2026 Peter P. Sullivan: 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	60	2893	2764	1139	1057	200	14855

Peter P. Sullivan 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 Peter P. Sullivan sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 687+

This scientist: 200 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter P. Sullivan 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 Peter P. Sullivan sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Peter P. Sullivan is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within earth and environmental sciences, primarily concentrating on atmospheric and oceanographic studies.

The main fields of study in their work include:

Earth and Planetary Sciences
Environmental Science

Within these broad fields, their research focuses on several subfields:

Atmospheric Science
Oceanography
Global and Planetary Change
Computational Mechanics
Environmental Engineering

The topics covered by their publications reflect key areas of oceanographic and atmospheric phenomena:

Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
Climate Variability and Models
Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
Wind and Air Flow Studies

Peter P. Sullivan has authored and contributed to a substantial number of research papers. Notable recent publications include:

Marine Boundary Layers above Heterogeneous SST: Across-Front Winds (2020), Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
EUREC 4 A (2021), Earth system science data
Wind Turbulence over Misaligned Surface Waves and Air-Sea Momentum Flux. Part I: Waves Following and Opposing Wind (2021), Journal of Physical Oceanography
Wind Turbulence over Misaligned Surface Waves and Air-Sea Momentum Flux. Part II: Waves in Oblique Wind (2021), Journal of Physical Oceanography
Modifying the Mixed Layer Eddy Parameterization to Include Frontogenesis Arrest by Boundary Layer Turbulence (2022), Journal of Physical Oceanography

Their frequent collaborators include:

James C. McWilliams
Edward G. Patton
Yalin Fan
Baylor Fox-Kemper
Tetsu Hara

Peter P. Sullivan's research has been published extensively in several scientific journals, with repeated publications in the following venues:

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Journal of Physical Oceanography
Boundary-Layer Meteorology
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
Atmosphere

Best Publications

A Comparison of Shear- and Buoyancy-Driven Planetary Boundary Layer Flows

Chin-Hoh Moeng;Peter P. Sullivan

974
Citations
Langmuir turbulence in the ocean

James C. McWILLIAMS;Peter P. Sullivan;Chin-Hoh Moeng

776
Citations
A SUBGRID-SCALE MODEL FOR LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION OF PLANETARY BOUNDARY-LAYER FLOWS

Peter P. Sullivan;James C. McWilliams;Chin-Hoh Moeng

690
Citations
An intercomparison of large-eddy simulations of the stable boundary layer

Robert J. Beare;Malcolm K. Macvean;Albert A.M. Holtslag;Joan Cuxart

664
Citations
Dynamics of Winds and Currents Coupled to Surface Waves

Peter P. Sullivan;James C. McWilliams

456
Citations
Structure of the Entrainment Zone Capping the Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Peter P. Sullivan;Chin-Hoh Moeng;Bjorn Stevens;Donald H. Lenschow

455
Citations
A global perspective on Langmuir turbulence in the ocean surface boundary layer

Stephen E. Belcher;Stephen E. Belcher;Alan A.L.M. Grant;Kirsty E. Hanley;Baylor Fox-Kemper;Baylor Fox-Kemper

400
Citations
Examining Two-Way Grid Nesting for Large Eddy Simulation of the PBL Using the WRF Model

C.-H. Moeng;Jimy Dudhia;Joe Klemp;Peter Sullivan

396
Citations
The Effect of Mesh Resolution on Convective Boundary Layer Statistics and Structures Generated by Large-Eddy Simulation

Peter P. Sullivan;Edward G. Patton

394
Citations
Simulation of turbulent flow over idealized water waves

Peter P. Sullivan;James C. McWILLIAMS;Chin-Hoh Moeng

341
Citations
An Objective Method for Deriving Atmospheric Structure from Airborne Lidar Observations

K. J. Davis;N. Gamage;C. R. Hagelberg;C. Kiemle

339
Citations
Large-Eddy Simulations and Observations of Atmospheric Marine Boundary Layers above Nonequilibrium Surface Waves

Peter P. Sullivan;James B. Edson;Tihomir Hristov;James C. McWilliams

300
Citations
The Influence of Idealized Heterogeneity on Wet and Dry Planetary Boundary Layers Coupled to the Land Surface.

Edward G. Patton;Peter P. Sullivan;Chin-Hoh Moeng

299
Citations
Large-Eddy Simulation Of The Stably Stratified Planetary Boundary Layer

Eileen M. Saiki;Chin-Hoh Moeng;Peter P. Sullivan

284
Citations
The Coupled Boundary Layers and Air–Sea Transfer Experiment in Low Winds

James Edson;Timothy Crawford;Jerry Crescenti;Tom Farrar

274
Citations
Surface gravity wave effects in the oceanic boundary layer: large-eddy simulation with vortex force and stochastic breakers

Peter P. Sullivan;James C. McWILLIAMS;W. Kendall Melville

272
Citations
Large-Eddy Simulations of Radiatively Driven Convection: Sensitivities to the Representation of Small Scales

Bjorn Stevens;Chin-Hoh Moeng;Peter P. Sullivan

251
Citations
A grid nesting method for large-eddy simulation of planetary boundary-layer flows

Peter P. Sullivan;James C. McWilliams;James C. McWilliams;Chin-Hoh Moeng

251
Citations
A Global Climatology of Wind–Wave Interaction

Kirsty E. Hanley;Stephen E. Belcher;Peter P. Sullivan

246
Citations
EUREC 4 A

Bjorn Stevens;Sandrine Bony;David Farrell;Felix Ament

219
Citations
Vertical Mixing by Langmuir Circulations

James C. McWilliams;Peter P. Sullivan

218
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James C. McWilliams University of California, Los Angeles

Albert J. Plueddemann Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Donald H. Lenschow National Center for Atmospheric Research

Baylor Fox-Kemper Brown University

Stephen E. Belcher Met Office

William G. Large National Center for Atmospheric Research

John H. Trowbridge Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Bjorn Stevens Max Planck Society

James B. Edson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Ann-Sofi Smedman Uppsala University

External Links

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