Top institutions for Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

Which institutions have the most top-cited scientists in Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences?

1,974 researchers whose main subfield is Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. National Center for Atmospheric Research has the most (48, 2.4%), followed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (37) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (27). A row opens its scientists in the subfield in the table of all authors.

#InstitutionCountryListed authorsTop 100kHighest-ranked author
1National Center for Atmospheric Research United States4844Bonan, Gordon B. #1,483
2National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration United States3735Milly, Paul Chris D. #11,186
3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center United States2724Holben, Brent N. #4,442
4University of Colorado Boulder United States2320Turetsky, Merritt R. #7,493
5Met Office United Kingdom1919Stott, Peter A. #7,716
6Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States1716Emanuel, Kerry A. #263
7University of Reading United Kingdom1715Hoskins, Brian J. #3,871
8Scripps Institution of Oceanography United States1616Xie, Shangping #1,750
9Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences China1614Cao, Junji #9,322
10University of Exeter United Kingdom1515Lenton, Timothy M. #839
11Peking University China1513Piao, Shilong Long #1,116
12European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts United Kingdom1514Hersbach, Hans E. #1,513
13University of California, Los Angeles United States1413McWilliams, James Cyrus #1,820
14University of California, Irvine United States1413Guenther, Alex B. #4,380
15University of Wisconsin-Madison United States1412Vavrus, Stephen J. #31,175
16University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China1312Zhou, Tianjun #3,489
17Princeton University United States1312Held, Isaac M. #4,578
18University of Leeds United Kingdom1312Ford, James D. #7,327
19University of East Anglia United Kingdom1312Jones, Philip D. #7,367
20California Institute of Technology United States1311Schimel, David S. #7,571
21Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory United States1313Broecker, Wallace S. #8,750
22Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering United States1313Hurrell, James W. #9,817
23Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology China1310Zhou, Botao #46,421
24University of Washington United States1212Ebi, Kristie L. #981
25Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima Switzerland1211Seneviratne, Sonia I. #1,374
26College of the Environment United States1110Houze, Robert A. #2,749
27Helsingin Yliopisto Finland118Kulmala, Markku #5,741
28International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg Austria1111Riahi, Keywan #6,927
29University of Oxford United Kingdom109Allen, Myles R. #3,868
30Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Germany108Stevens, Bjorn #4,575
31Environment and Climate Change Canada Canada109Cannon, Alex J. #4,753
32Oregon State University United States107Behrenfeld, Michael J. #5,529
33Pennsylvania State University United States109Alley, Richard B. #11,522
34British Antarctic Survey United Kingdom109T̀urner, John K. #13,929
35Pacific Northwest National Laboratory United States109Bond-Lamberty, Ben P. #15,940
36Stanford University United States99Lobell, David B. #478
37Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences United States98Jacob, Daniel J. #2,347
38Tsinghua University China99Liu, Zhu #3,419
39Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Germany99Reichstein, Markus #3,698
40University of Alaska Fairbanks United States99Hock, Regine #7,883
41NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies United States96Rosenzweig, Cynthia E. #10,937
42Arizona State University United States88Famiglietti, James S. #1,902
43Potsdam Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung Germany87Rahmstorf, Stefan #2,569
44UNSW Sydney Australia88Alexander, L. V. #3,545
45Stockholms universitet Sweden87Manzoni, Stefano #9,640
46Universität Hamburg Germany87Hartmann, Jens #13,375
47Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences China85Guo, Jianping #34,471
48College of Engineering United States87Daly, Christopher P.Q. #42,962
49University of Toronto Canada77Peltier, William Richard #5,413
50Sorbonne Université France77Boucher, Oliviér #6,711
51University of California, Santa Barbara United States77Jasechko, Scott #7,467
52Columbia University United States77DeFries, Ruth S. #8,142
53Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science United States76Prospero, Joseph M. #22,760
54European Commission Joint Research Centre Belgium77Dosio, Alessandro #25,395
55Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung Germany76Ionita, Monica #39,923
56College of Science United States76Laskin, Alexander #46,232
57Leibniz-Gemeinschaft Germany66Rockström, Johan #653
58The University of British Columbia Canada66Oke, Timothy R. #675
59Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Germany65Crutzen, Paul Jozef #1,390
60Imperial College London United Kingdom65Prentice, Iain Colin #2,389
61Applied Physics Laboratory United States66Kwok, Ron #5,588
62University of Maryland, College Park United States66O'Neill, Brian C. #5,594
