Thomas L. Delworth

Thomas L. Delworth is an atmospheric and oceanic climate scientist and Senior Scientist at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), part of NOAA. He also serves on the faculty of Oceanic Science at Princeton University.

Delworth is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and received its 2021 Bert Bolin Award for Climate research, for "major contributions in atmosphere ocean interactions through pioneering climate modeling that has advanced the understanding of climate variations, change, and extremes." and multiple previous years for having "demonstrated significant influence through publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade".

Early life and education Delworth grew up in St. Louis, Missouri.

Career In 1984,

Delworth has collaborated with many others including 2021 Nobel Laureate Syukuro Manabe, who created the first climate models to show the effects of carbon dioxide building up in the atmosphere, Ronald J. Stouffer, Michael E. Mann, and Rong Zhang. Delworth serves on the Syukuro Manabe Climate Research Award Committee of the American Meteorological Society.

Research Delworth studies the global climate system through long-term global climate modeling at timescales ranging from seasons to decades and SPEAR. He has used hierarchies of models to examine climate variability and related changes. He is credited with "major contributions in atmosphere ocean interactions through pioneering climate modeling that has advanced the understanding of climate variations, change, and extremes." 2021, Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics 2015, Fellow, American Meteorological Society 2015, Department of Commerce Gold Medal, joint award, "For outstanding research, leading to improved capability to predict seasonal‐to‐decadal variations in regional hydrological conditions and extremes". 2005, Department of Commerce Silver Medal, joint award, "For delivering state-of-the-art model simulations of past, present, and future climate and for enabling open access to the data sets. Results from a recent international workshop support the conclusion that the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory climate model is among the best in the world".

Selected publications