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D-Index
90
Citations
40667
World Ranking
575
National Ranking
261

Fei Chen 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 Fei Chen sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 281 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Fei Chen 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 Fei Chen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Fei Chen is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Immunology.

The scientist's work prominently addresses topics such as Climate Variability and Models, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, and Wind and Air Flow Studies.

Fei Chen has coauthored extensively with notable researchers including Cenlin He, Dev Niyogi, Michael Barlage, Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig, and William C. Gause.

Their recent publications reflect engagement with climate and environmental dynamics and applications. Selected papers include:

  • Urbanization Impact on Regional Climate and Extreme Weather: Current Understanding, Uncertainties, and Future Research Directions (2022) in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
  • Irrigation in the Earth system (2023) in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Mapping of 30-meter resolution tile-drained croplands using a geospatial modeling approach (2020) in Scientific Data
  • Evaluation of a Convection-Permitting Modeling of Precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau and Its Influences on the Simulation of Snow-Cover Fraction (2020) in Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • CONUS404: The NCAR-USGS 4-km Long-Term Regional Hydroclimate Reanalysis over the CONUS (2023) in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Frequent publication venues for Fei Chen include the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, SSRN Electronic Journal, The Journal of Immunology, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • Coupling an Advanced Land Surface–Hydrology Model with the Penn State–NCAR MM5 Modeling System. Part I: Model Implementation and Sensitivity

    Fei Chen;Jimy Dudhia

  • The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 1. Model description and evaluation with local-scale measurements

    Guo ‐ Yue Niu;Guo ‐ Yue Niu;Zong ‐ Liang Yang;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Fei Chen

  • Modeling of land surface evaporation by four schemes and comparison with FIFE observations

    Fei Chen;Kenneth Mitchell;John Schaake;Yongkang Xue

  • The integrated WRF/urban modelling system: development, evaluation, and applications to urban environmental problems

    Fei Chen;Hiroyuki Kusaka;Robert Bornstein;Jason Ching

  • The Weather Research and Forecasting Model: Overview, System Efforts, and Future Directions

    Jordan G. Powers;Joseph B. Klemp;William C. Skamarock;Christopher A. Davis

  • Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis

    Tandong Yao;Yongkang Xue;Deliang Chen;Fahu Chen

  • The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 2. Evaluation over global river basins

    Zong Liang Yang;Guo Yue Niu;Guo Yue Niu;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Fei Chen

  • Impact of Atmospheric Surface-layer Parameterizations in the new Land-surface Scheme of the NCEP Mesoscale Eta Model

    Fei Chen;Zavisă Janjić;Kenneth Mitchell

  • A parameterization of snowpack and frozen ground intended for NCEP weather and climate models

    V. Koren;J. Schaake;K. Mitchell;Q.-Y. Duan

  • Coupling an Advanced Land Surface–Hydrology Model with the Penn State–NCAR MM5 Modeling System. Part II: Preliminary Model Validation

    Fei Chen;Jimy Dudhia

  • The International Urban Energy Balance Models Comparison Project: First Results from Phase 1

    C.S.B. Grimmond;M. Blackett;M.J. Best;J. Barlow

  • Continental-scale convection-permitting modeling of the current and future climate of North America

    Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;Roy Rasmussen;Mike Barlage

  • High resolution coupled climate-runoff simulations of seasonal snowfall over Colorado: A process study of current and warmer climate

    Roy Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;David Gochis

  • Simple water balance model for estimating runoff at different spatial and temporal scales

    John C. Schaake;Victor I. Koren;Qing-Yun Duan;Kenneth Mitchell

  • An Observational and Modeling Study of Characteristics of Urban Heat Island and Boundary Layer Structures in Beijing

    Shiguang Miao;Fei Chen;Margaret A. LeMone;Mukul Tewari

  • Initial results from Phase 2 of the international urban energy balance model comparison

    C.S.B. Grimmond;M. Blackett;M.J. Best;J.J. Baik

  • Cabauw Experimental Results from the Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes

    T.H. Chen;A. Henderson-Sellers;P.C.D. Milly;A.J. Pitman

  • WUDAPT: An Urban Weather, Climate, and Environmental Modeling Infrastructure for the Anthropocene

    J. Ching;G. Mills;Benjamin Bechtel;L. See

  • Urbanization Impact on Regional Climate and Extreme Weather: Current Understanding, Uncertainties, and Future Research Directions

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  • A Study of the Urban Boundary Layer Using Different Urban Parameterizations and High-Resolution Urban Canopy Parameters with WRF

    Francisco Salamanca;Alberto Martilli;Mukul Tewari;Fei Chen

  • Impact of Land-Surface Moisture Variability on Local Shallow Convective Cumulus and Precipitation in Large-Scale Models

    Fei Chen;Roni Avissar

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Barlage
Michael Barlage National Center for Atmospheric Research
Dev Niyogi
Dev Niyogi The University of Texas at Austin
Shiguang Miao
Shiguang Miao China Meteorological Administration
Margaret A. LeMone
Margaret A. LeMone National Center for Atmospheric Research
Jimy Dudhia
Jimy Dudhia National Center for Atmospheric Research
Kenneth E. Mitchell
Kenneth E. Mitchell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
David Yates
David Yates National Center for Atmospheric Research
Xuemei Wang
Xuemei Wang Jinan University
Michael Ek
Michael Ek National Center for Atmospheric Research
Robert G. Grossman
Robert G. Grossman Houston Methodist

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