoclimatology detection of climate change Jean Jouzel French glaciologist and climatologist specializing in major climatic shiftsK editPeter Kalmus American data scientist at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Associate Project Scientist at University of California Los Angeles Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science amp Engineering Daniel Kammen American professor of Energy at University of California Berkeley Thomas R Karl 1951 American climate extremes and variability David Karoly Australian professor of meteorology at University of Melbourne Charles David Keeling 1928 2005 American atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements Keeling Curve Ralph Keeling 1959 American professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography David W Keith Canadian Geoengineering and CO2 capture and storage research University Professor at SEAS and Harvard Kennedy School Wilfrid George Kendrew 1884 1962 Scottish climatologist and meteorologist Gretchen Keppel Aleks American climate scientist Joseph B Klemp American atmospheric scientist at NCAR Thomas Knutson American climate modeller researcher at GFDL Reto Knutti Swiss climate scientist professor at ETH Zurich Kirill Y Kondratyev 1920 2006 Russian atmospheric physicist Bronwen Konecky paleoclimatologist and climatologist Wladimir Koppen Russian German meteorologist and climatologist Koppen climate classification Pancheti Koteswaram Indian meteorologist and former vice president of the World Meteorological Organization Shen Kuo 1031 1095 Chinese scientist who inferred that climates naturally shifted over an enormous span of time M Levent Kurnaz Turkish climate scientist at Bogazici University director of the Center for Climate Change and Policy Studies iklimBU John E Kutzbach 1937 2021 American climatologist at University of Wisconsin MadisonL editDmitry Lachinov 1842 1902 Russian climatologist and engineer Hubert Lamb 1913 1997 British climatologist founder of the Climatic Research Unit at University of East Anglia Kurt Lambeck Australian cryosphere hydrosphere lithosphere interactions and sea level rise and its impact on human populations Helmut Landsberg 1906 1985 German American fostered the use of statistical analysis in climatology which led to its evolution into a physical science Christopher Landsea 1965 American meteorologist Science and Operations Officer at the National Hurricane Center Mojib Latif 1954 German meteorology and oceanography climate modelling Corinne Le Quere France Canadian UK Royal Society research professor University of East Anglia Anders Levermann German professor of climate dynamics at University of Potsdam Richard Lindzen 1940 American dynamic meteorology especially planetary waves Diana Liverman 1954 American British climate impacts vulnerability and policy Michael Lockwood British professor of physics at Reading University Michael S Longuet Higgins FRS Oceanographer 1925 2016 British mathematician and oceanographer DAMTP at Cambridge University and Scripps Institution UCSD ocean waves and fluid dynamics Edward Norton Lorenz 1917 2008 American discovery of the strange attractor notion and coined the term butterfly effect Claude Lorius French glaciologist director emeritus of CNRS James Lovelock 1919 2022 British Gaia hypothesis and biotic feedbacks Amanda Lynch Australian Professor at Brown University bridging research between atmospheric and climate change science and environmental policy and Indigenous knowledge Peter Lynch Irish meteorologist and mathematicianM editMichael MacCracken 1942 American chief scientist at the Climate Institute in Washington DC Gordon J F MacDonald 1929 2002 American physicist who developed one of the first computational models of climate change and was an early advocate for governmental action Jerry D Mahlman 1940 2012 American meteorologist and climatologist and a pioneer in the use of computational models of the atmosphere to examine the interactions between atmospheric chemistry and physics Laszlo Makra 1952 Hungarian climatologist Full professor His main research area is pollen climatology and within this analysis of climatological relationships of ragweed pollen as well as relationship between ragweed pollen concentration and respiratory diseases Syukuro Manabe 1931 American professor Princeton University pioneered the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations Gordon Manley 1902 1980 English Central England temperature CET series Michael E Mann 1965 American professor of meteorology and director Earth System Science Center Penn State U David Marshall British physical oceanographer at the University of Oxford Valerie Masson Delmotte French climate scientist with a focus on paleoclimatology at the Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory LSCE Gordon McBean Canadian boundary layer research hydrometeorology and environmental impact research and weather forecasting James J McCarthy American professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University Helen McGregor Australian geologist and climate change researcher a Fellow with the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University Christopher McKay American planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center Marcia McNutt American geophysicist president of the National Academy of Sciences Linda Mearns American climate scientist senior scientist at NCAR Carl Mears American senior scientist at Remote Sensing Systems Gerald A Meehl 1951 American climatologist at NCAR Katrin Meissner German and Australian physical oceanographer and climate scientist director of the Climate Change Research Centre at University of New South Wales Sebastian H Mernild 1972 