List of climate scientists

A

• Waleed Abdalati, American, director of Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies, former chief scientist of NASA
• Nerilie Abram, Australian paleoclimatologist, at Australian National University
• Ernest Afiesimama, Nigerian weatherman, former senior associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics
• Myles Allen, head of the Climate Dynamics group at University of Oxford's Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department. Lead author, IPCC Third Assessment Report. Review editor, Fourth Assessment Report.
• Richard Alley, Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Science, American, Earth's cryosphere and global climate change.
• Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and is an adviser to the British Government on climate change.
• James Annan, British climatologist with Blue Skies Research, UK
• Julie Arblaster, Australian climatologist at The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research in CSIRO
• David Archer, American professor of oceanography at University of Chicago
• Svante Arrhenius, Swedish, greenhouse effect

  B

• Sallie Baliunas, American, astrophysicist, solar variation
• Elizabeth A. Barnes, American climate scientist working on earth science statistics
• Eric J. Barron, American geophysicist, President of Pennsylvania State University
• Roger G. Barry,, British-American, polar climatologist, first director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center
• Robin Bell, American, polar geophysicist, President-elect of the American Geophysical Union
• Martin Beniston, Swiss climate scientist.
• Lennart Bengtsson, Swedish meteorologist and climate scientist
• André Berger,, 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
• John W. Birks, American atmospheric chemist and co-developer of the nuclear winter theory
• Jacob Bjerknes, Norwegian-American meteorologist
• Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian, forecasting, numerical models
• Bert Bolin, Swedish meteorologist, first chair of the IPCC
• Gerard C. Bond, American geologist and paleoclimate researcher
• Jason Box, American professor of glaciology at Ohio State University
• Raymond S. Bradley, American, historical temperatures, paleoclimatology, and climate variability.
• Keith Briffa, United Kingdom, dendrochronology, temperature history.
• Wallace Smith Broecker, American, Pleistocene geochronology, radiocarbon dating, and chemical oceanography
• Harold E. Brooks, American meteorologist, severe convective storm and tornado climatology as well as conducive atmospheric environments
• Keith Browning, British meteorologist; mesoscale meteorology, sparkles

  C

• Robert Cahalan, American, climate physics, energy balance, radiative transfer, remote sensing, solar radiation
• Ken Caldeira, American, climate engineering, ocean acidification, atmospheric chemistry
• Guy Stewart Callendar, English steam engineer and inventor who proposed what eventually became known as the Callendar effect, the theory that linked rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to global temperature
• Mark Cane, American, modeling and prediction of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation
• Anny Cazenave, French oceanographer specializing in satellite altimetry
• Robert D. Cess, American atmospheric scientist, emeritus professor at Stony Brook University
• Jule G. Charney, American meteorologist, pioneer in numerical weather modeling
• John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Best known for developing the first version of the satellite temperature record.
• John A. Church, Australian oceanographer, chair of the World Climate Research Programme
• Ralph J. Cicerone, 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
• Harmon Craig, pioneering American geochemist
• Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch, stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry, and their role in the biogeochemical cycles and climate
• Heidi Cullen, American meteorologist, chief scientist for Climate Central
• Balfour Currie OC, Canadian climatologist at University of Saskatchewan
• Judith Curry American climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology

  D

• Willi Dansgaard, Danish climatologist
• Scott Denning, American atmospheric scientist and professor at Colorado State University
• Andrew Dessler, American atmospheric scientist and professor at Texas A&M University
• P. C. S. Devara, Indian climatologist and professor at Amity University, Gurgaon
• Robert E. Dickinson, American climatologist, professor at University of Texas at Austin
• Mark Dyurgerov, Russian-American glaciologist

  E

• Sylvia Earle, American marine biologist
• Don Easterbrook, American, professor emeritus of Geology at Western Washington University
• Tamsin Edwards, British climate scientist at King's College London
• Arnt Eliassen, dynamic meteorologist
• Kerry Emanuel, American, atmospheric dynamics specializing in hurricanes
• Matthew England, Australian, physical oceanographer and climate dynamicist
• Ian G. Enting, Australian mathematical physicist at University of Melbourne

