Gavin A. Schmidt

29.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
194 papers, 14.2k citations indexed

About

Gavin A. Schmidt is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Gavin A. Schmidt has authored 194 papers receiving a total of 14.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 150 papers in Atmospheric Science, 127 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 33 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Gavin A. Schmidt's work include Climate variability and models (94 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (69 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (51 papers). Gavin A. Schmidt is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (94 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (69 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (51 papers). Gavin A. Schmidt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Gavin A. Schmidt's co-authors include Drew Shindell, Allegra N. LeGrande, R. L. Miller, Reto Rüedy, David Rind, Michael Mann, G. Faluvegi, D. Koch, Larissa Nazarenko and James E. Hansen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gavin A. Schmidt

187 papers receiving 13.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Global gridded data set of the oxygen isotopic composition in seawater

2006 730 citations Allegra N. LeGrande, Gavin A. Schmidt Geophysical Research Letters profile →
Improved Attribution of Climate Forcing to Emissions

2009 644 citations Drew Shindell, G. Faluvegi et al. profile →
Earth's Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications

2005 643 citations James E. Hansen, Larissa Nazarenko et al. profile →
Improvements in the GISTEMP Uncertainty Model

2019 578 citations Nathan Lenssen, Gavin A. Schmidt et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
Solar Forcing of Regional Climate Change During the Maunder Minimum

2001 577 citations Drew Shindell, Gavin A. Schmidt et al. profile →
Climate forcing reconstructions for use in PMIP simulations of the last millennium (v1.0)

2011 394 citations Gavin A. Schmidt, Drew Shindell et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
Climate simulations: recognize the ‘hot model’ problem

2022 301 citations Gavin A. Schmidt et al. Nature profile →
Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory

2024 48 citations Gavin A. Schmidt Nature profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gavin A. Schmidt