Danish glaciologist and hydrologist former director of the Nansen Environmental Research Center NERSC Bergen Norway and research director of the Climate Change and Glaciology Laboratory at CECs Valdivia Chile Former Vice President of the International Commission on Snow and Ice Hydrology under IAHS Patrick Michaels 1950 American climatologist Milutin Milankovic 1879 1958 Serbian Milankovitch cycles John F B Mitchell British climate modelling and detection and attribution of climate change Fritz Moller 1906 1983 German early modeling of CO2 greenhouse effect Mario J Molina 1943 2020 Mexican atmospheric chemistry and ozone depletion Nils Axel Morner 1938 2020 Swedish oceanographer and climate scientist Richard H Moss Chairman Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment Antonio Divino Moura Brazilian meteorologist and formerly a vice president of the World Meteorological Organization Richard A Muller 1944 American physicist head of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project formerly an outspoken critic of current climate change science R E Munn FRSC 1919 2013 Canadian climatologist Helene Muri 1979 Norwegian climate scientistN editGerald North 1938 American atmospheric scientist at Texas A amp M and author of the North ReportO editHans Oeschger 1927 1998 Swiss palaeoclimatologist and isotope chemist Atsumu Ohmura 1942 Japanese climatologist professor emeritus at ETH Zurich Cliff Ollier 1931 British Australian geologist and climate scientist Abraham H Oort Dutch American climatologist Michael Oppenheimer American professor of geosciences at Princeton University Timothy Osborn British professor of Climate Science at University of East Anglia Friederike Otto 1982 German climatologist associate director of the Environmental Change InstituteP editTim Palmer CBE FRS 1952 British mathematical physicist climate modeler at Oxford University Garth Paltridge 1940 Australian atmospheric physicist David E Parker British surface temperature trend Fyodor Panayev 1856 1933 Russian climatologist Graeme Pearman OA FAAS 1941 Australian climatologist William Richard Peltier 1943 Canadian global geodynamic modeling and ice sheet reconstructions atmospheric and oceanic waves and turbulence Jean Robert Petit French palaeoclimatologist emeritus director of research at Centre national de la recherche scientifique David Phillips OC 1944 Canadian climatologist and meteorologist Roger A Pielke Sr 1946 American climate change environmental vulnerability numerical modeling and atmospheric dynamics Raymond Pierrehumbert idealized climate modeling Faint young sun paradox Andrew Pitman 1964 British terrestrial processes in global and regional climate modelling model evaluation and earth systems approaches to understanding climate change Gilbert Plass 1920 2004 Canadian CO2 greenhouse effect and AGW Henry Pollack American emeritus professor of geophysics at University of Michigan Vicky Pope British Head of the Climate Prediction Programme at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and ResearchQ editDetlef Quadfasel German professor of Geophysics at Niels Bohr InstituteR editStefan Rahmstorf 1960 German the role of ocean currents in climate change Veerabhadran Ramanathan Indian general circulation models atmospheric chemistry and radiative transfer Michael Raupach 1950 2015 Australian climatologist formerly of CSIRO and was director of the Climate Change program at Australian National University Maureen Raymo American paleoclimatologist David Reay Professor of Carbon Management at the University of Edinburgh Martine Rebetez 1961 is a Swiss climatologist professor at the University of Neuchatel and senior scientist at Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL Roger Revelle 1909 1991 American global warming and chemical oceanography Lewis Fry Richardson 1881 1953 English mathematician and meteorologist Eric Rignot American professor of Earth System Science at University of California Irvine Alan Robock 1941 American climatologist professor at Rutgers University Joeri Rogelj 1980 Belgian climate scientist and IPCC author Joseph J Romm 1960 American author blogger physicist Carl Gustaf Rossby 1898 1957 Swedish American climatologist Frank Sherwood Rowland 1927 2012 American atmospheric chemist at University of California Irvine Cynthia E Rosenzweig c 1958 American climatologist pioneered the study of climate change and agriculture William Ruddiman American palaeoclimatologist Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis Steve Running American global ecologist at University of MontanaS editMurry Salby American atmospheric and climate scientist Jim Salinger New Zealand climatologist Dork Sahagian Armenian American Lehigh University Marie Sanderson 1921 2010 Canadian geographer and climatologist Ben Santer 1955 climatologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Nicola Scafetta 1975 Italian astronomer and climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber 1950 German climatologist was an author for the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change David Schindler Canadian American environmental chemist professor of Ecology at University of Alberta Michael Schlesinger American professor of Atmospheric Sciences at UIUC William H Schlesinger 1950 American biogeochemist former Dean of the Nicholas School at Duke University Gavin A Schmidt American climatologist and climate modeler at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies GISS Stephen H Schneider 1945 2010 American Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University Daniel P Schrag 1966 American Professor of Geology at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment Stephen E Schwartz 