John Fasullo

27.4k total citations · 14 hit papers
156 papers, 15.4k citations indexed

About

John Fasullo is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, John Fasullo has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 15.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 101 papers in Atmospheric Science and 67 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in John Fasullo's work include Climate variability and models (131 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (48 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (45 papers). John Fasullo is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (131 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (48 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (45 papers). John Fasullo collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. John Fasullo's co-authors include Kevin E. Trenberth, J. T. Kiehl, Lesley Smith, R. S. Nerem, Lijing Cheng, Peter J. Webster, Theodore G. Shepherd, Aixue Hu, Gerald A. Meehl and Samantha Stevenson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

John Fasullo

150 papers receiving 15.0k citations

Hit Papers

Earth's Global Energy Budget 2005 2026 2012 2019 2008 2018 2005 2015 2007 400 800 1.2k
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. Earth's Global Energy Budget
    2008 1.2k citations Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →
  2. Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era
    2018 699 citations R. S. Nerem, John Fasullo et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. Trends and variability in column-integrated atmospheric water vapor
    2005 662 citations Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo et al. profile →
  4. Attribution of climate extreme events
    2015 610 citations Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo et al. profile →
  5. Estimates of the Global Water Budget and Its Annual Cycle Using Observational and Model Data
    2007 602 citations Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo et al. profile →
  6. Model-based evidence of deep-ocean heat uptake during surface-temperature hiatus periods
    2011 552 citations Gerald A. Meehl, Julie M. Arblaster et al. profile →
  7. Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960 to 2015
    2017 523 citations Lijing Cheng, Kevin E. Trenberth et al. profile →
  8. An apparent hiatus in global warming?
    2013 519 citations Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo Earth s Future profile →
  9. Atmospheric Moisture Transports from Ocean to Land and Global Energy Flows in Reanalyses
    2011 445 citations Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  10. Climate Variability and Change since 850 CE: An Ensemble Approach with the Community Earth System Model
    2015 430 citations Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Esther C. Brady et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →
  11. Externally Forced and Internally Generated Decadal Climate Variability Associated with the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
    2013 383 citations Gerald A. Meehl, Aixue Hu et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  12. The global monsoon across time scales: Mechanisms and outstanding issues
    2017 368 citations John Fasullo et al. profile →
  13. High Climate Sensitivity in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)
    2019 283 citations Andrew Gettelman, Cécile Hannay et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
  14. Past and future ocean warming
    2022 141 citations Lijing Cheng, Karina von Schuckmann et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Fasullo United States 60 11.8k 9.8k 4.9k 915 796 156 15.4k
Brian J. Soden United States 57 17.5k 1.5× 15.8k 1.6× 5.0k 1.0× 717 0.8× 796 1.0× 157 19.9k
E. Roeckner Germany 65 15.3k 1.3× 14.4k 1.5× 4.0k 0.8× 909 1.0× 861 1.1× 145 18.4k
Sandrine Bony France 60 19.3k 1.6× 17.4k 1.8× 2.9k 0.6× 937 1.0× 967 1.2× 149 22.4k
Wesley Ebisuzaki United States 15 11.6k 1.0× 10.7k 1.1× 3.8k 0.8× 607 0.7× 814 1.0× 24 13.9k
Hans von Storch Germany 61 14.3k 1.2× 12.2k 1.3× 4.2k 0.9× 856 0.9× 1.2k 1.5× 289 18.3k
J. T. Kiehl United States 62 15.1k 1.3× 15.5k 1.6× 2.0k 0.4× 914 1.0× 532 0.7× 137 20.0k
Jonathan M. Gregory United Kingdom 83 17.1k 1.5× 14.6k 1.5× 6.8k 1.4× 1.1k 1.2× 1.6k 2.1× 279 23.9k
Peter J. Webster United States 63 17.1k 1.5× 15.7k 1.6× 8.5k 1.7× 1.5k 1.6× 752 0.9× 156 21.8k
Qiang Fu United States 58 14.8k 1.3× 13.7k 1.4× 1.0k 0.2× 546 0.6× 453 0.6× 267 17.0k
Syukuro Manabe United States 68 14.1k 1.2× 14.9k 1.5× 5.0k 1.0× 1.3k 1.4× 1.1k 1.4× 122 20.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Fasullo

