Mark D. Zelinka

14.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
94 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Mark D. Zelinka is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark D. Zelinka has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 81 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Mark D. Zelinka's work include Climate variability and models (77 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (46 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (41 papers). Mark D. Zelinka is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (77 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (46 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (41 papers). Mark D. Zelinka collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Mark D. Zelinka's co-authors include Stephen A. Klein, Dennis L. Hartmann, Karl E. Taylor, Chen Zhou, Paulo Ceppi, Peter Caldwell, Daniel T. McCoy, Timothy A. Myers, Stephen Po–Chedley and Ivy Tan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mark D. Zelinka

89 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Causes of Higher Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6 Models

2020 1.0k citations Mark D. Zelinka, Timothy A. Myers et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
Observational constraints on mixed-phase clouds imply higher climate sensitivity

2016 352 citations Mark D. Zelinka et al. Science profile →
Climate simulations: recognize the ‘hot model’ problem

2022 301 citations Mark D. Zelinka et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark D. Zelinka United States	43	6.9k	6.2k	749	228	201	94	7.5k
Timothy Andrews United Kingdom	44	6.5k 0.9×	5.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	102 0.4×	265 1.3×	90	7.2k
Christian Jakob Australia	48	6.4k 0.9×	6.2k 1.0×	646 0.9×	150 0.7×	89 0.4×	156	7.2k
Thorsten Mauritsen Germany	47	6.8k 1.0×	7.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.6×	132 0.6×	159 0.8×	103	8.2k
Jón Egill Kristjánsson Norway	37	4.6k 0.7×	4.6k 0.7×	377 0.5×	168 0.7×	108 0.5×	87	5.5k
Anthony D. Del Genio United States	54	7.4k 1.1×	7.7k 1.2×	1.1k 1.5×	239 1.0×	83 0.4×	154	10.0k
И. И. Мохов Russia	35	4.0k 0.6×	4.0k 0.6×	561 0.7×	105 0.5×	174 0.9×	330	5.3k
Tim Woollings United Kingdom	50	7.0k 1.0×	6.6k 1.1×	2.0k 2.7×	120 0.5×	112 0.6×	140	7.8k
Hauke Schmidt Germany	42	4.7k 0.7×	5.3k 0.9×	604 0.8×	68 0.3×	173 0.9×	135	6.6k
Judith Perlwitz United States	40	5.4k 0.8×	4.9k 0.8×	843 1.1×	106 0.5×	88 0.4×	80	6.3k
Peter Caldwell United States	29	3.6k 0.5×	3.1k 0.5×	431 0.6×	122 0.5×	94 0.5×	68	4.2k

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Qin, Yi, Po‐Lun Ma, Mark D. Zelinka, et al.. (2025). Impact of Turbulence Representation on the Relationship Between Cloud Feedback and Aerosol‐Cloud Interaction in an E3SMv2 Perturbed Parameter Ensemble. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 17(6).

Thackeray, Chad W., Mark D. Zelinka, Jesse Norris, Alex Hall, & Stephen Po–Chedley. (2024). Relationship Between Tropical Cloud Feedback and Climatological Bias in Clouds. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(24). 1 indexed citations

Qin, Yi, Xue Zheng, Stephen A. Klein, et al.. (2024). Causes of Reduced Climate Sensitivity in E3SM From Version 1 to Version 2. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(1). 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Xi, Xiaohong Liu, Yi Qin, et al.. (2024). Larger Cloud Liquid Water Enhances Both Aerosol Indirect Forcing and Cloud Radiative Feedback in Two Earth System Models. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(2). 4 indexed citations

Zhou, Chen, et al.. (2023). Explaining Forcing Efficacy With Pattern Effect and State Dependence. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(3). 16 indexed citations

Myers, Timothy A., Mark D. Zelinka, & Stephen A. Klein. (2023). Observational Constraints on the Cloud Feedback Pattern Effect. Journal of Climate. 36(18). 6533–6545. 8 indexed citations

Qin, Yi, Mark D. Zelinka, & Stephen A. Klein. (2022). On the Correspondence Between Atmosphere‐Only and Coupled Simulations for Radiative Feedbacks and Forcing From CO₂. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(3). 13 indexed citations

Santer, Benjamin D., Stephen Po–Chedley, C. A. Mears, et al.. (2021). Using Climate Model Simulations to Constrain Observations. Journal of Climate. 34(15). 6281–6301. 14 indexed citations

Zelinka, Mark D., Stephen A. Klein, & Yi Qin. (2021). Evaluating climate models' cloud feedbacks against expert judgement. 1 indexed citations

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Po–Chedley, Stephen, Benjamin D. Santer, S. Fueglistaler, et al.. (2021). Natural variability contributes to model–satellite differences in tropical tropospheric warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(13). 38 indexed citations

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Myers, Timothy A., Ryan C. Scott, Mark D. Zelinka, et al.. (2021). Observational constraints on low cloud feedback reduce uncertainty of climate sensitivity. Nature Climate Change. 11(6). 501–507. 140 indexed citations

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Mülmenstädt, Johannes, Marc Salzmann, Jennifer E. Kay, et al.. (2021). An underestimated negative cloud feedback from cloud lifetime changes. Nature Climate Change. 11(6). 508–513. 87 indexed citations

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Terai, Christopher R., Yunyan Zhang, Stephen A. Klein, et al.. (2019). Mechanisms Behind the Extratropical Stratiform Low‐Cloud Optical Depth Response to Temperature in ARM Site Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(4). 2127–2147. 17 indexed citations

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Po–Chedley, Stephen, Mark D. Zelinka, Nadir Jeevanjee, Tyler J. Thorsen, & Benjamin D. Santer. (2019). Climatology Explains Intermodel Spread in Tropical Upper Tropospheric Cloud and Relative Humidity Response to Greenhouse Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(22). 13399–13409. 21 indexed citations

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Santer, Benjamin D., John C. Fyfe, Susan Solomon, et al.. (2019). Quantifying stochastic uncertainty in detection time of human-caused climate signals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(40). 19821–19827. 35 indexed citations

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McCoy, Daniel T., Paul R. Field, Gregory S. Elsaesser, et al.. (2019). Cloud feedbacks in extratropical cyclones: insight from long-term satellite data and high-resolution global simulations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(2). 1147–1172. 20 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yuying, Shaocheng Xie, Wuyin Lin, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of Clouds in Version 1 of the E3SM Atmosphere Model With Satellite Simulators. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(5). 1253–1268. 54 indexed citations

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Santer, Benjamin D., Stephen Po–Chedley, Mark D. Zelinka, et al.. (2018). Human influence on the seasonal cycle of tropospheric temperature. Science. 361(6399). 104 indexed citations

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Zhou, Chen, Mark D. Zelinka, & Stephen A. Klein. (2016). Impact of decadal cloud variations on the Earth’s energy budget. Nature Geoscience. 9(12). 871–874. 236 indexed citations

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Eriksson, Patrick, et al.. (2014). Diagnosing the average spatio-temporal impact of convective systems – Part 2: A model intercomparison using satellite data. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(16). 8701–8721. 2 indexed citations

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