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81
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29555
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911
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24

B. J. J. M. van den Hurk publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where B. J. J. M. van den Hurk sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 258 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

B. J. J. M. van den Hurk D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where B. J. J. M. van den Hurk sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 81 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Climate change
  • Meteorology
  • Climatology

B. J. J. M. van den Hurk focuses on Climatology, Climate model, Climate change, Precipitation and Forcing. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Land cover and Land use. The concepts of his Climate model study are interwoven with issues in Sea ice, Greenhouse gas and Global change.

His Climate change study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Perspective and Temporal scales. His Precipitation research incorporates elements of Sea surface temperature and Atmospheric sciences. In his study, Boundary value problem is strongly linked to Radiative forcing, which falls under the umbrella field of Forcing.

His most cited work include:

  • An intercomparison of regional climate simulations for Europe: assessing uncertainties in model projections (563 citations)
  • EC-Earth V2.2 : description and validation of a new seamless earth system prediction model (404 citations)
  • Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: First results from the LUCID intercomparison study (351 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary areas of investigation include Climatology, Meteorology, Climate model, Atmospheric sciences and Climate change. His research in Climatology intersects with topics in Land use, Precipitation, Global warming, Surface runoff and Water cycle. His study looks at the intersection of Precipitation and topics like Forcing with Radiative forcing.

B. J. J. M. van den Hurk focuses mostly in the field of Meteorology, narrowing it down to matters related to Water content and, in some cases, Soil water. His Climate model research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Global change, Sea ice, Greenhouse gas and Climate commitment. B. J. J. M. van den Hurk has researched Climate change in several fields, including Sea surface temperature and Flood myth.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Climatology (44.12%)
  • Meteorology (30.39%)
  • Climate model (29.41%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2009-2020)?

  • Climatology (44.12%)
  • Climate change (20.59%)
  • Precipitation (19.61%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

B. J. J. M. van den Hurk mainly focuses on Climatology, Climate change, Precipitation, Climate model and Atmospheric sciences. His Climatology study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Land cover, Meteorology, Global warming and Mean radiant temperature. In his study, Environmental resource management, Current and Sea level is inextricably linked to Flood myth, which falls within the broad field of Climate change.

His study looks at the relationship between Precipitation and fields such as Hydrology, as well as how they intersect with chemical problems. His Climate model study combines topics in areas such as Land use, land-use change and forestry, Climate commitment, Sea surface temperature, Sea ice and Greenhouse gas. His work in the fields of Sensible heat overlaps with other areas such as Decomposition.

Between 2009 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • EC-Earth V2.2 : description and validation of a new seamless earth system prediction model (404 citations)
  • Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling (318 citations)
  • Contribution of land surface initialization to subseasonal forecast skill: first results from a multi-model experiment. (265 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Climate change
  • Meteorology
  • Thermodynamics

His main research concerns Climatology, Climate change, Land cover, Climate model and Land use. B. J. J. M. van den Hurk has researched Climatology in several fields, including Mean radiant temperature, Precipitation and Water content. His Precipitation study incorporates themes from Sea surface temperature, Atmospheric sciences and Water cycle.

He combines subjects such as Albedo, Latent heat, Evapotranspiration and Leaf area index with his study of Land cover. His research investigates the connection with Climate model and areas like Sea ice which intersect with concerns in Greenhouse gas, Biosphere, Polar amplification and Northern Hemisphere. Within one scientific family, B. J. J. M. van den Hurk focuses on topics pertaining to Forcing under Land use, and may sometimes address concerns connected to Agricultural land, Coupled model intercomparison project, Subtropics and Carbon cycle.

Best Publications

  • Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment.

