List of famous or otherwise notable persons who have contributed to the study of climate science
Climate scientists study the climate system, including the statistics of the Earth's temperature (top) and precipitation (bottom).
This list of climate scientists contains famous or otherwise notable persons who have contributed to the study of
climate science. The list is compiled manually, so will not be complete, up to date, or comprehensive. See also
Category:Climatologists.
The list includes scientists from several specialities or disciplines.
Myles Allen, head of the Climate Dynamics group at University of Oxford's Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department. Lead author, IPCC Third Assessment Report. Review editor, Fourth Assessment Report.
Richard Alley (1957-), Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Science, American, Earth's
cryosphere and global climate change.
Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and is an adviser to the British Government on climate change.
James Annan, British climatologist with Blue Skies Research, UK
Julie Arblaster, Australian climatologist at The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research in
CSIRO
Guy Stewart Callendar (February 1898-October 1964), English steam engineer and inventor who proposed what eventually became known as the Callendar effect, the theory that linked rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to global temperature
Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888), American scientist, first to demonstrate that increased atmospheric levels of CO2 would result in heating of the atmosphere
Peter Gleick (1956-), American, hydroclimatologist, hydrologic impacts of climate change, snowfall/snowmelt responses, water adaptation strategies, consequences of
sea level rise
Kurt Lambeck, Australian, cryosphere-hydrosphere-lithosphere interactions, and sea level rise and its impact on human populations
Helmut Landsberg (1906-1985), German-American, fostered the use of
statistical analysis in climatology, which led to its evolution into a physical science
Amanda Lynch, Australian Professor at Brown University bridging research between atmospheric and climate change science, and environmental policy and Indigenous knowledge
Peter Lynch, Irish meteorologist and mathematician
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Michael MacCracken (1942-), American, chief scientist at the Climate Institute in Washington, DC
Gordon J. F. MacDonald (1929-2002), American physicist who developed one of the first computational models of climate change, and was an early advocate for governmental action
Jerry D. Mahlman (1940-2012), American meteorologist and climatologist and a pioneer in the use of computational models of the atmosphere to examine the interactions between atmospheric chemistry and physics
László Makra (1952-), Hungarian climatologist. Full professor. His main research area is pollen climatology and, within this, analysis of climatological relationships of ragweed pollen, as well as relationship between ragweed pollen concentration and respiratory diseases.
Syukuro Manabe (1931-), American, professor
Princeton University, pioneered the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations
Sebastian H. Mernild (1972-), Danish glaciologist and hydrologist, former director of the Nansen Environmental Research Center (NERSC),
Bergen,
Norway and
research director of the Climate Change and Glaciology Laboratory (at
CECs),
Valdivia,
Chile. Former
Vice President of the International Commission on Snow and Ice Hydrology (under
IAHS).
Andrew Pitman (1964-), British, terrestrial processes in global and regional climate modelling, model evaluation and earth systems approaches to understanding climate change
Gilbert Plass (1920-2004), Canadian, CO2 greenhouse effect and AGW
Nicola Scafetta (1975-), Italian astronomer and climate scientist
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (1950-), German climatologist, was an author for the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Penny Whetton, Australian, regional climate change projections for Australia. A lead author of the IPCC Third and fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change.
List of famous or otherwise notable persons who have contributed to the study of climate science
Climate scientists study the climate system, including the statistics of the Earth's temperature (top) and precipitation (bottom).
This list of climate scientists contains famous or otherwise notable persons who have contributed to the study of
climate science. The list is compiled manually, so will not be complete, up to date, or comprehensive. See also
Category:Climatologists.
The list includes scientists from several specialities or disciplines.
Myles Allen, head of the Climate Dynamics group at University of Oxford's Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department. Lead author, IPCC Third Assessment Report. Review editor, Fourth Assessment Report.
Richard Alley (1957-), Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Science, American, Earth's
cryosphere and global climate change.
Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and is an adviser to the British Government on climate change.
James Annan, British climatologist with Blue Skies Research, UK
Julie Arblaster, Australian climatologist at The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research in
CSIRO
Guy Stewart Callendar (February 1898-October 1964), English steam engineer and inventor who proposed what eventually became known as the Callendar effect, the theory that linked rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to global temperature
Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888), American scientist, first to demonstrate that increased atmospheric levels of CO2 would result in heating of the atmosphere
Peter Gleick (1956-), American, hydroclimatologist, hydrologic impacts of climate change, snowfall/snowmelt responses, water adaptation strategies, consequences of
sea level rise
Kurt Lambeck, Australian, cryosphere-hydrosphere-lithosphere interactions, and sea level rise and its impact on human populations
Helmut Landsberg (1906-1985), German-American, fostered the use of
statistical analysis in climatology, which led to its evolution into a physical science
Amanda Lynch, Australian Professor at Brown University bridging research between atmospheric and climate change science, and environmental policy and Indigenous knowledge
Peter Lynch, Irish meteorologist and mathematician
M
Michael MacCracken (1942-), American, chief scientist at the Climate Institute in Washington, DC
Gordon J. F. MacDonald (1929-2002), American physicist who developed one of the first computational models of climate change, and was an early advocate for governmental action
Jerry D. Mahlman (1940-2012), American meteorologist and climatologist and a pioneer in the use of computational models of the atmosphere to examine the interactions between atmospheric chemistry and physics
László Makra (1952-), Hungarian climatologist. Full professor. His main research area is pollen climatology and, within this, analysis of climatological relationships of ragweed pollen, as well as relationship between ragweed pollen concentration and respiratory diseases.
Syukuro Manabe (1931-), American, professor
Princeton University, pioneered the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations
Sebastian H. Mernild (1972-), Danish glaciologist and hydrologist, former director of the Nansen Environmental Research Center (NERSC),
Bergen,
Norway and
research director of the Climate Change and Glaciology Laboratory (at
CECs),
Valdivia,
Chile. Former
Vice President of the International Commission on Snow and Ice Hydrology (under
IAHS).
Andrew Pitman (1964-), British, terrestrial processes in global and regional climate modelling, model evaluation and earth systems approaches to understanding climate change
Gilbert Plass (1920-2004), Canadian, CO2 greenhouse effect and AGW
Nicola Scafetta (1975-), Italian astronomer and climate scientist
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (1950-), German climatologist, was an author for the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Penny Whetton, Australian, regional climate change projections for Australia. A lead author of the IPCC Third and fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change.