2026 Danny Marks: 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	56	3635	3471	1387	1279	201	11912

Overview

Danny Marks is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable work in atmospheric science and water science and technology.

Their research interests navigate several subfields including:

Atmospheric Science
Water Science and Technology
Global and Planetary Change
Environmental Chemistry
Soil Science

Marks' work covers key topics in environmental and earth sciences:

Cryospheric studies and observations
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Climate variability and models
Climate change and permafrost
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Their research is disseminated in several academic venues, including:

Hydrological Processes
The Cryosphere
Water Resources Research
Vadose Zone Journal
Computers & Geosciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Marks include:

Snow cover duration trends observed at sites and predicted by multiple models, 2020, The Cryosphere
From Drought to Flood: A Water Balance Analysis of the Tuolumne River Basin during Extreme Conditions (2015 - 2017), 2020, Hydrological Processes
The USDA-ARS Experimental Watershed Network: Evolution, Lessons Learned, Societal Benefits, and Moving Forward, 2020, Water Resources Research
Slope and aspect controls on soil climate: Field documentation and implications for large-scale simulation of critical zone processes, 2021, Vadose Zone Journal
Automated Water Supply Model (AWSM): Streamlining and standardizing application of a physically based snow model for water resources and reproducible science, 2020, Computers & Geosciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Marks include:

A. R. Hedrick
S. Havens
J. P. McNamara
Ernesto Trujillo
Micah Sandusky

Best Publications

The Airborne Snow Observatory: Fusion of scanning lidar, imaging spectrometer, and physically-based modeling for mapping snow water equivalent and snow albedo

Thomas H. Painter;Daniel F. Berisford;Joseph W. Boardman;Kathryn J. Bormann

649
Citations
A comparison of geostatistical procedures for spatial analysis of precipitation in mountainous terrain

Donald L Phillips;Jayne Dolph;Danny Marks

536
Citations
The sensitivity of snowmelt processes to climate conditions and forest cover during rain‐on‐snow: a case study of the 1996 Pacific Northwest flood

Danny Marks;John Kimball;Dave Tingey;Tim Link

475
Citations
A spatially distributed energy balance snowmelt model for application in mountain basins

Danny Marks;James Domingo;Dave Susong;Tim Link

472
Citations
Daily air temperature interpolated at high spatial resolution over a large mountainous region

R. Dodson;D. Marks

449
Citations
Climate and energy exchange at the snow surface in the Alpine Region of the Sierra Nevada: 2. Snow cover energy balance

Danny Marks;Jeff Dozier

384
Citations
The dynamics of rainfall interception by a seasonal temperate rainforest

Timothy E. Link;Mike Unsworth;Danny Marks

335
Citations
Automated basin delineation from digital elevation data

D. Marks;J. Dozier;J. Frew

299
Citations
Simulating wind fields and snow redistribution using terrain-based parameters to model snow accumulation and melt over a semi-arid mountain catchment

Adam Winstral;Danny Marks

289
Citations
Solar radiation transmission through conifer canopies

J.P. Hardy;R. Melloh;G. Koenig;D. Marks

284
Citations
Spatially distributed energy balance snowmelt modelling in a mountainous river basin: estimation of meteorological inputs and verification of model results

David C. Garen;Danny Marks

281
Citations
The importance of canopy structure in controlling the interception loss of rainfall: Examples from a young and an old-growth Douglas-fir forest

Thomas G. Pypker;Barbara J. Bond;Timothy E. Link;Danny Marks

268
Citations
A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: 2. Model implementation and case studies

Martyn P. Clark;Bart Nijssen;Jessica D. Lundquist;Dmitri Kavetski

245
Citations
A global perspective of regional vegetation and hydrologic sensitivities from climatic change

Ronald P. Neilson;Danny Marks

239
Citations
The impact of coniferous forest temperature on incoming longwave radiation to melting snow.

John W. Pomeroy;Danny Marks;Tim Link;Chad Ellis

220
Citations
An evaluation of methods for determining during-storm precipitation phase and the rain/snow transition elevation at the surface in a mountain basin

D. Marks;A. Winstral;M. Reba;J. Pomeroy

216
Citations
ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks

Gerhard Krinner;Chris Derksen;Richard Essery;Mark Flanner

214
Citations
A Sensitivity Study of Daytime Net Radiation during Snowmelt to Forest Canopy and Atmospheric Conditions

Jean Emmanuel Sicart;John W. P Omeroy;Richard L. H. Essery;Janet Hardy

204
Citations
Comparison of algorithms for incoming atmospheric long-wave radiation

G. N. Flerchinger;Wei Xaio;Danny Marks;T. J. Sauer

204
Citations
SNOW MAPPING AND CLASSIFICATION FROM LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER DATA

Jeff Dozier;Danny Marks

190
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy E. Link University of Idaho

Gerald N. Flerchinger Agricultural Research Service

John W. Pomeroy University of Saskatchewan

Mark S. Seyfried Agricultural Research Service

Hans-Peter Marshall Boise State University

Richard Essery University of Edinburgh

Jeff Dozier University of California, Santa Barbara

James P. McNamara Boise State University

Michael H. Unsworth Oregon State University

Roger C. Bales University of California, Merced

External Links

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