This list of climate scientists contains famous or otherwise notable persons who have contributed to the study of

climate science Climatology (from Greek , ''klima'', "place, zone"; and , '' -logia'') or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. This modern field of stu ...

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Waleed Abdalati Waleed Abdalati held the position of NASA Chief Scientist from 3 January 2011 through December 2012. Abdalati was named to this position on 13 December 2010 by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. Abdalati previously served NASA as Head of Cryospher ...

, American, director of Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies, former chief scientist of

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil List of government space agencies, space program ...

Nerilie Abram Nerilie Abram (born June 1977) is an Australian professor at the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Her areas of expertise are in climate change and paleoclimatology, including the climat ...

(1977-), Australian paleoclimatologist, at

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...

* Ernest Afiesimama, Nigerian weatherman, former senior associate of the

International Centre for Theoretical Physics The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is an international research institute for physical and mathematical sciences that operates under a tripartite agreement between the Italian Government, United Nations Educatio ...

Myles Allen Myles Robert Allen (born 11 August 1965) is an English climate scientist. He is Professor of Geosystem Science in the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, and in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Depar ...

, 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 ] The cryosphere (from the Ancient Greek, Greek ''kryos'', "cold", "frost" or "ice" and ''sphaira'', "globe, ball") is an all-encompassing term for those portions of Earth's surface where water is in solid form, including sea ice, lake ice, ri ...

and global climate change. * Kevin Anderson (scientist), 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 * David Archer, American professor of oceanography at

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

Svante Arrhenius Svante August Arrhenius ( , ; 19 February 1859 – 2 October 1927) was a Swedish scientist. Originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, Arrhenius was one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. He received the Nob ...

(1859-1927), Swedish,

greenhouse effect The greenhouse effect is a process that occurs when energy from a planet's host star goes through the planet's atmosphere and heats the planet's surface, but greenhouse gases in the atmosphere prevent some of the heat from returning directly ...

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* Sallie Baliunas, American, astrophysicist,

solar variation The solar cycle, also known as the solar magnetic activity cycle, sunspot cycle, or Schwabe cycle, is a nearly periodic 11-year change in the Sun's activity measured in terms of variations in the number of observed sunspots on the Sun's surfa ...

* Elizabeth A. Barnes, American climate scientist working on earth science statistics * Eric J. Barron (1944-), American geophysicist, President of Pennsylvania State University * Roger G. Barry, (1935-2018), British-American, polar climatologist, first director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center *

Robin Bell Robin Bell (born 16 November 1977 in Cape Town) is a South African-born, Australian slalom canoeist who competed from the late 1990s to the late 2000s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the C1 event in Beijing in ...

, American, polar geophysicist, President-elect of the

American Geophysical Union The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of Earth, atmospheric, ocean, hydrologic, space, and planetary scientists and enthusiasts that according to their website includes 130,000 people (not members). AGU's a ...

Martin Beniston Martin Beniston was born in England in 1953 and holds three passports (Swiss, British, French). He has studied in the UK (Universities of East Anglia and Reading), France (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris), and ETH-Zurich (“Habilitatio ...

, Swiss climate scientist. *

Lennart Bengtsson Lennart Bengtsson (born ) is a Swedish meteorologist. His research interests include climate sensitivity, extreme events, climate variability and climate predictability. Career He was head of research at the European Centre for Medium-Range Wea ...

(1935-), Swedish meteorologist and climate scientist *

André Berger André Léon Georges Chevalier Berger (born July 30, 1942, Acoz) is a Belgian climatologist and professor. He is best known for his significant contribution to the renaissance and further development of the astronomical theory of paleoclimates a ...

, (1942-), Belgian, modeling climatic changes at the geological and at the century time scales * Richard A. Betts, Head of the Climate Impacts strategic area at the Met Office

Hadley Centre The Met Office Hadley Centre — named in honour of George Hadley — is one of the United Kingdom's leading centres for the study of scientific issues associated with climate change. It is part of, and based at the headquarters of the Met ...

* John W. Birks, American atmospheric chemist and co-developer of the nuclear winter theory *

Jacob Bjerknes Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes ( , ; 2 November 1897 – 7 July 1975) was a meteorologist. He is known for his key paper in which he pointed the dynamics of the polar front, mechanism for north-south heat transport and for which he was also awar ...

(1897-1975), Norwegian-American meteorologist *

Vilhelm Bjerknes Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes ( , ; 14 March 1862 – 9 April 1951) was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern practice of weather forecasting. He formulated the primitive equations that are still in use in num ...

(1862-1951), Norwegian, forecasting, numerical models * Bert Bolin (1925-2007), Swedish meteorologist, first chair of the

IPCC The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations. Its job is to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ...

Gerard C. Bond Gerard Clark Bond (May 20, 1940 – June 29, 2005) was an American geologist. Biography Bond received his Bachelor of Science degree at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, where his father Ralph Bond was a Professor of Geology. He worked at t ...

(1940-2005), American geologist and paleoclimate researcher * Jason Box, American professor of glaciology at

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

* Raymond S. Bradley, American, historical temperatures,

paleoclimatology Paleoclimatology (American and British English spelling differences, British spelling, palaeoclimatology) is the study of climates for which direct measurements were not taken. As instrumental records only span a tiny part of Earth's history, the ...

, and climate variability. *

Keith Briffa Keith Raphael Briffa (27 December 1952 – 29 October 2017) was a climatologist and deputy director of the Climatic Research Unit. He authored or co-authored over 130 scholarly articles, chapters and books. In his professional work, he focused on ...

(1952-2017), United Kingdom, dendrochronology, temperature history. *

Wallace Smith Broecker Wallace "Wally" Smith Broecker (November 29, 1931 – February 18, 2019) was an American geochemist. He was the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, a scientist at Columbia's Lamont–D ...

(1931-2019), American, Pleistocene

geochronology Geochronology is the science of determining the age of rocks, fossils, and sediments using signatures inherent in the rocks themselves. Absolute geochronology can be accomplished through radioactive isotopes, whereas relative geochronology is ...

, radiocarbon dating, and

chemical oceanography Marine chemistry, also known as ocean chemistry or chemical oceanography, is influenced by plate tectonics and seafloor spreading, turbidity currents, sediments, pH levels, atmospheric constituents, metamorphic activity, and ecology. The fiel ...

