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D-Index
45
Citations
9197
World Ranking
6328
National Ranking
2285

James M. Wilczak 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 James M. Wilczak 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.

James M. Wilczak 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 James M. Wilczak sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

James M. Wilczak is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with publication counts of 56 and 37 respectively. Within these main fields, their work focuses on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's research topics are diverse, emphasizing Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate Variability and Models, Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Wind and Air Flow Studies, and Calibration and Measurement Techniques.

Significant recent publications include:

  • Connecting Land-Atmosphere Interactions to Surface Heterogeneity in CHEESEHEAD19, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Scientific challenges to characterizing the wind resource in the marine atmospheric boundary layer, 2022, Wind Energy Science
  • Improving Air Quality Predictions over the United States with an Analog Ensemble, 2020, Weather and Forecasting
  • Mountain waves can impact wind power generation, 2021, Wind Energy Science
  • Evaluating convective planetary boundary layer height estimations resolved by both active and passive remote sensing instruments during the CHEESEHEAD19 field campaign, 2022, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Wilczak's common co-authors include David D. Turner (19 joint publications), Irina V. Djalalova (17 publications), Bianca Adler (15 publications), Laura Bianco (14 publications), and Joseph Sedlar (7 publications).

The main venues where Wilczak's research appears include:

  • Boundary-Layer Meteorology (5 publications)
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (4 publications)
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (4 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (4 publications)
  • Wind Energy Science (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • SONIC ANEMOMETER TILT CORRECTION ALGORITHMS

    James M. Wilczak;Steven P. Oncley;Steven A. Stage

  • Future cost-competitive electricity systems and their impact on US CO2 emissions

    Alexander E. MacDonald;Christopher T. M. Clack;Christopher T. M. Clack;Anneliese Alexander;Anneliese Alexander;Adam Dunbar

  • Numerical Simulations of Air-Sea Interaction under High Wind Conditions Using a Coupled Model: A Study of Hurricane Development

    J.-W. Bao;J. M. Wilczak;J.-K. Choi;L. H. Kantha

  • Interpretation of Enhanced Integrated Water Vapor Bands Associated with Extratropical Cyclones: Their Formation and Connection to Tropical Moisture

    J.-W. Bao;S. A. Michelson;P. J. Neiman;F. M. Ralph

  • Assessment of an ensemble of seven real-time ozone forecasts over eastern North America during the summer of 2004

    S. McKeen;S. McKeen;J. Wilczak;G. Grell;G. Grell;I. Djalalova

  • Evaluation of several PM2.5 forecast models using data collected during the ICARTT/NEAQS 2004 field study

    S. McKeen;S. H. Chung;J. Wilczak;G. Grell

  • PM2.5 analog forecast and Kalman filter post-processing for the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model

    Irina Djalalova;Luca Delle Monache;James Wilczak

  • Contamination of Wind Profiler Data by Migrating Birds: Characteristics of Corrupted Data and Potential Solutions

    J. M. Wilczak;R. G. Strauch;F. M. Ralph;B. L. Weber

  • Convective Boundary Layer Depth: Improved Measurement by Doppler Radar Wind Profiler Using Fuzzy Logic Methods

    Laura Bianco;James M. Wilczak

  • Improving Wind Energy Forecasting through Numerical Weather Prediction Model Development

    Joseph B. Olson;Jaymes S. Kenyon;Irina Djalalova;Laura Bianco

  • Diurnal Evolution and Annual Variability of Boundary-Layer Height and Its Correlation to Other Meteorological Variables in California's Central Valley

    L. Bianco;L. Bianco;I. V. Djalalova;I. V. Djalalova;C. W. King;J. M. Wilczak

  • Forecasting the Wind to Reach Significant Penetration Levels of Wind Energy

    Melinda Marquis;Jim Wilczak;Mark Ahlstrom;Justin Sharp

  • The Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP): A Public–Private Partnership Addressing Wind Energy Forecast Needs

    James Wilczak;Cathy Finley;Jeff Freedman;Joel Cline

  • Observed and WRF-Simulated Low-Level Winds in a High-Ozone Episode during the Central California Ozone Study

    J.-W. Bao;S. A. Michelson;P. O. G. Persson;I. V. Djalalova

  • The Three-Dimensional Structure of Convection in the Atmospheric Surface Layer

    J. M. Wilczak;J. E. Tillman

  • Pressure structure functions and spectra for locally isotropic turbulence

    Reginald J. Hill;James M. Wilczak

  • Large-Scale Eddies in the Unstably Stratified Atmospheric Surface Layer. Part I: Velocity and Temperature Structure

    J. M. Wilczak

  • Ground-Based Remote Sensing of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: 25 Years of Progress

    J. M. Wilczak;E. E. Gossard;W. D. Neff;W. L. Eberhard

  • Sea surface drag coefficients in the Risø Air Sea Experiment

    Larry Mahrt;Dean Vickers;Jim Howell;Jorgen Hojstrup

  • Recent Trends in Variable Generation Forecasting and Its Value to the Power System

    Kirsten D. Orwig;Mark L. Ahlstrom;Venkat Banunarayanan;Justin Sharp

  • The Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2): Observational Field Campaign

    James M. Wilczak;Mark Stoelinga;Larry K. Berg;Justin Sharp

  • The Accuracy of Solar Irradiance Calculations Used in Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction

    Robert J. Zamora;Ellsworth G. Dutton;Michael Trainer;Stuart A. McKeen

  • The Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2): General Overview

    William J. Shaw;Larry K. Berg;Joel Cline;Caroline Draxl

Frequent Co-Authors

Julie K. Lundquist
Julie K. Lundquist University of Colorado Boulder
Stuart A. McKeen
Stuart A. McKeen National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Georg A. Grell
Georg A. Grell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Larry K. Berg
Larry K. Berg Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Robert M. Banta
Robert M. Banta National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Daniel E. Wolfe
Daniel E. Wolfe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
William J. Shaw
William J. Shaw Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Luca Delle Monache
Luca Delle Monache University of California, San Diego
Youhua Tang
Youhua Tang George Mason University
J. E. Hare
J. E. Hare Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

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