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D-Index
90
Citations
30963
World Ranking
588
National Ranking
265

Paul A. Dirmeyer 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 Paul A. Dirmeyer sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 308 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paul A. Dirmeyer 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 Paul A. Dirmeyer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Paul A. Dirmeyer is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States and primarily works within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research portfolio includes substantial contributions to global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and environmental engineering, with additional work in water science and technology as well as civil and structural engineering.

The scientist's recent publications address a range of topics related to climate variability, meteorological phenomena, and interactions between land and atmosphere. Recent papers include:

  • Windows of Opportunity for Skillful Forecasts Subseasonal to Seasonal and Beyond, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Current and Emerging Developments in Subseasonal to Decadal Prediction, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Land-Atmosphere Interactions Exacerbated the Drought and Heatwave Over Northern Europe During Summer 2018, 2021, AGU Advances
  • Drought self-propagation in drylands due to land-atmosphere feedbacks, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Characterizing the Relationship between Temperature and Soil Moisture Extremes and Their Role in the Exacerbation of Heat Waves over the Contiguous United States, 2020, Journal of Climate

The general research topics covered in their work include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, soil moisture and remote sensing, cryospheric studies and observations, hydrology and drought analysis, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Paul A. Dirmeyer frequently collaborates with various coauthors, including:

  • Hsin Hsu (7 joint publications)
  • Eunkyo Seo (7 joint publications)
  • Nathaniel W. Chaney (7 joint publications)
  • Megan D. Fowler (6 joint publications)
  • Andrew W. Robertson (5 joint publications)

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as the Journal of Hydrometeorology, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Zenodo, Journal of Climate, and Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

Among recognized distinctions, Paul A. Dirmeyer was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Regions of Strong Coupling Between Soil Moisture and Precipitation

    Randal D. Koster;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Zhichang Guo;Gordon Bonan

  • The Common Land Model

    Yongjiu Dai;Xubin Zeng;Robert E. Dickinson;Ian Baker

  • Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    Keith Oleson;Yongjiu Dai;B. Bonan;Mike Bosilovichm

  • GSWP-2 Multimodel Analysis and Implications for Our Perception of the Land Surface

    Paul A. Dirmeyer;Xiang Gao;Mei Zhao;Zhichang Guo

  • Land information system: An interoperable framework for high resolution land surface modeling

    S. V. Kumar;C. D. Peters-Lidard;Y. Tian;P. R. Houser

  • GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. Part I: Overview

    Randal D. Koster;Zhichang Guo;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Gordon Bonan

  • Land cover changes and their biogeophysical effects on climate

    Rezaul Mahmood;Roger A. Pielke;Kenneth G. Hubbard;Dev Niyogi

  • On the Nature of Soil Moisture in Land Surface Models

    Randal D. Koster;Zhichang Guo;Rongqian Yang;Paul A. Dirmeyer

  • The terrestrial segment of soil moisture–climate coupling

    Paul A. Dirmeyer

  • Modeling Root Water Uptake in Hydrological and Climate Models

    R.A. Feddes;H. Hoff;M. Bruen;T.E. Dawson

  • Contribution of land surface initialization to subseasonal forecast skill: first results from a multi-model experiment.

    R. D. Koster;S. P.P. Mahanama;S. P.P. Mahanama;T.J. Yamada;T.J. Yamada;T.J. Yamada;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • Land–Atmosphere Interactions: The LoCo Perspective

    Joseph A. Santanello;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Craig R. Ferguson;Kirsten L. Findell

  • The Pilot Phase of the Global Soil Wetness Project

    Paul A. Dirmeyer;A. J. Dolman;Nobuo Sato

  • The Second Phase of the Global Land–Atmosphere Coupling Experiment: Soil Moisture Contributions to Subseasonal Forecast Skill

    R. D. Koster;S. P. P. Mahanama;S. P. P. Mahanama;S. P. P. Mahanama;T. J. Yamada;T. J. Yamada;T. J. Yamada;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • Global intercomparison of 12 land surface heat flux estimates

    C. Jiménez;C. Prigent;B. Mueller;S. I. Seneviratne

  • Benchmark products for land evapotranspiration: LandFlux-EVAL multi-data set synthesis

    Brigitte Mueller;Martin Hirschi;Carlos Jimenez;Philippe Ciais

  • Evaluation of global observations-based evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 simulations

    Brigitte Mueller;S. I. Seneviratne;C. Jimenez;T. Corti

  • Precipitation, Recycling, and Land Memory: An Integrated Analysis

    Paul A. Dirmeyer;C. Adam Schlosser;Kaye L. Brubaker

  • Soil Moisture Memory in AGCM Simulations: Analysis of Global Land–Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE) Data

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Randal D. Koster;Zhichang Guo;Paul A. Dirmeyer

  • GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment

    Randal D. Koster;Zhi-Chang Guo;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Gordon Bonan

Frequent Co-Authors

James L. Kinter
James L. Kinter George Mason University
Randal D. Koster
Randal D. Koster Goddard Space Flight Center
David M. Lawrence
David M. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research
Taikan Oki
Taikan Oki University of Tokyo
Gianpaolo Balsamo
Gianpaolo Balsamo European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Michael Ek
Michael Ek National Center for Atmospheric Research
Paul R. Houser
Paul R. Houser George Mason University
Yongkang Xue
Yongkang Xue University of California, Los Angeles
Sujay V. Kumar
Sujay V. Kumar Goddard Space Flight Center

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