* Harold E. Brooks (1959-), American meteorologist, severe convective storm and

tornado climatology Tornadoes have been recorded on all continents except Antarctica. They are most common in the middle latitudes where conditions are often favorable for convective storm development. The United States has the most tornadoes of any country, as we ...

as well as conducive atmospheric environments *

Keith Browning Keith Anthony Browning (born 31 July 1938) is a British meteorologist who worked at Imperial College London, the Met Office, and the University of Reading departments of meteorology. His work with Frank Ludlam on the supercell thunderstorm at ...

, British meteorologist; mesoscale meteorology, sparkles

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Robert Cahalan Robert F. Cahalan (November 24, 1946 – ) is Emeritus Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and previous Chief of the Laboratory for Climate and Radiation (2003–2013), Project Scientist of the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SOR ...

, American, climate physics, energy balance, radiative transfer, remote sensing, solar radiation *

Ken Caldeira Kenneth Caldeira (born 1960) is an American atmospheric scientist. His areas of research include ocean acidification, climate effects of trees, intentional climate modification, interactions in the global carbon cycle/climate system, and sustain ...

, American,

climate engineering Climate engineering (also called geoengineering) is a term used for both carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM), also called solar geoengineering, when applied at a planetary scale.IPCC (2022Chapter 1: Introduction and ...

, ocean acidification, atmospheric chemistry *

Guy Stewart Callendar Guy Stewart Callendar (; 9 February 1898 – 3 October 1964) was an English steam engineer and inventor. His main contribution to human knowledge was developing the theory that linked rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to glob ...

, English,(February 1898-October 1964), 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 *

Mark Cane Mark A. Cane is an American climate scientist. He obtained his PhD at MIT in 1975. He is currently the G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences at Columbia University and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. He actively pursues s ...

, American, modeling and prediction of the

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* Anny Cazenave, French oceanographer specializing in satellite altimetry * Robert D. Cess, American atmospheric scientist, emeritus professor at Stony Brook University * Jule G. Charney (1917-1981), American meteorologist, pioneer in numerical weather modeling * John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at

The University of Alabama in Huntsville The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is a public research university in Huntsville, Alabama. The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and comprises nine colleges: arts, humanities & social science ...

. Best known (with Roy Spencer) for developing the first version of the satellite temperature record. * John A. Church (1951-), Australian oceanographer, chair of the

World Climate Research Programme The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is an international programme that helps to coordinate global climate research. The WCRP was established in 1980, under the joint sponsorship of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Inter ...

* Ralph J. Cicerone (1943-2016), American atmospheric chemist, President of U.S. National Academy of Sciences * Danielle Claar, American marine scientist studying effect of climate on coral symbionts and parasites * Allison Crimmins, American, head of the

National Climate Assessment The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is a United States government interagency ongoing effort on climate change science conducted under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The NCA is a major product of the U.S. Global Change Re ...

* Harmon Craig (1926-2003), pioneering American geochemist * Paul J. Crutzen (1933-2021), Dutch, stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry, and their role in the biogeochemical cycles and climate * Heidi Cullen, American meteorologist, chief scientist for

Climate Central Climate Central is a nonprofit news organization that analyzes and reports on climate science. Composed of scientists and science journalists, the organization conducts scientific research on climate change and energy issues, and produces multimed ...

Balfour Currie Balfour Watson Currie, (November 1, 1902 – January 8, 1981) was a Canadian scientist specializing in the fields of meteorology and climatology. Early life Born in Montana, he came to Saskatchewan at an early age. His parents moved to a ...

OC (1902-1981), Canadian climatologist at

University of Saskatchewan A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, ...

Judith Curry Judith A. Curry (born c. 1953) is an American climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include hurricanes, remote sensing, atmospheric modeling, ...

American climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology

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* Willi Dansgaard (1922-2011), Danish climatologist * Scott Denning, American atmospheric scientist and professor at Colorado State University *

Andrew Dessler Andrew Emory Dessler (born 1964) is a climate scientist. He is Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and holder of the Reta A. Haynes Chair in Geoscience at Texas A&M University. He is also the Director of the Texas Center for Climate Studies. His ...

, American atmospheric scientist and professor at

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, T ...

* P. C. S. Devara, Indian climatologist and professor at Amity University, Gurgaon * Robert E. Dickinson. American climatologist, professor at

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...

* Mark Dyurgerov (died 2009), Russian-American glaciologist

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* Sylvia Earle (1935-), American marine biologist * Don Easterbrook (1935-), American, Professor Emeritus of Geology at

Western Washington University Western Washington University (WWU or Western) is a public university in Bellingham, Washington. The northernmost university in the contiguous United States, WWU was founded in 1893 as the state-funded New Whatcom Normal School, succeeding a pri ...

* Tamsin Edwards, British climate scientist at King's College London *

Arnt Eliassen Arnt Eliassen (9 September 1915 – 22 April 2000) was a Norwegian meteorologist who was a pioneer in the use of numerical analysis and computers for weather forecasting. Career The early pioneer work was done at the Institute for Advanced ...

, dynamic meteorologist * Kerry Emanuel (1955-), American, atmospheric dynamics specializing in hurricanes * Matthew England (1966-), Australian, physical oceanographer and climate dynamicist * Ian G. Enting, Australian mathematical physicist at

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb no ...

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Joe Farman Joseph Charles Farman CBE (7 August 193011 May 2013) was a British geophysicist who worked for the British Antarctic Survey. Together with Brian Gardiner and Jon Shanklin, he published the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica, having us ...

, British, ozone hole above Antarctica * Christopher Field, American climate scientist with the

Carnegie Institution for Science The Carnegie Institution of Washington (the organization's legal name), known also for public purposes as the Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), is an organization in the United States established to fund and perform scientific research. Th ...

Eunice Newton Foote Eunice Newton Foote (July 17, 1819 – September 30, 1888) was an American scientist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner. She was the first scientist to conclude that certain gases warmed when exposed to sunlight, and that rising carbo ...

(1819-1888), American scientist, first to demonstrate that increased atmospheric levels of CO₂ would result in heating of the atmosphere * Piers Forster, British professor of Physical Climate Change at

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

* Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), French,

Jennifer Francis Jennifer Ann Francis became a senior scientist at Woods Hole Research Center in 2018, after being a research professor at Rutgers University's Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences starting in 1994. Education Francis received a B.S. in meteo ...

, climate change in the Arctic *

Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin ( April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Encyclopædia Britannica, Wood, 2021 Among the leading inte ...

