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Kevin E. Trenberth

Active 1976–2022

99
Papers
75,691
Citations
97
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Citations

Citations per year for Kevin E. Trenberth1965: 1 citations1969: 2 citations1981: 1 citations1983: 2 citations1984: 1 citations1986: 2 citations1987: 1 citations1988: 3 citations1989: 5 citations1990: 12 citations1991: 2 citations1992: 10 citations1993: 19 citations1994: 38 citations1995: 28 citations1996: 39 citations1997: 85 citations1998: 87 citations1999: 119 citations2000: 118 citations2001: 114 citations2002: 119 citations2003: 150 citations2004: 129 citations2005: 191 citations2006: 204 citations2007: 265 citations2008: 345 citations2009: 254 citations2010: 294 citations2011: 379 citations2012: 301 citations2013: 338 citations2014: 344 citations2015: 330 citations2016: 291 citations2017: 262 citations2018: 293 citations2019: 385 citations2020: 440 citations2021: 370 citations2022: 316 citations2023: 263 citations2024: 274 citations2025: 156 citations2026: 23 citations1966–1968: no citations, so these years are not shown1970–1980: no citations, so these years are not shown1982: no citations, so this year is not shown1985: no citations, so this year is not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 2,677 citing papers, 26.1% of this breakdownChina: 1,147 citing papers, 11.2% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 819 citing papers, 8% of this breakdownGermany: 586 citing papers, 5.7% of this breakdownAustralia: 456 citing papers, 4.4% of this breakdownFrance: 426 citing papers, 4.2% of this breakdownCanada: 328 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 302 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownNetherlands: 274 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownItaly: 263 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownJapan: 236 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownSpain: 213 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Environmental Science58%
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences23.7%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.2%
  • Engineering2.8%
  • Computer Science2.8%
  • Physics and Astronomy2.4%
  • Other6.1%

Topics

  • Climate variability and models16.4%
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations8.2%
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes4.6%
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics3.4%
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics3.3%
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis3.1%
  • Other61%

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  1. Changes in precipitation with climate change

    Authors: Kevin E. Trenberth - Climate Research 2010 cited by 3,783

  2. Global warming and changes in drought

    Authors: Kevin E. Trenberth, Aiguo Dai, Gerard van der Schrier, P. D. Jones, Jonathan Barichivich, Keith R. Briffa, Justin Sheffield - Nature Climate Change 2013 cited by 3,345

  3. The Changing Character of Precipitation

    Authors: Kevin E. Trenberth, Aiguo Dai, Roy M. Rasmussen, David B. Parsons - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2003 cited by 3,210

  4. Attribution of climate extreme events

    Authors: Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Theodore G. Shepherd - Nature Climate Change 2015 cited by 967

  5. Climate Change and Drought: a Perspective on Drought Indices

    Authors: Sourav Mukherjee, Ashok K. Mishra, Kevin E. Trenberth - Current Climate Change Reports 2018 cited by 806

  6. Earth's Global Energy Budget

    Authors: Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, J. T. Kiehl - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2008 cited by 2,025

  7. Trends and variability in column-integrated atmospheric water vapor

    Authors: Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Lesley Smith - Climate Dynamics 2005 cited by 830

  8. Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century

    Authors: Guancheng Li, Lijing Cheng, Jiang Zhu, Kevin E. Trenberth, Michael Mann, John Abraham - Nature Climate Change 2020 cited by 566

  9. The ERA‐40 re‐analysis

    Authors: S. Uppala, P. Kållberg, A. J. Simmons, Ulf Andrae, V. da Costa Bechtold, Michael Fiorino, J. K. Gibson, Jan Haseler, Andrés S. Rigual‐Hernández, Graeme Kelly, X. Li, Kazutoshi Onogi, Sami Saarinen, N. Sokka, Richard P. Allan, Erik Andersson, K. Arpe, Magdalena Balmaseda, Anton Beljaars, Leo van de Berg, Jean‐Raymond Bidlot, Niels Bormann, Sofía Caires, Frédéric Chevallier, A. Dethof, M. Dragosavac, Michael Fisher, Manuel Fuentes, Stefan Hagemann, Elías Hólm, Brian J. Hoskins, Lars Isaksen, Peter A. E. M. Janssen, Roy L. Jenne, A. P. McNally, Jean‐François Mahfouf, Jean‐Jacques Morcrette, Nick A Rayner, Roger Saunders, P. Simon, Andreas Sterl, Kevin E. Trenberth, A. Untch, Drasko Vasiljevic, Pedro Viterbo, Jack Woollen - Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 2005 cited by 7,140

