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D-Index
43
Citations
10909
World Ranking
6950
National Ranking
2474

Otis B. Brown 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 Otis B. Brown sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 81 publications — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Otis B. Brown 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 Otis B. Brown 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

Otis B. Brown is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, notably Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Information Systems and Management, Ecology, and Information Systems.

Brown's primary topics of work encompass Climate variability and models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Climate change and permafrost, and Scientific Computing and Data Management.

Their recent publications cover a variety of relevant themes and venues. These include:

  • Observations for Model Intercomparison Project (Obs4MIPs): status for CMIP6, 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • Sensitivity of Arctic Sea Ice Extent to Sea Ice Concentration Threshold Choice and Its Implication to Ice Coverage Decadal Trends and Statistical Projections, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • NOAA Open Data Dissemination: Petabyte-scale Earth system data in the cloud, 2023, Science Advances
  • NOAA Open Data Dissemination (Formerly NOAA Big Data Project/Program), 2022, Special publications
  • Expanding Access to Open Environmental Data: Advancements and Next Steps, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Frequent publication venues for Brown include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geoscientific model development, Remote Sensing, Science Advances, and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Brown collaborates regularly with a set of coauthors, including Jonathan Brannock and Jenny Dissen, each with five joint publications, Adrienne Simonson with five joint publications, Denis S. Willett with four, and Patrick Keown with four. These collaborations reflect a network active in environmental data, climate modeling, and atmospheric sciences.

Best Publications

  • A semianalytic radiance model of ocean color

    Howard R. Gordon;Otis B. Brown;Robert H. Evans;James W. Brown

  • Phytoplankton pigment concentrations in the Middle Atlantic Bight: comparison of ship determinations and CZCS estimates

    Howard R. Gordon;Dennis K. Clark;James W. Brown;Otis B. Brown

  • On the limiting aerodynamic roughness of the ocean in very strong winds

    M. A. Donelan;B. K. Haus;N. Reul;W. J. Plant

  • Computed relationships between the inherent and apparent optical properties of a flat homogeneous ocean.

    Howard R. Gordon;Otis B. Brown;Michael M. Jacobs

  • An overview of MODIS capabilities for ocean science observations

    W.E. Esaias;M.R. Abbott;I. Barton;O.B. Brown

  • Temporal variations in the separation of Brazil and Malvinas Currents

    Donald B. Olson;Guillermo P. Podestá;Robert H. Evans;Otis B. Brown

  • Study of the Río de la Plata turbidity front, Part 1: spatial and temporal distribution

    Mariana B. Framiñan;Otis B. Brown

  • A decade of sea surface temperature from MODIS

    K.A. Kilpatrick;G. Podestá;S. Walsh;E. Williams

  • The Marine-Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer: A High-Accuracy, Seagoing Infrared Spectroradiometer

    P. J. Minnett;R. O. Knuteson;F. A. Best;B. J. Osborne

  • Observations of the infrared radiative properties of the ocean-implications for the measurement of sea surface temperature via satellite remote sensing

    William L. Smith;R. O. Knuteson;H. E. Revercomb;W. Feltz

  • Chronology of warm-core ring 82B

    Robert H. Evans;Karen S. Baker;Otis B. Brown;Raymond C. Smith

  • Physical Characteristics and Processes of the Río de la Plata Estuary

    Mariana B. Framiñan;María P. Etala;Eduardo M. Acha;Raúl A. Guerrero

  • Surface-ocean color and deep-ocean carbon flux: how close a connection?

    W.G. Deuser;F.E. Muller-Karger;R.H. Evans;O.B. Brown

  • Calibration of advanced very high resolution radiometer infrared observations

    Otis B. Brown;James W. Brown;Robert H. Evans

  • Nimbus 7 CZCS: reduction of its radiometric sensitivity with time.

    Howard R. Gordon;James W. Brown;Otis B. Brown;Robert H. Evans

  • Phytoplankton blooming off the u.s. East coast: a satellite description.

    O. B. Brown;R. H. Evans;J. W. Brown;H. R. Gordon

  • Agulhas ring dynamics from TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite altimeter data

    Gustavo J. Goni;Silvia L. Garzoli;Silvia L. Garzoli;Andreas J. Roubicek;Donald B. Olson

  • An Independent Assessment of Pathfinder AVHRR Sea Surface Temperature Accuracy Using the Marine Atmosphere Emitted Radiance Interferometer (MAERI)

    Edward J. Kearns;Jennifer A. Hanafin;Robert H. Evans;Peter J. Minnett

  • Gulf Stream warm rings: a statistical study of their behavior

    Otis B. Brown;Peter C. Cornillon;Steven R. Emmerson;H.Mark Carle

  • Development of Near-Surface Flow Pattern and Water Mass Distribution in the Somali Basin in Response to the Southwest Monsoon of 1979

    John C. Swallow;Robert L. Molinari;John G. Bruce;Otis B. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard R. Gordon
Howard R. Gordon University of Miami
Peter J. Minnett
Peter J. Minnett University of Miami
Donald B. Olson
Donald B. Olson University of Miami
Peter Cornillon
Peter Cornillon University of Rhode Island
Raymond C. Smith
Raymond C. Smith University of California, Santa Barbara
Guillermo P. Podestá
Guillermo P. Podestá University of Miami
Kendall L. Carder
Kendall L. Carder University of South Florida
Silvia L. Garzoli
Silvia L. Garzoli Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Veronika Eyring
Veronika Eyring University of Bremen
Mark A. Donelan
Mark A. Donelan University of Miami

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