(1706-1790), first mapped the course of the Gulf Stream for use in sending mail from the United States to Europe * Chris Freeman, Welsh professor of biogeochemistry * Eigil Friis-Christensen (1944-2018), Danish geophysicist *

Inez Fung Inez Fung (; born April 11, 1949) is a professor of atmospheric science at the University of California, Berkeley, jointly appointed in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Managemen ...

, American, climate modeling, biogeochemical cycles, and climate change * Yevgraf Yevgrafovich Fyodorov (1880-1965), Russian climatologist

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* Francis Galton (1822-1911), coined the term ''

anticyclone An anticyclone is a weather phenomenon defined as a large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from ...

'' * Filippo Giorgi (1959-), Italian atmospheric physicist,

Peter Gleick Peter H. Gleick (; born 1956) is an American scientist working on issues related to the environment. He works at the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California, which he co-founded in 1987. In 2003 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his work ...

(1956-), American, hydroclimatologist, hydrologic impacts of climate change, snowfall/snowmelt responses, water adaptation strategies, consequences of

sea level rise Globally, sea levels are rising due to human-caused climate change. Between 1901 and 2018, the globally averaged sea level rose by , or 1–2 mm per year on average.IPCC, 2019Summary for Policymakers InIPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cry ...

Kenneth M. Golden Kenneth "Ken" Morgan Golden is an American applied mathematician and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah. He is recognized as the "Indiana Jones of Mathematics" for his work in polar climate modeling and has traveled to the polar reg ...

, American applied mathematician,

percolation theory In statistical physics and mathematics, percolation theory describes the behavior of a network when nodes or links are added. This is a geometric type of phase transition, since at a critical fraction of addition the network of small, disconnecte ...

and diffusion process models of sea ice, professor at

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

* Natalya Gomez, climate-ice sheet-solid earth modeler, Canadian, professor at

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous ...

* Jonathan M. Gregory, climate modeler, British, professor at

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...

Jean Grove Jean Grove (''née'' Clark; 10 March 1927 – 17 January 2001) was a British Physical geography, physical geographer and glaciologist known for her comprehensive study of Climate change (general concept), climate change in the Little Ice Age acros ...

(1927-2001), British, glaciologist; the Little Ice Age

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Joanna Haigh Joanna Dorothy Haigh (born 7 May 1954) is a British physicist and academic. Before her retirement in 2019 she was Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London, and co-director of the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and En ...

, (1954-), British, Co-Director of Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, solar variability *

Edmund Halley Edmond (or Edmund) Halley (; – ) was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720. From an observatory he constructed on Saint Helena in 1676–77, Hal ...

, published a map of the trade winds in 1686 after a voyage to the southern hemisphere * Gordon Hamilton, (1966-2016), Scottish, Associate Research Professor, Climatology Group, of the

University of Maine The University of Maine (UMaine or UMO) is a public land-grant research university in Orono, Maine. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine and is the flagship university of the University of Maine System. It is classifie ...

James E. Hansen James Edward Hansen (born March 29, 1942) is an American adjunct professor directing the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions of the The Earth Institute, Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is best known for his research ...

(1941-), American, planetary atmospheres, remote sensing, numerical models, and global warming *

Kenneth Hare Fredrick Kenneth Hare, (February 5, 1919 – September 3, 2002) was a Canadian climatologist and academic, who researched atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate change, drought, and arid zone climates and was a strong advocate for preserving the natu ...

OC FRSC (1919-2002), Canadian climatologist *

Klaus Hasselmann Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann (, born 25 October 1931) is a German oceanographer and climate modeller. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hamburg and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. He was awarded the 2021 ...

, German oceanographer and climate modeller, founding director of the

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (''Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie''; MPI-M) is an internationally renowned institute for climate research. Its mission is to understand Earth's changing climate. Founded in 1975, it is affiliated w ...

* Ed Hawkins, British climate scientist at

, and designer of data visualization graphics *

Katharine Hayhoe Katharine Anne Scott Hayhoe (born 1972) is a Canadian atmospheric scientist. She is a Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor and an Endowed Chair in Public Policy and Public Law in the Texas Tech University Department of Political Science. I ...

, Canadian, Atmospheric science, global climate models. * Gabriele C. Hegerl (1963-), Professor of Climate System Science at the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences. *

Isaac Held Isaac Meyer Held (born 1948) is an American meteorologist. He is a senior research scientist at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Held was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2003. Biography Born to refugee pare ...

, German-American atmospheric physicist, researcher at

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* Ann Henderson-Sellers (1952-), Australian, climate change risk evaluation * Ellie Highwood, Professor of Climate Physics at the

David A. Hodell David A. Hodell (born 1958) is a geologist and paleoclimatologist. He currently holds the position of Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a fellow of Clare College ...

, (1958-), British paleoclimatologist, professor at

Cambridge University The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III of England, Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world' ...

* Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Australian oceanographer at

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

Greg Holland Gregory Scott Holland (born November 20, 1985) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals, Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Cardinals, Washington N ...

, Australian meteorology researcher at

NCAR The US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR ) is a US federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and funded by the National Science Foundatio ...

Brian Hoskins Professor Sir Brian John Hoskins, CBE FRS, (born 17 May 1945) is a British dynamical meteorologist and climatologist based at the Imperial College London and the University of Reading. A mathematician by training, his research has focused on ...

, British climatologist and professor at

John T. Houghton Sir John Theodore Houghton (30 December 1931 – 15 April 2020) was a Welsh atmospheric physicist who was the co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) scientific assessment working group which shared the Nobel Peace P ...

(1931-2020), British, atmospheric physics, remote sensing * Malcolm K. Hughes, British meso-climatologist, professor at

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T ...

Mike Hulme Michael Hulme (born 23 July 1960) is Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, and also a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was formerly professor of Climate and Culture at King's Coll ...

(1960-), British, climate impacts, climate modelling, climate and culture. *

Thomas Sterry Hunt Thomas Sterry Hunt (September 5, 1826February 12, 1892) was an American geologist and chemist. Biography Hunt was born at Norwich, Connecticut. He lost his father when twelve years old, and had to earn his own livelihood. In the course of two ye ...

(1826-1892), American, first scientist to connect carbon dioxide to climate change

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Sherwood Idso Sherwood B. Idso (born June 12, 1942) is the president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, which rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. Previously he was a Research Physicist with the U.S. Department of ...

