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D-Index
53
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11919
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4208
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1584

Jonathan E. Pleim 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 Jonathan E. Pleim sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 153 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jonathan E. Pleim 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 Jonathan E. Pleim sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jonathan E. Pleim is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these fields, their work concentrates on several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Automotive Engineering.

The main topics covered by their publications include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Vehicle emissions and performance

Jonathan E. Pleim frequently publishes in several scientific venues with notable recurring appearances in:

  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • One Earth
  • UNC Libraries

Frequent co-authors include Limei Ran, Robert C. Gilliam, Jesse O. Bash, Christian Hogrefe, and Donna Schwede, reflecting established collaborative research relationships.

Selected recent publications from Jonathan E. Pleim's research portfolio are:

  • "The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model versions 5.3 and 5.3.1: system updates and evaluation" (2021), published in Geoscientific Model Development
  • "Technical note: AQMEII4 Activity 1: evaluation of wet and dry deposition schemes as an integral part of regional-scale air quality models" (2021), published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Intense Warming Will Significantly Increase Cropland Ammonia Volatilization Threatening Food Security and Ecosystem Health" (2020), published in One Earth
  • "Performance Evaluation of the Meteorology and Air Quality Conditions From Multiscale WRF-CMAQ Simulations for the Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS)" (2022), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Impact of anthropogenic heat emissions on meteorological parameters and air quality in Beijing using a high-resolution model simulation" (2021), published in Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering

Best Publications

  • A Combined Local and Nonlocal Closure Model for the Atmospheric Boundary Layer. Part I: Model Description and Testing

    Jonathan E. Pleim

  • Development of a Land Surface Model. Part I: Application in a Mesoscale Meteorological Model

    Aijun Xiu;Jonathan E. Pleim

  • Incremental testing of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system version 4.7

    K. M. Foley;S. J. Roselle;K. W. Appel;P. V. Bhave

  • Development and Testing of a Surface Flux and Planetary Boundary Layer Model for Application in Mesoscale Models

    Jonathan E. Pleim;Aijun Xiu

  • A Combined Local and Nonlocal Closure Model for the Atmospheric Boundary Layer. Part II: Application and Evaluation in a Mesoscale Meteorological Model

    Jonathan E. Pleim

  • A non-local closure model for vertical mixing in the convective boundary layer

    Jonathan E. Pleim;Julius S. Chang

  • The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model versions 5.3 and 5.3.1: system updates and evaluation.

    K. Wyat Appel;Jesse O. Bash;Kathleen M. Fahey;Kristen M. Foley

  • Description and evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system version 5.1.

    K. Wyat Appel;Sergey L. Napelenok;Kristen M. Foley;Havala O. T. Pye

  • WRF-CMAQ two-way coupled system with aerosol feedback: software development and preliminary results

    D. C. Wong;J. Pleim;R. Mathur;F. Binkowski

  • Impact of aerosol?meteorology interactions on fine particle pollution during China?s severe haze episode in January 2013

    Jiandong Wang;Shuxiao Wang;Jingkun Jiang;Aijun Ding

  • Development of a Land Surface Model. Part II: Data Assimilation

    Jonathan E. Pleim;Aijun Xiu

  • 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

  • The Meteorology-Chemistry Interface Processor (MCIP) for the CMAQ modeling system: updates through MCIPv3.4.1

    T. L. Otte;J. E. Pleim

  • Impacts of aerosol direct effects on tropospheric ozone through changes in atmospheric dynamics and photolysis rates

    Jia Xing;Jiandong Wang;Rohit Mathur;Shuxiao Wang

  • Surface Flux Modeling for Air Quality Applications

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  • Historical gaseous and primary aerosol emissions in the United States from 1990 to 2010

    J. Xing;J. Pleim;R. Mathur;G. Pouliot

  • Observations and modeling of air quality trends over 1990–2010 across the Northern Hemisphere: China, the United States and Europe

    J. Xing;R. Mathur;J. Pleim;C. Hogrefe

  • A Simple, Efficient Solution of Flux–Profile Relationships in the Atmospheric Surface Layer

    Jonathan E. Pleim

  • Linking the Eta Model with the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System to Build a National Air Quality Forecasting System

    Tanya L. Otte;George Pouliot;Jonathan E. Pleim;Jeffrey O. Young

  • Evaluation of a regional air-quality model with bidirectional NH 3 exchange coupled to an agroecosystem model

    J. O. Bash;E. J. Cooter;R. L. Dennis;J. T. Walker

  • Performance Assessment of New Land Surface and Planetary Boundary Layer Physics in the WRF-ARW

    Robert C. Gilliam;Jonathan E. Pleim

Frequent Co-Authors

Rohit Mathur
Rohit Mathur Environmental Protection Agency
Christian Hogrefe
Christian Hogrefe Environmental Protection Agency
Robert C. Gilliam
Robert C. Gilliam Environmental Protection Agency
Jia Xing
Jia Xing Tsinghua University
George Pouliot
George Pouliot Environmental Protection Agency
Daiwen Kang
Daiwen Kang Environmental Protection Agency
Jesse O. Bash
Jesse O. Bash Environmental Protection Agency
Shaocai Yu
Shaocai Yu Zhejiang University
Shuxiao Wang
Shuxiao Wang Tsinghua University
Wayne M. Angevine
Wayne M. Angevine University of Colorado Boulder

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