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D-Index
73
Citations
21216
World Ranking
1410
National Ranking
600

Kenneth E. Kunkel 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 Kenneth E. Kunkel sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 255 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kenneth E. Kunkel 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 Kenneth E. Kunkel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kenneth E. Kunkel is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences, with a particular emphasis on climate variability, meteorological phenomena, and hydrological studies.

The scientist's main fields of study include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these broader areas, subfields of focus include Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Kunkel's work covers a range of topics such as Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Urban Heat Island Mitigation.

Recent publications by Kenneth E. Kunkel illustrate these research interests and their scope:

  • "Incorporating non-stationarity from climate change into rainfall frequency and intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves" (2022) Journal of Hydrology
  • "Observed Climatological Relationships of Extreme Daily Precipitation Events With Precipitable Water and Vertical Velocity in the Contiguous United States" (2020) Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Heterogeneous response of global precipitation concentration to global warming" (2020) International Journal of Climatology
  • "Machine Learning-Based Detection of Weather Fronts and Associated Extreme Precipitation in Historical and Future Climates" (2022) Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Why Has the Summertime Central U.S. Warming Hole Not Disappeared?" (2023) Journal of Climate

Kunkel frequently collaborates with several researchers across the field, including David R. Easterling, J. J. Barsugli, Carl J. Schreck, Thomas R. Karl, and Laura E. Stevens. These collaborations span multiple studies and contribute to the breadth of Kunkel's research output.

The scientist's work is published in notable journals. Frequent publication venues include the Journal of Hydrology, Geophysical Research Letters, International Journal of Climatology, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, and Journal of Climate.

Best Publications

  • Observed Variability and Trends in Extreme Climate Events: A Brief Review

    David R. Easterling;J. L. Evans;P. Ya Groisman;T. R. Karl

  • An Introduction to Trends in Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Observations, Socioeconomic Impacts, Terrestrial Ecological Impacts, and Model Projections*

    Gerald A. Meehl;Thomas Karl;David R. Easterling;Stanley Changnon

  • Temporal Fluctuations in Weather and Climate Extremes That Cause Economic and Human Health Impacts: A Review

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;Roger A. Pielke;Stanley A. Changnon

  • Long-Term Trends in Extreme Precipitation Events over the Conterminous United States and Canada

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;Karen Andsager;David R. Easterling

  • Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;Thomas R. Karl;Harold Brooks;James Kossin

  • Impacts and Responses to the 1995 Heat Wave: A Call to Action

    Stanley A. Changnon;Kenneth E. Kunkel;Beth C. Reinke

  • Monitoring and Understanding Changes in Heat Waves, Cold Waves, Floods, and Droughts in the United States: State of Knowledge

    Thomas C. Peterson;Richard R. Heim;Robert Hirsch;Dale P. Kaiser

  • Ch. 2: Our Changing Climate. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment

    J. Walsh;D. Wuebbles;K. Hayhoe;J. Kossin

  • Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I

    Donald J. Wuebbles;David W. Fahey;Kathy A. Hibbard;Jeff R. Arnold

  • North American Trends in Extreme Precipitation

    Kenneth E. Kunkel

  • Probable maximum precipitation and climate change

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;Kenneth E. Kunkel;Thomas R. Karl;David R. Easterling;Kelly Redmond

  • Application of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Detecting Extreme Weather in Climate Datasets.

    Yunjie Liu;Evan Racah;Prabhat;Joaquin Correa

  • CMIP5 climate model analyses: Climate extremes in the United States

    Donald Wuebbles;Gerald Meehl;Katharine Hayhoe;Thomas R. Karl

  • Changes in extreme events and the potential impacts on human health.

    Jesse E. Bell;Claudia Langford Brown;Kathryn Conlon;Stephanie Herring

  • Temporal variations of extreme precipitation events in the United States: 1895–2000

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;David R. Easterling;Kelly Redmond;Kenneth Hubbard

  • Meteorological Causes of the Secular Variations in Observed Extreme Precipitation Events for the Conterminous United States

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;David R. Easterling;David A. R. Kristovich;Byron Gleason

  • Precipitation change in the United States

    David R. Easterling;Jeff Arnold;Thomas Knutson;Kenneth Kunkel

  • The Nature and Impacts of the July 1999 Heat Wave in the Midwestern United States: Learning from the Lessons of 1995.

    Michael A. Palecki;Stanley A. Changnon;Kenneth E. Kunkel

  • Ch. 7: Precipitation Change in the United States. Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I

    D.R. Easterling;J.R. Arnold;T. Knutson;K.E. Kunkel

  • The response of Great Lakes water levels to future climate scenarios with an emphasis on Lake Michigan-Huron

    James R. Angel;Kenneth E. Kunkel

  • Regional Climate Model Simulation of U.S. Precipitation during 1982–2002. Part I: Annual Cycle

    Xin-Zhong Liang;L I Li;Kenneth E. Kunkel;Mingfang Ting

  • The July 1995 Heat Wave in the Midwest: A Climatic Perspective and Critical Weather Factors

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;Stanley A. Changnon;Beth C. Reinke;Raymond W. Arritt

  • Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;Thomas R. Karl;Harold Brooks;James P. Kossin

Frequent Co-Authors

David R. Easterling
David R. Easterling National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Michael F. Wehner
Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Stanley A. Changnon
Stanley A. Changnon University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xin-Zhong Liang
Xin-Zhong Liang University of Maryland, College Park
Donald J. Wuebbles
Donald J. Wuebbles University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thomas R. Karl
Thomas R. Karl National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Russell S. Vose
Russell S. Vose National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Thomas R. Knutson
Thomas R. Knutson Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
James P. Kossin
James P. Kossin University of Wisconsin–Madison
Allegra N. LeGrande
Allegra N. LeGrande Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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