2026 Paul A. Dirmeyer: 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	90	588	554	265	242	308	30963

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

3192
Citations
The Common Land Model

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

1586
Citations
Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM)

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

1439
Citations
GSWP-2 Multimodel Analysis and Implications for Our Perception of the Land Surface

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

914
Citations
Land information system: An interoperable framework for high resolution land surface modeling

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

856
Citations
GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. Part I: Overview

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

851
Citations
Land cover changes and their biogeophysical effects on climate

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

786
Citations
On the Nature of Soil Moisture in Land Surface Models

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

609
Citations
The terrestrial segment of soil moisture–climate coupling

Paul A. Dirmeyer

531
Citations
Modeling Root Water Uptake in Hydrological and Climate Models

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

507
Citations
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

506
Citations
Land–Atmosphere Interactions: The LoCo Perspective

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

473
Citations
The Pilot Phase of the Global Soil Wetness Project

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

443
Citations
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

417
Citations
Global intercomparison of 12 land surface heat flux estimates

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

416
Citations
Benchmark products for land evapotranspiration: LandFlux-EVAL multi-data set synthesis

Brigitte Mueller;Martin Hirschi;Carlos Jimenez;Philippe Ciais

411
Citations
Evaluation of global observations-based evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 simulations

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

407
Citations
Precipitation, Recycling, and Land Memory: An Integrated Analysis

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

406
Citations
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

397
Citations
GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment

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

345
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James L. Kinter George Mason University

Randal D. Koster Goddard Space Flight Center

Sonia I. Seneviratne ETH Zurich

David M. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research

Taikan Oki University of Tokyo

Gianpaolo Balsamo European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Michael Ek National Center for Atmospheric Research

Paul R. Houser George Mason University

Yongkang Xue University of California, Los Angeles

Sujay V. Kumar Goddard Space Flight Center

External Links

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