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Climate variability and models

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Kaifeng Bi
Huawei Technologies (China)
2
Kumar Puran Tripathy
Texas A&M University
3
Felicia Chiang
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
4
Ilan Price
Google DeepMind (United Kingdom)
5
Luke Grant
Environment and Climate Change Canada
6
Lellouche Jean-Michel
Mercator Ocean (France)
7
Somnath Mondal
Clemson University
8
Xueying Li
University of Oxford
9
Jawad M. Addoum
Cornell University
10
Alexander R. Gottlieb
Dartmouth College

Papers

1
Probabilistic weather forecasting with machine learning
Nature|2024
306 cit.
2
Evidence of human influence on Northern Hemisphere snow loss
Nature|2024
141 cit.
3
Global emergence of unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes
Nature|2025
106 cit.
4
Quantifying the Precipitation, Evapotranspiration, and Soil Moisture Network's Interaction Over Global Land Surface Hydrological Cycle
Water Resources Research|2024
59 cit.
5
Lagged Soil Moisture Controls on the Persistence of Drought and Heatwaves in the United States
Geophysical Research Letters|2025
9 cit.
6
Publication in Fundamental Research (2025) [3 citations, W4416580268]
Fundamental Research|2025
3 cit.
7
Publication in Water Resources Research (2025) [2 citations, W4413176019]
Water Resources Research|2025
2 cit.
8
Publication in Geophysical Research Letters (2025) [2 citations, W4414295744]
Geophysical Research Letters|2025
2 cit.
9
Publication in Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (2025) [1 citation, W4411976732]
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment|2025
1 cit.
10
Publication in Journal of Hydrology (2025) [W4415528963]
Journal of Hydrology|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Brecht Martens
Ghent University
2
Margarita Choulga
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
3
Jürgen Knauer
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
4
Anthony P. Walker
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
5
Shengzhi Huang
Xi'an University of Technology
6
Sophie C. Lewis
University of Canberra
7
Mathias Hauser
ETH Zurich
8
Alistair Sellar
Met Office
9
Vivek Arora
Environment and Climate Change Canada
10
Yosuke Iida
Japan Meteorological Agency

Papers

1
Higher global gross primary productivity under future climate with more advanced representations of photosynthesis
Science Advances|2023
46 cit.
2
Contrasting anatomical and biochemical controls on mesophyll conductance across plant functional types
New Phytologist|2022
40 cit.
3
Toward a long-term atmospheric CO2 inversion for elucidating natural carbon fluxes: technical notes of NISMON-CO2 v2021.1
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science|2022
38 cit.
4
Compound floods in Hong Kong: Hazards, triggers, and socio-economic consequences
Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies|2023
25 cit.
5
An Evaluation of Two Decades of Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals from MODIS over Australia
Remote Sensing|2022
22 cit.
6
Process Interactions Can Change Process Ranking in a Coupled Complex System Under Process Model and Parametric Uncertainty
Water Resources Research|2022
7 cit.
7
Harmonizing direct and indirect anthropogenic land carbon fluxes indicates a substantial missing sink in the global carbon budget since the early 20th century
Plants People Planet|2024
7 cit.
8
Technical note: Surface fields for global environmental modelling
Hydrology and earth system sciences|2024
6 cit.
9
Improving net ecosystem CO<sub>2</sub> flux prediction using memory-based interpretable machine learning
2022 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)|2022
3 cit.
10
Range-Aware Hand Gesture Recognition Using FMCW Radar and Deep Learning
Unknown Journal|2023
3 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Jean‐Noël Thépaut
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
2
P. D. Jones
University of East Anglia
3
Toshio Yamagata
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
4
Frédéric Vitart
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
5
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
University of California, Los Angeles
6
Gerald A. Meehl
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
7
Eric F. Wood
Cornell University
8
Reto Knutti
ETH Zurich
9
John M. Wallace
Pennsylvania State University
10
Karl E. Taylor
Intersil (United States)

Papers

1
The ERA5 global reanalysis
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society|2020
30.4k cit.
2
The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society|2011
26.4k cit.
3
An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society|2011
14.7k cit.
4
Overview of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) experimental design and organization
Geoscientific model development|2016
12k cit.
5
Summarizing multiple aspects of model performance in a single diagram
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres|2001
8.7k cit.
6
Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution
Scientific Data|2018
6.5k cit.
7
A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean
Nature|1999
5.5k cit.
8
Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow-dominated regions
Nature|2005
4.9k cit.
9
ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications
Earth system science data|2021
4.6k cit.
10
Teleconnections in the Geopotential Height Field during the Northern Hemisphere Winter
Monthly Weather Review|1981
4.6k cit.

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