Eugenia Kalnay publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Eugenia Kalnay between 1981 and 2024, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Eugenia Kalnay published across 44 years, from 1981 to 2024, averaging 8.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 20 publications in 2016. 14 of the 358 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications

5 10 15 20

1981 2024

358 publications in total across all disciplines

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Eugenia Kalnay: publications per year, 1981 to 2024
Year	Publications
1981	5
1982	2
1983	6
1984	9
1985	7
1986	6
1987	5
1988	2
1989	2
1990	2
1991	4
1992	1
1993	3
1994	1
1995	3
1996	2
1997	9
1998	2
1999	2
2000	5
2001	5
2002	17
2003	14
2004	16
2005	7
2006	14
2007	10
2008	14
2009	13
2010	10
2011	16
2012	12
2013	13
2014	8
2015	12
2016	20
2017	15
2018	20
2019	15
2020	6
2021	5
2022	4
2023	10
2024	4
Total	358

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Eugenia Kalnay 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 Eugenia Kalnay sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

200 400 600

41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 331 publications — 89th percentile

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

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

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications	Scientists	This scientist
41–50	21
51–60	62
61–70	133
71–80	257
81–90	361
91–100	440
101–110	492
111–120	541
121–130	617
131–140	544
141–150	541
151–160	539
161–170	444
171–180	444
181–190	400
191–200	377
201–210	318
211–220	282
221–230	263
231–240	220
241–250	217
251–260	180
261–270	181
271–280	155
281–290	130
291–300	127
301–310	130
311–320	85
321–330	106
331–340	80	331
341–350	83
351–360	75
361–370	69
371–380	52
381–390	54
391–400	56
401–410	44
411–420	40
421–430	36
431–440	25
441–450	25
451–460	32
461–470	29
471–480	21
481–490	26
491–500	26
501–510	17
511–520	19
521–530	15
531–540	22
541–550	12
551–560	15
561–570	11
571–580	19
581–590	9
591–600	9
601–610	7
611–620	11
621–630	5
631–640	5
641–650	6
651–660	3
661–670	3
671–680	4
681–689	4
690+	100

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Eugenia Kalnay 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 Eugenia Kalnay sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300

30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 89th percentile

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

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

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index	Scientists	This scientist
30	12
31	26
32	51
33	88
34	123
35	163
36	206
37	267
38	265
39	275
40	321
41	343
42	305
43	336
44	330
45	348
46	291
47	275
48	272
49	273
50	263
51	232
52	266
53	217
54	198
55	177
56	202
57	204
58	166
59	177
60	166
61	152
62	143
63	150
64	124
65	119
66	120
67	118
68	82
69	98
70	94
71	105
72	74
73	84
74	70
75	67
76	78
77	60	77
78	59
79	52
80	47
81	38
82	48
83	42
84	42
85	43
86	29
87	37
88	29
89	30
90	34
91	20
92	22
93	17
94	19
95	24
96	21
97	20
98	24
99	17
100	17
101	21
102	25
103	18
104	26
105	20
106	15
107	10
108	13
109	15
110	12
111	8
112	7
113	9
114	6
115	12
116	7
117	8
118	3
119	5
120	7
121	2
122	4
123	8
124	7
125	9
126+	92

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Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2005 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2000 - Member of Academia Europaea
1996 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For advances in understanding atmospheric dynamics, numerical modeling, and atmospheric predictability and in the quality of U.S. operational weather forecasts.

Overview

Eugenia Kalnay was affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research contributions focused on environmental and earth sciences with a particular emphasis on atmospheric science, climate variability, and meteorological phenomena.

Their main fields of study included:

Environmental Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these areas, their subfields of study covered:

Global and Planetary Change
Atmospheric Science
Environmental Engineering
Oceanography
Control and Systems Engineering

Key research topics addressed by Eugenia Kalnay's work encompassed:

Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Climate variability and models
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Wind and Air Flow Studies
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
Global Energy and Sustainability Research

They published in several academic venues, frequently contributing to:

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Nonlinear processes in geophysics
National Science Review
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Geoscientific model development

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Eugenia Kalnay included:

Use of Observing System Simulation Experiments in the United States, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Challenges and opportunities for modeling coupled human and natural systems, 2023, National Science Review
Improving the joint estimation of CO ₂ and surface carbon fluxes using a constrained ensemble Kalman filter in COLA (v1.0), 2022, Geoscientific model development
A Novel Approach to Carrying Capacity: From a priori Prescription to a posteriori Derivation Based on Underlying Mechanisms and Dynamics, 2020, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Improved subseasonal prediction of South Asian monsoon rainfall using data-driven forecasts of oscillatory modes, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Eugenia Kalnay collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Safa Motesharrei
Cheng Da
Derek J. Posselt
Jorge Rivas
Xubin Zeng

