2026 Georgiy L. Stenchikov: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	66	2080	1984	4	4	290	16738

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Saudi Arabia Leader Award

Overview

Georgiy L. Stenchikov is affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions to the subfields of Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Additional areas of study include Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Earth-Surface Processes, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's research topics include:

Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
Climate variability and models
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Air Quality and Health Impacts

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their work:

Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, 2022, Reviews of Geophysics
Business-as-usual will lead to super and ultra-extreme heatwaves in the Middle East and North Africa, 2021, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Assessment of natural and anthropogenic aerosol air pollution in the Middle East using MERRA-2, CAMS data assimilation products, and high-resolution WRF-Chem model simulations, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
Synergy processing of diverse ground-based remote sensing and in situ data using the GRASP algorithm: applications to radiometer, lidar and radiosonde observations, 2021, Atmospheric measurement techniques
Improving dust simulations in WRF-Chem v4.1.3 coupled with the GOCART aerosol module, 2021, Geoscientific model development

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

Alexander Ukhov
Suleiman Mostamandi
Sergey Osipov
Jos Lelieveld
Illia Shevchenko

They have published extensively in several scientific venues, with particular frequency in:

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Atmospheric chemistry and physics
Journal of Hydrometeorology
Communications Earth & Environment
Environmetrics

Best Publications

The Impact of Aerosols on Solar Ultraviolet Radiation and Photochemical Smog

R. R. Dickerson;S. Kondragunta;S. Kondragunta;G. Stenchikov;G. Stenchikov;K. L. Civerolo;K. L. Civerolo

798
Citations
Global Cooling After the Eruption of Mount Pinatubo: A Test of Climate Feedback by Water Vapor

Brian J. Soden;Richard T. Wetherald;Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Alan Robock

629
Citations
Regional climate responses to geoengineering with tropical and Arctic SO2 injections

Alan Robock;Luke Oman;Georgiy L. Stenchikov

587
Citations
Radiative forcing from the 1991 Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption

Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Ingo Kirchner;Alan Robock;Hans-F. Graf

560
Citations
The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)

Ben Kravitz;Alan Robock;Olivier Boucher;Hauke Schmidt

497
Citations
Changes of Snow Cover, Temperature, and Radiative Heat Balance over the Northern Hemisphere

Pavel Ya Groisman;Thomas R. Karl;Richard W. Knight;Georgiy L. Stenchikov

497
Citations
Benefits, risks, and costs of stratospheric geoengineering.

Alan Robock;Allison Marquardt;Ben Kravitz;Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Georgiy L. Stenchikov

434
Citations
An overview of geoengineering of climate using stratospheric sulphate aerosols.

Philip J Rasch;Simone Tilmes;Richard P Turco;Alan Robock

421
Citations
Spectral nudging to eliminate the effects of domain position and geometry in regional climate model simulations

Gonzalo Miguez-Macho;Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Alan Robock

412
Citations
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) simulations of climate following volcanic eruptions

Simon Driscoll;Alessio Bozzo;Alessio Bozzo;Lesley J. Gray;Alan Robock

366
Citations
Arctic Oscillation response to the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption: Effects of volcanic aerosols and ozone depletion

Georgiy Stenchikov;Alan Robock;V. Ramaswamy;M. Daniel Schwarzkopf

363
Citations
Remote sensing the phytoplankton seasonal succession of the Red Sea.

Dionysios E. Raitsos;Yaswant Pradhan;Robert J. W. Brewin;Georgiy L. Stenchikov

363
Citations
The impact of dust storms on the Arabian Peninsula and the Red Sea

P. Jish Prakash;Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Stoitchko Kalenderski;Sergey Osipov

326
Citations
Production of lightning NOx and its vertical distribution calculated from three‐dimensional cloud‐scale chemical transport model simulations

Lesley E. Ott;Kenneth E. Pickering;Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Dale J. Allen

322
Citations
Climate model simulation of winter warming and summer cooling following the 1991 Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption

Ingo Kirchner;Georgiy Lvovich Stenchikov;Hans F. Graf;Alan Robock

298
Citations
Assessment of Twentieth-Century Regional Surface Temperature Trends using the GFDL CM2 Coupled Models

Thomas R. Knutson;T. L. Delworth;K. W. Dixon;Isaac M. Held

297
Citations
Arctic Oscillation response to volcanic eruptions in the IPCC AR4 climate models

Georgiy Stenchikov;Kevin Hamilton;Ronald J. Stouffer;Alan Robock

294
Citations
Climatic response to high‐latitude volcanic eruptions

Luke Oman;Alan Robock;Georgiy Stenchikov;Gavin A. Schmidt;Gavin A. Schmidt

283
Citations
Volcanic signals in oceans

Georgiy Stenchikov;Georgiy Stenchikov;Thomas L. Delworth;V. Ramaswamy;Ronald J. Stouffer

266
Citations
Nuclear winter revisited with a modern climate model and current nuclear arsenals : Still catastrophic consequences

Alan Robock;Luke Oman;Luke Oman;Georgiy L. Stenchikov

265
Citations
Lightning-generated NOX and its impact on tropospheric ozone production: A three-dimensional modeling study of a Stratosphere- Troposphere Experiment: Radiation, Aerosols and Ozone (STERAO-A) thunderstorm

Alex J. DeCaria;Alex J. DeCaria;Kenneth E. Pickering;Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Lesley E. Ott

244
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Robock Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Luke D. Oman Goddard Space Flight Center

Jos Lelieveld Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

Kenneth E. Pickering University of Maryland, College Park

Venkatachalam Ramaswamy Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Andrew T. Wittenberg Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Kevin Hamilton University of Hawaii at Manoa

Owen B. Toon University of Colorado Boulder

Claudia Timmreck Max Planck Society

Russell R. Dickerson University of Maryland, College Park

External Links

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