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D-Index
41
Citations
6479
World Ranking
7712
National Ranking
2748

Bing Lin 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 Bing Lin sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 159 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Bing Lin 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 Bing Lin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Bing Lin is affiliated with the Langley Research Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with particular emphasis on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Spectroscopy.

The main topics Bing Lin has worked on include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Spectroscopy and Laser Applications, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, and Planetary Science and Exploration.

The scientist has published numerous papers in several frequent venues, including:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Earth and Space Science
  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Bing Lin include:

  • Observations of Greenhouse Gas Changes Across Summer Frontal Boundaries in the Eastern United States, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • The Atmospheric Carbon and Transport (ACT)-America Mission, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Field Evaluation of Column CO2 Retrievals From Intensity-Modulated Continuous-Wave Differential Absorption Lidar Measurements During the ACT-America Campaign, 2020, Earth and Space Science
  • Atmospheric Carbon and Transport - America (ACT-America) Data Sets: Description, Management, and Delivery, 2021, Earth and Space Science
  • A new exponentially decaying error correlation model for assimilating OCO-2 column-average CO2 data using a length scale computed from airborne lidar measurements, 2022, Geoscientific Model Development

Bing Lin has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • K. J. Davis
  • J. F. Campbell
  • J. T. Dobler
  • Sandip Pal
  • Emily Bell

Best Publications

  • CALIPSO/CALIOP Cloud Phase Discrimination Algorithm

    Yongxiang Hu;David Winker;Mark Vaughan;Bing Lin

  • Occurrence, liquid water content, and fraction of supercooled water clouds from combined CALIOP/IIR/MODIS measurements

    Yongxiang Hu;Sharon Rodier;Kuan-man Xu;Wenbo Sun

  • Satellite-Based Assessment of Possible Dust Aerosols Semi-Direct Effect on Cloud Water Path over East Asia

    Jianping Huang;Bing Lin;Patrick Minnis;Tianhe Wang

  • Possible influences of Asian dust aerosols on cloud properties and radiative forcing observed from MODIS and CERES

    Jianping Huang;Patrick Minnis;Bing Lin;Tianhe Wang

  • Thin Liquid Water Clouds: Their Importance and Our Challenge

    David D. Turner;A. M. Vogelmann;Richard T. Austin;James C. Barnard

  • The Observed State of the Energy Budget in the Early Twenty-First Century

    Tristan S. L'Ecuyer;H. K. Beaudoing;H. K. Beaudoing;M. Rodell;W. Olson

  • The depolarization - attenuated backscatter relation: CALIPSO lidar measurements vs. theory

    Yongxiang Hu;Mark Vaughan;Zhaoyan Liu;Bing Lin

  • The Iris Hypothesis: A Negative or Positive Cloud Feedback?.

    Bing Lin;Bruce A. Wielicki;Lin H. Chambers;Yongxiang Hu

  • Sea surface wind speed estimation from space-based lidar measurements

    Y. Hu;K. Stamnes;M. Vaughan;Jacques Pelon

  • δ-Fit: A fast and accurate treatment of particle scattering phase functions with weighted singular-value decomposition least-squares fitting

    Y.-X Hu;B Wielicki;B Lin;G Gibson

  • Observations of cloud liquid water path over oceans: Optical and microwave remote sensing methods

    Bing Lin;William B. Rossow

  • Evidence of mineral dust altering cloud microphysics and precipitation

    Qilong Min;Rui Li;Bing Lin;Everette Joseph

  • Atmospheric CO2 column measurements with an airborne intensity-modulated continuous wave 1.57 μm fiber laser lidar.

    Jeremy T. Dobler;F. Wallace Harrison;Edward V. Browell;Bing Lin

  • CERES Edition-2 Cloud Property Retrievals Using TRMM VIRS and Terra and Aqua MODIS Data—Part II: Examples of Average Results and Comparisons With Other Data

    P. Minnis;Szedung Sun-Mack;Yan Chen;M. M. Khaiyer

  • Application of deep convective cloud albedo observation to satellite-based study of the terrestrial atmosphere: monitoring the stability of spaceborne measurements and assessing absorption anomaly

    Yongxiang Hu;B.A. Wielicki;Ping Yang;P.W. Stackhouse

  • Advanced retrievals of multilayered cloud properties using multispectral measurements

    Jianping Huang;Patrick Minnis;Bing Lin;Yuhong Yi

  • Life Cycle of Midlatitude Deep Convective Systems in a Lagrangian Framework

    Zhe Feng;Zhe Feng;Xiquan Dong;Baike Xi;Sally A. McFarlane

  • Seasonal Variation of Liquid and Ice Water Path in Nonprecipitating Clouds over Oceans

    Bing Lin;William B. Rossow

  • Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration and Carbon Uptake at Harvard Forest

    Qilong Min;Bing Lin

  • Investigation of the 2006 drought and 2007 flood extremes at the Southern Great Plains through an integrative analysis of observations

    Xiquan Dong;Baike Xi;Aaron Kennedy;Zhe Feng

  • Estimation of water cloud properties from satellite microwave, infrared and visible measurements in oceanic environments: 2. Results

    Bing Lin;Patrick Minnis;Bruce Wielicki;David R. Doelling

Frequent Co-Authors

Yongxiang Hu
Yongxiang Hu Langley Research Center
Patrick Minnis
Patrick Minnis Langley Research Center
Kenneth J. Davis
Kenneth J. Davis Pennsylvania State University
Zhaoyan Liu
Zhaoyan Liu Langley Research Center
Edward V. Browell
Edward V. Browell Langley Research Center
Bruce A. Wielicki
Bruce A. Wielicki Langley Research Center
Jianping Huang
Jianping Huang Lanzhou University
Thomas Lauvaux
Thomas Lauvaux Pennsylvania State University
Christopher W. O'Dell
Christopher W. O'Dell Colorado State University
Xiquan Dong
Xiquan Dong University of Arizona

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