Researchers in climate, atmospheric, and ocean science

Adam A. Scaife

Adam A. Scaife is a British climate scientist who leads monthly to decadal prediction research at the Met Office and is a professor at the University of Exeter.

Aiguo Dai

Aiguo Dai (戴爱国) is a climate scientist and Distinguished Professor at the University at Albany, SUNY, known for global analyses of drought, precipitation, and streamflow.

Akkihebbal Ravishankara, known as Ravi Ravishankara, is an Indian-born American atmospheric chemist who showed in 2009 that nitrous oxide is the leading ozone-depleting emission, and later taught at Colorado State University.

Alan Robock

Alan Robock is an American climate scientist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, best known for his research on nuclear winter, the climatic effects of volcanic eruptions, and geoengineering.

Albert Defant

Albert Defant (1884–1974) was an Austrian meteorologist and oceanographer counted among the founders of modern physical oceanography, directing the analysis of the German Meteor Atlantic expedition.

Alessandro Tagliabue

Alessandro Tagliabue is an ocean biogeochemist and professor at the University of Liverpool who studies how iron shapes marine ecosystems and the global carbon cycle, and led the Tara Oceans Weddell Sea expedition.

Alex Hall (climate scientist)

Alex Hall is a climate scientist and professor at UCLA who directs the Center for Climate Science and is known for pioneering emergent constraints in climate modeling.

Alexander Buchan

Alexander Buchan (1829–1907) was a Scottish meteorologist and oceanographer who ran the Scottish Meteorological Society for 47 years, founded the Ben Nevis observatory, and gave his name to the Buchan spells.

Alexander Laskin

Alexander Laskin is an environmental and atmospheric chemist, professor of chemistry at Purdue University since 2017, known for work on brown carbon and aerosol chemical imaging.

Alexey V. Fedorov

Alexey V. Fedorov is an American-based climate and ocean scientist, professor at Yale University since 2004, known for research on El Niño, tropical cyclones, and Pliocene warm climates.

Alexis Caswell

Alexis Caswell (1799–1877) was an American mathematician, astronomer, and meteorologist who taught at Brown University for 35 years and served as its sixth president from 1868 to 1872.

Alfonso Saiz‐Lopez

Alfonso Saiz-Lopez, born 1976, is a Spanish atmospheric chemist at CSIC in Madrid known for showing that short-lived halogens exert a measurable cooling on climate.

Alfredo Martínez‐García

Alfredo Martínez-García, born 1982 in Spain, is a paleoceanographer and climate geochemist who leads the Organic Isotope Geochemistry group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz.

Alice Larkin

Alice Larkin, previously Bows, is a British climate scientist and professor at the University of Manchester's Tyndall Centre, known for quantifying aviation and shipping emissions and carbon-budget research.

Allan K. Bertram

Allan K. Bertram is a Canadian atmospheric chemist, professor at the University of British Columbia, known for work on aerosol particles, ice nucleation, and organic particle viscosity.

Allen H. Goldstein

Allen H. Goldstein is an American atmospheric chemist, Professor and MacArthur Foundation Chair at UC Berkeley, known for the Blodgett Forest flux record and secondary organic aerosol research.

Allyn Vine

Allyn Vine (1914–1994) was an American physicist and oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1940 whose advocacy produced the deep-diving research submersible Alvin, named as a contraction of his name.

Anastasios A. Tsonis

Anastasios A. Tsonis is a Greek-born atmospheric scientist and Emeritus Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, known for introducing chaos theory and networks into climate science.

Andrê S. H. Prévôt

André S. H. Prévôt is a Swiss atmospheric scientist who heads the Gasphase and Aerosol Chemistry group at the Paul Scherrer Institute, known for aerosol source apportionment.

Andreas Oschlies

Andreas Oschlies (born 1966) is an oceanographer and professor of marine biogeochemical modeling at GEOMAR Kiel, known for work on ocean deoxygenation and carbon uptake.

Andreas Schmittner

Andreas Schmittner is a German-born climate scientist and oceanographer who came to Oregon State University in 2005 and studies ocean circulation, the marine carbon cycle, and climate sensitivity.

Andrei Monin

Andrei Sergeevich Monin (Андрей Сергеевич Монин; 1921–2007) was a Soviet and Russian geophysicist and oceanographer who led the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology from 1965 to 1987 and co-created Monin–Obukhov similarity theory.

Andrew E. Dessler

Andrew E. Dessler is an American climatologist and professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, known for quantifying water vapor and cloud feedbacks that amplify warming.

Andrew Hoell

Andrew Hoell is a research meteorologist at NOAA's Physical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, who studies drought prediction and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2017.

Andrew J. Weaver

Andrew J. Weaver, also known as Andrew Weaver, is a Canadian climate scientist and oceanographer at the University of Victoria, a lead author on four IPCC assessments.

Andrew Metcalf

Andrew Metcalf, also known as Andrew R. Metcalf, is an American atmospheric scientist and associate professor at Clemson University who studies air pollution and aerosol particles such as soot.

Andrew Molthan

Andrew Molthan is a NASA scientist at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, who received a Presidential Early Career Award for cloud microphysics research.

Andrew Rollins

Andrew W. Rollins is an American research chemist at NOAA's Chemical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, known for ultrasensitive laser instruments measuring trace gases and winner of a 2019 PECASE award.

Andy Ridgwell

Andy Ridgwell, also known as Andrew Ridgwell, is a British Earth system scientist who developed the cGENIE climate model and is a professor at UC Riverside.