David S. Battisti

28.1k total citations · 13 hit papers
189 papers, 20.9k citations indexed

About

David S. Battisti is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, David S. Battisti has authored 189 papers receiving a total of 20.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 142 papers in Atmospheric Science and 68 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in David S. Battisti's work include Climate variability and models (136 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (59 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (58 papers). David S. Battisti is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (136 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (59 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (58 papers). David S. Battisti collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. David S. Battisti's co-authors include John M. Wallace, Rosamond L. Naylor, Yuan Zhang, Anthony C. Hirst, Daniel J. Vimont, Cecilia M. Bitz, Qinghua Ding, Eric J. Steig, Péter Molnár and Aaron Donohoe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David S. Battisti

186 papers receiving 20.0k citations

Hit Papers

ENSO-like Interdecadal Va... 1989 2026 2001 2013 1997 2009 2018 2001 1998 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. ENSO-like Interdecadal Variability: 1900–93
    1997 2.1k citations David S. Battisti et al. profile →
  2. Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat
    2009 1.2k citations David S. Battisti, Rosamond L. Naylor Science profile →
  3. Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate
    2018 827 citations Curtis Deutsch, Joshua J. Tewksbury et al. Science profile →
  4. North Atlantic climate variability: phenomena, impacts and mechanisms
    2001 801 citations David S. Battisti et al. profile →
  5. ENSO theory
    1998 758 citations David S. Battisti et al. profile →
  6. Interannual Variability in a Tropical Atmosphere–Ocean Model: Influence of the Basic State, Ocean Geometry and Nonlinearity
    1989 702 citations David S. Battisti et al. profile →
  7. Orographic Controls on Climate and Paleoclimate of Asia: Thermal and Mechanical Roles for the Tibetan Plateau
    2010 674 citations David S. Battisti et al. profile →
  8. Radically Rethinking Agriculture for the 21st Century
    2010 531 citations David S. Battisti et al. Science profile →
  9. Chinese stalagmite δ18O controlled by changes in the Indian monsoon during a simulated Heinrich event
    2011 518 citations Francesco S. R. Pausata, David S. Battisti et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  10. Influence of high-latitude atmospheric circulation changes on summertime Arctic sea ice
    2017 329 citations Qinghua Ding, Axel Schweiger et al. profile →
  11. Future warming increases probability of globally synchronized maize production shocks
    2018 328 citations Michelle Tigchelaar, David S. Battisti et al. profile →
  12. Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints
    2021 192 citations David S. Battisti et al. profile →
  13. Systematic Climate Model Biases in the Large‐Scale Patterns of Recent Sea‐Surface Temperature and Sea‐Level Pressure Change
    2022 158 citations Robert C. J. Wills, Yue Dong et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David S. Battisti United States 68 13.8k 13.7k 7.0k 1.7k 1.7k 189 20.9k
Richard Seager United States 81 15.4k 1.1× 19.9k 1.4× 4.6k 0.7× 2.8k 1.6× 955 0.6× 254 25.2k
Mark A. Cane United States 90 18.3k 1.3× 20.2k 1.5× 11.5k 1.7× 2.6k 1.5× 378 0.2× 269 27.6k
Timothy J. Osborn United Kingdom 63 14.8k 1.1× 17.3k 1.3× 2.0k 0.3× 2.4k 1.4× 903 0.5× 178 23.9k
Isaac M. Held United States 81 23.0k 1.7× 24.6k 1.8× 9.2k 1.3× 1.9k 1.1× 358 0.2× 205 30.2k
William D. Collins United States 53 16.8k 1.2× 17.0k 1.2× 3.3k 0.5× 1.1k 0.6× 561 0.3× 246 22.4k
David Rind United States 76 15.4k 1.1× 12.8k 0.9× 2.4k 0.3× 2.2k 1.3× 595 0.4× 243 20.6k
Jonathan M. Gregory United Kingdom 83 14.6k 1.1× 17.1k 1.3× 6.8k 1.0× 1.1k 0.6× 419 0.3× 279 23.9k
David M. Lawrence United States 80 16.0k 1.2× 15.6k 1.1× 2.6k 0.4× 3.5k 2.0× 1.1k 0.7× 253 26.7k
Inez Fung United States 75 12.5k 0.9× 15.6k 1.1× 3.0k 0.4× 4.1k 2.3× 1.3k 0.8× 166 22.1k
Michael D. Dettinger United States 74 12.5k 0.9× 15.8k 1.2× 2.2k 0.3× 2.8k 1.6× 428 0.3× 209 23.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pausata, Francesco S. R., Yang Zhao, Davide Zanchettin, Rodrigo Caballero, & David S. Battisti. (2023). Revisiting the Mechanisms of ENSO Response to Tropical Volcanic Eruptions. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(3). 10 indexed citations
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Hahn, Lily, et al.. (2023). Seasonal Changes in Atmospheric Heat Transport to the Arctic Under Increased CO2. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(20). 6 indexed citations
