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41
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8127
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7616
National Ranking
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Emily Black 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 Emily Black sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 116 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Emily Black 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 Emily Black sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Emily Black is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on environmental and agricultural sciences, with substantial contributions in Earth and Planetary Sciences.

The main fields of study for Emily Black include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their subfields of expertise cover:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Agronomy and Crop Science
  • Water Science and Technology

The research topics frequently addressed by Emily Black encompass:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Agricultural risk and resilience

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Emily Black include:

  • Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Extreme rainfall in East Africa, October 2019-January 2020 and context under future climate change, 2020, Weather
  • Subseasonal Precipitation Prediction for Africa: Forecast Evaluation and Sources of Predictability, 2020, Weather and Forecasting
  • Future Changes in Wet and Dry Season Characteristics in CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations, 2021, Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Influence of sun zenith angle on canopy clumping and the resulting impacts on photosynthesis, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

The frequent co-authors working alongside Emily Black are:

  • Caroline M. Wainwright
  • Ross Maidment
  • Matthew Young
  • Victoria L. Boult
  • Richard P. Allan

Common publication venues for their work include:

  • Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Meteorological Applications
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • Frontiers in Climate

Best Publications

  • Factors contributing to the summer 2003 European heatwave

    Emily Black;Mike Blackburn;Giles Harrison;Brian Hoskins

  • An Observational Study of the Relationship between Excessively Strong Short Rains in Coastal East Africa and Indian Ocean SST

    Emily Black;Julia Slingo;Kenneth R. Sperber

  • The 30 year TAMSAT African Rainfall Climatology And Time series (TARCAT) data set

    Ross I. Maidment;David Grimes;Richard P. Allan;Elena Tarnavsky

  • African Climate Change: Taking the Shorter Route

    Richard Washington;Mike Harrison;Declan Conway;Emily Black

  • Challenges in quantifying changes in the global water cycle

    Gabriele C. Hegerl;Emily Black;Richard P. Allan;William J. Ingram

  • Seasonal forecasting of the Ethiopian summer rains

    T. Gissila;E. Black;D. I. F. Grimes;J. M. Slingo

  • Extension of the TAMSAT Satellite-Based Rainfall Monitoring over Africa and from 1983 to Present

    Elena Tarnavsky;David Grimes;Ross Maidment;Emily Black

  • A new, long-term daily satellite-based rainfall dataset for operational monitoring in Africa

    Ross I. Maidment;David Grimes;Emily Black;Elena Tarnavsky

  • The onset and cessation of seasonal rainfall over Africa

    Caroline M. Dunning;Emily C. L. Black;Richard P. Allan

  • Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

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  • Later Wet Seasons with More Intense Rainfall over Africa under Future Climate Change

    Caroline M. Dunning;Emily Black;Richard P. Allan

  • Recent observed and simulated changes in precipitation over Africa

    Ross I. Maidment;Richard P. Allan;Emily Black

  • A Review of Drought in the Middle East and Southwest Asia

    Mathew Barlow;Benjamin Zaitchik;Shlomit Paz;Emily Black

  • The impact of the 2003 heat wave on mortality and hospital admissions in England.

    Helen Johnson;R Sari Kovats;Glenn McGregor;John Stedman

  • Extreme rainfall in East Africa October 2019 – January 2020 and context under future climate change

    Caroline M. Wainwright;Declan L. Finney;Mary Kilavi;Emily Black

  • Teleconnections between Ethiopian summer rainfall and sea surface temperature: part I—observation and modelling

    G. T. Diro;G. T. Diro;David Ian Francis Grimes;Emily Black

  • The relationship between Indian Ocean sea-surface temperature and East African rainfall

    Emily Black

  • Detection and attribution of human influence on regional precipitation

    Beena Balan Sarojini;Peter A. Stott;Emily Black

  • Extratropical cyclones and the projected decline of winter Mediterranean precipitation in the CMIP5 models

    Gieuseppe Zappa;Matthew K. Hawcroft;Len Shaffrey;Emily Black

  • ‘Eastern African Paradox’ rainfall decline due to shorter not less intense Long Rains

    Caroline M. Wainwright;John H. Marsham;Richard J. Keane;Richard J. Keane;David P. Rowell

  • The meteorology of the Western Indian Ocean, and the influence of the East African Highlands

    Julia Slingo;Hilary Spencer;Brian Hoskins;Paul Berrisford

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard P. Allan
Richard P. Allan University of Reading
Tristan Quaife
Tristan Quaife University of Reading
Brian J. Hoskins
Brian J. Hoskins University of Reading
Pier Luigi Vidale
Pier Luigi Vidale University of Reading
Julia Slingo
Julia Slingo University of Bristol
Anne Verhoef
Anne Verhoef University of Reading
Andrew J. Wade
Andrew J. Wade University of Reading
Peter A. Stott
Peter A. Stott Met Office
Peter G. Cook
Peter G. Cook Flinders University
Rowan Sutton
Rowan Sutton University of Reading

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