Gavin A Schmidt

Biographic Data

ID1542040
NAMEGavin A Schmidt
GIVEN NAMESGavin A
FAMILY NAMESchmidt
SIGNATURESCHMIDT G A
AFFILIATIONSGoddard Institute for Space Studies
ORCID0000-0002-2258-0486
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Assessing progress toward the Paris climate agreement from space

    Open AccessBrad Weir, Tomohiro Oda et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

  • Responses of compound daytime and nighttime warm-dry and warm-humid events to individual anthropogenic forcings

    Open AccessFelicia Chiang, Benjamin I Cook et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Daytime heat is often associated with reduced soil moisture and cloud cover, while nighttime heat is connected to high humidity and increased cloud cover. Due to these differing mechanisms, compound daytime and nighttime heat events may respond differently to major anthropogenic forcings (greenhouse gases, anthropogenic aerosols, land-use and land-cover change). Here, we use GISS ModelE2.1-G historical single-forcing runs from 1955 to 2014 to exa…

  • An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence

    Open AccessSteven C Sherwood, M J Webb et al.ARTICLEReviews of Geophysics2020

    We assess evidence relevant to Earth's equilibrium climate sensitivity per doubling of atmospheric CO 2 , characterized by an effective sensitivity S . This evidence includes feedback process understanding, the historical climate record, and the paleoclimate record. An S value lower than 2 K is difficult to reconcile with any of the three lines of evidence. The amount of cooling during the Last Glacial Maximum provides strong evidence against val…

  • Unknowability in Climate Science

    Gavin A SchmidtARTICLESocial research2020

    Unknowability in Climate Science:Chaos, Structure, and Society Gavin A. Schmidt (bio) CLIMATE SCIENCE AS A DISCIPLINE We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. —The Borg (Star Trek: Voyager 1999) The field of climate science is a relatively new discipline that has arisen from the understanding that the previously distinct fields of meteorology, oceanography, hydrology, studies of the cryosphere, atmospheric chemistry, and such are fundamentally l…

  • Recent global warming as confirmed by Airs

    Open AccessJoel Susskind, Gavin A Schmidt et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    This paper presents Atmospheric Infra-Red Sounder (AIRS) surface skin temperature anomalies for the period 2003 through 2017, and compares them to station-based analyses of surface air temperature anomalies (principally the Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP)). The AIRS instrument flies on EOS Aqua, which was launched in 2002 and became stable in September 2002. AIRS surface temperatures are completely satel…

  • Do responses to different anthropogenic forcings add linearly in climate models

    Open AccessKate Marvel, Gavin A Schmidt et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    Many detection and attribution and pattern scaling studies assume that the global climate response to multiple forcings is additive: that the response over the historical period is statistically indistinguishable from the sum of the responses to individual forcings. Here, we use the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate System Model (CCSM4) simulations from the CMIP5 archive…