2026 Kyoko Ikeda: 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	42	7289	7006	2596	2417	100	9809

Overview

Kyoko Ikeda is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily contributes to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change as the main subfields.

The scientist's work covers core topics such as Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate Variability and Models, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate Change and Permafrost, and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research.

Recent publications by Kyoko Ikeda include:

CONUS404: The NCAR-USGS 4-km Long-Term Regional Hydroclimate Reanalysis over the CONUS, 2023, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Snowfall and snowpack in the Western U.S. as captured by convection permitting climate simulations: current climate and pseudo global warming future climate, 2021, Climate Dynamics
Quantifying snowfall from orographic cloud seeding, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Advancing South American Water and Climate Science through Multidecadal Convection-Permitting Modeling, 2023, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
What Causes the Unobserved Early-Spring Snowpack Ablation in Convection-Permitting WRF Modeling Over Utah Mountains?, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Frequent collaborators include:

Roy Rasmussen
Lulin Xue
Changhai Liu
Andreas F. Prein
Sarah A. Tessendorf

Kyoko Ikeda's research has been published extensively in specific venues, prominently including:

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Climate Dynamics
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Water Resources Research

The scientist's work involves detailed modeling and analysis of climatic and atmospheric phenomena with a significant focus on regional climate dynamics and hydrological processes. This includes convection-permitting climate simulations and the study of orographic snowfall patterns. The scope of their research also spans multidecadal climate modeling applied to South American water and climate systems.

Best Publications

The future intensification of hourly precipitation extremes

Andreas F. Prein;Roy M. Rasmussen;Kyoko Ikeda;Changhai Liu

950
Citations
How Well Are We Measuring Snow: The NOAA/FAA/NCAR Winter Precipitation Test Bed

Roy Rasmussen;Bruce Baker;John Kochendorfer;Tilden Meyers

729
Citations
Continental-scale convection-permitting modeling of the current and future climate of North America

Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;Roy Rasmussen;Mike Barlage

603
Citations
Slower snowmelt in a warmer world

Keith N. Musselman;Martyn P. Clark;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda

599
Citations
High resolution coupled climate-runoff simulations of seasonal snowfall over Colorado: A process study of current and warmer climate

Roy Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;David Gochis

577
Citations
Projected increases and shifts in rain-on-snow flood risk over western North America

Keith N. Musselman;Flavio Lehner;Kyoko Ikeda;Martyn P. Clark

489
Citations
Increased rainfall volume from future convective storms in the US

Andreas F. Prein;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;Stanley B. Trier

371
Citations
A Statistical and Physical Description of Hydrometeor Distributions in Colorado Snowstorms Using a Video Disdrometer

Edward A. Brandes;Kyoko Ikeda;Guifu Zhang;Michael Schönhuber

309
Citations
The Great Colorado Flood of September 2013

David Gochis;Russ Schumacher;Katja Friedrich;Nolan Doesken

285
Citations
A Comparison of Statistical and Dynamical Downscaling of Winter Precipitation over Complex Terrain

Ethan D. Gutmann;Roy M. Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda

273
Citations
Analysis of Video Disdrometer and Polarimetric Radar Data to Characterize Rain Microphysics in Oklahoma

Qing Cao;Guifu Zhang;Edward Brandes;Terry Schuur

268
Citations
Climate Change Impacts on the Water Balance of the Colorado Headwaters: High-Resolution Regional Climate Model Simulations

Roy Rasmussen;Kyoko Ikeda;Changhai Liu;David Gochis

249
Citations
High-Resolution Simulations of Wintertime Precipitation in the Colorado Headwaters Region: Sensitivity to Physics Parameterizations

Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;Gregory Thompson;Roy Rasmussen

239
Citations
Simulating North American mesoscale convective systems with a convection-permitting climate model

Andreas F. Prein;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;Randy Bullock

236
Citations
Parameterization of Cloud Microphysics Based on the Prediction of Bulk Ice Particle Properties. Part II: Case Study Comparisons with Observations and Other Schemes

Hugh Morrison;Jason A. Milbrandt;George H. Bryan;Kyoko Ikeda

228
Citations
Changes in the convective population and thermodynamic environments in convection-permitting regional climate simulations over the United States

Kristen L. Rasmussen;Kristen L. Rasmussen;Andreas F. Prein;Roy M. Rasmussen;Kyoko Ikeda

212
Citations
Simulation of seasonal snowfall over Colorado

Kyoko Ikeda;Roy Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;David Gochis

209
Citations
Noah land surface model modifications to improve snowpack prediction in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Michael Barlage;Fei Chen;Mukul Tewari;Kyoko Ikeda

182
Citations
Changes in Hurricanes from a 13-Yr Convection-Permitting Pseudo–Global Warming Simulation

Ethan D. Gutmann;Roy M. Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda

180
Citations
A new mechanism for warm-season precipitation response to global warming based on convection-permitting simulations

Aiguo Dai;Aiguo Dai;Roy M. Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda

156
Citations
Freezing-Level Estimation with Polarimetric Radar

Edward A. Brandes;Kyoko Ikeda

139
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Roy Rasmussen National Center for Atmospheric Research

Changhai Liu National Center for Atmospheric Research

Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan

Ethan Gutmann National Center for Atmospheric Research

Gregory Thompson National Center for Atmospheric Research

Fei Chen National Center for Atmospheric Research

David Gochis National Center for Atmospheric Research

Jimy Dudhia National Center for Atmospheric Research

Aiguo Dai University at Albany, State University of New York

David Yates National Center for Atmospheric Research

External Links

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