63Universiteit Utrecht Netherlands66Immerzeel, Walter Willem (Walter) #6,068
64Florida State University United States66Nicholson, Sharon E. #6,534
65Universität Potsdam Germany66Runge, Jakob #6,630
66Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Australia65Canadell, Josep G. #6,632
67School of Geography Australia66Barnett, Jon On #9,549
68University of Bern Switzerland66Stocker, Thomas F. #9,606
69Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Germany65Arneth, Almuth #11,106
70Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences China66Leng, Guoyong #12,609
71NorthWest Research Associates, Inc. United States65Mahrt, Larry J. #14,722
72The Ohio State University United States66Liu, Zhengyu #21,920
73The University of Arizona United States65Liverman, Diana M. #22,899
74University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign United States66Jain, Atul K. #25,003
75State University of New York Albany United States54Dai, Aiguo #352
76Woodwell Climate Research Center United States53HOUGHTON, R. A. #1,065
77Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory United States55Taylor, Karl E. #1,348
78Université Paris-Saclay France55Ciais, Philippe #1,369
79CICERO Senter for Klimaforskning Norway55Peters, Glen P. #1,492
80The Australian National University Australia55Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Sarah E. #2,452
81University of Birmingham United Kingdom55Harrison, Roy M. #3,671
82University of Delaware United States55Willmott’, Cort J. #4,174
83University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa United States55Qiu, Bo #6,462
84Chinese Academy of Sciences China55Li, Xin #6,855
85Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences United States55Mahowald, Natalie M. #7,042
86Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) Germany54Schumann, Ulrich #11,827
87The University of Tokyo Japan55Watanabe, Masahiro #13,657
88Wageningen University & Research Netherlands54van der Werf, Guido R. #13,677
89Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research Germany53Herrmann, Hartmut #15,410
90College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences United States55Zeng, Ning #16,559
91Université de Toulouse France55Masson, Valéry #18,452
92Beijing Normal University China55Zhang, Qiang Q. #21,185
93College of Engineering and Applied Science United States54Forbes, Jeffrey M. #21,488
94Ocean University of China China54Wu, Lixin #23,149
95Texas A&M University United States55Zhang, Renyi #24,210
96University of Michigan, Ann Arbor United States55Lemos, Maria Carmen #25,183
97University of Bristol United Kingdom55Valdes, Paul J. #25,356
98Sun Yat-Sen University China54Dai, Yongjiu #26,992
99The Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory United States55Richmond, Arthur D. #27,216
100China Meteorological Administration China55Sun, Ying #27,715
101Yale University United States54Churkina, Galina #30,333
102Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution United States54Mahadevan, Amala #30,792
103Seoul National University South Korea55Ryu, Youngryel #35,010
104The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom54Hegerl, Gabriele C. #36,206
105International Research Institute for Climate and Society United States55Hansen, James W. #39,986
106NC State University United States55Kunkel, Kenneth E. #46,751
107University of California, Berkeley United States44Baldocchi, Dennis D. #923
108Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Italy43Giorgi, Filippo #1,535
109King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia43Wada, Yoshihide #1,553
110Yale School of the Environment United States44Leiserowitz, Anthony A. #2,502
111NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory United States44McPhaden, Michael J. #2,700
112Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency Netherlands44P van Vuuren, Detlef Peter P. #2,860
113University of Cambridge United Kingdom44Hulme, Mike #4,634
114Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel43Rosenfeld, Daniel #5,024
115Deltares Netherlands44Aerts, Jeroen C.J.H. #5,337
116University of New Hampshire Durham United States43Xiao, Jingfeng #7,783
117School of Engineering and Applied Science United States44Wood, Eric F. #9,983
118Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory United States44Wehner, Michael F. #10,139
119George Mason University United States44Dirmeyer, Paul A. #10,742
120Georgia Institute of Technology United States44Webster, Peter John #11,099
121University of Southampton United Kingdom44Sheffield, Justin #11,430
122University of Miami United States44Biswas, Pratim M. #11,891
123Universität Zürich Switzerland44Huggel, Christian #12,708
124Fudan University China44Liang, Xiangsan #18,844
125University of York United Kingdom43Lewis, Alastair C. #20,848
126Brown University United States44Smith, Laurence C. #21,283
127Boston University United States44Li, Dan #22,490
128Université de Liège Belgium43Borges, Alberto V. #25,190
129École Normale Supérieure France44Ghil, Michael #25,209
130Michigan Engineering United States44Tóth, Gabor #26,755
131ORNL Environmental Sciences Division United States43Gu, Lianhong #28,772
132UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology United Kingdom44Huntingford, Chris #31,786
133Indiana University Bloomington United States44Novick, Kimberly A. #33,258
134GEOMAR - Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel Germany43Riebesell, Ulf #33,602
135Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Japan43Yamagata, Toshio #35,004
136Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Netherlands43Van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan #35,287
137NASA Langley Research Center United States43Winker, David M. #35,726
138Nagoya University Japan42Otsuka, Yuichi #37,035
139Jackson School of Geosciences United States44Yang, Zongliang #39,545
140Nanjing University China44Ding, Aijun #39,823
141CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique France44Dubovik, Oleg V. #40,109
142The University of Oklahoma United States42Xue, Ming #40,991
143Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany42Pongratz, Julia #42,904
144Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Germany44Latif, Mojib #44,304
145University of Iowa United States43Halekas, Jazzman S. #49,592
146National Oceanography Centre Southampton United Kingdom44Woodworth, Philip L. #54,923
147Los Alamos National Laboratory United States44Gary, S. Peter #56,068
148Technical University of Denmark Denmark44Pilegaard, Kim #59,118
149Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines France43Vrac, Mathieu #64,190
150University of Auckland New Zealand33Trenberth, Kevin E. #191
151ETH Zürich Switzerland33Gruber, Nicolas #1,528
152NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory United States32Wanninkhof, Rik H. #3,580
153School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology United States33Jin, Feifei #3,653
154The World Bank, USA United States33Hallegatte, Stéphane #4,362
155Carnegie Institution of Washington United States33Rosa, Lorenzo #5,806
156California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science United States33Seinfeld, John H. #6,026
157Cornell University United States33Ramanathan, Veerabhadran #6,633
158Duke University United States33Shindell, Drew T. #7,843
159Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes United States33Dettinger, Michael D. #8,522
160Technische Universität München Germany32Menzel, Annette #9,060
161Lanzhou University China33Zhang, Tingjun #10,824
162Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany33Hinkel, Jochen #11,037
163The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science United States33Gentine, Pierre #11,465
164Universitetet i Oslo Norway33Kääb, Andreas M. #12,367
165Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at UCLA United States31Angelopoulos, Vassilis #12,457
166Pusan National University South Korea33Timmermann, Axel #12,743
167Universität Bonn Germany33Schipper, E. Lisa F. #13,634
168Utah State University United States33Fejer, Bela G. #14,827
169The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong33Chen, Jianli #19,636
170National University of Singapore Singapore33Balasubramanian, Rajasekhar Kumar #21,587
171Hohai University China33Duan, Qingyun #22,916
172University of Minnesota Twin Cities United States33Ray, Deepak K. #23,226
173Desert Research Institute United States33Chow, Judith C. #23,849
174Monash University Australia33Hendon, Harry H. #24,556
175Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics United States33Rothman, L. S. #25,131
176Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong31Chen, Fei #25,442
177University of Northumbria United Kingdom33Jenkins, Adrian #26,153
178Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences United States33Thompson, Andrew F. #27,277
179Finnish Meteorological Institute Finland33Vihma, Timo #28,468
180Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere United States32DeMaria, Mark #29,001
181The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong33Kaplan, Jed Oliver #29,671
182National Institute for Environmental Studies of Japan Japan33Fujimori, Shinichiro #30,199
183United States Environmental Protection Agency United States33Wallace, Lance A. #31,030
184University of Leicester United Kingdom33Monks, Paul Steven #31,898
185Southwest Research Institute United States32Burch, James L. #32,149
186Wuhan University China32Li, Xingxing #32,446
187Université Libre de Bruxelles Belgium33Regnier, Pierre A.G. #34,232
188Cornell University College of Engineering United States33Barthelmie, Rebecca J. #34,351
189Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong33Lau, Gabriel Ngar Cheung #34,572
190Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory United States31Gjerloev, Jesper W. #35,232
191Freie Universität Berlin Germany32Pfahl, Stephan #35,361
192Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht Netherlands32Dijkstra, Henk A. #36,189
193Bureau of Meteorology Australia Australia32Ebert, Elizabeth E. #40,044
194Technical University of Crete Greece32Grillakis, Manolis G. #42,795
195Universität Leipzig Germany33Quaas, Johannes #45,870
196Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Italy32Camuffo, Dario #50,087
197United States Geological Survey United States32Huntington, Thomas G. #50,179
198Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici Italy33Dasgupta, Shouro #50,229
199Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands33Dolman, A. Johannes #52,250
200Space Sciences Laboratory United States32Luhmann, Janet G. #53,576
201University of Alberta Canada32Gan, Thian Yew #70,837
202The University of Manchester United Kingdom32Schultz, David M.D. #74,987
203Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources China32Qin, Dahe #85,841