Kevin E. Trenberth

88.6k citations
321 papers · 61.4k · 40 hit papers · h-index 107

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 246
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 79
    • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 123
    • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research 38
    • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 24
    • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics 15

Kevin E. Trenberth

313 papers receiving 57.9k citations

Kevin E. Trenberth's Hit Papers

Past and future ocean warming 2022 · 164 citations
1640+5+10Years since publication50010001.5k2.0k2.5k

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Kevin E. Trenberth
Comparison fields: 5 of 209
  • Global and Planetary Change 47.7k
  • Atmospheric Science 36.2k
  • Oceanography 16.2k
  • Water Science and Technology 5.5k
  • Environmental Engineering 2.9k
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All Works

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1
Changes in precipitation with climate change
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20102912
2
Global warming and changes in drought
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20132633
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The Changing Character of Precipitation
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20032597
4
The Definition of El Niño
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19972478
5
Decadal atmosphere-ocean variations in the Pacific
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19942035
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A Global Dataset of Palmer Drought Severity Index for 1870–2002: Relationship with Soil Moisture and Effects of Surface Warming
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20041768
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Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change
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20071741
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Modern Global Climate Change
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20031623
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Progress during TOGA in understanding and modeling global teleconnections associated with tropical sea surface temperatures
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19981494
10
Earth's Global Energy Budget
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20081354
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Earth's Annual Global Mean Energy Budget
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19971066
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Recent Observed Interdecadal Climate Changes in the Northern Hemisphere
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1990981
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Estimates of Freshwater Discharge from Continents: Latitudinal and Seasonal Variations
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2002930
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Indices of El Niño Evolution
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2001797
15
Atlantic hurricanes and natural variability in 2005
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2006790
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Changes in Continental Freshwater Discharge from 1948 to 2004
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2008767
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Effects of Clouds, Soil Moisture, Precipitation, and Water Vapor on Diurnal Temperature Range
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1999725
18
Attribution of climate extreme events
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2015696
19
Trends and variability in column-integrated atmospheric water vapor
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2005682
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The 1990–1995 El Niño‐Southern Oscillation Event: Longest on Record
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1996676

About Kevin E. Trenberth

Kevin E. Trenberth is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Water Science and Technology, having authored 321 papers that have together received 61.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate variability and models (246 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (123 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (88 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (79 papers), Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (40 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (38 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 (47.7k citations), Atmospheric Science (36.2k citations), Oceanography (16.2k citations), Water Science and Technology (5.5k citations) and Environmental Engineering (2.9k 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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