(1942-), American, former research physicist with US Department of Agriculture

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* Eystein Jansen (1953-), Norwegian professor of paleoceanography at

University of Bergen The University of Bergen ( no, Universitetet i Bergen, ) is a research-intensive state university located in Bergen, Norway. As of 2019, the university has over 4,000 employees and 18,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 194 ...

and former director of Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research * Phil Jones (1952-), British, instrumental climate change, palaeoclimatology, detection of climate change * Jean Jouzel, French, glaciologist and climatologist specializing in major climatic shifts

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* Peter Kalmus, American data scientist at

Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in the City of La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States. Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA an ...

and Associate Project Scientist at

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...

’ Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering *

Daniel Kammen Daniel Merson Kammen is an American scientist, renewable energy expert, and former government figure. He currently serves as Distinguished Professor of Energy in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a ...

, American professor of Energy at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

* Thomas R. Karl (1951-), American, climate extremes and variability * David Karoly, Australian professor of meteorology at

Charles David Keeling Charles David Keeling (April 20, 1928 – June 20, 2005) was an American scientist whose recording of carbon dioxide at the Mauna Loa Observatory confirmed Svante Arrhenius's proposition (1896) of the possibility of anthropogenic contribution to ...

(1928-2005), American, atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements, Keeling Curve * Ralph Keeling (1959-), American professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography * David W. Keith, Canadian, Geoengineering and CO₂ capture and storage research, University Professor at SEAS and Harvard Kennedy School *

Wilfrid George Kendrew Wilfrid George Kendrew (12 September 1884 – 4 April 1962) was a British climatologist. Early life Kendrew was born in Keith, Banffshire in northern Scotland in 1884. His father was a customs officer who soon moved the family to Dublin. Kendrew ...

, (1884-1962), Scottish climatologist and meteorologist * Gretchen Keppel-Aleks, American climate scientist * Joseph B. Klemp, American atmospheric scientist at

* Thomas Knutson, American climate modeller, researcher at

* Reto Knutti, Swiss climate scientist, professor at ETH Zurich * Kirill Y. Kondratyev (1920-2006), Russian atmospheric physicist * Bronwen Konecky, paleoclimatologist and climatologist * Pancheti Koteswaram, Indian meteorologist and former vice-president of the

World Meteorological Organization The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics. The WMO originated from the Intern ...

* Shen Kuo (1031-1095), Chinese scientist who inferred that climates naturally shifted over an enormous span of time * M. Levent Kurnaz, Turkish climate scientist at

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University ( tr, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its main campus is located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait. It has six faculties and tw ...

, director of the Center for Climate Change and Policy Studies (iklimBU) * John E. Kutzbach (1937-2021), American climatologist at

University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United Stat ...

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Dmitry Lachinov Dmitry Aleksandrovich Lachinov (russian: Дмитрий Александрович Лачи́нов ) (10 Jan 1842 – 15 October 1902) was a Russian physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, meteorologist and climatologist. Biography Dmitry ...

(1842-1902), Russian climatologist and engineer *

Hubert Lamb Hubert Horace Lamb (22 September 1913 in Bedford – 28 June 1997 in Holt, Norfolk) was an English climatologist who founded the Climatic Research Unit in 1972 in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. Career ...

(1913-1997), British climatologist, founder of the

Climatic Research Unit The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) is a component of the University of East Anglia and is one of the leading institutions concerned with the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change. With a staff of some thirty research scientists and s ...

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

Kurt Lambeck Professor Kurt Lambeck AC, FRS, FAA, FRSN (born 20 September 1941 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is Professor of Geophysics at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. He has also taught at University of Paris and at Smithsonian a ...

, Australian, cryosphere-hydrosphere-lithosphere interactions, and sea level rise and its impact on human populations *

Helmut Landsberg Helmut Erich Landsberg (1906–1985) was a noted and influential climatologist. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, February 9, 1906 and died December 6, 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland while attending a meeting of the World Meteorological Orga ...

(1906-1985), German-American, fostered the use of statistical analysis in climatology, which led to its evolution into a physical science *

Christopher Landsea Christopher William "Chris" Landsea is an American meteorologist, formerly a research meteorologist with the Hurricane Research Division of the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory at NOAA, and now the Science and Operations Offi ...

(1965-), American meteorologist, Science and Operations Officer at the National Hurricane Center * Mojib Latif (1954-), German, meteorology and oceanography, climate modelling * Corinne Le Quéré, France/Canadian/UK, Royal Society research professor, University of East Anglia * Anders Levermann, German professor of climate dynamics at

University of Potsdam The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, Germany. It is mainly situated across three campuses in the city. Some faculty buildings are part of the New Palace of Sanssouci which is known ...

* Richard Lindzen (1940-), American, dynamic meteorology, especially

planetary waves Rossby waves, also known as planetary waves, are a type of inertial wave naturally occurring in rotating fluids. They were first identified by Sweden-born American meteorologist Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby. They are observed in the atmospheres and o ...

Diana Liverman Diana Liverman (born May 15, 1954, Accra, Ghana) is a retired Regents Professor of Geography and Development and past Director of the University of Arizona School of Geography, Development and Environment in the College of Social and Behavioral ...

(1954-), American/British, climate impacts, vulnerability and policy * Michael Lockwood, British professor of physics at

Reading University The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...

Michael S. Longuet-Higgins Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins FRS (8 December 1925 – 26 February 2016) was a mathematician and oceanographer at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), Cambridge University, England and Institute for Nonline ...

FRS (Oceanographer) (1925-2016), British, mathematician and oceanographer DAMTP at

and Scripps Institution

UCSD The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...

, ocean waves and fluid dynamics * Edward Norton Lorenz (1917-2008), American, discovery of the strange attractor notion and coined the term butterfly effect * Claude Lorius, French glaciologist, director emeritus of CNRS * James Lovelock (1919-2022), British, Gaia hypothesis and biotic feedbacks. * Amanda Lynch, Australian Professor at Brown University bridging research between atmospheric and climate change science, and environmental policy and Indigenous knowledge *

Peter Lynch Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944) is an American investor, mutual fund manager, and philanthropist. As the manager of the Magellan Fund at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990, Lynch averaged a 29.2% annual return, consistently more th ...

, Irish meteorologist and mathematician

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Michael MacCracken Michael Calvin MacCracken (born 1942), has been chief scientist for climate change programs with the Climate Institute in Washington, D.C., since 2002; he was also elected to its board of directors in 2006. Early life Born in Schenectady, New York ...

