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R. H. Kripalani 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 R. H. Kripalani sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 102 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

R. H. Kripalani 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 R. H. Kripalani sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

R. H. Kripalani is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in India. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. The scientist's work extensively covers subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, Oceanography, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research contributions focus on key topics including Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, as well as Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Frequent publication venues for R. H. Kripalani include Climate Dynamics, International Journal of Climatology, Journal of Hydrology, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, and Pure and Applied Geophysics.

Recent papers published by R. H. Kripalani and collaborators are:

  • Controls on the isotopic composition of daily precipitation characterized by dual moisture transport pathways at the monsoonal margin region of North-Western India, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Erratic Asian summer monsoon 2020: COVID-19 lockdown initiatives possible cause for these episodes?, 2022, Climate Dynamics
  • Strikingly contrasting Indian monsoon progressions during 2013 and 2014: role of Western Tibetan Plateau and the South China Sea, 2021, Theoretical and Applied Climatology
  • Monsoon 2020: An Interaction of Upper Tropospheric Thermodynamics and Dynamics Over the Tibetan Plateau and the Western Pacific, 2021, Pure and Applied Geophysics
  • Association between Antarctic Sea ice, Pacific SST and the Indian summer monsoon: An observational study, 2021, Polar Science

R. H. Kripalani frequently collaborates with several scientists in their research endeavors. Common coauthors include Amita Prabhu, B. H. Vaid, Aasif Mohmad Lone, Kyung-Ja Ha, and Chang-Hoi Ho.

Best Publications

  • South Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability: Coupled climate model simulations and projections under IPCC AR4

    R. H. Kripalani;R. H. Kripalani;J. H. Oh;A. Kulkarni;S. S. Sabade

  • Climatic impact of El Niño/La Niña on the Indian monsoon: A new perspective

    R. H. Kripalani;Ashwini Kulkarni

  • Rainfall variability over south-east Asia : Connections with Indian monsoon and enso extremes : New perspectives

    R. H. Kripalani;Ashwini Kulkarni

  • Indian Monsoon Variability in a Global Warming Scenario

    R. H. Kripalani;Ashwini Kulkarni;S. S. Sabade;M. L Khandekar

  • Monsoon rainfall variations and teleconnections over South and East Asia

    R.H. Kripalani;Ashwini Kulkarni

  • Northeast monsoon rainfall variability over south peninsular India vis‐à‐vis the Indian Ocean dipole mode

    R. H. Kripalani;Pankaj Kumar

  • Climatology and variability of historical Soviet snow depth data : Some new perspectives in snow-Indian monsoon teleconnections

    R. H. Kripalani;A. Kulkarni

  • Western Himalayan snow cover and Indian monsoon rainfall: a re-examination with INSAT and NCEP/NCAR data

    R. H. Kripalani;A. Kulkarni;S. S. Sabade

  • Recent trends and tele-connections among South and East Asian summer monsoons in a warming environment

    B. Preethi;B. Preethi;M. Mujumdar;R. H. Kripalani;R. H. Kripalani;Amita Prabhu

  • Response of the East Asian summer monsoon to doubled atmospheric CO2: Coupled climate model simulations and projections under IPCC AR4

    R. H. Kripalani;R. H. Kripalani;J. H. Oh;H. S. Chaudhari

  • Trend analysis and change point detection of annual and seasonal precipitation and temperature series over southwest Iran

    Mohammad Zarenistanak;Amit G Dhorde;R H Kripalani

  • Association of the Indian summer monsoon with the northern hemisphere mid-latitude circulation

    R. H. Kripalani;Ashwini Kulkarni;S. V. Singh

  • Evaluation of precipitation extremes over the Asian domain: observation and modelling studies

    In-Won Kim;Jaiho Oh;Sumin Woo;R. H. Kripalani

  • Interannual Variability of the Madden-Julian Oscillations in Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall

    S. V. Singh;R. H. Kripalani;D. R. Sikka

  • RAINFALL VARIABILITY OVER BANGLADESH AND NEPAL: COMPARISON AND CONNECTIONS WITH FEATURES OVER INDIA

    R. H. Kripalani;Sushama Inamdar;N. A. Sontakke

  • Large scale aspects of India-China summer monsoon rainfall

    R. H. Kripalani;S. V. Singh

  • Indian summer monsoon rainfall variability in global coupled ocean-atmospheric models

    B. Preethi;R. H. Kripalani;K. Krishna Kumar

  • Projected changes in South Asian summer monsoon by multi-model global warming experiments

    S. S. Sabade;Ashwini Kulkarni;R. H. Kripalani

  • EMPIRIACAL STUDY ON NIMBUS‐7 SNOW MASS AND INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL

    R. H. Kripalani;S. V. Singh;A. D. Vernekar;V. Thapliyal

  • Classification of summer monsoon rainfall patterns over India

    Ashwini Kulkarni;R. H. Kripalani;S. V. Singh

Frequent Co-Authors

Kyung-Ja Ha
Kyung-Ja Ha Pusan National University
June-Yi Lee
June-Yi Lee Pusan National University
M. Rajeevan
M. Rajeevan Government of India
Raghavan Krishnan
Raghavan Krishnan Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
Chang-Hoi Ho
Chang-Hoi Ho Seoul National University

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