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6921
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Lincoln M. Alves 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 Lincoln M. Alves sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 85 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lincoln M. Alves 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 Lincoln M. Alves sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Lincoln M. Alves is affiliated with the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Water Science and Technology, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The body of their work is concentrated around topics including Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Environmental and biological studies, and Flood Risk Assessment and Management.

Lincoln M. Alves has coauthored numerous papers collaborating often with José A. Marengo, Ana Paula Martins do Amaral Cunha, M. Yu. Bardin, Jhan Carlo Espinoza, and Jorge A. Amador.

The scientist's frequent publication venues include the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Climate Dynamics, Frontiers in Climate, International Journal of Climatology, and Journal of Climate.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Climate impacts of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on South America, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: definition and aggregated datasets, 2020, Earth system science data
  • Assessment of CMIP6 Performance and Projected Temperature and Precipitation Changes Over South America, 2021, Earth Systems and Environment
  • Drought in Northeast Brazil: A review of agricultural and policy adaptation options for food security, 2021, Climate Resilience and Sustainability
  • Assessing drought in the drylands of northeast Brazil under regional warming exceeding 4 °C, 2020, Natural Hazards

Best Publications

  • The Drought of Amazonia in 2005

    José A. Marengo;Carlos A. Nobre;Javier Tomasella;Marcos D. Oyama

  • Trends in Total and Extreme South American Rainfall in 1960–2000 and Links with Sea Surface Temperature

    M. R. Haylock;T. C. Peterson;L. M. Alves;T. Ambrizzi

  • Drought in Northeast Brazil—past, present, and future

    Jose A. Marengo;Roger Rodrigues Torres;Lincoln Muniz Alves

  • The drought of 2010 in the context of historical droughts in the Amazon region

    Jose A. Marengo;Javier Tomasella;Lincoln M. Alves;Wagner R. Soares

  • Future change of temperature and precipitation extremes in South America as derived from the PRECIS regional climate modeling system

    J. A. Marengo;R. Jones;L. M. Alves;M. C. Valverde

  • Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on South America

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Michael J. McPhaden;Alice M. Grimm;Regina R. Rodrigues

  • Observed Trends in Indices of Daily Temperature Extremes in South America 1960–2000

    L. A. Vincent;T. C. Peterson;V. R. Barros;M. B. Marino

  • An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: definition and aggregated datasets

    Maialen Iturbide;José M. Gutiérrez;Lincoln M. Alves;Joaquín Bedia

  • Recent developments on the South American monsoon system

    J. A. Marengo;B. Liebmann;A. M. Grimm;V. Misra

  • Climatic characteristics of the 2010-2016 drought in the semiarid Northeast Brazil region.

    José A. Marengo;Lincoln M. Alves;Regina C.S Alvala;Ana Paula Cunha

  • Changes in Climate and Land Use Over the Amazon Region: Current and Future Variability and Trends

    Jose A. Marengo;Carlos M. Souza;Kirsten Thonicke;Chantelle Burton

  • Some Characteristics and Impacts of the Drought and Water Crisis in Southeastern Brazil during 2014 and 2015

    Carlos A. Nobre;Jose A. Marengo;Marcelo E. Seluchi;L. Adriana Cuartas

  • Development of regional future climate change scenarios in South America using the Eta CPTEC/HadCM3 climate change projections: climatology and regional analyses for the Amazon, São Francisco and the Paraná River basins

    Jose A. Marengo;Sin Chan Chou;Gillian Kay;Lincoln M. Alves

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Future change of climate in South America in the late twenty-first century: intercomparison of scenarios from three regional climate models

    Jose A. Marengo;Tercio Ambrizzi;Rosmeri P. da Rocha;Lincoln M. Alves

  • Extreme climatic events in the Amazon basin Climatological and Hydrological context of recent floods

    Jose Antonio Marengo;Javier Tomasella;Wagner R. Soares;Lincoln M. Alves

  • Two Contrasting Severe Seasonal Extremes in Tropical South America in 2012: Flood in Amazonia and Drought in Northeast Brazil

    Jose A. Marengo;Lincoln M. Alves;Wagner R. Soares;Daniel A. Rodriguez

  • Downscaling of South America present climate driven by 4-member HadCM3 runs

    Sin Chan Chou;José A. Marengo;André A. Lyra;Gustavo Sueiro

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

José A. Marengo
José A. Marengo Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais
Johannes W. Kaiser
Johannes W. Kaiser German Meteorological Service
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Richard Betts
Richard Betts University of Exeter
Dale F. Hurst
Dale F. Hurst Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Tim R. McVicar
Tim R. McVicar Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Geoff S. Dutton
Geoff S. Dutton National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Lucie A. Vincent
Lucie A. Vincent Environment and Climate Change Canada
Catia M. Domingues
Catia M. Domingues National Oceanography Centre
Tércio Ambrizzi
Tércio Ambrizzi Universidade de São Paulo

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