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D-Index
47
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14498
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5670
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2060

Elizabeth C. Hunke 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 Elizabeth C. Hunke sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 158 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Elizabeth C. Hunke 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 Elizabeth C. Hunke sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Elizabeth C. Hunke is affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States. Their research centers primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Environmental Science.

Their specialized subfields include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Ecology. This range of expertise informs their work on several key topics such as Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, climate variability and models, methane hydrates and related phenomena, climate change and permafrost, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes.

Elizabeth C. Hunke has published extensively in several scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 7 publications, the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems with 6, Geoscientific Model Development with 3, Geophysical Research Letters, and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Recent significant papers include:

  • Arctic Sea Ice in CMIP6, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • The DOE E3SM Model Version 2: Overview of the Physical Model and Initial Model Evaluation, 2022, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • The DOE E3SM v1.1 Biogeochemistry Configuration: Description and Simulated Ecosystem-Climate Responses to Historical Changes in Forcing, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Impact of a New Sea Ice Thermodynamic Formulation in the CESM2 Sea Ice Component, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • The Future of Sea Ice Modeling: Where Do We Go from Here?, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Collaborations have been frequent with several co-authors, including Jean-François Lemieux, Adrian K. Turner, Nicole Jeffery, Philippe Blain, and Marika M. Holland. The counts of joint publications with these researchers range from five to seven, indicating ongoing interdisciplinary work.

Best Publications

  • The Community Climate System Model Version 4

    Peter R. Gent;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Leo J. Donner;Marika M. Holland

  • An Elastic–Viscous–Plastic Model for Sea Ice Dynamics

    E. C. Hunke;J. K. Dukowicz

  • The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Overview and Evaluation at Standard Resolution

    Jean Christophe Golaz;Peter M. Caldwell;Luke P. Van Roekel;Mark R. Petersen

  • Improved sea ice shortwave radiation physics in CCSM4: The impact of melt ponds and aerosols on Arctic Sea ice

    Marika M. Holland;David A. Bailey;Bruce P. Briegleb;Bonnie Light

  • Design and implementation of the infrastructure of HadGEM3: the next-generation Met Office climate modelling system

    H. T. Hewitt;D. Copsey;I. D. Culverwell;C. M. Harris

  • Biogeochemistry of CICE: the Los Alamos Sea Ice Model Documentation and Software User's Manual zbgc_colpkg modifications to Version 5

    Nicole Jeffery;Scott M. Elliott;Elizabeth Clare Hunke;William Henry Lipscomb

  • The Community Climate System Model, version 2

    Jeffrey T. Kiehl;Peter R. Gent

  • Toward Quantifying the Increasing Role of Oceanic Heat in Sea Ice Loss in the New Arctic

    Eddy Carmack;Igor V. Polyakov;Laurie Padman;Ilker Fer

  • Viscous–Plastic Sea Ice Dynamics with the EVP Model: Linearization Issues

    Elizabeth C. Hunke

  • The DOE E3SM Model Version 2: Overview of the Physical Model and Initial Model Evaluation

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  • The Community Climate System Model

    Maurice Blackmon;Byron Boville;Frank Bryan;Robert Dickinson

  • Scientific Description of the Sea Ice Component in the Community Climate System Model, Version 3

    P. Briegleb;M. Bitz;C. Hunke;H. Lipscomb

  • Ridging, strength, and stability in high-resolution sea ice models

    William H. Lipscomb;Elizabeth C. Hunke;Wieslaw Maslowski;Jaromir Jakacki

  • Modeling Sea Ice Transport Using Incremental Remapping

    William H. Lipscomb;Elizabeth C. Hunke

  • Influence of the Sea Ice Thickness Distribution on Polar Climate in CCSM3

    Marika M. Holland;Cecilia M. Bitz;Elizabeth C. Hunke;William H. Lipscomb

  • The Elastic Viscous Plastic Sea Ice Dynamics Model in General Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinates on a Sphere—Incorporation of Metric Terms

    Elizabeth C. Hunke;John K. Dukowicz

  • Level-ice melt ponds in the Los Alamos sea ice model, CICE

    Elizabeth C. Hunke;David A. Hebert;Olivier Lecomte

  • Maintenance of the Sea-Ice Edge

    C. M. Bitz;M. M. Holland;E. C. Hunke;R. E. Moritz

  • What controls primary production in the Arctic Ocean? Results from an intercomparison of five general circulation models with biogeochemistry

    Ekaterina E. Popova;Andrew Yool;Andrew C. Coward;Frederic Dupont

  • Snow in the changing sea-ice systems

    Melinda A. Webster;Sebastian Gerland;Marika Holland;Elizabeth Hunke

  • The DOE E3SM v1.1 Biogeochemistry Configuration: Description and Simulated Ecosystem-Climate Responses to Historical Changes in Forcing

    S. M. Burrows;M. Maltrud;X. Yang;Q. Zhu

  • Water properties and circulation in Arctic Ocean models

    G. Holloway;F. Dupont;E. Golubeva;S. Häkkinen

  • Late-Twentieth-Century Simulation of Arctic Sea Ice and Ocean Properties in the CCSM4

    Alexandra Jahn;Kara Sterling;Marika M. Holland;Jennifer E. Kay

Frequent Co-Authors

Mathew E. Maltrud
Mathew E. Maltrud Los Alamos National Laboratory
Marika M. Holland
Marika M. Holland National Center for Atmospheric Research
William H. Lipscomb
William H. Lipscomb National Center for Atmospheric Research
Cecilia M. Bitz
Cecilia M. Bitz University of Washington
Wieslaw Maslowski
Wieslaw Maslowski Naval Postgraduate School
Jinlun Zhang
Jinlun Zhang University of Washington
Michael Karcher
Michael Karcher Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Jean-Christophe Golaz
Jean-Christophe Golaz Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Xiaoying Shi
Xiaoying Shi Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Philip J. Rasch
Philip J. Rasch Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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