They also contributed to academic literature through book publications, including the title Earth System Modeling, Data Assimilation and Predictability, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Throughout their career, Eugenia Kalnay received several professional recognitions such as:

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2006)
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2005)
Member of Academia Europaea (2000)
Member of the National Academy of Engineering (1996) for advances in understanding atmospheric dynamics, numerical modeling, atmospheric predictability, and improvements in U.S. operational weather forecasts

Best Publications

The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project

E. Kalnay;M. Kanamitsu;R. Kistler;W. Collins

36491
Citations
The NCEP–NCAR 50-Year Reanalysis: Monthly Means CD-ROM and Documentation

Robert Kistler;Eugenia Kalnay;William Collins;Suranjana Saha

5541
Citations
Atmospheric Modeling, Data Assimilation and Predictability

Eugenia Kalnay

4920
Citations
NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL REANALYSIS

Fedor Mesinger;Geoff DiMego;Eugenia Kalnay;Kenneth Mitchell

4179
Citations
Impact of urbanization and land-use change on climate

Eugenia Kalnay;Ming Cai

3018
Citations
AIRS/AMSU/HSB on the Aqua mission: design, science objectives, data products, and processing systems

H.H. Aumann;M.T. Chahine;C. Gautier;M.D. Goldberg

1941
Citations
Ensemble Forecasting at NMC: The Generation of Perturbations

Zoltan Toth;Eugenia Kalnay

1756
Citations
Ensemble Forecasting at NCEP and the Breeding Method

Zoltan Toth;Eugenia Kalnay

1546
Citations
A local ensemble Kalman filter for atmospheric data assimilation

Edward Ott;Brian R. Hunt;Istvan Szunyogh;Aleksey V. Zimin

1112
Citations
AIRS: Improving Weather Forecasting and Providing New Data on Greenhouse Gases.

Moustafa T. Chahine;Thomas S. Pagano;Hartmut H. Aumann;Robert Atlas

751
Citations
Local cooling and warming effects of forests based on satellite observations

Yan Li;Maosheng Zhao;Safa Motesharrei;Qiaozhen Mu;Qiaozhen Mu

717
Citations
Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies

Safa Motesharrei;Jorge Rivas;Eugenia Kalnay

585
Citations
Lagged average forecasting, an alternative to Monte Carlo forecasting

Ross N. Hoffman;Eugenia Kalnay

527
Citations
Global Numerical Weather Prediction at the National Meteorological Center

E. Kalnay;M. Kanamitsu;W.E. Baker

470
Citations
Operational Ensemble Prediction at the National Meteorological Center: Practical Aspects

M. Steven Tracton;Eugenia Kalnay

447
Citations
Dynamical Seasonal Prediction

J. Shukla;J. Anderson;D. Baumhefner;Čedomir Branković

371
Citations
Simultaneous estimation of covariance inflation and observation errors within an ensemble Kalman filter

Hong Li;Eugenia Kalnay;Takemasa Miyoshi

360
Citations
Four-dimensional ensemble Kalman filtering

B. R. Hunt;E. Kalnay;Eric Kostelich;E. Ott

321
Citations
Balance and Ensemble Kalman Filter Localization Techniques

Steven J. Greybush;Eugenia Kalnay;Takemasa Miyoshi;Kayo Ide

299
Citations
Objective Verification of the SAMEX ’98 Ensemble Forecasts

Dingchen Hou;Eugenia Kalnay;Kelvin K. Droegemeier

287
Citations
Local low dimensionality of atmospheric dynamics.

D. J. Patil;Brian R. Hunt;Eugenia Kalnay;James A. Yorke

253
Citations
Impacts of land use land cover on temperature trends over the continental United States: assessment using the North American Regional Reanalysis

Souleymane Fall;Dev Niyogi;Alexander Gluhovsky;Roger A. Pielke

244
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Takemasa Miyoshi RIKEN

Brian R. Hunt University of Maryland, College Park

Edward Ott University of Maryland, College Park

Ross N. Hoffman University of Maryland, College Park

James A. Yorke University of Maryland, College Park

Ning Zeng University of Maryland, College Park

Robert Atlas Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory

Ming Cai Florida State University

Masao Kanamitsu University of California, San Diego

James A. Carton University of Maryland, College Park

External Links

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