2026 Joan Cuxart: 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	40	7928	7618	236	236	130	9623

Joan Cuxart 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 Joan Cuxart sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 690+

This scientist: 130 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Joan Cuxart 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 Joan Cuxart sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Joan Cuxart is affiliated with the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain. Their research centers on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong focus on meteorological phenomena and simulations, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and climate variability and models. Their work also touches on wind and air flow studies, fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and plant responses to elevated CO2.

Their frequent collaborators include Aaron Boone, Daniel Martínez-Villagrasa, María A. Jiménez, Martin Best, and Patrick Le Moigne.

Joan Cuxart has contributed to multiple scientific journals, primarily publishing in:

Boundary-Layer Meteorology
International Journal of Climatology
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Atmosphere

Their recent papers include:

Evapotranspiration over Land from a Boundary-Layer Meteorology Perspective, 2020, Boundary-Layer Meteorology
Surface-Energy-Balance Closure over Land: A Review, 2020, Boundary-Layer Meteorology
Evapotranspiration Acquired with Remote Sensing Thermal-Based Algorithms: A State-of-the-Art Review, 2022, Remote Sensing
A Collaborative Effort to Better Understand, Measure, and Model Atmospheric Exchange Processes over Mountains, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Surface energy balance and flux partitioning of annual crops in southwestern France, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Joan Cuxart has also published a book chapter with innsbruck university press eBooks, titled Multi-scale transport and exchange processes in the atmosphere over mountains, in 2020.

Best Publications

A turbulence scheme allowing for mesoscale and large‐eddy simulations

J. Cuxart;P. Bougeault;J.-L. Redelsperger

955
Citations
A Large Eddy Simulation Intercomparison Study of Shallow Cumulus Convection

A. Pier Siebesma;Christopher S. Bretherton;Andrew Brown;Andreas Chlond

848
Citations
An intercomparison of large-eddy simulations of the stable boundary layer

Robert J. Beare;Malcolm K. Macvean;Albert A.M. Holtslag;Joan Cuxart

664
Citations
CASES-99: A Comprehensive Investigation of the Stable Nocturnal Boundary Layer

Gregory S. Poulos;William Blumen;David C. Fritts;Julie K. Lundquist

646
Citations
Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layers and Diurnal Cycles: Challenges for Weather and Climate Models

A. A. M. Holtslag;Gunilla Svensson;P. Baas;S. Basu

538
Citations
Single-Column Model Intercomparison for a Stably Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layer

J Cuxart;A A M Holtslag;R J Beare;E Bazile

457
Citations
Surface-Energy-Balance Closure over Land: A Review

Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken;Joan Cuxart

346
Citations
HIRLAM-5 Scientific documentation

Per Undén;Laura Rontu;Heikki Jarvinen;Peter Lynch

337
Citations
Overview of the Meso-NH model version 5.4 and its applications

Christine Lac;Jean Pierre Chaboureau;Valéry Masson;Jean Pierre Pinty

336
Citations
Simulations of Trade Wind Cumuli under a Strong Inversion

Bjorn Stevens;Andrew S. Ackerman;Bruce A. Albrecht;Andrew R. Brown

315
Citations
An intercomparison of radiatively driven entrainment and turbulence in a smoke cloud, as simulated by different numerical models

C. S. Bretherton;M. K. Macvean;P. Bechtold;Andreas Chlond

254
Citations
Exchange Processes in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Over Mountainous Terrain

Stefano Serafin;Bianca Adler;Joan Cuxart;Stephan F. J. De Wekker

241
Citations
Evaluation of the Diurnal Cycle in the atmospheric boundary layer over land as represented by a variety of single-column models: The second GABLS Experiment

Gunilla Svensson;A. A. M. Holtslag;V. Kumar;T. Mauritsen

232
Citations
The BLLAST field experiment: Boundary-Layer Late Afternoon and Sunset Turbulence

M. Lothon;F. Lohou;D. Pino;F. Couvreux

224
Citations
Intermittent Turbulence Associated with a Density Current Passage in the Stable Boundary Layer

Jielun Sun;Sean P. Burns;Donald H. Lenschow;Robert Banta

219
Citations
STABLE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY-LAYER EXPERIMENT IN SPAIN (SABLES 98): A REPORT

J. Cuxart;C. Yagüe;G. Morales;E. Terradellas

200
Citations
Complex terrain experiments in the New European Wind Atlas.

J. Mann;N. Angelou;J. Arnqvist;D. Callies

166
Citations
Intercomparison of Single-Column Numerical Models for the Prediction of Radiation Fog

Thierry Bergot;Enric Terradellas;Joan Cuxart;Antoni Mira

150
Citations
Observations and numerical simulations of the diurnal cycle of the EUROCS stratocumulus case

Peter G. Duynkerke;Stephan R. de Roode;Margreet C. van Zanten;Javier Calvo

143
Citations
Comparison of Three Methods for Estimating Land Surface Temperature from Landsat 8-TIRS Sensor Data

Vicente García-Santos;Joan Cuxart;Daniel Martínez-Villagrasa;Maria Antònia Jiménez

123
Citations
Mixing Processes in a Nocturnal Low-Level Jet: An LES Study

J. Cuxart;M. A. Jiménez

112
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gert-Jan Steeneveld Wageningen University & Research

Albert A. M. Holtslag Wageningen University & Research

Peter G. Duynkerke Utrecht University

Jakob Mann Technical University of Denmark

Wayne M. Angevine University of Colorado Boulder

Geert Lenderink Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

Gunilla Svensson Stockholm University

Larry Mahrt Northwest Research Associates

Donald H. Lenschow National Center for Atmospheric Research

Norbert Kalthoff Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

External Links

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