(1942-), American, chief scientist at the Climate Institute in Washington, DC *

Gordon J. F. MacDonald Gordon James Fraser MacDonald (July 30, 1929 – May 14, 2002) was an American geophysicist and environmental scientist, best known for his principled skepticism regarding continental drift (now called plate tectonics), involvement in the developmen ...

(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 Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

, pioneered the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations *

Gordon Manley Gordon Valentine Manley, FRGS (3 January 1902 – 29 January 1980) was a British climatologist who has been described as "probably the best known, most prolific and most expert on the climate of Britain of his generation". He assembled the Centra ...

(1902-1980), English,

Central England temperature The Central England Temperature (CET) record is a meteorological dataset originally published by Professor Gordon Manley in 1953 and subsequently extended and updated in 1974, following many decades of painstaking work. The monthly mean surface a ...

(CET) series * Michael E. Mann (1965-), American, professor of meteorology and director, Earth System Science Center, Penn State U. * David Marshall, British physical oceanographer at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. * Valerie Masson-Delmotte, French climate scientist with a focus on paleoclimatology at the Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory (LSCE) *

Gordon McBean Gordon McBean, , is a Canadian climatologist who serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. He is a professor at the University of Western Ontario and Chair for Policy in the Inst ...

, Canadian, boundary layer research, hydrometeorology and environmental impact research, and weather forecasting * James J. McCarthy, American professor of Biological Oceanography at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

* Helen McGregor, an Australian geologist and climate change researcher, a Fellow with the Research School of Earth Sciences at the

* Christopher McKay, American planetary scientist at

NASA Ames Research Center The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) labora ...

Marcia McNutt Marcia Kemper McNutt (born February 19, 1952) is an American geophysicist and the 22nd president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States. Previously, she served as editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal ''Science'' fro ...

, American geophysicist, president of the National Academy of Sciences * Linda Mearns, American climate scientist, senior scientist at

* Carl Mears, American, senior scientist at

Remote Sensing Systems Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) is a private research company founded in 1974 by Frank Wentz. It processes microwave data from a variety of NASA satellites. Most of their research is supported by the Earth Science Enterprise program. The company is b ...

* Gerald A. Meehl (1951-), American climatologist at

* Katrin Meissner, German and Australian physical oceanographer and climate scientist, director of the Climate Change Research Centre at

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensiv ...

* Sebastian H. Mernild (1972-), Danish glaciologist and hydrologist, former director of the Nansen Environmental Research Center (NERSC),

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

and research director of the Climate Change and Glaciology Laboratory (at CECs),

Valdivia Valdivia (; Mapuche: Ainil) is a city and commune in southern Chile, administered by the Municipality of Valdivia. The city is named after its founder Pedro de Valdivia and is located at the confluence of the Calle-Calle, Valdivia, and Cau-Cau R ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

. Former

Vice President A vice president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice president is on ...

of the International Commission on Snow and Ice Hydrology (under IAHS). * Patrick Michaels (1950-), American climatologist *

Milutin Milanković Milutin Milanković (sometimes anglicised as Milankovitch; sr-Cyrl, Милутин Миланковић ; 28 May 1879 – 12 December 1958) was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer and popularizer of ...

(1879-1958), Serbian,

Milankovitch cycles Milankovitch cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements on its climate over thousands of years. The term was coined and named after Serbian geophysicist and astronomer Milutin Milanković. In the 1920s, he hypot ...

* John F. B. Mitchell, British, climate modelling and detection and attribution of climate change * Fritz Möller (1906-1983), German, early modeling of {{CO2 greenhouse effect * Mario J. Molina (1943-2020), Mexican,

atmospheric chemistry Atmospheric chemistry is a branch of atmospheric science in which the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere and that of other planets is studied. It is a multidisciplinary approach of research and draws on environmental chemistry, physics, meteorol ...

and ozone depletion * Nils-Axel Mörner (1938-2020), Swedish oceanographer and climate scientist * Richard H. Moss, Chairman, Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment * Richard A. Muller (1944-), American physicist, head of the

Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Berkeley Earth is a Berkeley, California-based independent 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on land temperature data analysis for climate science. Berkeley Earth was founded in early 2010 (originally called the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature pro ...

project, formerly an outspoken critic of current climate change science * R. E. Munn FRSC (1919-2013), Canadian climatologist

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* Gerald North (1938-), American atmospheric scientist at Texas A&M and author of the North Report

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* Hans Oeschger (1927-1998), Swiss paleoclimatologist and isotope chemist * Atsumu Ohmura (1942-), Japanese climatologist, professor emeritus at ETH Zurich * Cliff Ollier (1931-), British-Australian geologist and climate scientist * Abraham H. Oort, Dutch-American climatologist *

Michael Oppenheimer Michael Oppenheimer (born February 28, 1946) is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, the Department of Geosciences, and the Princeton Environmental Ins ...

, American professor of geosciences at

Timothy Osborn Timothy John Osborn is a climatologist and Professor of Climate Science at the University of East Anglia. In January 2017 he replaced Phil Jones as the Research Director of the Climatic Research Unit. Osborn graduated with a first-class degree i ...

, British professor of Climate Science at

* Friederike Otto (born 1982), German climatologist, associate director of the Environmental Change Institute

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Tim Palmer Timothy J. Palmer (born 4 October 1962, in North Shields) is an English record producer, audio engineer, guitarist and songwriter of rock and alternative music. He mixed Pearl Jam's debut album '' Ten'' (1991) and tracks on U2's album ''All T ...

CBE FRS (1952-), British mathematical physicist, climate modeler at

Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to th ...

Garth Paltridge Garth William Paltridge (born 24 April 1940, Brisbane, Queensland) is a retired Australian atmospheric physicist. He is a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and emeritus professor and honorary research fellow at the Institut ...

(1940-), Australian atmospheric physicist * David E. Parker, British, surface temperature trend * Fyodor Panayev (1856-1933), Russian climatologist *

Graeme Pearman Graeme Pearman (born 1941) was Chief of CSIRO Atmospheric Research in Australia from 1992 to 2002, and is an international expert on climate change. He left CSIRO in 2004 to establish his own consultancy company and take up a position with Mona ...

