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60
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14092
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2908
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1143

Charles H. Luce 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 Charles H. Luce sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 219 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Charles H. Luce 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 Charles H. Luce sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Charles H. Luce is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several related subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics with an emphasis on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

Charles H. Luce has contributed to multiple recent papers, among them:

  • Warming Enabled Upslope Advance in Western US Forest Fires, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Unfamiliar Territory: Emerging Themes for Ecological Drought Research and Management, 2020, One Earth
  • Snowfall and Snowpack in the Western U.S. as Captured by Convection Permitting Climate Simulations: Current Climate and Pseudo Global Warming Future Climate, 2021, Climate Dynamics
  • Increasing Concurrence of Wildfire Drivers Tripled Megafire Critical Danger Days in Southern California between 1982 and 2018, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Toward Improved Understanding of Streamflow Effects on Freshwater Fishes, 2022, Fisheries

Their frequent coauthors include Mojtaba Sadegh, Amir AghaKouchak, Jason B. Dunham, Mary C. Freeman, and Kevin R. Bestgen. These collaborations indicate interdisciplinary work engaging with experts in related fields.

Charles H. Luce's publications often appear in notable venues such as Water Resources Research, HydroShare Resources, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and One Earth. The most frequent publication outlet is Water Resources Research, with six publications listed.

Best Publications

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • Flow regime, temperature, and biotic interactions drive differential declines of trout species under climate change

    Seth J. Wenger;Daniel J. Isaak;Charles H. Luce;Helen M. Neville

  • A review of the relationships between drought and forest fire in the United States

    Jeremy S. Littell;David L. Peterson;Karin L. Riley;Yongquiang Liu

  • Effects of climate change and wildfire on stream temperatures and salmonid thermal habitat in a mountain river network

    Daniel J. Isaak;Charles H. Luce;Bruce E. Rieman;David E. Nagel

  • Evaluation of forest snow processes models (SnowMIP2)

    Nick Rutter;Richard Essery;John Pomeroy;Nuria Altimir

  • Decreasing fire season precipitation increased recent western US forest wildfire activity.

    Zachary A. Holden;Alan Swanson;Charles H. Luce;W. Matt Jolly

  • Both topography and climate affected forest and woodland burn severity in two regions of the western US, 1984 to 2006

    Gregory K. Dillon;Zachary A. Holden;Penelope Morgan;Michael A. Crimmins

  • Sediment production from forest roads in western Oregon

    Charles H. Luce;Thomas A. Black

  • Declining annual streamflow distributions in the Pacific Northwest United States, 1948–2006

    C. H. Luce;Z. A. Holden

  • Utah Energy Balance Snow Accumulation and Melt Model (UEB)

    David G. Tarboton;Charles H. Luce

  • Ecohydrological consequences of drought- and infestation- triggered tree die-off: insights and hypotheses

    Henry D. Adams;Charles H. Luce;David D. Breshears;Craig D. Allen

  • The NorWeST Summer Stream Temperature Model and Scenarios for the Western U.S.: A Crowd-Sourced Database and New Geospatial Tools Foster a User Community and Predict Broad Climate Warming of Rivers and Streams

    Daniel J. Isaak;Seth J. Wenger;Erin E. Peterson;Jay M. Ver Hoef

  • The Influence of the Spatial Distribution of Snow on Basin-Averaged Snowmelt

    Charles H. Luce;David G. Tarboton;Keith R. Cooley

  • Anticipated Climate Warming Effects on Bull Trout Habitats and Populations Across the Interior Columbia River Basin

    Bruce E. Rieman;Daniel Isaak;Susan Adams;Dona Horan

  • Fire and aquatic ecosystems of the western USA: current knowledge and key questions

    Peter A. Bisson;Bruce E. Rieman;Charlie Luce;Paul F. Hessburg

  • Slow climate velocities of mountain streams portend their role as refugia for cold-water biodiversity

    Daniel J. Isaak;Michael K. Young;Charles H. Luce;Steven W. Hostetler

  • Influences of Wildfire and Channel Reorganization on Spatial and Temporal Variation in Stream Temperature and the Distribution of Fish and Amphibians

    Jason B. Dunham;Amanda E. Rosenberger;Charlie H. Luce;Bruce E. Rieman

  • The Missing Mountain Water: Slower Westerlies Decrease Orographic Enhancement in the Pacific Northwest USA

    C. H. Luce;J. T. Abatzoglou;Z. A. Holden

  • Potential effects of climate change on streambed scour and risks to salmonid survival in snow-dominated mountain basins

    Jaime R. Goode;Jaime R. Goode;John M. Buffington;Daniele Tonina;Daniel J. Isaak

  • Sub-grid parameterization of snow distribution for an energy and mass balance snow cover model

    Charles H. Luce;David G. Tarboton;Keith R. Cooley

  • Runoff Prediction in Ungauged Basins: Synthesis Across Processes, Places and Scales

    Charles Luce

Frequent Co-Authors

David G. Tarboton
David G. Tarboton Utah State University
Daniele Tonina
Daniele Tonina University of Idaho
Daniel J. Isaak
Daniel J. Isaak US Forest Service
Bruce E. Rieman
Bruce E. Rieman US Forest Service
Seth J. Wenger
Seth J. Wenger University of Georgia
James M. Vose
James M. Vose North Carolina State University
Jason B. Dunham
Jason B. Dunham United States Geological Survey
Zachary A. Holden
Zachary A. Holden United States Department of Agriculture
Erkan Istanbulluoglu
Erkan Istanbulluoglu University of Washington
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan

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