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Lulin Xue 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 Lulin Xue sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 198 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lulin Xue 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 Lulin Xue sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Lulin Xue is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, Environmental Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their research covers key topics such as Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Climate variability and models, Aeolian processes and effects, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Lulin Xue include:

  • Confronting the Challenge of Modeling Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics (2020), Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Summertime dust storms over the Arabian Peninsula and impacts on radiation, circulation, cloud development and rain (2020), Atmospheric Research
  • The COMBLE Campaign: A Study of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds in Arctic Cold-Air Outbreaks (2022), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • CONUS404: The NCAR-USGS 4-km Long-Term Regional Hydroclimate Reanalysis over the CONUS (2023), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Quantifying snowfall from orographic cloud seeding (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Lulin Xue frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Roy Rasmussen, Sarah A. Tessendorf, Bart Geerts, and Sisi Chen, indicating a strong collaborative research network within the atmospheric and climate sciences community.

Their publications are often featured in specific venues such as:

  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Best Publications

  • Confronting the Challenge of Modeling Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics

    Hugh Morrison;Marcus van Lier-Walqui;Ann M. Fridlind;Wojciech W. Grabowski

  • Precipitation formation from orographic cloud seeding

    Jeffrey R. French;Katja Friedrich;Sarah A. Tessendorf;Robert M. Rauber

  • Occurrence of lower cloud albedo in ship tracks

    Y.-C. Chen;M. W. Christensen;L. Xue;A. Sorooshian

  • The COMBLE campaign: a study of marine boundary-layer clouds in Arctic cold-air outbreaks

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  • A Transformational Approach to Winter Orographic Weather Modification Research: The SNOWIE Project

    Sarah A. Tessendorf;Jeffrey R. French;Katja Friedrich;Bart Geerts

  • Long-Term Prediction of Soybean Rust Entry into the Continental United States

    Z. Pan;X.B. Yang;S. Pivonia;L. Xue

  • CONUS404: The NCAR-USGS 4-km long-term regional hydroclimate reanalysis over the CONUS

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  • Summertime dust storms over the Arabian Peninsula and impacts on radiation, circulation, cloud development and rain

    Diana Francis;Jean Pierre Chaboureau;Narendra Nelli;Juan Cuesta

  • Implementation of a silver iodide cloud-seeding parameterization in WRF. Part II: 3D simulations of actual seeding events and sensitivity tests

    Lulin Xue;Sarah A. Tessendorf;Eric Nelson;Roy Rasmussen

  • Implementation of a Silver Iodide Cloud-Seeding Parameterization in WRF. Part I: Model Description and Idealized 2D Sensitivity Tests

    Lulin Xue;Akihiro Hashimoto;Masataka Murakami;Roy Rasmussen

  • A comprehensive numerical study of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in marine stratocumulus

    Y.-C. Chen;L. Xue;Z. J. Lebo;H. Wang

  • Wintertime Orographic Cloud Seeding—A Review

    Robert M. Rauber;Bart Geerts;Lulin Xue;Jeffrey French

  • Idealized Simulations of a Squall Line from the MC3E Field Campaign Applying Three Bin Microphysics Schemes: Dynamic and Thermodynamic Structure

    Lulin Xue;Jiwen Fan;Zachary J. Lebo;Wei Wu;Wei Wu

  • Modeling the impacts of climate change on nitrogen losses and crop yield in a subsurface drained field

    Zhaozhi Wang;Zhiming Qi;Lulin Xue;Melissa Bukovsky

  • A case study of radar observations and WRF LES simulations of the impact of ground-based glaciogenic seeding on orographic clouds and precipitation. Part I: Observations and model validations

    Xia Chu;Lulin Xue;Bart Geerts;Roy Rasmussen

  • Effects of Aerosol Solubility and Regeneration on Warm-Phase Orographic Clouds and Precipitation Simulated by a Detailed Bin Microphysical Scheme

    Lulin Xue;Amit Teller;Roy Rasmussen;Istvan Geresdi

  • Comparison of three microphysics parameterization schemes in the WRF model for an extreme rainfall event in the coastal metropolitan City of Guangzhou, China

    Yongjie Huang;Yaping Wang;Lulin Xue;Xiaolin Wei

  • Quantifying snowfall from orographic cloud seeding

    Katja Friedrich;Kyoko Ikeda;Sarah A. Tessendorf;Jeffrey R. French

  • WRF Gray-Zone Simulations of Precipitation Over the Middle-East and the UAE: Impacts of Physical Parameterizations and Resolution

    Sourav Taraphdar;Olivier M. Pauluis;Olivier M. Pauluis;Lulin Xue;Changhai Liu

  • Intercomparison of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in stratiform orographic mixed-phase clouds

    Andreas Muhlbauer;Tempei Hashino;Tempei Hashino;L. Xue;A. Teller;A. Teller

  • The Roles of Mineral Dust as Cloud Condensation Nuclei and Ice Nuclei During the Evolution of a Hail Storm

    Qian Chen;Qian Chen;Yan Yin;Yan Yin;Hui Jiang;Zhigang Chu

  • The Dispersion of Silver Iodide Particles from Ground-Based Generators over Complex Terrain. Part II: WRF Large-Eddy Simulations versus Observations

    Lulin Xue;Xia Chu;Roy Rasmussen;Daniel Breed

Frequent Co-Authors

Roy Rasmussen
Roy Rasmussen National Center for Atmospheric Research
Robert M. Rauber
Robert M. Rauber University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kyoko Ikeda
Kyoko Ikeda National Center for Atmospheric Research
Changhai Liu
Changhai Liu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Greg M. McFarquhar
Greg M. McFarquhar University of Oklahoma
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan
Wojciech W. Grabowski
Wojciech W. Grabowski National Center for Atmospheric Research
Gregory Thompson
Gregory Thompson National Center for Atmospheric Research
John H. Seinfeld
John H. Seinfeld California Institute of Technology
Xiao-Bing Yang
Xiao-Bing Yang Iowa State University

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