Kevin E. Trenberth

87.8k citations
290 papers · 55.3k indexed · 36 hit papers · h-index 105

Impact in

    • Climate variability and models
    • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
    • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
    • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Papers in

    • Climate variability and models 226
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 70
    • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 112
    • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research 33
    • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 24
    • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics 15

Kevin E. Trenberth

286 papers receiving 52.4k citations

Hit Papers

Past and future ocean warming 2022 · 141 citations
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Peers

Kevin E. Trenberth
Comparison fields: 5 of 205
  • Global and Planetary Change 43.7k
  • Atmospheric Science 33.4k
  • Oceanography 15.3k
  • Water Science and Technology 4.9k
  • Environmental Engineering 2.6k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Kevin E. Trenberth, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20242
2
Past and future ocean warming
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2022141
3 202018
4
Improved estimates of changes in upper ocean salinity and the water cycle
20201
5
Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century
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2020330
6 201886
7 201816
8 2018216
9 201787
10
Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960-2015
20161
11 2016140
12 20144
13
Solving climate uncertainty one tiny satellite at a time: Earth's Radiation Imbalance System
20132
14 201110
15
Decadal Climate Prediction: Opportunities and Challenges
200910
16 20031
17
Climate research [2]
200323
18
Reply to Rajagopalan, Lall and Cane's comment about "The interpretation of short climate records with comments on the North Atlantic and Southern Oscillations"
19993
19
Comment on "The interpretation of short climate records with comments on the North Atlantic and Southern Oscillations"
19998
20
An analysis of the weather affecting the offshore work in the Maui programme January - May 1976
19771

About Kevin E. Trenberth

Kevin E. Trenberth is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Water Science and Technology and Astronomy and Astrophysics, having authored 290 papers that have together received 55.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate variability and models (226 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (112 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (84 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (70 papers), Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (37 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (33 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (24 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (43.7k citations), Atmospheric Science (33.4k citations), Oceanography (15.3k citations), Water Science and Technology (4.9k citations) and Environmental Engineering (2.6k citations). Kevin E. Trenberth has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Aiguo Dai, John Fasullo, James W. Hurrell, Thomas R. Karl, David P. Stepaniak, Taotao Qian, J. T. Kiehl, Dennis J. Shea, Julie M. Caron and David B. Parsons. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Climate, Monthly Weather Review, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Geophysical Research Letters.

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