2026 Marc B. Parlange: 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	80	967	919	418	385	440	22805

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award
2017 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For fundamental contributions to land-atmosphere modeling and leadership in field measurement campaigns over complex terrain.
2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1997 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
1997 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
The Canadian Academy of Engineering
The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Marc B. Parlange is affiliated with the University of Rhode Island in the United States. Their research spans several areas in earth and environmental sciences, with main fields of study including Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. The scientist's work focuses on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Information Systems.

The research topics covered in their publications include:

Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
Wind and Air Flow Studies
Research Data Management Practices
Scientific Computing and Data Management
Scientometrics and Bibliometrics Research

Marc B. Parlange has published multiple papers, some recent notable works include:

"Open Science: Open Data, Open Models,...and Open Publications?", 2021, Water Resources Research
"Scrambling and Reorientation of Classical Atmospheric Boundary Layer Turbulence in Hurricane Winds", 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
"Sweeping Effects Modify Taylor's Frozen Turbulence Hypothesis for Scalars in the Roughness Sublayer", 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
"A Local Similarity Function for Katabatic Flows Derived From Field Observations Over Steep- and Shallow-Angled Slopes", 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
"Data & code for 'BoundaryLayerDynamics.jl v1.0: a modern codebase for atmospheric boundary-layer simulations'", 2023, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequently publishing venues include Geophysical Research Letters, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Water Resources Research, and Geoscientific Model Development.

The scientist collaborates with several coauthors regularly, with frequent coauthors being:

Marco G. Giometto
Gregory A. Lawrence
Manuel F. Schmid
Holly J. Oldroyd
Eric R. Pardyjak

Marc B. Parlange has been recognized by various professional organizations. Awards and honors include:

Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2017) for contributions to land-atmosphere modeling and leadership in field measurement campaigns over complex terrain
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2015
James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1997
Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1997
Member of The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Best Publications

Statistics of extremes in hydrology

Richard W Katz;Marc B Parlange;Philippe Naveau

2114
Citations
Hydrologic cycle explains the evaporation paradox

W. Brutsaert;M. B. Parlange

933
Citations
A scale-dependent Lagrangian dynamic model for large eddy simulation of complex turbulent flows

Elie R. Bou-Zeid;Charles Meneveau;Marc Parlange;Marc Parlange

830
Citations
Distributed fiber-optic temperature sensing for hydrologic systems

John S. Selker;John S. Selker;Luc Thévenaz;Hendrik Huwald;Alfred Mallet

776
Citations
A scale-dependent dynamic model for large-eddy simulation: application to a neutral atmospheric boundary layer

Fernando Porté-Agel;Charles Meneveau;Marc B. Parlange

732
Citations
A framework to implement Stakeholder participation in environmental projects

Vincent Luyet;Rodolphe Schlaepfer;Marc B. Parlange;Alexandre Buttler

606
Citations
Evapotranspiration: A process driving mass transport and energy exchange in the soil‐plant‐atmosphere‐climate system

Gabriel G. Katul;Gabriel G. Katul;Ram Oren;Ram Oren;Stefano Manzoni;Chad Higgins

578
Citations
SensorScope: Out-of-the-Box Environmental Monitoring

Guillermo Barrenetxea;François Ingelrest;Gunnar Schaefer;Martin Vetterli

403
Citations
SensorScope: Application-specific sensor network for environmental monitoring

François Ingelrest;Guillermo Barrenetxea;Gunnar Schaefer;Martin Vetterli

397
Citations
Fiber optics opens window on stream dynamics

John Selker;Nick C. van de Giesen;Martijn Westhoff;Wim Luxemburg

365
Citations
Impact of the 2002 Canadian Forest Fires on Particulate Matter Air Quality in Baltimore City

Amir Sapkota;J. Morel Symons;Jan Kleissl;Lu Wang

331
Citations
STATISTICS OF EXTREMES: MODELING ECOLOGICAL DISTURBANCES

Richard W. Katz;Grace S. Brush;Marc B. Parlange

326
Citations
On Monin-Obukhov similarity in the stable atmospheric boundary layer

Markus Pahlow;Marc B. Parlange;Fernando Porté-Agel

325
Citations
Surface length scales and shear stress: Implications for land-atmosphere interaction over complex terrain

John D. Albertson;Marc B. Parlange

318
Citations
Large-eddy simulation of neutral atmospheric boundary layer flow over heterogeneous surfaces: Blending height and effective surface roughness

Elie Bou-Zeid;Charles Meneveau;Marc B. Parlange

300
Citations
Natural integration of scalar fluxes from complex terrain

John D. Albertson;Marc B. Parlange

250
Citations
Modeling Flow around Bluff Bodies and Predicting Urban Dispersion Using Large Eddy Simulation

Yu Heng Tseng;Charles Meneveau;Marc B. Parlange

247
Citations
Evaporation from a small water reservoir: Direct measurements and estimates

J. Tanny;S. Cohen;S. Assouline;F. Lange

244
Citations
Overdispersion phenomenon in stochastic modeling of precipitation

Richard W. Katz;Marc B. Parlange

228
Citations
Large eddy simulation study of scalar transport in fully developed wind-turbine array boundary layers

Marc Calaf;Marc B. Parlange;Charles Meneveau

225
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Meneveau Johns Hopkins University

Gabriel G. Katul Duke University

Elie Bou-Zeid Princeton University

Michael Lehning École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

David Andrew Barry École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Scott W. Tyler University of Nevada Reno

John D. Albertson Cornell University

John S. Selker Oregon State University

Andrea Rinaldo École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Jozsef Szilagyi Budapest University of Technology and Economics

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