OA FAAS (1941-), Australian climatologist *

William Richard Peltier William Richard Peltier, Ph.D., D.Sc. ( hc(born 1943), is university professor of physics at the University of Toronto. He is director of the Centre for Global Change Scienc past principal investigator of the Polar Climate Stability Networ and the ...

(1943-), Canadian, global geodynamic modeling and ice sheet reconstructions; atmospheric and oceanic waves and turbulence * Jean Robert Petit, French paleoclimatologist, emeritus director of research at

Centre national de la recherche scientifique The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,63 ...

* David Phillips OC (1944-), Canadian climatologist and meteorologist * Roger A. Pielke, Sr. (1946-), American,

climate change In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to ...

, environmental vulnerability, numerical modeling, and atmospheric dynamics *

Raymond Pierrehumbert Raymond Thomas Pierrehumbert is the Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. Previously, he was Louis Block Professor in Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. He was a lead author on the Third Assessment Report of th ...

, idealized climate modeling,

Faint young sun paradox The faint young Sun paradox or faint young Sun problem describes the apparent contradiction between observations of liquid water early in Earth's history and the astrophysical expectation that the Sun's output would be only 70 percent as intense ...

* Andrew Pitman (1964-), British, terrestrial processes in global and regional climate modelling, model evaluation and earth systems approaches to understanding climate change *

Gilbert Plass Gilbert Norman Plass (March 22, 1920 – March 1, 2004) was a Canadian physicist who in the 1950s made predictions about the increase in global atmospheric carbon dioxide () levels in the 20th century and its effect on the average temperature of ...

(1920-2004), Canadian, CO₂ greenhouse effect and AGW * Henry Pollack, American emeritus professor of geophysics at

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

* Vicky Pope, British, Head of the Climate Prediction Programme at the

Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research The Met Office Hadley Centre — named in honour of George Hadley — is one of the United Kingdom's leading centres for the study of scientific issues associated with climate change. It is part of, and based at the headquarters of the Met Of ...

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Detlef Quadfasel Detlef Rudolf Quadfasel is a professor of Geophysics at Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics at Copenhagen University and Oceanography at the Institut für Meereskunde, Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgi ...

, German professor of Geophysics at

Niels Bohr Institute The Niels Bohr Institute (Danish: ''Niels Bohr Institutet'') is a research institute of the University of Copenhagen. The research of the institute spans astronomy, geophysics, nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum mechanics and biophysics ...

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Stefan Rahmstorf Stefan Rahmstorf (born 22 February 1960) is a German oceanographer and climatologist. Since 2000, he has been a Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University. He studied physical oceanography at Bangor University and received his Ph. ...

(1960-), German, the role of ocean currents in climate change *

Veerabhadran Ramanathan Veerabhadran "Ram" Ramanathan (born 24 November 1944) is Edward A. Frieman Endowed Presidential Chair in Climate Sustainability Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He has contributed to many areas of the a ...

, Indian, general circulation models, atmospheric chemistry, and radiative transfer * Michael Raupach (1950-2015), Australian climatologist, formerly of CSIRO and was director of the Climate Change program at

* Maureen Raymo, American, paleoclimatologist * David Reay, Professor of Carbon Management at the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...

* Martine Rebetez (1961-) is a Swiss climatologist, professor at the

University of Neuchâtel The University of Neuchâtel (UniNE) is a French-speaking university based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The university has four faculties (schools) and more than a dozen institutes, including arts and human sciences, natural sciences, law and eco ...

and senior scientist at Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL. *

Roger Revelle Roger Randall Dougan Revelle (March 7, 1909 – July 15, 1991) was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and was among the early scientists to study anthropogenic global ...

(1909-1991), American, global warming and

* Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953), English mathematician and meteorologist *

Eric Rignot Eric J. Rignot is a chancellor professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, and senior research scientist for the Radar Science and Engineering Section at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Education In 1985, Rigno ...

, American professor of Earth System Science at

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and p ...

Alan Robock Alan may refer to: People * Alan (surname), an English and Turkish surname * Alan (given name), an English given name ** List of people with given name Alan ''Following are people commonly referred to solely by "Alan" or by a homonymous name.'' ...

(1941-), American climatologist, professor at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

Joeri Rogelj Joeri Rogelj (born 1980) is a Belgian climate scientist working on solutions to climate change. He explores how societies can transform towards sustainable futures. He is a Reader in Climate Science and Policy (Associate Professor) at the Centr ...

(1980-), Belgian climate scientist and

author * Joseph J. Romm (1960-), American author, blogger, physicist *

Carl-Gustaf Rossby Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby ( 28 December 1898 – 19 August 1957) was a Swedish-born American meteorologist who first explained the large-scale motions of the atmosphere in terms of fluid mechanics. He identified and characterized both the jet ...

(1898-1957), Swedish-American climatologist * Frank Sherwood Rowland (1927-2012), American atmospheric chemist at

Cynthia E. Rosenzweig Cynthia E. Rosenzweig (''née'' Ropes) (born c. 1958) is an American agronomist and climatologist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, located at Columbia University, "who helped pioneer the study of climate change and agriculture."Justin ...

(c. 1958-), American climatologist, pioneered the study of climate change and agriculture * William Ruddiman, American, palaeoclimatologist, Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis *

Steve Running Steven W. Running, (born 1950) Emeritus Regents Professor of Ecology, W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation at the University of Montana, and Director of the Numerical Terradynamics Simulation Group, developed the earth observing-oriented ...

, American global ecologist at

University of Montana The University of Montana (UM) is a public research university in Missoula, Montana. UM is a flagship institution of the Montana University System and its second largest campus. UM reported 10,962 undergraduate and graduate students in the fa ...

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* Murry Salby, American atmospheric and climate scientist * Jim Salinger, New Zealand climatologist * Dork Sahagian, Armenian-American,

Lehigh University Lehigh University (LU) is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The university was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer and was originally affiliated with the Epi ...

* Marie Sanderson (1921-2010), Canadian geographer and climatologist *

Ben Santer Benjamin David Santer (born June 3, 1955) is a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and former researcher at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. He also worked at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology ...

(1955-), climatologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory *

Nicola Scafetta Nicola Scafetta is a research scientist at the University of Napoli Federico II. He was formerly at the ACRIM Lab group and an adjunct assistant professor in the physics department at Duke University. His research interests are in theoretical ...

(1975-), Italian astronomer and climate scientist *

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Hans Joachim "John" Schellnhuber (born 7 June 1950) is a German atmospheric physicist, climatologist and founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and former chair of the German Advisory Council on Global ...