  10. Modern Global Climate Change

    Authors: Thomas R. Karl, Kevin E. Trenberth - Science 2003 cited by 2,070

  11. The Definition of El Niño

    Authors: Kevin E. Trenberth - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 1997 cited by 2,915

  12. A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change

    Authors: John Abraham, Molly Baringer, Nathaniel L. Bindoff, Tim Boyer, Lijing Cheng, John Church, Jessica L. Conroy, Catia M. Domingues, John Fasullo, John Gilson, Gustavo Goñi, Simon Good, John M. Gorman, Viktor Gouretski, Masao Ishii, Gregory C. Johnson, Shoichi Kizu, John M. Lyman, Alison M. Macdonald, W.J. Minkowycz, S. E. Moffitt, Matthew D. Palmer, Alberto Piola, Franco Reseghetti, Karina von Schuckmann, Kevin E. Trenberth, I. Velicogna, J. K. Willis - Reviews of Geophysics 2013 cited by 530

  13. Past and future ocean warming

    Authors: Lijing Cheng, Karina von Schuckmann, John Abraham, Kevin E. Trenberth, Michael Mann, Laure Zanna, Matthew H. England, Jan D. Zika, John Fasullo, Yongqiang Yu, Yuying Pan, Jiang Zhu, Emily R. Newsom, Ben Bronselaer, Xiaopei Lin - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2022 cited by 299

  14. A Global Dataset of Palmer Drought Severity Index for 1870–2002: Relationship with Soil Moisture and Effects of Surface Warming

    Authors: Aiguo Dai, Kevin E. Trenberth, Taotao Qian - Journal of Hydrometeorology 2004 cited by 2,068

  15. Earth's Annual Global Mean Energy Budget

    Authors: J. T. Kiehl, Kevin E. Trenberth - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 1997 cited by 1,580

  16. Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960 to 2015

    Authors: Lijing Cheng, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Tim Boyer, John Abraham, Jiang Zhu - Science Advances 2017 cited by 905

  17. How fast are the oceans warming?

    Authors: Lijing Cheng, John Abraham, Zeke Hausfather, Kevin E. Trenberth - Science 2019 cited by 553

  18. An imperative to monitor Earth's energy imbalance

    Authors: Karina von Schuckmann, Matthew D. Palmer, Kevin E. Trenberth, Anny Cazenave, D. P. Chambers, Nicolas Champollion, James E. Hansen, Simon A. Josey, Norman G. Loeb, P.‐P. Mathieu, Benoît Meyssignac, Martin Wild - Nature Climate Change 2016 cited by 453

  19. The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 Mission: Early Results

    Authors: Richard A. Anthes, P. A. Bernhardt, Y. Chen, Lídia Cucurull, K. F. Dymond, D. Ector, S. B. Healy, Shu‐peng Ho, Doug Hunt, Ying‐Hwa Kuo, H. Liu, Kevin W. Manning, Christopher McCormick, T. K. Meehan, William J. Randel, C. Rocken, William Schreiner, Sergey Sokolovskiy, Stig Syndergaard, D. C. Thompson, Kevin E. Trenberth, Tae‐Kwon Wee, Nick Yen, Zhen Zeng - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2008 cited by 1,055

  20. Effects of Clouds, Soil Moisture, Precipitation, and Water Vapor on Diurnal Temperature Range

    Authors: Aiguo Dai, Kevin E. Trenberth, Thomas R. Karl - Journal of Climate 1999 cited by 840

  21. Relationships between precipitation and surface temperature

    Authors: Kevin E. Trenberth, Dennis J. Shea - Geophysical Research Letters 2005 cited by 769

  22. Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change

    Authors: Theodore G. Shepherd, Emily Boyd, Raphael Calel, S. C. Chapman, Suraje Dessai, Ioana Dima-West, Hayley J. Fowler, Rachel James, Douglas Maraun, Olivia Martius, C. A. Senior, Adam H. Sobel, David A. Stainforth, Simon F. B. Tett, Kevin E. Trenberth, Bart van den Hurk, N. W. Watkins, Robert L. Wilby, Dimitri Zenghelis - Climatic Change 2018 cited by 757

  23. The Impact of Climate Change and Variability on Heavy Precipitation, Floods, and Droughts

    Authors: Kevin E. Trenberth - Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences 2005 cited by 226

  24. Climate change caused by human activities is happening and it already has major consequences

    Authors: Kevin E. Trenberth - Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law 2018 cited by 225