2026 Apostolos Voulgarakis: 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	52	4372	4186	332	323	148	17330

Overview

Apostolos Voulgarakis is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong focus on global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science. They have contributed extensively to topics such as fire effects on ecosystems, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate variability and models, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Their publication record includes work in several frequent venues, including:

Atmospheric chemistry and physics
Geoscientific model development
SSRN Electronic Journal
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Environmental Research Letters

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Apostolos Voulgarakis include:

The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017 (2020) published in NOAA Institutional Repository
Quantitative assessment of fire and vegetation properties in simulations with fire-enabled vegetation models from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project (2020) published in Geoscientific model development
Predicting global patterns of long-term climate change from short-term simulations using machine learning (2020) published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Climate drivers of global wildfire burned area (2022) published in Environmental Research Letters
Global sensitivity analysis of chemistry-climate model budgets of tropospheric ozone and OH: exploring model diversity (2020) published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent co-authors with whom Apostolos Voulgarakis has collaborated include:

Matthew Kasoar
Manolis Grillakis
Anastasios Rovithakis
Gunnar Myhre
Jean-François Lamarque

Their work focuses broadly on understanding the interactions between atmospheric chemistry, climate processes, and ecosystem behaviors. Studies around fire effects and vegetation dynamics form significant components of their research portfolio, alongside investigations into atmospheric ozone, aerosols, and climate variability.

Best Publications

The global methane budget 2000–2017

Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

3060
Citations
Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

Stefanie Kirschke;Philippe Bousquet;Philippe Ciais;Marielle Saunois

2407
Citations
The global methane budget 2000–2012

Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

1161
Citations
Configuration and Assessment of the GISS ModelE2 Contributions to the CMIP5 Archive

Gavin A. Schmidt;Max Kelley;Larissa Nazarenko;Reto Ruedy

735
Citations
Pre-industrial to end 21st century projections of tropospheric ozone from the Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP)

P. J. Young;P. J. Young;P. J. Young;A. T. Archibald;K. W. Bowman;J.-F. Lamarque

718
Citations
Tropospheric ozone changes, radiative forcing and attribution to emissions in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP)

D. S. Stevenson;Paul Young;Paul Young;Paul Young;Vaishali Naik;Jean-Francois Lamarque

475
Citations
The Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP): overview and description of models, simulations and climate diagnostics

J. F. Lamarque;Drew T. Shindell;B Josse;Paul Young;Paul Young;Paul Young

463
Citations
Radiative forcing in the ACCMIP historical and future climate simulations

D.T. Shindell;J.-F. Lamarque;M. Schulz;M. Flanner

449
Citations
The status and challenge of global fire modelling

Stijn Hantson;Almut Arneth;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison;Douglas I. Kelley;Douglas I. Kelley

414
Citations
Preindustrial to present-day changes in tropospheric hydroxyl radical and methane lifetime from the Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP)

Vaishali Naik;A. Voulgarakis;Arlene M. Fiore;L. W. Horowitz

396
Citations
Analysis of Present Day and Future OH and Methane Lifetime in the ACCMIP Simulations

A. Voulgarakis;A. Voulgarakis;V. Naik;J.F. Lamarque;D.T. Shindell

364
Citations
El Nino and health risks from landscape fire emissions in southeast Asia

Miriam E. Marlier;Ruth S. DeFries;Apostolos Voulgarakis;Patrick L. Kinney

348
Citations
Evaluation of the new UKCA climate-composition model – Part 2: The Troposphere

F. M. O'Connor;C. E. Johnson;O. Morgenstern;O. Morgenstern;N. L. Abraham

313
Citations
Fast and slow precipitation responses to individual climate forcers: a PDRMIP multimodel study.

B. H. Samset;G. Myhre;P. M. Forster;Ø. Hodnebrog

258
Citations
The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1: Experimental and analytical protocols with detailed model descriptions

Sam S. Rabin;Sam S. Rabin;Joe R. Melton;Gitta Lasslop;Dominique Bachelet

248
Citations
Understanding Rapid Adjustments to Diverse Forcing Agents

C. J. Smith;R. J. Kramer;G. Myhre;P. M. Forster

228
Citations
Rapid adjustments cause weak surface temperature response to increased black carbon concentrations

Camilla Weum Stjern;Bjørn Hallvard Samset;Gunnar Myhre;Piers M. Forster

185
Citations
Interactive ozone and methane chemistry in GISS-E2 historical and future climate simulations

D. T. Shindell;O. Pechony;A. Voulgarakis;A. Voulgarakis;G. Faluvegi

180
Citations
CMIP5 historical simulations (1850–2012) with GISS ModelE2

Ron L. Miller;Ron L. Miller;Gavin A. Schmidt;Larissa S. Nazarenko;Nick Tausnev

180
Citations
PDRMIP: A Precipitation Driver and Response Model Intercomparison Project, Protocol and preliminary results.

G. Myhre;P. M. Forster;B. H. Samset;Ø. Hodnebrog

172
Citations
Global Methane Budget 2000-2012

M. Saunois;P. Bousquet;B. Poulter;A. Peregon

1
Citations
Near-term climate change:Projections and predictability

Nathaniel L. Bindoff;Paul J. Durack;Andrew Slater;Philip Cameron-Smith

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Drew T. Shindell Duke University

Jean-Francois Lamarque National Center for Atmospheric Research

Gregory Faluvegi Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Paul Young Lancaster University

Gunnar Myhre University of Oslo

Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University

William J. Collins University of Reading

Alf Kirkevåg Norwegian Meteorological Institute

Timothy Andrews Met Office

Piers M. Forster University of Leeds

External Links

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