2026 Harold E. Brooks: 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	67	1972	1880	818	755	158	16653

Overview

Harold E. Brooks is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences, with significant contributions in the fields of atmospheric science and global and planetary change.

The scientist's work spans several interconnected topics including meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate variability and models, fire effects on ecosystems, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, wind and air flow studies, and lightning and electromagnetic phenomena.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Mateusz Taszarek, John T. Allen, Natalia Pilguj, Makenzie Krocak, and Alexandra K. Anderson-Frey.

Harold E. Brooks has published extensively in various scientific venues. Notable publication venues with multiple contributions include the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Weather and Forecasting, Journal of Climate, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, and the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.

Selected recent papers include:

Severe Convective Storms across Europe and the United States. Part II: ERA5 Environments Associated with Lightning, Large Hail, Severe Wind, and Tornadoes, 2020, Journal of Climate
Global climatology and trends in convective environments from ERA5 and rawinsonde data, 2021, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Comparison of Convective Parameters Derived from ERA5 and MERRA-2 with Rawinsonde Data over Europe and North America, 2020, Journal of Climate
Differing Trends in United States and European Severe Thunderstorm Environments in a Warming Climate, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Severe Convective Storms across Europe and the United States. Part I: Climatology of Lightning, Large Hail, Severe Wind, and Tornadoes, 2020, Journal of Climate

These publications reflect investigations into severe storm environments, climatology of convective weather systems, and the analysis of convective parameters using various atmospheric datasets.

Best Publications

Flash Flood Forecasting: An Ingredients-Based Methodology

Charles A. Doswell;Harold E. Brooks;Robert A. Maddox

1584
Citations
The spatial distribution of severe thunderstorm and tornado environments from global reanalysis data

Harold E Brooks;James W Lee;Jeffrey P Craven

837
Citations
Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

Kenneth E. Kunkel;Thomas R. Karl;Harold Brooks;James Kossin

651
Citations
Monitoring and Understanding Changes in Heat Waves, Cold Waves, Floods, and Droughts in the United States: State of Knowledge

Thomas C. Peterson;Richard R. Heim;Robert Hirsch;Dale P. Kaiser

527
Citations
Changes in severe thunderstorm environment frequency during the 21st century caused by anthropogenically enhanced global radiative forcing

Robert J. Trapp;Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Harold E. Brooks;Michael E. Baldwin

482
Citations
Climatological Estimates of Local Daily Tornado Probability for the United States

Harold E. Brooks;Charles A. Doswell;Michael P. Kay

467
Citations
On the Environments of Tornadic and Nontornadic Mesocyclones

Harold E. Brooks;Charles A. Doswell;Jeremy Cooper

441
Citations
Severe thunderstorms and climate change

H.E. Brooks

429
Citations
Convective Modes for Significant Severe Thunderstorms in the Contiguous United States. Part I: Storm Classification and Climatology

Bryan T. Smith;Richard L. Thompson;Jeremy S. Grams;Chris Broyles

422
Citations
Evolution of the U.S. Tornado Database: 1954–2003

Stephanie M. Verbout;Harold E. Brooks;Lance M. Leslie;David M. Schultz

361
Citations
A Review of Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterization Schemes and Their Sensitivity in Simulating Southeastern U.S. Cold Season Severe Weather Environments

Ariel E. Cohen;Steven M. Cavallo;Michael C. Coniglio;Harold E. Brooks

344
Citations
Precipitation Forecasting Using a Neural Network

Tony Hall;Harold E. Brooks;Charles A. Doswell

315
Citations
Using Ensembles for Short-Range Forecasting

David J. Stensrud;Harold E. Brooks;Jun Du;M. Steven Tracton

306
Citations
On the implementation of the enhanced Fujita scale in the USA

Charles A. Doswell;Harold E. Brooks;Nikolai Dotzek

294
Citations
Tornadoes from squall lines and bow echoes. Part I: Climatological distribution

Robert J. Trapp;Sarah A. Tessendorf;Elaine Savageau Godfrey;Harold E. Brooks

289
Citations
Climatological Estimates of Daily Local Nontornadic Severe Thunderstorm Probability for the United States

Charles A. Doswell;Harold E. Brooks;Michael P. Kay

286
Citations
Severe Convective Storms across Europe and the United States. Part II: ERA5 Environments Associated with Lightning, Large Hail, Severe Wind, and Tornadoes

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268
Citations
Mesocyclogenesis From a Theoretical Perspective

Robert Davies‐Jones;Harold Brooks

262
Citations
An Objective High-Resolution Hail Climatology of the Contiguous United States

John L. Cintineo;Travis M. Smith;Valliappa Lakshmanan;Harold E. Brooks

248
Citations
On the Relationship of Tornado Path Length and Width to Intensity

Harold E. Brooks

234
Citations
Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

Kenneth E. Kunkel;Thomas R. Karl;Harold Brooks;James P. Kossin

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles A. Doswell University of Oklahoma

David J. Stensrud Pennsylvania State University

Thomas C. Peterson National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Russell S. Vose National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Kenneth E. Kunkel North Carolina State University

Donald J. Wuebbles University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

David J. Karoly Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Thomas R. Karl National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Richard W. Katz National Center for Atmospheric Research

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