
Dr. Kevin E. Trenberth is a Distinguished Scholar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and he is an affiliate faculty at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. From New Zealand, he obtained his Sc. D. in meteorology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been prominent in most of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scientific assessments of Climate Change and has also extensively served the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) in numerous ways, most recently as chair of the WCRP Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) project. He has also served on many U.S. national committees. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the American Association for Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi. In 2000 he received the Jule G. Charney award from the AMS and in 2003 he was given the NCAR Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2013 he received the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water and the AGU Climate Communication Prize, and in 2017 the AGU Revelle Medal. In January 2022 he was given a one-day Kevin Trenberth Symposium by the AMS. He edited a 788 page book Climate System Modeling, published in 1992 by Cambridge University Press, and recently (2022) published “The changing flow of energy through the climate system”, also with Cambridge University Press. He has published over 590 publications plus 4 videos; including 71 books or book chapters, and 292 journal articles, and many refereed blogs. On the Web of Science, there are over 50,500 citations and an H index of 99 (99 publications have 99 or more citations). On Google Scholar, there are > 118,000 citations and an H index of 129 (or 84 since 2017). He has given many invited scientific talks as well as appearing in a number of television, radio programs and newspaper articles. In his spare time he plays golf. His career at NCAR was in in the Climate Analysis Section, where he was the Head for many years. He was previously employed as a research scientist in the New Zealand Meteorological Service and was a Professor at the University of Illinois for nearly 7 years prior to joining NCAR. From 1996 until 2017 he is ranked first in the number of highly cited papers published out of all 223,246 published environmental scientists.
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