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gavin A. Schmidt. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gavin A. Schmidt based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Gavin A. Schmidt. Gavin A. Schmidt is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Using Machine Learning to Generate a GISS ModelE Calibrated Physics Ensemble (CPE) 2025 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Gregory S. Elsaesser, Marcus van Lier‐Walqui, (unknown), Maxwell Kelley, Andrew S. Ackerman, Ann M. Fridlind, G Cesana, Gavin A. Schmidt, Jingbo Wu, Ali Behrangi, Suzana J. Camargo, (unknown), Kuniaki Inoue, (unknown), (unknown)	3
2	Exploring Precipitation Triple Oxygen Isotope Dynamics: Insights From GISS‐E2.1 Simulations 2025 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·(unknown), Allegra N. LeGrande, Nathalie F. Goodkin, Jesse Nusbaumer, Shaoneng He, Gavin A. Schmidt, Xianfeng Wang	1
3	Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory breakdown → 2024 ·Nature ·Gavin A. Schmidt	48
4	Exploring the ENSO modulation of the QBO periods with GISS E2.2 models 2024 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Tiehan Zhou, (unknown), Clara Orbe, David Rind, Jeffrey A. Jonas, Larissa Nazarenko, Gavin A. Schmidt, Gary L. Russell	2
5	A NASA GISTEMPv4 Observational Uncertainty Ensemble 2024 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Nathan Lenssen, Gavin A. Schmidt, (unknown), Peter Jacobs, Matthew J. Menne, Reto Rüedy	27
6	Winds and Meltwater Together Lead to Southern Ocean Surface Cooling and Sea Ice Expansion 2023 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Lettie A. Roach, Kenneth D. Mankoff, Anastasia Romanou, Edward Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth, Thomas W. N. Haine, Gavin A. Schmidt	20
7	Changing Nature of High‐Impact Snowfall Events in Eastern North America 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·(unknown), Gavin A. Schmidt, Dominique Paquin, Martin Leduc, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Brian Brettschneider	5
8	Anomalous Meltwater From Ice Sheets and Ice Shelves Is a Historical Forcing 2023 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Gavin A. Schmidt, Anastasia Romanou, Lettie A. Roach, Kenneth D. Mankoff, Qian Li, (unknown), Maxwell Kelley, John Marshall, Julius Busecke	13
9	Understanding Model‐Observation Discrepancies in Satellite Retrievals of Atmospheric Temperature Using GISS ModelE 2022 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·(unknown), Gavin A. Schmidt, R. L. Miller, Clara Orbe, Kostas Tsigaridis, Larissa Nazarenko, Susanne E. Bauer, Drew Shindell	5
10	The Turning Point of the Aerosol Era 2022 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Susanne E. Bauer, Kostas Tsigaridis, G. Faluvegi, Larissa Nazarenko, R. L. Miller, Maxwell Kelley, Gavin A. Schmidt	12
11	GISS Model E2.2: A Climate Model Optimized for the Middle Atmosphere—Model Structure, Climatology, Variability, and Climate Sensitivity 2020 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·David Rind, Clara Orbe, J. Jonas, Larissa Nazarenko, Tiehan Zhou, M. E. Kelley, Andrew A. Lacis, Drew Shindell, G. Faluvegi, Anastasia Romanou, Gary L. Russell, N. Tausnev, Michael Bauer, Gavin A. Schmidt	46
12	Historical (1850–2014) Aerosol Evolution and Role on Climate Forcing Using the GISS ModelE2.1 Contribution to CMIP6 2020 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Susanne E. Bauer, Kostas Tsigaridis, G. Faluvegi, Maxwell Kelley, Ken K. Lo, R. L. Miller, Larissa Nazarenko, Gavin A. Schmidt, Jingbo Wu	87
13	Perspectives on Data Reproducibility and Replicability in Paleoclimate and Climate Science 2020 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Rosemary T. Bush, Andrea Dutton, Michael N. Evans, (unknown), Gavin A. Schmidt	13
14	GISS Model E2.2: A Climate Model Optimized for the Middle Atmosphere—2. Validation of Large‐Scale Transport and Evaluation of Climate Response 2020 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Clara Orbe, David Rind, Jeffrey A. Jonas, Larissa Nazarenko, G. Faluvegi, Lee T. Murray, Drew Shindell, Kostas Tsigaridis, Tiehan Zhou, Maxwell Kelley, Gavin A. Schmidt	26
15	Comparison of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity Estimates From Slab Ocean, 150‐Year, and Longer Simulations 2020 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·John P. Dunne, Michael Winton, Julio T. Bacmeister, Gökhan Danabasoglu, Andrew Gettelman, Jean‐Christophe Golaz, Cécile Hannay, Gavin A. Schmidt, John P. Krasting, L. Ruby Leung, Larissa Nazarenko, Lori T. Sentman, Ronald J. Stouffer, Jonathan D. Wolfe	18
16	Improvements in the GISTEMP Uncertainty Model breakdown → 2019 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Nathan Lenssen, Gavin A. Schmidt, James E. Hansen, Matthew J. Menne, (unknown), Reto Rüedy, (unknown)	578
17	Model dependence in multi-model climate ensembles: weighting, sub-selection and out-of-sample testing 2018 ·Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union) ·Gab Abramowitz, Nadja Herger, E. D. Gutmann, Dorit Hammerling, Reto Knutti, Martin Leduc, Ruth Lorenz, Robert Pincus, Gavin A. Schmidt	11
18	Practice and philosophy of climate model tuning across six US modeling centers 2017 ·Geoscientific model development ·Gavin A. Schmidt, David C. Bader, Leo J. Donner, Gregory S. Elsaesser, Jean‐Christophe Golaz, Cécile Hannay, Andrea Molod, Richard Neale, Suranjana Saha	94
19	Using palaeo-climate comparisons to constrain future projections in CMIP5 2014 ·Climate of the past ·Gavin A. Schmidt, J. D. Annan, Patrick J. Bartlein, Benjamin I. Cook, Éric Guilyardi, J. C. Hargreaves, Sandy P. Harrison, Masa Kageyama, Allegra N. LeGrande, Bronwen Konecky, S. Lovejoy, Michael Mann, Valérie Masson‐Delmotte, Camille Risi, D. M. Thompson, Axel Timmermann, Bruno Tremblay, Pascal Yiou	168
20	Consistent Simulations of Multiple Proxy Responses to an Abrupt Climate Change Event 2005 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Allegra N. LeGrande, Gavin A. Schmidt, Drew Shindell, Christy V. Field, R. L. Miller, D. Koch, G. Faluvegi, Georg F. Hoffmann	2

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