(1950-), German climatologist, was an author for the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change *

David Schindler David William Schindler, , (August 3, 1940 – March 4, 2021) was an American/Canadian limnologist. He held the Killam Memorial Chair and was Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, A ...

, Canadian-American environmental chemist, professor of Ecology at

University of Alberta The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a Public university, public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexande ...

* Michael Schlesinger, American professor of Atmospheric Sciences at

UIUC The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Uni ...

* William H. Schlesinger (1950-), American biogeochemist, former Dean of the Nicholas School at Duke University *

Gavin A. Schmidt Gavin A. Schmidt is a climatologist, climate modeler and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, and co-founder of the award-winning climate science blog RealClimate. Work He was educated at The Corsham School ...

, American climatologist and climate modeler at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) * Stephen H. Schneider (1945-2010), American, Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University * Daniel P. Schrag (1966-), American, Professor of Geology at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment] * Stephen E. Schwartz (1941-), American, chemistry of air pollutants, radiative forcing of aerosols on climate * Tom Segalstad (1949-), Norwegian geochemist *

Wolfgang Seiler Wolfgang Seiler (born 22 January 1940 in Remscheid) is a German biogeochemist and climatologist. Seiler was Director of the Institute of Meteorology and Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and is ...

(1940-), German climatologist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * John H. Seinfeld, American atmospheric chemist at

California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...

Mark Serreze Mark Clifford Serreze (born 1960) is an American geographer and the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), a project of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. He ...

(1960-), American geographer/climatologist, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center *

Nicholas Shackleton Sir Nicholas John Shackleton (23 June 1937 – 24 January 2006) was an English geologist and paleoclimatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period. He was the son of the distinguished field geologist Robert Millner Shackleton and great ...

(1937-2006), British paleoclimatologist at

Nir Shaviv Nir Joseph Shaviv ( he, ניר יוסף שביב, born July 6, 1972) is an Israeli‐American physics professor. He is professor at the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known for his solar and cosmic-ray h ...

(1972-), Israeli‐American astrophysicist and climate scientist *

J. Marshall Shepherd James Marshall Shepherd is an American meteorologist, professor at the University of Georgia's Department of Geography, director of the university's atmospheric sciences program, and 2013 president of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). In ...

, American professor of meteorology at

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

Drew Shindell Drew Shindell is a physicist and a climate specialist and professor at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. He is listed as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher. He was a chapter lead (coordinating lead author) of the Intergovernmental ...

, American atmospheric chemist, professor of Climate Sciences at Duke University * Keith Shine, Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at the

* Jagdish Shukla (1944-), Indian-American climatologist at George Mason University *

Joanne Simpson Joanne Simpson (formerly Joanne Malkus, born Joanne Gerould; March 23, 1923 – March 4, 2010) was the first woman in the United States to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, which she received in 1949 from the University of Chicago.Atlas D and Lemone ...

(1923-2010), American meteorologist *

Fred Singer Siegfried Fred Singer (September 27, 1924 – April 6, 2020) was an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia, trained as an atmospheric physicist. He was known for rejecti ...

(1924-2020), atmospheric physicist, president of the

Science & Environmental Policy Project The Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) is an advocacy group financed by private contributions based in Arlington County, Virginia. It was founded in 1990 by atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer. SEPP disputes the prevailing scientific ...

* Julia Slingo (1950-), chief scientist at the Met Office since 2009 *

Joseph Smagorinsky Joseph Smagorinsky (29 January 1924 – 21 September 2005) was an American meteorologist and the first director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). Early life Joseph Sma ...

(1924-2005), American meteorologist; first head of NOAA

Susan Solomon Susan Solomon (born January 19, 1956 in Chicago) is an American atmospheric chemist, working for most of her career at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In 2011, Solomon joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech ...

(1956-), American, research in

chlorofluorocarbons Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) are fully or partly halogenated hydrocarbons that contain carbon (C), hydrogen (H), chlorine (Cl), and fluorine (F), produced as volatile derivatives of methane, ethane, and propa ...

and ozone depletion * Richard C. J. Somerville (1941-), American climatologist Scripps Institution of Oceanography * Willie Soon (1966-), Malaysian-born American astrophysicist and climate scientist * Kozma Spassky-Avtonomov (1807-1890), Russian climatologist * Roy Spencer, climatologist, research scientist at the University of Alabama * Konrad Steffen (1952-2020), Swiss-American glaciologist at

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado sy ...

Will Steffen Will Steffen (born 1947) is an American chemist. He was the executive director of the Australian National University (ANU) Climate Change Institute and a member of the Australian Climate Commission until its dissolution in September 2013. Fro ...

(1947-), Australian climatologist, science advisor to Australian government. * David Stephenson (1963-), British, climate scientist and statistician at the

University of Exeter , mottoeng = "We Follow the Light" , established = 1838 - St Luke's College1855 - Exeter School of Art1863 - Exeter School of Science 1955 - University of Exeter (received royal charter) , type = Public , ...

. *

Thomas Stocker Thomas F. Stocker (born 1959) is a Swiss climate scientist. Born in Zürich, Stocker obtained a degree in physics at the ETH Zurich. He was active in research at the University College London, at McGill University in Montreal and at Columbia U ...

, Swiss, climate dynamics and paleoclimate modeling and reconstruction *

Hans von Storch Hans von Storch (born 13 August 1949) is a German climate scientist. He is a professor at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg, and (since 2001) Director of the Institute for Coastal Research at the Helmholtz Research Centre ( ...

(1949-), German, meteorologist of

Geesthacht Geesthacht () is the largest city in the District of the Duchy of Lauenburg (Herzogtum Lauenburg) in Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany, south-east of Hamburg on the right bank of the River Elbe. History A church was built in what is today ...

, Germany * Peter A. Stott, British, climate scientist. * Hans E. Suess (1909-1993), Austrian, radiocarbon dating *

Henrik Svensmark Henrik Svensmark (born 1958) is a physicist and professor in the Division of Solar System Physics at the Danish National Space Institute (DTU Space) in Copenhagen. He is known for his work on the hypothesis that fewer cosmic rays are an indirect c ...

