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D-Index
45
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22092
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6220
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2238

Phillip A. Arkin 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 Phillip A. Arkin sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 88 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Phillip A. Arkin 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 Phillip A. Arkin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Phillip A. Arkin is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in the subfields of Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work covers main topics including Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Recent publications include the paper titled Diagnosis of ENSO-related precipitation changes during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries using reanalyses and two multi-model clusters published in 2020 in the journal Climate Dynamics.

  • Climate Dynamics

Phillip A. Arkin often collaborates with Ni Dai as a frequent co-author.

  • Ni Dai

Best Publications

  • Global Precipitation: A 17-Year Monthly Analysis Based on Gauge Observations, Satellite Estimates, and Numerical Model Outputs

    Pingping Xie;Phillip A. Arkin

  • CMORPH: A Method that Produces Global Precipitation Estimates from Passive Microwave and Infrared Data at High Spatial and Temporal Resolution

    Robert J. Joyce;John E. Janowiak;Phillip A. Arkin;Pingping Xie

  • Analyses of Global Monthly Precipitation Using Gauge Observations, Satellite Estimates, and Numerical Model Predictions

    Pingping Xie;Phillip A. Arkin

  • Global Land Precipitation: A 50-yr Monthly Analysis Based on Gauge Observations

    Mingyue Chen;Pingping Xie;John E. Janowiak;Phillip A. Arkin

  • The Relationship between Large-Scale Convective Rainfall and Cold Cloud over the Western Hemisphere during 1982-84

    Phillip A. Arkin;Bernard N. Meisner

  • The Relationship between Fractional Coverage of High Cloud and Rainfall Accumulations during GATE over the B-Scale Array

    Phillip A. Arkin

  • Origins of the 1988 north american drought.

    Kevin E. Trenberth;Grant W. Branstator;Phillip A. Arkin

  • GPCP Pentad Precipitation analyses: An experimental dataset based on gauge observations and satellite estimates

    Pingping Xie;John E. Janowiak;Phillip A. Arkin;Robert Adler

  • An Intercomparison and Validation of High-Resolution Satellite Precipitation Estimates with 3-Hourly Gauge Data

    M. R. P. Sapiano;P. A. Arkin

  • Estimating Climatic-Scale Precipitation from Space: A Review

    Phillip A. Arkin;Philip E. Ardanuy

  • The Relationship Between Interannual Variability in the 200 mb Tropical Wind Field and the Southern Oscillation

    Phillip A. Arkin

  • Challenges in quantifying changes in the global water cycle

    Gabriele C. Hegerl;Emily Black;Richard P. Allan;William J. Ingram

  • Global Monthly Precipitation Estimates from Satellite-Observed Outgoing Longwave Radiation

    Pingping Xie;Phillip A. Arkin

  • The Global Precipitation Climatology Project: First Algorithm Intercomparison Project

    Phillip A. Arkin;Pingping Xie

  • IMPACT OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION ON MIDDLE EASTERN CLIMATE AND STREAMFLOW

    Heidi M. Cullen;Alexey Kaplan;Phillip A. Arkin;Peter B. deMenocal

  • Rainfall variations in the tropics during 1986-1989, as estimated from observations of cloud-top temperature

    John E. Janowiak;Phillip A. Arkin

  • The IRI Seasonal Climate Prediction System and the 1997/98 El Niño Event

    Simon J. Mason;Lisa M. Goddard;Nicholas E. Graham;Elena Yulaeva

  • Objectively determined 10-day African rainfall estimates created for famine early warning systems

    A. Herman;V. B. Kumar;P. A. Arkin;J. V. Kousky

  • An Intercomparison of Gauge Observations and Satellite Estimates of Monthly Precipitation

    Pingping Xie;Phillip A. Arkin

  • Advanced Concepts on Remote Sensing of Precipitation at Multiple Scales

    Soroosh Sorooshian;Amir AghaKouchak;Phillip Arkin;John Eylander

Frequent Co-Authors

Pingping Xie
Pingping Xie National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Thomas M. Smith
Thomas M. Smith National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
George J. Huffman
George J. Huffman Goddard Space Flight Center
Antonio J. Busalacchi
Antonio J. Busalacchi University of Maryland, College Park
Ralph Ferraro
Ralph Ferraro University of Maryland, College Park
Soroosh Sorooshian
Soroosh Sorooshian University of California, Irvine
Lisa M. Goddard
Lisa M. Goddard Columbia University
Brian J. Soden
Brian J. Soden University of Miami
Kevin E. Trenberth
Kevin E. Trenberth University of Auckland
Amir AghaKouchak
Amir AghaKouchak University of California, Irvine

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