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Neville Nicholls;David Easterling;Clare M. Goodess

  • Future climate risk from compound events

    Jakob Zscheischler;Seth Westra;Bart J. J. M. van den Hurk;Bart J. J. M. van den Hurk;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • A typology of compound weather and climate events

    Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Olivia Martius;Olivia Martius;Seth Westra;Emanuele Bevacqua

  • A Revised Hydrology for the ECMWF Model: Verification from Field Site to Terrestrial Water Storage and Impact in the Integrated Forecast System

    Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anton Beljaars;Klaus Scipal;Pedro Viterbo

  • An intercomparison of regional climate simulations for Europe: assessing uncertainties in model projections

    M. Déqué;D. P. Rowell;D. Lüthi;F. Giorgi

  • An inter-comparison of regional climate models for Europe: model performance in present-day climate

    Daniela Jacob;Lars Bärring;Ole Bøssing Christensen;Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

  • EC-Earth V2.2: description and validation of a new seamless earth system prediction model

    W. Hazeleger;W. Hazeleger;X. Wang;C. Severijns;S. Stefanescu

  • Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves

    Adriaan J. Teuling;Adriaan J. Teuling;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Reto Stöckli;Markus Reichstein

  • Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change

    Theodore G. Shepherd;Emily Boyd;Raphael A. Calel;Raphael A. Calel;Sandra C. Chapman;Sandra C. Chapman

  • Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling

    M.K. van der Molen;A.J. Dolman;P. Ciais;T. Eglin

  • EC-Earth A Seamless Earth-System Prediction Approach in Action

    Wilco Hazeleger;Camiel Severijns;Tido Semmler;Simona Ştefănescu

  • Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: First results from the LUCID intercomparison study

    A. J. Pitman;N. de Noblet-Ducoudré;F. T. Cruz;E. L. Davin;E. L. Davin

  • An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: definition and aggregated datasets

    Maialen Iturbide;José M. Gutiérrez;Lincoln M. Alves;Joaquín Bedia

  • Contribution of land surface initialization to subseasonal forecast skill: first results from a multi-model experiment.

    R. D. Koster;S. P.P. Mahanama;S. P.P. Mahanama;T.J. Yamada;T.J. Yamada;T.J. Yamada;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • Land–atmosphere feedbacks amplify aridity increase over land under global warming

    Alexis Berg;Kirsten Findell;Benjamin Lintner;Alessandra Giannini

  • Determining Robust Impacts of Land-Use-Induced Land Cover Changes on Surface Climate over North America and Eurasia: Results from the First Set of LUCID Experiments

    N de Noblet-Ducoudre;J.P. Boisier;A. Pitman;G.B. Bonan

  • Projected Changes in Mean and Extreme Precipitation in Africa under Global Warming. Part I: Southern Africa

    Mxolisi E. Shongwe;G. J. Van Oldenborgh;B. J.J.M. Van Den Hurk;B. De Boer

  • The Second Phase of the Global Land–Atmosphere Coupling Experiment: Soil Moisture Contributions to Subseasonal Forecast Skill

    R. D. Koster;S. P. P. Mahanama;S. P. P. Mahanama;S. P. P. Mahanama;T. J. Yamada;T. J. Yamada;T. J. Yamada;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • A verification of some methods to determine the fluxes of momentum, sensible heat and water vapour using standard deviation and structure parameter of scalar meteorological quantities.

    H. A. R. De Bruin;W. Kohsiek;B. J. J. M. Van Den Hurk

  • A comprehensive model inter-comparison study investigating the water budget during the BALTEX-PIDCAP period

    D. Jacob;B. J. J. M. Van den Hurk;U. Andræ;G. Elgered

  • Effect of Anthropogenic Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes on Climate and Land Carbon Storage in CMIP5 Projections for the Twenty-First Century

    V. Brovkin;Lena R. Boysen;Vivek K. Arora;J. P. Boisier

  • Impact of soil moisture-climate feedbacks on CMIP5 projections: First results from the GLACE-CMIP5 experiment

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Micah Wilhelm;Tanja Stanelle;Bart van den Hurk

Frequent Co-Authors

Pedro Viterbo
Pedro Viterbo Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Hubert H. G. Savenije
Hubert H. G. Savenije Delft University of Technology
H. A. R. De Bruin
H. A. R. De Bruin Wageningen University & Research
Eddy Moors
Eddy Moors Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jean-Christophe Calvet
Jean-Christophe Calvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Cor Jacobs
Cor Jacobs Wageningen University & Research
Gianpaolo Balsamo
Gianpaolo Balsamo European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Wilco Hazeleger
Wilco Hazeleger Utrecht University
Geert Lenderink
Geert Lenderink Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

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