3.
Chen, Xin, et al.. (2022). Long-term probabilistic temperature projections for all locations. Climate Dynamics. 60(7-8). 2303–2314. 3 indexed citations
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Madonna, Erica, David S. Battisti, Camille Li, & Rachel H. White. (2021). Reconstructing winter climate anomalies in the Euro-Atlantic sector using circulation patterns. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 2(3). 777–794. 7 indexed citations
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Dong, Yue, Kyle C. Armour, Cristian Proistosescu, et al.. (2021). Biased Estimates of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity and Transient Climate Response Derived From Historical CMIP6 Simulations. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(24). 25 indexed citations
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Hahn, Lily, Kyle C. Armour, David S. Battisti, et al.. (2020). Antarctic Elevation Drives Hemispheric Asymmetry in Polar Lapse Rate Climatology and Feedback. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(16). 26 indexed citations
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Atwood, Alyssa R., Aaron Donohoe, David S. Battisti, Xiaojuan Liu, & Francesco S. R. Pausata. (2020). Robust Longitudinally Variable Responses of the ITCZ to a Myriad of Climate Forcings. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(17). 40 indexed citations
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Geen, Ruth, Simona Bordoni, David S. Battisti, & K. L. Hui. (2020). Monsoons, ITCZs, and the Concept of the Global Monsoon. Reviews of Geophysics. 58(4). 109 indexed citations
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Geen, Ruth, Simona Bordoni, David S. Battisti, & K. L. Hui. (2020). The Dynamics of the Global Monsoon: Connecting Theory and Observations. 2 indexed citations
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Tigchelaar, Michelle, David S. Battisti, & June T. Spector. (2020). Work adaptations insufficient to address growing heat risk for U.S. agricultural workers. Environmental Research Letters. 15(9). 94035–94035. 51 indexed citations
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Wills, Robert C. J., David S. Battisti, Cristian Proistosescu, et al.. (2019). Ocean Circulation Signatures of North Pacific Decadal Variability. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(3). 1690–1701. 22 indexed citations
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Kohyama, Tsubasa, Dennis L. Hartmann, & David S. Battisti. (2018). Weakening of Nonlinear ENSO Under Global Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(16). 8557–8567. 30 indexed citations
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Ding, Qinghua, Axel Schweiger, Michelle L’Heureux, et al.. (2018). Fingerprints of internal drivers of Arctic sea ice loss in observations and model simulations. Nature Geoscience. 12(1). 28–33. 146 indexed citations
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Deutsch, Curtis, Joshua J. Tewksbury, Michelle Tigchelaar, et al.. (2018). Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate. Science. 361(6405). 916–919. 827 indexed citations breakdown →
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Atwood, Alyssa R., David S. Battisti, Cecilia M. Bitz, & Julian P. Sachs. (2017). Response of the tropical Pacific to abrupt climate change 8,200 years ago. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations
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Steiger, Nathan, Gregory J. Hakim, Eric J. Steig, David S. Battisti, & Gerard H. Roe. (2012). Climate Field Reconstruction via Data Assimilation. AGUFM. 2012. 2 indexed citations
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Pausata, Francesco S. R., et al.. (2009). Changes in atmospheric variability in a glacial climate and the impacts on proxy data: a model intercomparison. Climate of the past. 5(3). 489–502. 36 indexed citations
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Battisti, David S.. (2003). Understanding Abrupt Climate Change During the Last Glacial Period: Recent Developments and Outstanding Issues. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2003. 1 indexed citations
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Hess, Peter, Harry H. Hendon, & David S. Battisti. (1993). The Relationship Between Mixed Rossby-Gravity Waves and Convection in a General Circulation Model. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 71(3). 321–338. 6 indexed citations
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Battisti, David S., A. C. Hirst, & E. S. Sarachik. (1989). Instability and predictability in coupled atmosphere-ocean models. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 329(1604). 237–247. 6 indexed citations

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