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35
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5212
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9297
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Robert C. Gilliam 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 Robert C. Gilliam sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 123 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robert C. Gilliam 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 Robert C. Gilliam sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Robert C. Gilliam is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on atmospheric science and related subfields.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broader fields, their research touches on several subfields such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Environmental Chemistry

The primary topics addressed in their publications cover diverse aspects of atmospheric chemistry and environmental dynamics, including:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting

Frequently publishing in specific venues, Robert C. Gilliam has contributed to multiple articles in:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • ACS ES&T Air
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Their recent papers include:

  • "The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model versions 5.3 and 5.3.1: system updates and evaluation" (2021), published in Geoscientific model development
  • "Characterizing the Air Emissions, Transport, and Deposition of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances from a Fluoropolymer Manufacturing Facility" (2021), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "2002-2017 anthropogenic emissions data for air quality modeling over the United States" (2023), published in Data in Brief
  • "Long-term regional trends of nitrogen and sulfur deposition in the United States from 2002 to 2017" (2022), published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Significant ground-level ozone attributed to lightning-induced nitrogen oxides during summertime over the Mountain West States" (2020), published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Collaborations are notable in their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • George Pouliot
  • Jesse O. Bash
  • Christian Hogrefe
  • Rohit Mathur
  • Jonathan Pleim

Best Publications

  • Incremental testing of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system version 4.7

    K. M. Foley;S. J. Roselle;K. W. Appel;P. V. Bhave

  • Evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model version 4.5 : Sensitivities impacting model performance Part I-Ozone

    K. Wyat Appel;Alice B. Gilliland;Golam Sarwar;Robert C. Gilliam

  • The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model versions 5.3 and 5.3.1: system updates and evaluation.

    K. Wyat Appel;Jesse O. Bash;Kathleen M. Fahey;Kristen M. Foley

  • Description and evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system version 5.1.

    K. Wyat Appel;Sergey L. Napelenok;Kristen M. Foley;Havala O. T. Pye

  • WRF-CMAQ two-way coupled system with aerosol feedback: software development and preliminary results

    D. C. Wong;J. Pleim;R. Mathur;F. Binkowski

  • A Preliminary Synthesis of Modeled Climate Change Impacts on U.S. Regional Ozone Concentrations

    C. P. Weaver;X. Z. Liang;J. Zhu;P. J. Adams

  • Observations and modeling of air quality trends over 1990–2010 across the Northern Hemisphere: China, the United States and Europe

    J. Xing;R. Mathur;J. Pleim;C. Hogrefe

  • Performance Assessment of New Land Surface and Planetary Boundary Layer Physics in the WRF-ARW

    Robert C. Gilliam;Jonathan E. Pleim

  • An Indirect Data Assimilation Scheme for Deep Soil Temperature in the Pleim–Xiu Land Surface Model

    Jonathan E. Pleim;Robert Gilliam

  • Overview of the atmospheric model evaluation tool (AMET) v1.1 for evaluating meteorological and air quality models

    K. Wyat Appel;Robert C. Gilliam;Neil Davis;Alexis Zubrow

  • New methods for evaluating meteorological models used in air quality applications

    Robert C. Gilliam;Christian Hogrefe;S.T. Rao

  • Extending the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System to Hemispheric Scales: Overview of Process Considerations and Initial Applications.

    Rohit Mathur;Jia Xing;Jia Xing;Robert Gilliam;Golam Sarwar

  • Evaluation of the meteorological forcing used for the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII) air quality simulations

    Robert Vautard;Michael D. Moran;Efisio Solazzo;Robert C. Gilliam

  • Characterizing the Air Emissions, Transport, and Deposition of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances from a Fluoropolymer Manufacturing Facility.

    Emma L D'Ambro;Emma L D'Ambro;Havala O T Pye;Jesse O Bash;James Bowyer

  • Aerosol indirect effect on the grid-scale clouds in the two-way coupled WRF–CMAQ: model description, development, evaluation and regional analysis

    S. Yu;R. Mathur;J. Pleim;D. Wong

  • Potential impacts of two SO2 oxidation pathways on regional sulfate concentrations: Aqueous-phase oxidation by NO2 and gas-phase oxidation by Stabilized Criegee Intermediates

    Golam Sarwar;Kathleen Fahey;Roger Kwok;Robert C. Gilliam

  • 2002–2017 anthropogenic emissions data for air quality modeling over the United States

    Unknown

  • OBSERVATIONAL AND NUMERICAL STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF LARGE-SCALE FLOW DIRECTION AND COASTLINE SHAPE ON SEA-BREEZE EVOLUTION

    Robert C. Gilliam;Sethu Raman;Dev Dutta S. Niyogi

  • Long-term regional trends of nitrogen and sulfur deposition in the United States from 2002 to 2017

    Unknown

  • Development and evaluation of a physics-based windblown dust emission scheme implemented in the CMAQ modeling system

    H. Foroutan;J. Young;S. Napelenok;L. Ran

  • Sensitivity of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model v4.7 results for the eastern United States to MM5 and WRF meteorological drivers

    K. W. Appel;S. J. Roselle;R. C. Gilliam;J. E. Pleim

  • Impact of inherent meteorology uncertainty on air quality model predictions

    Robert C. Gilliam;Christian Hogrefe;James M. Godowitch;Sergey Napelenok

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan E. Pleim
Jonathan E. Pleim Environmental Protection Agency
Rohit Mathur
Rohit Mathur Environmental Protection Agency
Christian Hogrefe
Christian Hogrefe Environmental Protection Agency
George Pouliot
George Pouliot Environmental Protection Agency
Daiwen Kang
Daiwen Kang Environmental Protection Agency
Jesse O. Bash
Jesse O. Bash Environmental Protection Agency
Jia Xing
Jia Xing Tsinghua University
Christopher G. Nolte
Christopher G. Nolte Environmental Protection Agency
Havala O. T. Pye
Havala O. T. Pye Environmental Protection Agency
Lawrence E. Band
Lawrence E. Band University of Virginia

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