2026 Alan Robock: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	115	160	150	74	68	1164	43279

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Alan Robock is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to related subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Political Science and International Relations, Oceanography, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics addressed in Robock's work include Nuclear Issues and Defense, Climate Change and Geoengineering, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Radioactive contamination and transfer, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Robock has published extensively in various venues with multiple papers in Harvard Dataverse, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Reviews of Geophysics, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Their recent papers include:

The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade (2021) published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection (2022) published in Nature Food
A regional nuclear conflict would compromise global food security (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Reaching 1.5 and 2.0 °C global surface temperature targets using stratospheric aerosol geoengineering (2020) published in Earth System Dynamics
Volcanic effects on climate: recent advances and future avenues (2022) published in Bulletin of Volcanology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Robock on research projects include Michael Mills, Anja Schmidt, Brian Zambri, Lili Xia, and O. B. Toon.

Robock's work has been recognized by professional societies with fellowships awarded as Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2011 and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.

Best Publications

Volcanic eruptions and climate

Alan Robock

3171
Citations
The multi-institution North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): Utilizing multiple GCIP products and partners in a continental distributed hydrological modeling system

Kenneth E. Mitchell;Dag Lohmann;Paul R. Houser;Eric F. Wood

1538
Citations
The International Soil Moisture Network: a data hosting facility for global in situ soil moisture measurements

W. A. Dorigo;W. Wagner;R. Hohensinn;S. Hahn

1195
Citations
The Global Soil Moisture Data Bank

Alan Robock;Konstantin Y. Vinnikov;Govindarajalu Srinivasan;Jared K. Entin

1100
Citations
Volcanic forcing of climate over the past 1500 years: An improved ice core-based index for climate models

Chaochao Gao;Alan Robock;Caspar Ammann

904
Citations
Real‐time and retrospective forcing in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project

Brian A. Cosgrove;Brian A. Cosgrove;Dag Lohmann;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Paul R. Houser

755
Citations
Temporal and spatial scales of observed soil moisture variations in the extratropics

Jared K. Entin;Alan Robock;Konstantin Y. Vinnikov;Steven E. Hollinger

687
Citations
Global Warming and Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent

Konstantin Y. Vinnikov;Alan Robock;Ronald J. Stouffer;John E. Walsh

647
Citations
Global Cooling After the Eruption of Mount Pinatubo: A Test of Climate Feedback by Water Vapor

Brian J. Soden;Richard T. Wetherald;Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Alan Robock

629
Citations
Steady decline of east Asian monsoon winds, 1969–2000: Evidence from direct ground measurements of wind speed

Ming Xu;Ming Xu;Chih Pei Chang;Chih Pei Chang;Congbin Fu;Ye Qi

613
Citations
Regional climate responses to geoengineering with tropical and Arctic SO2 injections

Alan Robock;Luke Oman;Georgiy L. Stenchikov

587
Citations
Radiative forcing from the 1991 Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption

Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Ingo Kirchner;Alan Robock;Hans-F. Graf

560
Citations
The Volcanic Signal in Surface Temperature Observations.

Alan Robock;Jianping Mao

529
Citations
The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)

Ben Kravitz;Alan Robock;Olivier Boucher;Hauke Schmidt

497
Citations
Cabauw Experimental Results from the Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes

T.H. Chen;A. Henderson-Sellers;P.C.D. Milly;A.J. Pitman

453
Citations
20 reasons why geoengineering may be a bad idea

Alan Robock

441
Citations
Scales of temporal and spatial variability of midlatitude soil moisture

Konstantin Y. Vinnikov;Alan Robock;Nina A. Speranskaya;C. Adam Schlosser

435
Citations
Benefits, risks, and costs of stratospheric geoengineering.

Alan Robock;Allison Marquardt;Ben Kravitz;Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Georgiy L. Stenchikov

434
Citations
Winter warming from large volcanic eruptions

Alan Robock;Jianping Mao

426
Citations
An overview of geoengineering of climate using stratospheric sulphate aerosols.

Philip J Rasch;Simone Tilmes;Richard P Turco;Alan Robock

421
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Georgiy L. Stenchikov King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Ben Kravitz Indiana University

Owen B. Toon University of Colorado Boulder

Luke D. Oman Goddard Space Flight Center

Lifeng Luo Michigan State University

Simone Tilmes National Center for Atmospheric Research

Konstantin Y. Vinnikov University of Maryland, College Park

Kenneth E. Mitchell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Eric F. Wood Princeton University

Paul R. Houser George Mason University

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