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D-Index
67
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42143
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1914
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794

Keith W. Oleson 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 Keith W. Oleson sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 106 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Keith W. Oleson 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 Keith W. Oleson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Keith W. Oleson is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily covers the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Building and Construction, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work spans a variety of interconnected topics, such as Climate Variability and Models, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Wind and Air Flow Studies, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization.

Notable recent publications by Keith W. Oleson include:

  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2), 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Global multi-model projections of local urban climates, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Simulating Agriculture in the Community Land Model Version 5, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Large model structural uncertainty in global projections of urban heat waves, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Evaluation of 30 urban land surface models in the Urban-PLUMBER project: Phase 1 results, 2023, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Keith W. Oleson include:

  • Lei Zhao
  • Matthias Demuzere
  • Zhonghua Zheng
  • Mathew Lipson
  • Martin Best

The major publication venues where Keith W. Oleson's work appears include:

  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Regions of Strong Coupling Between Soil Moisture and Precipitation

    Randal D. Koster;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Zhichang Guo;Gordon Bonan

  • Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

    Christian Beer;Markus Reichstein;Enrico Tomelleri;Philippe Ciais

  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)

    G. Danabasoglu;J. F. Lamarque;J. Bacmeister;D. A. Bailey

  • The Community Earth System Model (CESM) large ensemble project: a community resource for studying climate change in the presence of internal climate variability

    Jennifer E Kay;Clara Deser;Adam S Phillips;A Mai

  • Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Technical description of version 4.5 of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    Keith Oleson;M. Lawrence;B. Bonan;Beth Drewniak

  • The Community Land Model version 5 : description of new features, benchmarking, and impact of forcing uncertainty

    David M. Lawrence;Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;Keith W. Oleson

  • Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in version 4 of the Community Land Model

    David M Lawrence;Keith W Oleson;Mark G Flanner;Peter E Thornton

  • The Common Land Model

    Yongjiu Dai;Xubin Zeng;Robert E. Dickinson;Ian Baker

  • Strong contributions of local background climate to urban heat islands

    Lei Zhao;Xuhui Lee;Xuhui Lee;Ronald B. Smith;Keith Oleson

  • Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    Keith Oleson;Yongjiu Dai;B. Bonan;Mike Bosilovichm

  • The Importance of Land-Cover Change in Simulating Future Climates

    Johannes J. Feddema;Johannes J. Feddema;Keith W. Oleson;Keith W. Oleson;Gordon B. Bonan;Gordon B. Bonan;Linda O. Mearns;Linda O. Mearns

  • Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle

    K. W. Oleson;G. Y. Niu;Zong-Liang Yang;D. M. Lawrence

  • GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. Part I: Overview

    Randal D. Koster;Zhichang Guo;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Gordon Bonan

  • The land surface climatology of the community land model coupled to the NCAR community climate model

    Gordon B. Bonan;Keith W. Oleson;Mariana Vertenstein;Samuel Levis

  • Landscapes as patches of plant functional types: An integrating concept for climate and ecosystem models

    Gordon B. Bonan;Samuel Levis;Laurent Kergoat;Keith W. Oleson

  • Improving canopy processes in the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) using global flux fields empirically inferred from FLUXNET data

    Gordon B. Bonan;Peter J. Lawrence;Keith W. Oleson;Samuel Levis

  • The International Urban Energy Balance Models Comparison Project: First Results from Phase 1

    C.S.B. Grimmond;M. Blackett;M.J. Best;J. Barlow

  • The Partitioning of Evapotranspiration into Transpiration, Soil Evaporation, and Canopy Evaporation in a GCM: Impacts on Land–Atmosphere Interaction

    David M. Lawrence;Peter E. Thornton;Keith W. Oleson;Gordon B. Bonan

  • Simulation of Global Land Surface Conditions from 1948 to 2004. Part I: Forcing Data and Evaluations

    Taotao Qian;Aiguo Dai;Kevin E. Trenberth;Keith W. Oleson

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon B. Bonan
Gordon B. Bonan National Center for Atmospheric Research
David M. Lawrence
David M. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research
Samuel Levis
Samuel Levis National Center for Atmospheric Research
Johannes J. Feddema
Johannes J. Feddema University of Victoria
Peter J. Lawrence
Peter J. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research
William R. Wieder
William R. Wieder National Center for Atmospheric Research
Matthias Demuzere
Matthias Demuzere Ruhr University Bochum
Sean Swenson
Sean Swenson National Center for Atmospheric Research
Rosie A. Fisher
Rosie A. Fisher National Center for Atmospheric Research
Peter E. Thornton
Peter E. Thornton Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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