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D-Index
67
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16653
World Ranking
1972
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818

Harold E. Brooks 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 Harold E. Brooks sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 158 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Harold E. Brooks 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 Harold E. Brooks sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

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

    Harold E Brooks;James W Lee;Jeffrey P Craven

  • Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Climatological Estimates of Local Daily Tornado Probability for the United States

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

  • On the Environments of Tornadic and Nontornadic Mesocyclones

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

  • Severe thunderstorms and climate change

    H.E. Brooks

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Precipitation Forecasting Using a Neural Network

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

  • Using Ensembles for Short-Range Forecasting

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

  • On the implementation of the enhanced Fujita scale in the USA

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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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  • Mesocyclogenesis From a Theoretical Perspective

    Robert Davies‐Jones;Harold Brooks

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

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

  • On the Relationship of Tornado Path Length and Width to Intensity

    Harold E. Brooks

  • Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles A. Doswell
Charles A. Doswell University of Oklahoma
David J. Stensrud
David J. Stensrud Pennsylvania State University
Thomas C. Peterson
Thomas C. Peterson National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Michael F. Wehner
Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Russell S. Vose
Russell S. Vose National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Kenneth E. Kunkel
Kenneth E. Kunkel North Carolina State University
Donald J. Wuebbles
Donald J. Wuebbles University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David J. Karoly
David J. Karoly Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Thomas R. Karl
Thomas R. Karl National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Richard W. Katz
Richard W. Katz National Center for Atmospheric Research

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