Thomas L. Delworth

34.4k total citations · 12 hit papers
207 papers, 21.9k citations indexed

About

Thomas L. Delworth is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas L. Delworth has authored 207 papers receiving a total of 21.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 189 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 163 papers in Atmospheric Science and 89 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Thomas L. Delworth's work include Climate variability and models (186 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (97 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (70 papers). Thomas L. Delworth is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (186 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (97 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (70 papers). Thomas L. Delworth collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Thomas L. Delworth's co-authors include Rong Zhang, Syukuro Manabe, Ronald J. Stouffer, Michael Mann, Fanrong Zeng, J. F. B. Mitchell, Gabriel A. Vecchi, P. C. D. Milly, Keith W. Dixon and Isaac M. Held and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas L. Delworth

201 papers receiving 21.1k citations

Hit Papers

THE WCRP CMIP3 Multimodel Dataset: A New Er... 1988 2026 2000 2013 2007 2002 2000 2006 1993 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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. THE WCRP CMIP3 Multimodel Dataset: A New Era in Climate Change Research
    2007 2.4k citations Thomas L. Delworth et al. profile →
  2. Increasing risk of great floods in a changing climate
    2002 1.3k citations P. C. D. Milly, Thomas L. Delworth et al. profile →
  3. Observed and simulated multidecadal variability in the Northern Hemisphere
    2000 945 citations Thomas L. Delworth et al. profile →
  4. Impact of Atlantic multidecadal oscillations on India/Sahel rainfall and Atlantic hurricanes
    2006 728 citations Thomas L. Delworth et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
  5. Interdecadal Variations of the Thermohaline Circulation in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model
    1993 697 citations Thomas L. Delworth et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  6. Simulated Tropical Response to a Substantial Weakening of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation
    2005 658 citations Thomas L. Delworth et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  7. Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects
    2020 603 citations Clara Deser, Flavio Lehner et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  8. Quantifying the uncertainty in forecasts of anthropogenic climate change
    2000 529 citations Thomas L. Delworth et al. profile →
  9. Simulated Climate and Climate Change in the GFDL CM2.5 High-Resolution Coupled Climate Model
    2011 446 citations Thomas L. Delworth, Anthony Rosati et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  10. The Influence of Potential Evaporation on the Variabilities of Simulated Soil Wetness and Climate
    1988 377 citations Thomas L. Delworth et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  11. Enhanced warming of the N orthwest A tlantic O cean under climate change
    2015 355 citations Michael Winton, Michael A. Alexander et al. profile →
  12. On the Seasonal Forecasting of Regional Tropical Cyclone Activity
    2014 332 citations Gabriel A. Vecchi, Thomas L. Delworth et al. Journal of Climate profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas L. Delworth United States 73 18.1k 15.2k 7.8k 1.7k 1.2k 207 21.9k
Wenju Cai Australia 72 16.3k 0.9× 12.1k 0.8× 9.5k 1.2× 1.0k 0.6× 2.3k 1.9× 318 21.0k
Clara Deser United States 88 24.7k 1.4× 21.8k 1.4× 11.2k 1.4× 1.1k 0.6× 1.3k 1.1× 225 28.7k
Mojib Latif Germany 79 19.7k 1.1× 16.6k 1.1× 11.7k 1.5× 893 0.5× 1.2k 1.0× 311 23.5k
Yochanan Kushnir United States 69 14.4k 0.8× 12.1k 0.8× 6.8k 0.9× 979 0.6× 1.7k 1.4× 153 18.0k
Isaac M. Held United States 81 24.6k 1.4× 23.0k 1.5× 9.2k 1.2× 905 0.5× 1.9k 1.5× 205 30.2k
Hans von Storch Germany 61 14.3k 0.8× 12.2k 0.8× 4.2k 0.5× 1.2k 0.7× 856 0.7× 289 18.3k
Gabriel A. Vecchi United States 84 24.7k 1.4× 21.2k 1.4× 11.5k 1.5× 1.3k 0.7× 2.8k 2.3× 280 30.5k
Sandrine Bony France 60 19.3k 1.1× 17.4k 1.1× 2.9k 0.4× 967 0.6× 937 0.8× 149 22.4k
Richard Seager United States 81 19.9k 1.1× 15.4k 1.0× 4.6k 0.6× 2.0k 1.2× 2.8k 2.3× 254 25.2k
Akio Kitoh Japan 57 12.0k 0.7× 11.3k 0.7× 3.0k 0.4× 1.5k 0.9× 938 0.8× 195 15.0k

