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50
Citations
24143
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4850
National Ranking
1780

Richard Neale 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 Richard Neale sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 96 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard Neale 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 Richard Neale sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Richard Neale is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's work centers on various main topics, including Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Julio T. Bacmeister, Andrew Gettelman, Vincent E. Larson, Gerald A. Meehl, and Nan Rosenbloom.

Richard Neale has published extensively in several key scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Climate

Some recent papers illustrating their research activity include:

  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2), 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • An Unprecedented Set of High-Resolution Earth System Simulations for Understanding Multiscale Interactions in Climate Variability and Change, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • An Evaluation of the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation and Its Variability in CESM2 and Other CMIP Models, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • LGM Paleoclimate Constraints Inform Cloud Parameterizations and Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity in CESM2, 2022, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Best Publications

  • The Community Climate System Model Version 4

    Peter R. Gent;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Leo J. Donner;Marika M. Holland

  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)

    G. Danabasoglu;J. F. Lamarque;J. Bacmeister;D. A. Bailey

  • The Community Earth System Model: A Framework for Collaborative Research

    James W. Hurrell;M. M. Holland;P. R. Gent;S. Ghan

  • The Community Earth System Model (CESM) large ensemble project: a community resource for studying climate change in the presence of internal climate variability

    Jennifer E Kay;Clara Deser;Adam S Phillips;A Mai

  • Toward a Minimal Representation of Aerosols in Climate Models: Description and Evaluation in the Community Atmosphere Model CAM5

    Xiaohong Liu;Richard C. Easter;Steven J. Ghan;Rahul A. Zaveri

  • The Mean Climate of the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM4) in Forced SST and Fully Coupled Experiments

    Richard B. Neale;Jadwiga Richter;Sungsu Park;Peter H. Lauritzen

  • The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Overview and Evaluation at Standard Resolution

    Jean Christophe Golaz;Peter M. Caldwell;Luke P. Van Roekel;Mark R. Petersen

  • The Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model Version 6 (WACCM6)

    A. Gettelman;M. J. Mills;D. E. Kinnison;R. R. Garcia

  • The Impact of Convection on ENSO: From a Delayed Oscillator to a Series of Events

    Richard B. Neale;Jadwiga H. Richter;Markus Jochum

  • The Maritime Continent and Its Role in the Global Climate: A GCM Study

    Richard Neale;Julia Slingo

  • High Climate Sensitivity in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)

    Andrew Gettelman;Cecile E. Hannay;Julio T. Bacmeister;Richard B. Neale

  • Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction

    Angeline G. Pendergrass;Gerald A. Meehl;Roger Pulwarty;Mike Hobbins;Mike Hobbins

  • Application of MJO Simulation Diagnostics to Climate Models

    D. Kim;K. Sperber;W. Stern;D. Waliser

  • A standard test for AGCMs including their physical parametrizations: I: The proposal

    R. B. Neale;B. J. Hoskins

  • An Overview of the Atmospheric Component of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model

    P. J. Rasch;S. Xie;P.-L. Ma;W. Lin

  • An Unprecedented Set of High-Resolution Earth System Simulations for Understanding Multiscale Interactions in Climate Variability and Change

    Ping Chang;Shaoqing Zhang;Shaoqing Zhang;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Stephen G. Yeager;Stephen G. Yeager

  • Improvements in a half degree atmosphere/land version of the CCSM

    Peter R. Gent;Stephen G. Yeager;Richard B. Neale;Samuel Levis

  • Exploratory High-Resolution Climate Simulations using the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM)

    Julio T. Bacmeister;Michael F. Wehner;Richard B. Neale;Andrew Gettelman

  • The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Description and Results at High Resolution

    Peter M. Caldwell;Azamat Mametjanov;Qi Tang;Luke P. Van Roekel

  • Parameterizing Convective Organization to Escape the Entrainment Dilemma

    Brian Mapes;Richard Neale

Frequent Co-Authors

Julio T. Bacmeister
Julio T. Bacmeister National Center for Atmospheric Research
Andrew Gettelman
Andrew Gettelman Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Philip J. Rasch
Philip J. Rasch Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Gokhan Danabasoglu
Gokhan Danabasoglu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Joseph Tribbia
Joseph Tribbia National Center for Atmospheric Research
Yun Qian
Yun Qian Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Shaocheng Xie
Shaocheng Xie Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
David M. Lawrence
David M. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research
Daehyun Kim
Daehyun Kim University of Washington
Jean-Christophe Golaz
Jean-Christophe Golaz Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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