2026 Jason P. Evans: 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	90	592	558	26	26	441	29761

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Jason P. Evans is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia and has contributed extensively to environmental and earth sciences research. Their work spans a range of topics concerning climate variability, meteorological phenomena, and hydrological processes.

The scientist's primary fields of study include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in the following subfields:

Global and Planetary Change
Atmospheric Science
Environmental Engineering
Water Science and Technology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Jason P. Evans has focused their research on specific topics, such as:

Climate variability and models
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Cryospheric studies and observations
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Fire effects on ecosystems

The scientist has published papers in a variety of journals with repeated contributions to several notable venues including:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Climate Dynamics
Geophysical Research Letters
Weather and Climate Extremes
Nature Communications

Recent research papers by Jason P. Evans include:

Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km2 of drylands towards desertification (2020, Nature Communications)
Global hotspots for the occurrence of compound events (2020, Nature Communications)
Towards advancing scientific knowledge of climate change impacts on short-duration rainfall extremes (2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences)
Selecting CMIP6 GCMs for CORDEX Dynamical Downscaling: Model Performance, Independence, and Climate Change Signals (2022, Earth's Future)
Strong Intensification of Hourly Rainfall Extremes by Urbanization (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)

Collaboration has been a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including:

Giovanni Di Virgilio
Fei Ji
A. J. Pitman
Ashish Sharma
Eugene Tam

Best Publications

Future changes to the intensity and frequency of short‐duration extreme rainfall

S. Westra;H. J. Fowler;J. P. Evans;L. V. Alexander

1480
Citations
Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Bindi;S. Brown

1014
Citations
Discrimination between climate and human-induced dryland degradation.

Jason Evans;Roland Geerken

890
Citations
Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals

Y. Y. Liu;W. A. Dorigo;R. M. Parinussa;R. A. M. de Jeu

839
Citations
Developing an improved soil moisture dataset by blending passive and active microwave satellite-based retrievals

Y. Y. Liu;Y. Y. Liu;Y. Y. Liu;R. M. Parinussa;W. A. Dorigo;R. A. M. De Jeu

729
Citations
Recent reversal in loss of global terrestrial biomass

Yi Y. Liu;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Richard A. M. de Jeu;Josep G. Canadell

642
Citations
Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km 2 of drylands towards desertification

A. L. Burrell;A. L. Burrell;J. P. Evans;M. G. De Kauwe

506
Citations
Do Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Models Improve Projections of Future Precipitation Change?

Elizabeth J. Kendon;Nikolina Ban;Nigel M. Roberts;Hayley J. Fowler

462
Citations
Future global meteorological drought hot spots: A study based on CORDEX data

Jonathan Spinoni;Paulo Barbosa;Edoardo Bucchignani;John Cassano

438
Citations
21st century climate change in the Middle East

Jason P. Evans

411
Citations
Future increases in extreme precipitation exceed observed scaling rates

Jiawei Bao;Steven C. Sherwood;Lisa V. Alexander;Jason P. Evans

370
Citations
Dryland ecohydrology and climate change: critical issues and technical advances

Lixin Wang;Lixin Wang;P. D'Odorico;J. P. Evans;D. J. Eldridge

341
Citations
Multi-site evaluation of terrestrial evaporation models using FLUXNET data

Ali Ershadi;Matthew McCabe;Jason P. Evans;Nathaniel W. Chaney

341
Citations
Global hotspots for the occurrence of compound events.

Nina N. Ridder;Andy J. Pitman;Seth Westra;Anna Ukkola

329
Citations
Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires

Giovanni Di Virgilio;Jason P. Evans;Stephanie A. P. Blake;Matthew Armstrong

321
Citations
Evaluating the performance of a WRF physics ensemble over South-East Australia

Jason P. Evans;Marie Ekström;Fei Ji

321
Citations
Temperature response to future urbanization and climate change

Daniel Argüeso;Jason P. Evans;Lluís Fita;Kathryn J. Bormann

321
Citations
Directional postcopulatory sexual selection revealed by artificial insemination.

Jonathan P. Evans;Lorenzo Zane;Samuela Francescato;Andrea Pilastro

318
Citations
Global long-term passive microwave satellite-based retrievals of vegetation optical depth

Yi Y. Liu;Yi Y. Liu;Yi Y. Liu;Richard A. M. de Jeu;Matthew F. McCabe;Jason P. Evans

302
Citations
Natural hazards in Australia: droughts

Anthony S. Kiem;Fiona Johnson;Seth Westra;Albert van Dijk

290
Citations
Natural hazards in Australia: extreme bushfire.

Jason J. Sharples;Geoffrey J. Cary;Paul Fox-Hughes;Scott Mooney

275
Citations
Multiple benefits of multiple mating in guppies

J. P. Evans;A. E. Magurran

260
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew F. McCabe King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Andrew J. Pitman University of New South Wales

Ashish Sharma University of New South Wales

Lisa V. Alexander University of New South Wales

Seth Westra University of Adelaide

Albert van Dijk Australian National University

Yi Y. Liu Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Steven C. Sherwood University of New South Wales

Hayley J. Fowler Newcastle University

Benjamin F. Zaitchik Johns Hopkins University

External Links

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