Research
He has published over 70 refereed articles in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, and Nature, and was named In November 2004 as one of Scientific American's "Top 50 Research Leaders" of the year.
His main research interest is climate variability, both its internal and the response to climate forcing, investigated via ocean-atmosphere general circulation models. He also uses these to study palaeoclimate by working on methods to compare palaeo-data with model output. Schmidt helps to develop the GISS ocean and coupled GCMs (ModelE). This model has been "isotopically enabled" to carry oxygen-18 tracers, allowing the model to simulate the pattern of δ18O observed in ice cores, cave records and ocean sediments.
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