Mark A. Cane is an American climate scientist. He obtained his PhD at MIT in 1975. He is currently the G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences at Columbia University and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. He actively pursues several research and teaching initiatives, and supports the Columbia climate kids corner [1]. As of November 11, 2015, his publications have been cited over 22,600 times, and he has an h-index of 75.[1]
He was involved in the first numerical prediction of El Niño-Southern Oscillation in 1986.[2][3]