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D-Index
80
Citations
24268
World Ranking
962
National Ranking
413

K.-M. Lau 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 K.-M. Lau sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 156 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

K.-M. Lau 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 K.-M. Lau sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

K.-M. Lau is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research activities and academic career are situated within this institution.

There is no specific information provided regarding K.-M. Lau's recent papers, including titles, years of publication, or venues. Similarly, no data is available about their frequent co-authors or preferred publication venues.

Details on book publications or publishers associated with K.-M. Lau are not present. Likewise, information about main fields of study, subfields, or main topics of research work is not included.

No records of awards or distinctions have been indicated for K.-M. Lau. Furthermore, the source data confirms that K.-M. Lau is currently living.

Best Publications

  • Interannual Variability of the Asian Summer Monsoon: Contrasts between the Indian and the Western North Pacific–East Asian Monsoons*

    Bin Wang;Renguang Wu;K.-M. Lau

  • Asian summer monsoon anomalies induced by aerosol direct forcing: the role of the Tibetan Plateau

    K. M. Lau;M. K. Kim;K. M. Kim

  • Does a Monsoon Climate Exist over South America

    Unknown

  • Climate Signal Detection Using Wavelet Transform: How to Make a Time Series Sing

    Unknown

  • Variations of the East Asian Jet Stream and Asian–Pacific–American Winter Climate Anomalies

    Song Yang;K.-M. Lau;K.-M. Kim

  • Enhancement of Interdecadal Climate Variability in the Sahel by Vegetation Interaction.

    Ning Zeng;J. David Neelin;K.-M. Lau;Compton J. Tucker

  • Observational relationships between aerosol and Asian monsoon rainfall, and circulation

    K.-M. Lau;K.-M. Kim

  • Dynamical and Boundary Forcing Characteristics of Regional Components of the Asian Summer Monsoon

    K.-M. Lau;K.-M. Kim;S. Yang

  • Intercomparison of the climatological variations of Asian summer monsoon precipitation simulated by 10 GCMs

    I.-S. Kang;K. Jin;B. Wang;K.-M. Lau

  • The Influence of Coupled Sea Surface Temperatures on the Madden–Julian Oscillation: A Model Perturbation Experiment

    Duane E. Waliser;K. M. Lau;Jae-Hoon Kim

  • The Hydrological Cycle in the Mediterranean Region and Implications for the Water Budget of the Mediterranean Sea

    Annarita Mariotti;Maria Vittoria Struglia;Ning Zeng;K.-M. Lau

  • Euro-Mediterranean rainfall and ENSO—a seasonally varying relationship

    Annarita Mariotti;Annarita Mariotti;Ning Zeng;K.-M. Lau

  • Diurnal Variations in Tropical Oceanic Cumulus Convection during TOGA COARE

    C.-H. Sui;K.-M. Lau;Y. N. Takayabu;D. A. Short

  • THE JOINT AEROSOL- MONSOON EXPERIMENT A New Challenge for Monsoon Climate Research

    K. M. Lau;V. Ramanathan;Z. Li;S. C. Tsay

  • Warm rain processes over tropical oceans and climate implications

    K. M. Lau;H. T. Wu

  • Global Occurrences of Extreme Precipitation and the Madden–Julian Oscillation: Observations and Predictability

    Charles Jones;Duane E. Waliser;K. M. Lau;W. Stern

  • AGCM simulations of intraseasonal variability associated with the Asian summer monsoon

    D. E. Waliser;K. Jin;I.-S. Kang;W. F. Stern

  • Accumulation of aerosols over the Indo-Gangetic plains and southern slopes of the Himalayas: distribution, properties and radiative effects during the 2009 pre-monsoon season

    R. Gautam;R. Gautam;N. C. Hsu;S. C. Tsay;K. M. Lau

  • Wavelets, Period Doubling, and Time–Frequency Localization with Application to Organization of Convection over the Tropical Western Pacific

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  • The Role of Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation in the Relationship between Tropical Convection and Sea Surface Temperature

    K.-M. Lau;H.-T. Wu;S. Bony

  • Premonsoon aerosol characterization and radiative effects over the Indo‐Gangetic Plains: Implications for regional climate warming

    Ritesh Gautam;Ritesh Gautam;N. Christina Hsu;K.-M. Lau

  • Influences of Sea Surface Temperature and Ground Wetness on Asian Summer Monsoon

    Song Yang;K.-M. Lau

  • Sea Surface Temperature and Large-Scale Circulation Influences on Tropical Greenhouse Effect and Cloud Radiative Forcing

    S. Bony;K.M. Lau;Y.C. Sud

Frequent Co-Authors

In-Sik Kang
In-Sik Kang Second Institute of Oceanography
Siegfried D. Schubert
Siegfried D. Schubert Goddard Space Flight Center
Chang-Hoi Ho
Chang-Hoi Ho Seoul National University
W. Stern
W. Stern Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Chung-Hsiung Sui
Chung-Hsiung Sui National Taiwan University
Gerald A. Meehl
Gerald A. Meehl National Center for Atmospheric Research
Duane E. Waliser
Duane E. Waliser Jet Propulsion Lab
Annarita Mariotti
Annarita Mariotti National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Masao Kanamitsu
Masao Kanamitsu University of California, San Diego
Akio Kitoh
Akio Kitoh University of Tsukuba

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