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Christian D. Kummerow 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 Christian D. Kummerow sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 273 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christian D. Kummerow 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 Christian D. Kummerow sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 68 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Christian D. Kummerow is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research primarily centers on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Environmental Science. Within these broader fields, their work emphasizes subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics involve Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate Variability and Models, Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements.

Christian D. Kummerow has published research in a number of well-known scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • Journal of Climate
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including P. Brown, Eric Goldenstern, Simon Pfreundschuh, David L. Randel, and Yoonjin Lee.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Closing the Water Cycle from Observations across Scales: Where Do We Stand?" (2021), published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Applying machine learning methods to detect convection using Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) advanced baseline imager (ABI) data" (2021), published in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • "Multifaceted aerosol effects on precipitation" (2024), published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Calibration and Validation of the TEMPEST-D CubeSat Radiometer" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • "Hyperspectral Microwave Sensors-Advantages and Limitations" (2021), published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Christian D. Kummerow has also contributed to book literature, including a publication titled Satellite Precipitation Measurement (2020) released by Springer Nature (Netherlands).

Best Publications

  • The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Sensor Package

    Christian Kummerow;William Barnes;Toshiaki Kozu;James Shiue

  • The Global Precipitation Measurement Mission

    Arthur Y. Hou;Ramesh K. Kakar;Steven Neeck;Ardeshir A. Azarbarzin

  • The status of the tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM) after two years in orbit

    C. Kummerow;J. Simpson;O. Thiele;W. Barnes

  • The Evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF) for Rainfall Estimation from Passive Microwave Sensors

    Christian Kummerow;Y. Hong;W. S. Olson;S. Yang

  • The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission for Science and Society

    Gail Skofronick-Jackson;Walter A Petersen;Wesley Berg;Chris Kidd

  • A simplified scheme for obtaining precipitation and vertical hydrometeor profiles from passive microwave sensors

    C. Kummerow;W.S. Olson;L. Giglio

  • On the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)

    Joanne Simpson

  • The Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation from Space: A Review

    Graeme L. Stephens;Christian D. Kummerow

  • The Evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm to a Fully Parametric Scheme

    Christian D. Kummerow;David L. Randel;Mark Kulie;Nai-Yu Wang

  • A Passive Microwave Technique for Estimating Rainfall and Vertical Structure Information from Space. Part I: Algorithm Description

    Christian Kummerow;Louis Giglio

  • Effects of biomass-burning-derived aerosols on precipitation and clouds in the Amazon Basin: a satellite-based empirical study

    J. C. Lin;J. C. Lin;T. Matsui;R. A. Pielke;C. Kummerow

  • The TRMM 'Day-1' Radar/Radiometer Combined Rain-Profiling Algorithm

    Ziad S. Haddad;Eric A. Smith;Christian D. Kummerow;Toshio Iguchi

  • On the accuracy of the Eddington approximation for radiative transfer in the microwave frequencies

    Christian Kummerow

  • Results of WetNet PIP-2 Project

    E. A. Smith;J. E. Lamm;R. Adler;J. Alishouse

  • Global Precipitation Measurement

    Arthur Y. Hou;Gail Skofronick-Jackson;Christian D. Kummerow;James Marshall Shepherd

  • International Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Program and Mission: An Overview

    Eric A. Smith;Ghassem Asrar;Yoji Furuhama;Amnon Ginati

  • Rainfall Climate Regimes: The Relationship of Regional TRMM Rainfall Biases to the Environment

    Wesley Berg;Tristan L'Ecuyer;Christian Kummerow

  • Atmospheric Latent Heating Distributions in the Tropics Derived from Satellite Passive Microwave Radiometer Measurements

    William S. Olson;Christian D. Kummerow;Ye Hong;Wei-Kuo Tao

  • A Method for Combined Passive-Active Microwave Retrievals of Cloud and Precipitation Profiles.

    William S. Olson;Christian D. Kummerow;Gerald M. Heymsfield;Louis Giglio

  • An Observationally Generated A Priori Database for Microwave Rainfall Retrievals

    Christian D. Kummerow;Sarah Ringerud;Jody Crook;David Randel

Frequent Co-Authors

William S. Olson
William S. Olson University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Eric A. Smith
Eric A. Smith Florida State University
Tristan L'Ecuyer
Tristan L'Ecuyer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert F. Adler
Robert F. Adler University of Maryland, College Park
Song Yang
Song Yang Guizhou University
Joanne Simpson
Joanne Simpson Goddard Space Flight Center
Arthur Y. Hou
Arthur Y. Hou Goddard Space Flight Center
Wei-Kuo Tao
Wei-Kuo Tao Goddard Space Flight Center
Scott A. Braun
Scott A. Braun Goddard Space Flight Center
Robert Meneghini
Robert Meneghini Goddard Space Flight Center

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