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Christine A. Shields

Environmental Science · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Climate variability and modelsGeology and Paleoclimatology ResearchMeteorological Phenomena and SimulationsAtmospheric and Environmental Gas DynamicsCryospheric studies and observations

Publications

174

Citations

7,929

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

32

Publishing since 1995

Research summary
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Christine A. Shields studies Earth's climate using computer models, with a focus on atmospheric rivers—narrow bands of concentrated water vapor that transport large amounts of moisture through the atmosphere. Her work examines how these systems behave in polar regions such as Antarctica and the Arctic, how they may change with a warming climate, and how they affect sea ice and ocean conditions. She also investigates past climates, including ancient warm periods, using large climate simulation datasets.

Atmospheric rivers and moisture transportPolar and cryospheric climate changeClimate modeling and large ensemblesPaleoclimate and past warm periodsMachine learning for climate detection

Publication activity has been steady and relatively high across the past decade, generally in the range of about 7 to 15 papers per year.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 10.2/year recently
2017: 7 publications172018: 11 publications182019: 10 publications192020: 14 publications202021: 9 publications212022: 15 publications15222023: 12 publications232024: 7 publications242025: 14 publications252026: 3 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts×12
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres×11
  • Geophysical Research Letters×10
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology×4
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×4

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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