Jason E. Smerdon

16.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
141 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Jason E. Smerdon is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Jason E. Smerdon has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Atmospheric Science, 106 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Jason E. Smerdon's work include Climate variability and models (93 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (71 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (48 papers). Jason E. Smerdon is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (93 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (71 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (48 papers). Jason E. Smerdon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Canada. Jason E. Smerdon's co-authors include Benjamin I. Cook, Richard Seager, Park Williams, Toby R. Ault, Sloan Coats, Edward R. Cook, Justin Mankin, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Henry N. Pollack and Kate Marvel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jason E. Smerdon

137 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Hit Papers

Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American S... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2015 2014 2020 2020 2015 250 500 750 1000
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. Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains
    2015 1.1k citations Benjamin I. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon et al. Science Advances profile →
  2. Global warming and 21st century drying
    2014 858 citations Benjamin I. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon et al. profile →
  3. Twenty‐First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios
    2020 670 citations Benjamin I. Cook, Justin Mankin et al. Earth s Future profile →
  4. Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought
    2020 632 citations Park Williams, Edward R. Cook et al. Science profile →
  5. Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012–2014
    2015 435 citations Park Williams, Richard Seager et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
  6. Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021
    2022 415 citations Park Williams, Benjamin I. Cook et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jason E. Smerdon United States 45 7.0k 5.1k 1.3k 980 781 141 9.5k
Govindasamy Bala India 46 7.9k 1.1× 4.4k 0.9× 1.6k 1.3× 1.8k 1.8× 737 0.9× 140 10.3k
Kevin J. Anchukaitis United States 48 7.1k 1.0× 6.7k 1.3× 719 0.6× 948 1.0× 1.3k 1.7× 151 9.8k
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen Denmark 52 8.1k 1.1× 7.0k 1.4× 2.0k 1.6× 757 0.8× 406 0.5× 138 11.1k
Pavel Groisman United States 41 7.5k 1.1× 5.9k 1.1× 1.7k 1.4× 882 0.9× 349 0.4× 105 9.7k
Elena Xoplaki Germany 46 6.7k 0.9× 6.5k 1.3× 572 0.5× 786 0.8× 434 0.6× 116 10.2k
Nicola Gedney United Kingdom 29 5.5k 0.8× 3.2k 0.6× 1.3k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 525 0.7× 53 7.1k
Philip W. Mote United States 40 6.7k 1.0× 6.3k 1.2× 2.5k 2.0× 1.6k 1.6× 1.1k 1.4× 84 10.1k
Hugo G. Hidalgo Costa Rica 33 6.9k 1.0× 3.1k 0.6× 2.0k 1.6× 1.8k 1.8× 1.1k 1.3× 96 8.7k
Xuejie Gao China 33 5.5k 0.8× 4.2k 0.8× 912 0.7× 609 0.6× 304 0.4× 89 7.2k
Seita Emori Japan 37 9.6k 1.4× 7.1k 1.4× 1.5k 1.2× 1.1k 1.2× 622 0.8× 99 13.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Byrne, Hannah, Richard Seager, & Jason E. Smerdon. (2025). CMIP6 models cannot capture long-term forced changes in the tropical Pacific sea surface temperature gradient. Nature Communications. 17(1). 142–142.
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Jiang, Yelin, Jason E. Smerdon, Richard Seager, et al.. (2025). The Influence of Land‐Surface Conditions on the 2020–2021 Western US Drought. Water Resources Research. 61(5).
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Nielsen, Miriam, Benjamin I. Cook, Kate Marvel, Mingfang Ting, & Jason E. Smerdon. (2024). The Changing Influence of Precipitation on Soil Moisture Drought With Warming in the Mediterranean and Western North America. Earth s Future. 12(5). 8 indexed citations
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Esper, Jan, Jason E. Smerdon, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, et al.. (2024). The IPCC’s reductive Common Era temperature history. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 12 indexed citations
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Cook, Edward R., Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Benjamin I. Cook, et al.. (2024). Increasing prevalence of hot drought across western North America since the 16th century. Science Advances. 10(4). 21 indexed citations
6.
Goodkin, Nathalie F., et al.. (2022). Drivers of Coral Reconstructed Salinity in the South China Sea and Maritime Continent: The Influence of the 1976 Indo‐Pacific Climate Shift. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(6). 2 indexed citations
7.
Varuolo‐Clarke, Arianna M., Jason E. Smerdon, Park Williams, & Richard Seager. (2021). Gross Discrepancies between Observed and Simulated Twentieth-to-Twenty-First-Century Precipitation Trends in Southeastern South America. Journal of Climate. 34(15). 6441–6457. 14 indexed citations
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McDermid, Sonali, Benjamin I. Cook, Martin G. De Kauwe, et al.. (2021). Disentangling the Regional Climate Impacts of Competing Vegetation Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO2. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(5). e2020JD034108–e2020JD034108. 19 indexed citations
9.
Williams, Park, Edward R. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, et al.. (2020). Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought. Science. 368(6488). 314–318. 632 indexed citations breakdown →
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García‐García, Almudena, Francisco José Cuesta‐Valero, Hugo Beltrami, & Jason E. Smerdon. (2019). Characterization of Air and Ground Temperature Relationships within the CMIP5 Historical and Future Climate Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(7). 3903–3929. 33 indexed citations
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Cook, Benjamin I., Park Williams, Jason E. Smerdon, et al.. (2018). Cold Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures During the Late Sixteenth‐Century North American Megadrought. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(20). 16 indexed citations
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Samanta, Dhrubajyoti, Kristopher B. Karnauskas, Nathalie F. Goodkin, et al.. (2018). Coupled Model Biases Breed Spurious Low‐Frequency Variability in the Tropical Pacific Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(19). 15 indexed citations
13.
Hartl, Claudia, Ulf Büntgen, Jason E. Smerdon, et al.. (2017). Temperature Covariance in Tree Ring Reconstructions and Model Simulations Over the Past Millennium. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(18). 9458–9469. 29 indexed citations
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Lehner, Flavio, Sloan Coats, Thomas F. Stocker, et al.. (2017). Projected drought risk in 1.5°C and 2°C warmer climates. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(14). 7419–7428. 244 indexed citations
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Chapman, David S., et al.. (2006). Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last Five Centuries From Borehole Temperature Profiles. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006.
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Evans, Michael N., Alexey Kaplan, Jason E. Smerdon, & Malcolm K. Hughes. (2006). The spectral, multivariate and non-stationary nature of the paleoproxy-climate connection: Implications for paleoclimate reconstructions. AGUFM. 2006. 1 indexed citations
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Pan, Feng, Jason E. Smerdon, Marc Stieglitz, & Peter L. Webster. (2005). A Wavelet Approach to Reconstructing Near-Surface Temperature Time Series From Observations of Subsurface Temperatures at Several Meters Depth. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 2 indexed citations
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Smerdon, Jason E., Henry N. Pollack, Milan Krešl, & John F. Wehmiller. (2003). Conductive Transport of Annual Temperature Signals in Variable Subsurface Media and Regional Analyses of Seasonal Decoupling Between Air and Ground Surface Temperatures. AGUFM. 2003. 1 indexed citations
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Smerdon, Jason E., Myles Lewis, Henry N. Pollack, & John W. Enz. (2002). Spectral analysis of air and ground temperatures at Fargo, North Dakota: conduction dominated propagation of the annual frequency signal. AGUFM. 2002. 1 indexed citations
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Smerdon, Jason E., et al.. (2001). Continental Heat Gain in the Global Climate System. AGUFM. 2001. 1 indexed citations

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