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D-Index
54
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13769
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3978
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1519

Michael Barlage 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 Michael Barlage sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 146 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Barlage 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 Michael Barlage sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael Barlage is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on atmospheric science, global and planetary change, water science and technology, environmental engineering, and ecology.

They have contributed extensively to topics including hydrology and watershed management studies, climate variability and models, cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, meteorological phenomena and simulations, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and soil moisture and remote sensing.

Their recent publications include:

  • Representation of Plant Hydraulics in the Noah-MP Land Surface Model: Model Development and Multiscale Evaluation (2021) in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Mapping of 30-meter resolution tile-drained croplands using a geospatial modeling approach (2020) in Scientific Data
  • Exploring the Effects of Rooftop Mitigation Strategies on Urban Temperatures and Energy Consumption (2021) in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Assessment of Uncertainty Sources in Snow Cover Simulation in the Tibetan Plateau (2020) in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Improve the Performance of the Noah-MP-Crop Model by Jointly Assimilating Soil Moisture and Vegetation Phenology Data (2021) in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include:

  • Fei Chen
  • David Gochis
  • Cenlin He
  • Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig
  • Prasanth Valayamkunnath

Michael Barlage has published often in several key scientific venues, such as:

  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Water Resources Research

Best Publications

  • The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 1. Model description and evaluation with local-scale measurements

    Guo ‐ Yue Niu;Guo ‐ Yue Niu;Zong ‐ Liang Yang;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Fei Chen

  • The Weather Research and Forecasting Model: Overview, System Efforts, and Future Directions

    Jordan G. Powers;Joseph B. Klemp;William C. Skamarock;Christopher A. Davis

  • The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 2. Evaluation over global river basins

    Zong Liang Yang;Guo Yue Niu;Guo Yue Niu;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Fei Chen

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

    Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;Roy Rasmussen;Mike Barlage

  • 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

  • Radiative forcing and albedo feedback from the Northern Hemisphere cryosphere between 1979 and 2008

    M. G. Flanner;K. M. Shell;M. Barlage;D. K. Perovich

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

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

  • Interactions between urbanization, heat stress, and climate change

    Keith Oleson;Andrew Monaghan;Olga Wilhelmi;Michael Barlage

  • 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

  • Simulation of seasonal snowfall over Colorado

    Kyoko Ikeda;Roy Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;David Gochis

  • Are we unnecessarily constraining the agility of complex process-based models?

    Pablo A. Mendoza;Pablo A. Mendoza;Martyn P. Clark;Michael Barlage;Balaji Rajagopalan

  • Development and Testing of Polar WRF. Part III: Arctic Land*

    Keith M. Hines;David H. Bromwich;Le-Sheng Bai;Michael Barlage

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

    Michael Barlage;Fei Chen;Mukul Tewari;Kyoko Ikeda

  • Effects of Hydrologic Model Choice and Calibration on the Portrayal of Climate Change Impacts

    Pablo A. Mendoza;Martyn P. Clark;Naoki Mizukami;Andrew J. Newman

  • The effect of groundwater interaction in North American regional climate simulations with WRF/Noah-MP

    Michael Barlage;Mukul Tewari;Fei Chen;Gonzalo Miguez-Macho

  • Development and evaluation of a mosaic approach in the WRF‐Noah framework

    Dan Li;Elie R. Bou-Zeid;Michael Barlage;Fei Chen

  • Modeling seasonal snowpack evolution in the complex terrain and forested colorado headwaters region: A model intercomparison study

    Fei Chen;Michael Barlage;Mukul Tewari;Roy Rasmussen

  • Representation of Plant Hydraulics in the Noah-MP Land Surface Model: Model Development and Multiscale Evaluation

    Lingcheng Li;Zong-Liang Yang;Ashley M. Matheny;Hui Zheng

  • Urban meteorological modeling using WRF: A sensitivity study

    Ashish Sharma;Harindra J.S. Fernando;Alan F. Hamlet;Jessica J. Hellmann;Jessica J. Hellmann

  • Using MODIS BRDF and albedo data to evaluate global model land surface albedo

    Zhuo Wang;X. Zeng;M. Barlage;R. E. Dickinson

  • The Arctic System Reanalysis, Version 2

    D. H. Bromwich;A. B. Wilson;L. Bai;Z. Liu

  • Noah-MP-Crop: Introducing dynamic crop growth in the Noah-MP land surface model

    Xing Liu;Fei Chen;Michael Barlage;Guangsheng Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Fei Chen
Fei Chen National Center for Atmospheric Research
Xubin Zeng
Xubin Zeng University of Arizona
Roy Rasmussen
Roy Rasmussen National Center for Atmospheric Research
David Gochis
David Gochis National Center for Atmospheric Research
Andrew J. Monaghan
Andrew J. Monaghan University of Colorado Boulder
Dev Niyogi
Dev Niyogi The University of Texas at Austin
Guo-Yue Niu
Guo-Yue Niu University of Arizona
Kyoko Ikeda
Kyoko Ikeda National Center for Atmospheric Research
Changhai Liu
Changhai Liu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Jimy Dudhia
Jimy Dudhia National Center for Atmospheric Research

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