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Hans Oeschger
Hans Oeschger (1927–1998) was a Swiss climatologist and professor at the University of Bern who pioneered measuring ancient atmospheric CO2 in polar ice and identified abrupt Dansgaard–Oeschger climate events.
Hans Pettersson
Hans Pettersson (1888–1966) was a Swedish physicist and oceanographer, professor of oceanography at Gothenburg, who led the 1947–1948 Albatross deep-sea expedition, whose 20-meter sediment cores marked the beginning of palaeoceanography.
Hans Schouten
Hans Schouten is a marine geophysicist and Scientist Emeritus at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, co-author of a 2003 Nature paper defining an ultraslow-spreading class of ocean ridge.
Harald Sverdrup (oceanographer)
Harald Sverdrup was a Norwegian oceanographer who directed the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1936 to 1948; the ocean-transport unit sverdrup is named for him.
Harry Hammond Hess
Harry Hammond Hess (1906–1969) was an American geologist and Princeton professor who proposed seafloor spreading in 1960, the mechanism underlying plate tectonics, and received the Penrose Medal in 1966.
Hartmut Herrmann
Hartmut Herrmann is a German atmospheric chemist, professor at Leipzig University since 1998 and head of the Atmospheric Chemistry Department at TROPOS, known for aqueous-phase photochemistry and the CAPRAM model.
Havala Pye
Havala Olson Taylor Pye is an American research physical scientist at the EPA in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, who leads development of the CRACMM chemical mechanism.
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803–1879) was a Prussian physicist and meteorologist at Berlin who formulated the wind-turning law, introduced monthly isotherms, and directed the Prussian Meteorological Institute.
Helmut Landsberg
Helmut Erich Landsberg (1906–1985) was a German-born American climatologist who directed the U.S. Weather Bureau's Office of Climatology, wrote Physical Climatology, and received the National Medal of Science in 1985.
Henry Bryant Bigelow
Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967) was an American oceanographer who surveyed the Gulf of Maine and served as the first director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Henry Elderfield
Henry Elderfield (1943–2016), known as Harry, was a British marine geochemist at Cambridge who established modern oceanic trace metal chemistry and the foraminiferal Mg/Ca paleothermometer.
Henry Stommel
Henry Melson Stommel (1920–1992) was an American physical oceanographer at Woods Hole who created modern dynamical oceanography and explained the Gulf Stream's westward intensification in 1948.
Henry William Menard
Henry William Menard (1920–1986) was an American marine geologist who discovered the Pacific fracture zones, aiding plate tectonics, and led the USGS from 1978 to 1981.
Horace R. Byers
Horace R. Byers was an American meteorologist who directed the Thunderstorm Project, the first large-scale US thunderstorm study, and built the University of Chicago's meteorology department.
Hubert Lamb
Hubert Horace Lamb (1913–1997) was a British climatologist who founded the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, coined terms, and popularized the 'Little Ice Age.'
Hubertus Fischer
Hubertus Fischer is a Swiss-based climate physicist, professor at the University of Bern since 2008, known for reconstructing past greenhouse gases from polar ice cores and winning the 2018 Hans Oeschger Medal.
Ian Joughin
Ian Joughin is a glaciologist at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory known for measuring and modeling the flow of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets.
Ilissa B Ocko
Ilissa B. Ocko is an American climate scientist studying methane and other short-lived climate pollutants, a Senior Climate Scientist at Spark Climate Solutions and an IPCC AR7 Lead Author.
Inez Fung
Inez Y. Fung, born 1949, is a Hong Kong-born climate scientist who models the sources and sinks of atmospheric CO2 and dust, and professor emerita at UC Berkeley.
Isaac Held
Isaac Held (Isaac M. Held) is an American atmospheric scientist who spent four decades at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, known for the Held–Suarez model test.
Isabel P. Montañez
Isabel P. Montañez is a sedimentary geochemist and paleoclimatologist at UC Davis who reconstructs late Paleozoic climates, studying Earth's transition from ice age to greenhouse world.
J. David Neelin
J. David Neelin is a Canadian-American climate scientist and Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UCLA, known for work on tropical climate dynamics and precipitation under global warming.
J. Frederick Grassle
J. Frederick Grassle was an American oceanographer who led the first biological expedition to deep-sea hydrothermal vents in 1979 and received the 2013 Japan Prize.
J. Marshall Shepherd
J. Marshall Shepherd (James Marshall Shepherd) is an American atmospheric scientist at the University of Georgia known for research on urban effects on weather and hurricanes.
J. Murray Mitchell
J. Murray Mitchell (1928–1990) was an American climatologist who coined the term Arctic haze and became an early voice warning of global warming, serving as senior research climatologist at NOAA.
J.‐G. Schilling
Jean-Guy Ernest Schilling (1936–2018) was a Swiss-born marine geochemist at the University of Rhode Island whose 1973 Reykjanes Ridge study founded the Iceland mantle plume hypothesis.
Jacob Bjerknes
Jacob Bjerknes (1897–1975) was a Norwegian American meteorologist who discovered the structure of extratropical cyclones at age twenty and later made the first link between El Niño and the Southern Oscillation.
Jacques Piccard
Jacques Piccard, full name Jacques Ernest Piccard, was a Swiss engineer and oceanographer who made the first crewed dive to the Challenger Deep with Don Walsh in 1960.
James A. Screen
James A. Screen is a climate scientist and professor at the University of Exeter known for attributing Arctic warming to diminishing sea ice and for the PAMIP project.
James B. Elsner
James B. Elsner is an American atmospheric scientist and statistician, Professor Emeritus at Florida State University in Tallahassee, known for applying nonlinear dynamics and extreme-value statistics to hurricanes and tornadoes.