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All Works

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Meehl, Gerald A., Christine A. Shields, Julie M. Arblaster, et al.. (2024). Processes that Contribute to Future South Asian Monsoon Differences in E3SMv2 and CESM2. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(14). 2 indexed citations
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Kim, Ji‐Eun, Ryohei Yamaguchi, Keith B. Rodgers, et al.. (2023). Interannual fires as a source for subarctic summer decadal climate variability mediated by permafrost thawing. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 4 indexed citations
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Fasullo, John & Jadwiga H. Richter. (2023). Dependence of strategic solar climate intervention on background scenario and model physics. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(1). 163–182. 25 indexed citations
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Stevenson, Samantha, Sloan Coats, Danielle Touma, et al.. (2022). Twenty-first century hydroclimate: A continually changing baseline, with more frequent extremes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(12). e2108124119–e2108124119. 88 indexed citations
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Cheng, Lijing, Karina von Schuckmann, John Abraham, et al.. (2022). Past and future ocean warming. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 3(11). 776–794. 141 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fasullo, John, Nan Rosenbloom, Rebecca R. Buchholz, et al.. (2021). Coupled Climate Responses to Recent Australian Wildfire and COVID‐19 Emissions Anomalies Estimated in CESM2. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(15). 20 indexed citations
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Hamlington, B. D., Thomas Frederikse, P. R. Thompson, et al.. (2020). Past, Present, and Future Pacific Sea‐Level Change. Earth s Future. 9(4). 16 indexed citations
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Fasullo, John, Adam S. Phillips, & Clara Deser. (2020). Evaluation of Leading Modes of Climate Variability in the CMIP Archives. Journal of Climate. 33(13). 5527–5545. 78 indexed citations
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Hamlington, B. D., Christopher G. Piecuch, J. T. Reager, et al.. (2020). Origin of interannual variability in global mean sea level. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(25). 13983–13990. 29 indexed citations
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Gettelman, Andrew, Cécile Hannay, Julio T. Bacmeister, et al.. (2019). High Climate Sensitivity in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2). Geophysical Research Letters. 46(14). 8329–8337. 283 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tokarska, Katarzyna, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Andrew Schurer, Aurélien Ribes, & John Fasullo. (2019). Quantifying human contributions to past and future ocean warming and thermosteric sea level rise. Environmental Research Letters. 14(7). 74020–74020. 27 indexed citations
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Simpson, Isla R., Simone Tilmes, Jadwiga H. Richter, et al.. (2019). The Regional Hydroclimate Response to Stratospheric Sulfate Geoengineering and the Role of Stratospheric Heating. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(23). 12587–12616. 105 indexed citations
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Fasullo, John & R. S. Nerem. (2018). Altimeter-era emergence of the patterns of forced sea-level rise in climate models and implications for the future. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(51). 12944–12949. 58 indexed citations
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Herrera, Dimitris A., Toby R. Ault, John Fasullo, et al.. (2018). Exacerbation of the 2013–2016 Pan‐Caribbean Drought by Anthropogenic Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(19). 10619–10626. 47 indexed citations
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Fasullo, John, Robert A. Tomas, Samantha Stevenson, et al.. (2017). The amplifying influence of increased ocean stratification on a future year without a summer. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1236–1236. 33 indexed citations
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Trenberth, Kevin E. & John Fasullo. (2017). Atlantic meridional heat transports computed from balancing Earth's energy locally. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(4). 1919–1927. 87 indexed citations
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Fasullo, John, David M. Lawrence, & Sean Swenson. (2016). Are GRACE-era Terrestrial Water Trends Driven by Anthropogenic Climate Change?. Advances in Meteorology. 2016. 1–9. 16 indexed citations
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Otto‐Bliesner, Bette L., Esther C. Brady, John Fasullo, et al.. (2015). Climate Variability and Change since 850 CE: An Ensemble Approach with the Community Earth System Model. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 97(5). 735–754. 430 indexed citations breakdown →

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