# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kevin-e-trenberth
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:04:12.692Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kevin-e-trenberth"
name: "Kevin E. Trenberth"
slug: "kevin-e-trenberth"
description: "Kevin Edward Trenberth is a New Zealand-American climate scientist who worked in the Climate Analysis Section at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research. He was a lead author of the 1995, 2001 and 2007 IPCC assessment reports. He also played major roles in the World Climate Research Programme, for example in its Tropical Oceans Global Atmosphere program (TOGA), the Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) program, and the Global Energy and Water Exchanges project."
tagline: "American climatologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kevin_Trenberth%2C_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-11-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.56
  momentum:             3.748530276308054
  historical:           5.676350666666667
  currentAttention:     14.88095238095238
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Kevin Trenberth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trenberth"
    title: "Kevin Trenberth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trenberth"
    title: "Kevin Trenberth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Тренберт, Кевин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trenberth"
    title: "Kevin Trenberth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trenberth"
    title: "Kevin Trenberth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6396209"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump