2026 Alex Hall: 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	81	930	882	402	369	227	20960

Overview

Alex Hall is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a publication record that emphasizes global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science.

Their work covers several subfields, including:

Global and Planetary Change
Atmospheric Science
Water Science and Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Key topics addressed in their research include:

Climate variability and models
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Cryospheric studies and observations
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Fire effects on ecosystems
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Alex Hall has frequently published research in several venues, such as:

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Geophysical Research Letters
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Climate
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alex Hall include:

Jesse Norris
Chad W. Thackeray
Stefan Rahimi
Naomi Goldenson
Benjamin Bass

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Alex Hall are:

Responses and impacts of atmospheric rivers to climate change, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
A Race-Track Trapped-Ion Quantum Processor, 2023, Physical Review X
Constraining the increased frequency of global precipitation extremes under warming, 2022, Nature Climate Change
The Ongoing Need for High-Resolution Regional Climate Models: Process Understanding and Stakeholder Information, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Quantifying contributions of natural variability and anthropogenic forcings on increased fire weather risk over the western United States, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

How Well Do We Understand and Evaluate Climate Change Feedback Processes

Sandrine Bony;Robert Colman;Vladimir M. Kattsov;Richard P. Allan

1405
Citations
Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California

Daniel L. Swain;Daniel L. Swain;Baird Langenbrunner;Baird Langenbrunner;J. David Neelin;Alex Hall

968
Citations
Synchronous Variability in the Southern Hemisphere Atmosphere, Sea Ice, and Ocean Resulting from the Annular Mode*

Alex Hall;Martin Visbeck

714
Citations
Taking climate model evaluation to the next level

Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Peter M. Cox;Gregory M. Flato;Peter J. Gleckler

703
Citations
The role of surface albedo feedback in climate

Alex Hall

639
Citations
Towards process-informed bias correction of climate change simulations

Douglas Maraun;Theodore G. Shepherd;Martin Widmann;Giuseppe Zappa

556
Citations
Using the current seasonal cycle to constrain snow albedo feedback in future climate change

Alex Hall;Xin Qu

542
Citations
Progressing emergent constraints on future climate change

Alex Hall;Peter Cox;Chris Huntingford;Stephen Klein

390
Citations
September sea-ice cover in the Arctic Ocean projected to vanish by 2100

Julien Boé;Alex Hall;Xin Qu

381
Citations
Towards predictive understanding of regional climate change

Shang Ping Xie;Clara Deser;Gabriel Andres Vecchi;Matthew Collins

380
Citations
Responses and impacts of atmospheric rivers to climate change

Ashley E. Payne;Marie-Estelle Demory;L. Ruby Leung;Alexandre M. Ramos

380
Citations
Host–parasite coevolutionary arms races give way to fluctuating selection

Alex R. Hall;Pauline D. Scanlan;Andrew D. Morgan;Andrew D. Morgan;Angus Buckling;Angus Buckling

330
Citations
Constraining the increased frequency of global precipitation extremes under warming

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303
Citations
Modulation of Wind-Work by Oceanic Current Interaction with the Atmosphere

Lionel Renault;M. Jeroen Molemaker;James C. McWilliams;Alexander F. Shchepetkin

289
Citations
The population genetics of antibiotic resistance: integrating molecular mechanisms and treatment contexts

R. Craig MacLean;Alex R. Hall;Gabriel G. Perron;Angus Buckling

288
Citations
Low-Cloud Feedbacks from Cloud-Controlling Factors: A Review

Stephen A. Klein;Alex Hall;Joel R. Norris;Robert Pincus;Robert Pincus

288
Citations
The importance of precessional signals in the tropical climate

A. C. Clement;A. Hall;A. J. Broccoli

260
Citations
What Controls the Strength of Snow-Albedo Feedback?

Xin Qu;Alex Hall

257
Citations
Effect of Vitamin C, Thiamine, and Hydrocortisone on Ventilator- and Vasopressor-Free Days in Patients With Sepsis: The VICTAS Randomized Clinical Trial

Jonathan E. Sevransky;Richard E. Rothman;David N. Hager;Gordon R. Bernard

253
Citations
On the persistent spread in snow-albedo feedback

Xin Qu;Alex Hall

238
Citations
ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks

Gerhard Krinner;Chris Derksen;Richard Essery;Mark Flanner

214
Citations
Emergent Constraints for Cloud Feedbacks

Stephen A. Klein;Alex Hall

210
Citations
California Winter Precipitation Change under Global Warming in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 Ensemble

J. David Neelin;Baird Langenbrunner;Joyce E. Meyerson;Alex Hall

204
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen A. Klein Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Veronika Eyring University of Bremen

James C. McWilliams University of California, Los Angeles

Kuo-Nan Liou University of California, Los Angeles

George Tselioudis Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Sandrine Bony Université Paris Cité

Mark D. Zelinka Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Robert Pincus University of Colorado Boulder

Tamlin M. Pavelsky University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

J. David Neelin University of California, Los Angeles

External Links

Personal website of Alex Hall

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