1941 American chemistry of air pollutants radiative forcing of aerosols on climate Tom Segalstad 1949 Norwegian geochemist Wolfgang Seiler 1940 German climatologist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology John H Seinfeld American atmospheric chemist at California Institute of Technology Mark Serreze 1960 American geographer climatologist director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center Nicholas Shackleton 1937 2006 British palaeoclimatologist at Cambridge University Nir Shaviv 1972 Israeli American astrophysicist and climate scientist J Marshall Shepherd American professor of meteorology at University of Georgia Drew Shindell American atmospheric chemist professor of Climate Sciences at Duke University Keith Shine Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at the University of Reading Jagdish Shukla 1944 Indian American climatologist at George Mason University Joanne Simpson 1923 2010 American meteorologist Fred Singer 1924 2020 atmospheric physicist president of the Science amp Environmental Policy Project a climate change denialist group Julia Slingo 1950 chief scientist at the Met Office since 2009 Joseph Smagorinsky 1924 2005 American meteorologist first head of NOAA GFDL Susan Solomon 1956 American research in chlorofluorocarbons and ozone depletion Richard C J Somerville 1941 American climatologist Scripps Institution of Oceanography Kozma Spassky Avtonomov 1807 1890 Russian climatologist Roy Spencer climatologist research scientist at the University of Alabama Konrad Steffen 1952 2020 Swiss American glaciologist at University of Colorado Boulder Will Steffen 1947 2023 Australian climatologist science advisor to Australian government David Stephenson 1963 British climate scientist and statistician at the University of Exeter Thomas Stocker Swiss climate dynamics and paleoclimate modeling and reconstruction Hans von Storch 1949 German meteorologist of Geesthacht Germany Peter A Stott British climate scientist Hans E Suess 1909 1993 Austrian radiocarbon dating Henrik Svensmark Professor in the Division of Solar System Physics at the Danish National Space InstituteT editKevin Russel Tate 1943 2018 New Zealand soil chemist studied carbon cycling and sequestration in soils Simon Tett British detection and attribution of climate change model initialization and validation Peter Thejll 1956 Danish Northern Hemisphere land air temperature solar variation and greenhouse effect Peter Thorne British climatologist with the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre Bergen Norway Liz Thomas British palaeoclimatologist ice cores British Antarctic Survey Lonnie Thompson 1948 American Professor of Earth Sciences Ohio State University paleoclimatology ice cores Axel Timmermann German climate physicist and oceanographer director of IBS Center for Climate Physics Micha Tomkiewicz 1939 American climate change professor at Brooklyn College Owen Toon American professor of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences at University of Colorado Boulder Kevin E Trenberth decadal variability El Nino Southern Oscillation Susan Trumbore earth systems scientist focusing on the carbon cycle and its effects on climate director at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and a Professor of Earth System Science at University of California Irvine John Tyndall 1820 1893 British measured radiative effect of greenhouse gases postulated greenhouse effect hypothesis of climate changeV editJean Pascal van Ypersele 1957 Belgian climatologist Vice Chair of IPCC 2008 2015 David Vaughan ice sheets British Antarctic Survey Jan Veizer 1941 Slovakian Distinguished University Professor emeritus of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa Pier Vellinga 1950 Dutch climatologist professor at Wageningen University Ricardo Villalba Argentine paleoclimatologist Francoise Vimeux French climatologist research director at the Institut de recherche pour le developpement IRD works at the Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l environnement LSCE and the Laboratoire HydroSciences Montpellier HSM W editPeter Wadhams ScD 1948 professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge He is best known for his work on sea ice Warren M Washington 1936 American climate modelling John Michael Wallace North Atlantic oscillation Arctic oscillation El Nino Southern Oscillation Andrew Watson 1952 British marine and atmospheric sciences Sir Robert Watson British scientist and chief scientist for the World Bank Betsy Weatherhead American former head of the National Climate Assessment Andrew J Weaver Canadian climate modeling and analysis Harry Wexler 1911 1962 American meteorologist Penny Whetton Australian regional climate change projections for Australia A lead author of the IPCC Third and fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change Tom Wigley Australian climatologist at University of Adelaide Josh Willis American oceanographer at NASA s JPL David Wratt New Zealander chief scientist at NIWA Donald Wuebbles American atmospheric scientist and professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Carl Wunsch 1941 physical oceanography and ocean acoustic tomographyX editShang Ping Xie born 1963 climatologist and oceanographer of the Scripps Institution of OceanographyZ editOlga Zolina 1975 Russian climatologist Eduardo Zorita 1961 Spanish palaeoclimatologist senior scientist at GKSSSee also editList of women climate scientists and activists Women in climate change Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of climate scientists amp oldid 1215720056, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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