, Professor in the Division of Solar System Physics at the Danish National Space Institute

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* Kevin Russel Tate (1943-2018), New Zealand soil chemist, studied carbon cycling and sequestration in soils * Simon Tett, British, detection and attribution of climate change, model initialization, and validation * Peter Thejll (1956-), Danish, Northern Hemisphere land air temperature, solar variation and greenhouse effect * Peter Thorne, British climatologist with the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre, Bergen, Norway * Liz Thomas, British paleoclimatologist, ice cores, British Antarctic Survey *

Lonnie Thompson Lonnie Thompson (born July 1, 1948), is an American paleoclimatologist and university professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State University. He has achieved global recognition for his drilling and analysis of ice cores from ice caps ...

(1948-), American, Professor of Earth Sciences,

paleoclimatology, ice cores *

Axel Timmermann Axel Timmermann is a German climate physicist and oceanographer with an interest in climate dynamics, human migration, dynamical systems' analysis, ice-sheet modeling and sea level. He served a co-author of the IPCC Third Assessment Report and a ...

, German climate physicist and oceanographer, director of IBS Center for Climate Physics *

Micha Tomkiewicz Micha Tomkiewicz (born May 25, 1939) is a Polish scientist, professor and writer. Biography Marcelli Robert (his name was changed after the war to "Micha") Tomkiewicz was born on May 25, 1939, in Warsaw, Poland, and lived in the Warsaw Ghetto be ...

(1939-), American climate change professor at Brooklyn College *

Owen Toon Owen Brian Toon (born May 26, 1947 in Bethesda, Maryland) is a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences. He is a fellow at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received an A.B. in ...

, American professor of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences at

* Kevin E. Trenberth, decadal variability, El Niño-Southern Oscillation *

Susan Trumbore Susan E. Trumbore is an earth systems scientist focusing on the carbon cycle and its effects on climate. She is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and a Professor of Earth System Science at University of California, Irvi ...

, earth systems scientist focusing on the

carbon cycle The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth. Carbon is the main component of biological compounds as well as a major componen ...

and its effects on climate, director at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and a Professor of Earth System Science at

* John Tyndall (1820-1893), British, measured radiative effect of

greenhouse gases A greenhouse gas (GHG or GhG) is a gas that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range, causing the greenhouse effect. The primary greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere are water vapor (), carbon dioxide (), methane ...

, postulated

hypothesis of

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* Jean-Pascal van Ypersele (1957-), Belgian climatologist, Vice-Chair of

(2008-2015) * David Vaughan,

ice sheets In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than . The only current ice sheets are in Antarctica and Greenland; during the Last Glacial Period at La ...

, British Antarctic Survey * Jan Veizer (1941-), Slovakian, Distinguished University Professor emeritus of Earth Sciences at the

University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottaw ...

* Pier Vellinga (1950-), Dutch climatologist, professor at

Wageningen University Wageningen University & Research (also known as Wageningen UR; abbreviation: WUR) is a public university in Wageningen, Netherlands, specializing in life sciences with a focus on agriculture, technical and engineering subjects. It is a globally ...

* Ricardo Villalba, Argentine paleoclimatologist * Françoise Vimeux, French climatologist, research director at the

Institut de recherche pour le développement The Institut de Recherche pour le Développement or IRD () is a French science and technology establishment under the joint supervision of the French Ministries of Higher Education and Research and Foreign Affairs. It operates internationally ...

(IRD), works at the

Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement The (LSCE, Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory) is a laboratory for the study of climate and in particular climate change. It is part of the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, and located on campuses in L'Orme des Merisiers and Gif sur Y ...

(LSCE) and the Laboratoire HydroSciences Montpellier (HSM)

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* Peter Wadhams ScD (1948-), professor of Ocean

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

, and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group in the

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

. He is best known for his work on sea ice. * Warren M. Washington (1936-), American, climate modelling * John Michael Wallace,

North Atlantic oscillation The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is a weather phenomenon over the North Atlantic Ocean of fluctuations in the difference of atmospheric pressure at sea level (SLP) between the Icelandic Low and the Azores High. Through fluctuations in the ...

Arctic oscillation The Arctic oscillation (AO) or Northern Annular Mode/Northern Hemisphere Annular Mode (NAM) is a weather phenomenon at the Arctic pole north of 20 degrees latitude. It is an important mode of climate variability for the Northern Hemisphere. The s ...

* Andrew Watson (1952-), British, marine and atmospheric sciences *Sir Robert Watson, British scientist and chief scientist for the World Bank * Betsy Weatherhead, American, former head of the

* Andrew J. Weaver, Canadian, climate modeling and analysis. *

Harry Wexler Harry Wexler (March 15, 1911 – August 11, 1962) was an American meteorologist, born in Fall River, Massachusetts. Biography Wexler attended Harvard University, and in 1939 he was awarded a Ph.D. in meteorology under Carl-Gustaf Rossby from the ...

(1911-1962), American meteorologist *

Penny Whetton Penelope Whetton (5 January 1958 – 11 September 2019) was a climatologist and an expert in regional climate change projections due to global warming and in the impacts of those changes. Her primary scientific focus was Australia. Early life ...

, Australian, regional climate change projections for Australia. A lead author of the IPCC third and fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change. *

Tom Wigley Tom Michael Lampe Wigley is a climate scientist at the University of Adelaide. He is also affiliated with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). He was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Scienc ...

, Australian climatologist at

University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide (informally Adelaide University) is a public research university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third-oldest university in Australia. The university's main campus is located on N ...

Josh Willis Joshua K. Willis is an oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His area of expertise is current sea level rise, as well as measuring ocean temperatures. When sea level fell from 2010 to 2011, Willis stated that this was due to an unusu ...

, American oceanographer at NASA's JPL * David Wratt, New Zealander, chief scientist at

NIWA The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research or NIWA ( mi, Taihoro Nukurangi), is a Crown Research Institute of New Zealand. Established in 1992, NIWA conducts research across a broad range of disciplines in the environmental scien ...

Donald Wuebbles Donald James Wuebbles is the Harry E. Preble Endowed Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He was formerly the head of this department from 1994 to 2006, and was the founding direc ...

, American atmospheric scientist and professor at the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...

* Carl Wunsch (1941-), physical oceanography and ocean acoustic tomography

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* Olga Zolina (1975-), Russian climatologist *

Eduardo Zorita Eduardo Zorita (born 1961 in Madrid) is a Spanish paleoclimatologist. , he is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht, Germany, where he has worked since 1996. Zorita is review editor of the j ...

(1961-), Spanish paleoclimatologist, senior scientist at GKSS