2026 Hiroyuki Murakami: 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	57	3462	3309	1327	1228	269	11461

Overview

Hiroyuki Murakami is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change as key subfields.

The main topics covered in Murakami's body of work include:

Climate variability and models
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment
CAR-T cell therapy research

Murakami's frequent publication venues reflect consistent contributions to climate and atmospheric sciences. These include:

Journal of Climate
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Science Advances
Harvard Dataverse

Among recent papers, Murakami has authored or coauthored notable works such as:

"SPEAR: The Next Generation GFDL Modeling System for Seasonal to Multidecadal Prediction and Projection", 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
"Detected climatic change in global distribution of tropical cyclones", 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming", 2022, Nature Climate Change
"Dynamic genesis potential index for diagnosing present-day and future global tropical cyclone genesis", 2020, Environmental Research Letters
"Tropical cyclone motion in a changing climate", 2020, Science Advances

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

William Cooke
Thomas L. Delworth
Pang-Chi Hsu
Nathaniel C. Johnson
Sarah Kapnick

In addition to scientific papers, Murakami has contributed to book publications. One example is the book titled Climate Variability and Tropical Cyclone Activity, published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

Tropical cyclones and climate change

K.J.E. Walsh;S.J. Camargo;T.R. Knutson;J. Kossin

621
Citations
Climate Simulations Using MRI-AGCM3.2 with 20-km Grid

Ryo Mizuta;Hiromasa Yoshimura;Hiroyuki Murakami;Mio Matsueda

581
Citations
Future Changes in Tropical Cyclone Activity Projected by the New High-Resolution MRI-AGCM*

Hiroyuki Murakami;Yuqing Wang;Hiromasa Yoshimura;Ryo Mizuta

451
Citations
Recent increases in tropical cyclone intensification rates.

Kieran T. Bhatia;Gabriel A. Vecchi;Thomas R. Knutson;Hiroyuki Murakami;Hiroyuki Murakami

371
Citations
Projected Response of Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Intensification in a Global Climate Model

Kieran Bhatia;Gabriel Andres Vecchi;Hiroyuki Murakami;Seth Underwood

280
Citations
Future Change of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Tracks: Projection by a 20-km-Mesh Global Atmospheric Model*

Hiroyuki Murakami;Bin Wang

280
Citations
Future Change of Western North Pacific Typhoons: Projections by a 20-km-Mesh Global Atmospheric Model*

Hiroyuki Murakami;Bin Wang;Akio Kitoh

264
Citations
Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming

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261
Citations
Future changes in tropical cyclone activity projected by multi-physics and multi-SST ensemble experiments using the 60-km-mesh MRI-AGCM

Hiroyuki Murakami;Hiroyuki Murakami;Ryo Mizuta;Eiki Shindo

258
Citations
SPEAR – the next generation GFDL modeling system for seasonal to multidecadal prediction and projection

Thomas L. Delworth;William F. Cooke;William F. Cooke;Alistair Adcroft;Alistair Adcroft;Mitchell Bushuk;Mitchell Bushuk

254
Citations
Simulation and Prediction of Category 4 and 5 Hurricanes in the High-Resolution GFDL HiFLOR Coupled Climate Model

Hiroyuki Murakami;Gabriel A. Vecchi;Seth Underwood;Thomas L. Delworth

251
Citations
Future Changes in Tropical Cyclone Activity in High-Resolution Large-Ensemble Simulations

Kohei Yoshida;Masato Sugi;Ryo Mizuta;Hiroyuki Murakami

239
Citations
Hurricanes and climate: The U.S. Clivar working group on hurricanes

Kevin J. E. Walsh;Suzana J. Camargo;Gabriel A. Vecchi;Anne Sophie Daloz

228
Citations
Detected climatic change in global distribution of tropical cyclones.

Hiroyuki Murakami;Hiroyuki Murakami;Thomas L. Delworth;William F. Cooke;Ming Zhao

224
Citations
Will the South Asian monsoon overturning circulation stabilize any further

R. Krishnan;T. P. Sabin;D. C. Ayantika;A. Kitoh

216
Citations
Effect of Model Resolution on Tropical Cyclone Climate Projections

Hiroyuki Murakami;Masato Sugi

200
Citations
Increase of global monsoon area and precipitation under global warming: A robust signal?

Pang-chi Hsu;Tim Li;Jing-Jia Luo;Hiroyuki Murakami

196
Citations
Tropical cyclones in reanalysis data sets

Hiroyuki Murakami

186
Citations
Future change of the global monsoon revealed from 19 CMIP5 models

Pang-chi Hsu;Tim Li;Hiroyuki Murakami;Akio Kitoh

182
Citations
Tropical cyclone sensitivities to CO2 doubling: roles of atmospheric resolution, synoptic variability and background climate changes

Gabriel A. Vecchi;Thomas L. Delworth;Thomas L. Delworth;Hiroyuki Murakami;Hiroyuki Murakami;Hiroyuki Murakami;Seth D. Underwood

181
Citations
A Reduction in Global Tropical Cyclone Frequency due to Global Warming

Masato Sugi;Hiroyuki Murakami;Jun Yoshimura

159
Citations
Increasing Frequency of Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storms over the Arabian Sea

Hiroyuki Murakami

18
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel A. Vecchi Princeton University

Thomas L. Delworth Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Gabriele Villarini Princeton University

Suzana J. Camargo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Adam H. Sobel Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Ming Zhao Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Fanrong Zeng Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Enrico Scoccimarro Central Maine Community College

Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Andrew T. Wittenberg Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

External Links

Personal website of Hiroyuki Murakami

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