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All Works

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Jia, Liwei, Thomas L. Delworth, Xiaosong Yang, et al.. (2024). Seasonal predictions of summer compound humid heat extremes in the southeastern United States driven by sea surface temperatures. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 5 indexed citations
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Stock, Charles A., et al.. (2024). Dynamically downscaled seasonal ocean forecasts for North American east coast ecosystems. Ocean science. 20(6). 1631–1656. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Liping, Liwei Jia, Thomas L. Delworth, et al.. (2024). Exploring multiyear-to-decadal North Atlantic sea level predictability and prediction using machine learning. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Xiaosong, Thomas L. Delworth, Liwei Jia, et al.. (2024). Skillful seasonal prediction of wind energy resources in the contiguous United States. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 12 indexed citations
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Ross, Andrew, et al.. (2024). A Predicted Pause in the Rapid Warming of the Northwest Atlantic Shelf in the Coming Decade. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(17). 4 indexed citations
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Delworth, Thomas L., Andrew T. Wittenberg, Xiaosong Yang, et al.. (2023). The role of upper-ocean variations of the Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension in seasonal-to-decadal air-sea heat flux variability. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Liping, Thomas L. Delworth, Xiaosong Yang, et al.. (2023). Skillful decadal prediction skill over the Southern Ocean based on GFDL SPEAR Model-Analogs. Environmental Research Communications. 5(2). 21002–21002. 4 indexed citations
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Morioka, Yushi, Liping Zhang, Thomas L. Delworth, et al.. (2023). Multidecadal variability and predictability of Antarctic sea ice in the GFDL SPEAR_LO model. ˜The œcryosphere. 17(12). 5219–5240. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Liping, Thomas L. Delworth, Xiaosong Yang, et al.. (2022). The relative role of the subsurface Southern Ocean in driving negative Antarctic Sea ice extent anomalies in 2016–2021. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 47 indexed citations
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Xiang, Baoqiang, Bin Wang, Wei Zhang, et al.. (2022). Subseasonal controls of U.S. landfalling tropical cyclones. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 5(1). 6 indexed citations
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Tseng, Kai‐Chih, Nathaniel C. Johnson, Sarah Kapnick, et al.. (2022). When Will Humanity Notice Its Influence on Atmospheric Rivers?. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(9). 9 indexed citations
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Bushuk, Mitchell, Michael Winton, F. Alexander Haumann, et al.. (2021). Seasonal Prediction and Predictability of Regional Antarctic Sea Ice. Journal of Climate. 34(15). 6207–6233. 35 indexed citations
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Deser, Clara, Flavio Lehner, Keith B. Rodgers, et al.. (2020). Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects. Nature Climate Change. 10(4). 277–286. 603 indexed citations breakdown →
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Deser, Clara, Flavio Lehner, Keith B. Rodgers, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects. Nature Climate Change. 10(8). 791–791. 10 indexed citations
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Smith, Doug, Rosie Eade, Adam A. Scaife, et al.. (2019). Robust skill of decadal climate predictions. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 2(1). 187 indexed citations
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Danabasoglu, Gökhan, Frédéric Castruccio, Yohan Ruprich‐Robert, et al.. (2018). Modulation of Arctic Sea Ice Loss by Atmospheric Teleconnections from Atlantic Multi-Decadal Variability. AGUFM. 2018.
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Kapnick, Sarah, Xiaosong Yang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, et al.. (2018). Potential for western US seasonal snowpack prediction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(6). 1180–1185. 38 indexed citations
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Wittenberg, Andrew T., Gabriel A. Vecchi, Thomas L. Delworth, A. Rosati, & Fanrong Zeng. (2016). ENSO in a Flux-Adjusted Coupled GCM. 2016. 1 indexed citations
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Mahajan, Salil, et al.. (2009). Impact of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Variability on Arctic Climate. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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