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D-Index
82
Citations
45055
World Ranking
858
National Ranking
372

George J. Huffman 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 George J. Huffman sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 303 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

George J. Huffman 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 George J. Huffman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

George J. Huffman is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science.

The scientist's work largely spans several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Oceanography, and Water Science and Technology.

Key topics in their research include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Climate Variability and Models, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Frequent collaborators in their publications include Jackson Tan, David T. Bolvin, Eric Nelkin, Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, and David B. Wolff.

The primary publication venues for their research are:

  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Scientific Data
  • Remote Sensing

Recent papers by George J. Huffman encompass a range of topics related to precipitation and climatology:

  • The New Version 3.2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly and Daily Precipitation Products, 2023, Journal of Climate
  • The Global Satellite Precipitation Constellation: Current Status and Future Requirements, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Assessment of the Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) for Snowfall Retrieval in High Latitudes Using CloudSat and Machine Learning, 2021, Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • The performance of the IMERG satellite-based product in identifying sub-daily rainfall events and their properties, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Ground validation of TRMM 3B43 V7 precipitation estimates over Colombia. Part I: Monthly and seasonal timescales, 2020, International Journal of Climatology

Best Publications

  • The TRMM Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA): Quasi-Global, Multiyear, Combined-Sensor Precipitation Estimates at Fine Scales

    George J. Huffman;Robert F. Adler;David T. Bolvin;Guojun Gu;Guojun Gu

  • The Version 2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Precipitation Analysis (1979-Present)

    Robert F. Adler;George J. Huffman;Alfred Chang;Ralph Ferraro

  • Global Precipitation at One-Degree Daily Resolution from Multisatellite Observations

    George J. Huffman;Robert F. Adler;Mark M. Morrissey;David T. Bolvin

  • The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) combined precipitation dataset

    George J. Huffman;Robert F. Adler;Philip Arkin;Alfred Chang

  • The status of the tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM) after two years in orbit

    C. Kummerow;J. Simpson;O. Thiele;W. Barnes

  • Improving the global precipitation record: GPCP Version 2.1

    George J. Huffman;Robert F. Adler;Robert F. Adler;David T. Bolvin;Guojun Gu;Guojun Gu

  • The TRMM Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA)

    George J. Huffman;Robert F. Adler;Robert F. Adler;David T. Bolvin;Eric J. Nelkin

  • The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Analysis (New Version 2.3) and a Review of 2017 Global Precipitation

    Robert F. Adler;Mathew R.P. Sapiano;George J. Huffman;Jian Jian Wang

  • Global-scale evaluation of 22 precipitation datasets using gauge observations and hydrological modeling

    Hylke E. Beck;Noemi Vergopolan;Ming Pan;Vincenzo Levizzani

  • The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission for Science and Society

    Gail Skofronick-Jackson;Walter A Petersen;Wesley Berg;Chris Kidd

  • So, How Much of the Earth's Surface Is Covered by Rain Gauges?

    Chris Kidd;Andreas Becker;George J. Huffman;Catherine L. Muller

  • Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission (IMERG)

    George J. Huffman;David T. Bolvin;Dan Braithwaite;Kuo-Lin Hsu

  • Global precipitation measurement: Methods, datasets and applications

    Francisco J. Tapiador;F.J. Turk;Walt Petersen;Arthur Y. Hou

  • Global precipitation estimates based on a technique for combining satellite-based estimates, rain gauge analysis, and NWP model precipitation information

    George J. Huffman;Robert F. Adler;Bruno Rudolf;Udo Schneider

  • Global precipitation measurement

    Chris Kidd;George Huffman

  • Daily evaluation of 26 precipitation datasets using Stage-IV gauge-radar data for the CONUS

    Hylke E. Beck;Ming Pan;Tirthankar Roy;Graham P. Weedon

  • Thunderstorms: An Important Mechanism in the Transport of Air Pollutants

    R. R. Dickerson;G. J. Huffman;W. T. Luke;L. J. Nunnermacker

  • GPCP Pentad Precipitation analyses: An experimental dataset based on gauge observations and satellite estimates

    Pingping Xie;John E. Janowiak;Phillip A. Arkin;Robert Adler

  • Component analysis of errors in satellite-based precipitation estimates

    Yudong Tian;Yudong Tian;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;John B. Eylander;Robert J. Joyce

  • Tropical Rainfall Distributions Determined Using TRMM Combined with Other Satellite and Rain Gauge Information

    Robert F. Adler;George J. Huffman;David T. Bolvin;Scott Curtis

  • So, how much of the Earth's surface is covered by rain gauges?

    Chris Kidd;George Huffman;Dalia Kirschbaum;Gail Skofronick-Jackson

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert F. Adler
Robert F. Adler University of Maryland, College Park
Chris Kidd
Chris Kidd Goddard Space Flight Center
Yang Hong
Yang Hong University of Oklahoma
Pingping Xie
Pingping Xie National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ali Behrangi
Ali Behrangi University of Arizona
Kuolin Hsu
Kuolin Hsu University of California, Irvine
Dalia Kirschbaum
Dalia Kirschbaum Goddard Space Flight Center
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Soroosh Sorooshian
Soroosh Sorooshian University of California, Irvine
Yudong Tian
Yudong Tian University of Maryland, College Park

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