  F

• Joe Farman, British, ozone hole above Antarctica
• Christopher Field, American climate scientist with the Carnegie Institution for Science
• Eunice Newton Foote, 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
• Joseph Fourier, French, greenhouse effect
• Jennifer Francis, climate change in the Arctic
• Benjamin Franklin, 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, Danish geophysicist
• Inez Fung, American, climate modeling, biogeochemical cycles, and climate change
• Yevgraf Yevgrafovich Fyodorov, Russian climatologist

  G

• Francis Galton, coined the term anticyclone
• Filippo Giorgi, Italian atmospheric physicist, International Centre for Theoretical Physics
• Peter Gleick, American, hydroclimatologist, hydrologic impacts of climate change, snowfall/snowmelt responses, water adaptation strategies, consequences of sea level rise
• Kenneth M. Golden, American applied mathematician, percolation theory and diffusion process models of sea ice, professor at University of Utah
• Natalya Gomez, climate-ice sheet-solid earth modeler, Canadian, professor at McGill University
• Jonathan M. Gregory, climate modeler, British, professor at University of Reading
• Jean Grove, British, glaciologist; the Little Ice Age

  H

• Joanna Haigh,, British, co-director of Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, solar variability
• Edmund Halley, published a map of the trade winds in 1686 after a voyage to the southern hemisphere
• Gordon Hamilton,, Scottish, Associate Research Professor, Climatology Group, of the University of Maine
• James E. Hansen, American, planetary atmospheres, remote sensing, numerical models, and global warming
• Kenneth Hare OC FRSC, Canadian climatologist
• Klaus Hasselmann, German oceanographer and climate modeller, founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
• Ed Hawkins MBE, British climate scientist at University of Reading, and designer of data visualization graphics
• Katharine Hayhoe, Canadian, Atmospheric science, global climate models.
• Gabriele C. Hegerl, Professor of Climate System Science at the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences.
• Isaac Held, German-American atmospheric physicist, researcher at GFDL
• Ann Henderson-Sellers, Australian, climate change risk evaluation
• Ellie Highwood, Professor of Climate Physics at the University of Reading
• David A. Hodell,, British paleoclimatologist, professor at Cambridge University
• Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Australian oceanographer at University of Queensland
• Greg Holland, Australian meteorology researcher at NCAR
• Brian Hoskins, British climatologist and professor at University of Reading
• John T. Houghton, British, atmospheric physics, remote sensing
• Malcolm K. Hughes, British meso-climatologist, professor at University of Arizona
• Mike Hulme, British, climate impacts, climate modelling, climate and culture.
• Thomas Sterry Hunt, American, first scientist to connect carbon dioxide to climate change

  I

• Sherwood Idso, American, former research physicist with US Department of Agriculture

  J

• Eystein Jansen, Norwegian professor of paleoceanography at University of Bergen and former director of Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
• Phil Jones, British, instrumental climate change, palaeoclimatology, detection of climate change
• Jean Jouzel, French glaciologist and climatologist specializing in major climatic shifts

  K

• Peter Kalmus, American data scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Associate Project Scientist at University of California, Los Angeles’ Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering
• Daniel Kammen, American professor of Energy at University of California, Berkeley
• Thomas R. Karl, American, climate extremes and variability
• David Karoly, Australian professor of meteorology at University of Melbourne
• Charles David Keeling, American, atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements, Keeling Curve
• Ralph Keeling, 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,, Scottish climatologist and meteorologist
• Gretchen Keppel-Aleks, American climate scientist
• Joseph B. Klemp, American atmospheric scientist at NCAR
• Thomas Knutson, American climate modeller, researcher at GFDL
• Reto Knutti, Swiss climate scientist, professor at ETH Zurich
• Roxy Mathew Koll, Indian climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
• Kirill Y. Kondratyev, Russian atmospheric physicist
• Bronwen Konecky, paleoclimatologist and climatologist
• Wladimir Köppen, Russian/German meteorologist and climatologist, Köppen climate classification
• Pancheti Koteswaram, Indian meteorologist and former vice-president of the World Meteorological Organization
• Shen Kuo, Chinese scientist who inferred that climates naturally shifted over an enormous span of time
• M. Levent Kurnaz, Turkish climate scientist at Boğaziçi University, director of the Center for Climate Change and Policy Studies
• John E. Kutzbach, American climatologist at University of Wisconsin–Madison