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D-Index
77
Citations
17744
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1149
National Ranking
498

David D. Turner 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 David D. Turner sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 365 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David D. Turner 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 David D. Turner sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 77 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

David D. Turner is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research centers primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, economics and econometrics, environmental engineering, and aerospace engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate variability and models, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, fiscal policy and economic growth, and atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

David D. Turner has published papers in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets for their work are Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Weather and Forecasting, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, and the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Characteristics of ischaemic stroke associated with COVID-19 (2020), published in Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR): An Hourly Updating Convection-Allowing Forecast Model. Part I: Motivation and System Description (2022), published in Weather and Forecasting
  • The long game: Fiscal outlooks to 2060 underline need for structural reform (2021), published in OECD economic policy papers
  • Optimal Estimation Retrievals and Their Uncertainties: What Every Atmospheric Scientist Should Know (2020), published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR): An Hourly Updating Convection-Allowing Forecast Model. Part II: Forecast Performance (2022), published in Weather and Forecasting

Frequent coauthors collaborating with David D. Turner include James M. Wilczak, Joseph B. Olson, Timothy J. Wagner, Laura Bianco, and Balázs Égert. These collaborations reflect a network of research partnerships across atmospheric and environmental sciences.

Best Publications

  • Retrieving Liquid Wat0er Path and Precipitable Water Vapor From the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Microwave Radiometers

    D.D. Turner;S.A. Clough;J.C. Liljegren;E.E. Clothiaux

  • Full-Time, Eye-Safe Cloud and Aerosol Lidar Observation at Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Sites: Instruments and Data Analysis

    James R. Campbell;Dennis L. Hlavka;Ellsworth J. Welton;Connor J. Flynn

  • The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR): An Hourly Updating Convection-Allowing Forecast Model. Part 1: Motivation and System Description

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  • The Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment.

    J. Verlinde;J. Y. Harrington;G. M. McFarquhar;V. T. Yannuzzi

  • July 2012 Greenland melt extent enhanced by low-level liquid clouds

    R. Bennartz;M. D. Shupe;D. D. Turner;V. P. Walden

  • Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment. I: single-layer cloud

    Stephen A. Klein;Renata B. McCoy;Hugh Morrison;Andrew S. Ackerman

  • Turn-key Raman lidar for profiling atmospheric water vapor, clouds, and aerosols

    J. E. M. Goldsmith;Forest H. Blair;Scott E. Bisson;David D. Turner

  • The Convective and Orographically Induced Precipitation Study. A Research and Development Project of the World Weather Research Program for Improving Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting in Low-Mountain Regions

    Volker Wulfmeyer;Andreas Behrendt;Hans-Stefan Bauer;Christoph Kottmeier

  • Dry Bias and Variability in Vaisala RS80-H Radiosondes: The ARM Experience

    David D. Turner;B. M. Lesht;Shepard A. Clough;James C. Liljegren

  • Indirect and semi-direct aerosol campaign: The impact of Arctic aerosols on clouds

    Greg M. McFarquhar;Steven Ghan;Johannes Verlinde;Alexei Korolev

  • The 2015 Plains Elevated Convection at Night Field Project

    Bart Geerts;David Parsons;Conrad L. Ziegler;Tammy M. Weckwerth

  • Toward understanding of differences in current cloud retrievals of ARM ground-based measurements

    Chuanfeng Zhao;Shaocheng Xie;Stephen A. Klein;Alain Protat

  • Information Content and Uncertainties in Thermodynamic Profiles and Liquid Cloud Properties Retrieved from the Ground-Based Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI)

    D. D. Turner;U. Löhnert

  • The Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS): the scientific strategy, the field phase, and research highlights

    Volker Wulfmeyer;Andreas Behrendt;Christoph Kottmeier;Ulrich Corsmeier

  • A Focus On Mixed-Phase Clouds

    Matthew D. Shupe;John S. Daniel;Gijs de Boer;Edwin W. Eloranta

  • Clouds enhance Greenland ice sheet meltwater runoff

    K. Van Tricht;S. Lhermitte;J. T M Lenaerts;I. V. Gorodetskaya

  • Thin Liquid Water Clouds: Their Importance and Our Challenge

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

  • CLOUDS AND MORE: ARM Climate Modeling Best Estimate Data

    Shaocheng Xie;Renata B. McCoy;Stephen A. Klein;Richard T. Cederwall

  • A review of the remote sensing of lower-tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy cycles

    Volker Wulfmeyer;R. Michael Hardesty;David D. Turner;Andreas Behrendt

  • The Atmospheric radiation measurement (ARM) program network of microwave radiometers: instrumentation, data, and retrievals

    M. P. Cadeddu;J. C. Liljegren;D. D. Turner

  • Arctic Mixed-Phase Cloud Properties from AERI Lidar Observations: Algorithm and Results from SHEBA

    David D. Turner

  • An assessment of aerosol-cloud interactions in marine stratus clouds based on surface remote sensing

    Allison McComiskey;Allison McComiskey;Graham Feingold;A. Shelby Frisch;A. Shelby Frisch;David D. Turner

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew D. Shupe
Matthew D. Shupe University of Colorado Boulder
David C. Tobin
David C. Tobin University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard A. Ferrare
Richard A. Ferrare Langley Research Center
Mark A. Miller
Mark A. Miller Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ulrich Löhnert
Ulrich Löhnert University of Cologne
Volker Wulfmeyer
Volker Wulfmeyer University of Hohenheim
Robert O. Knuteson
Robert O. Knuteson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jennifer M. Comstock
Jennifer M. Comstock Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Greg M. McFarquhar
Greg M. McFarquhar University of Oklahoma
Susanne Crewell
Susanne Crewell University of Cologne

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