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D-Index
90
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47583
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570
National Ranking
257

Robert F. Adler 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 F. Adler sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 347 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robert F. Adler 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 F. Adler sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 90 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Robert F. Adler is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions across subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Water Science and Technology, and Pharmacology.

The main topics Robert F. Adler has addressed in their work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate Variability and Models, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

Robert F. Adler has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Enhancing Precipitation Estimates Through the Fusion of Weather Radar, Satellite Retrievals, and Surface Parameters (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • The New Version 3.2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly and Daily Precipitation Products (2023, Journal of Climate)
  • Global Climate (2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • Observed variability and trends in global precipitation during 1979-2020 (2022, Climate Dynamics)
  • Assessment of the Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) for Snowfall Retrieval in High Latitudes Using CloudSat and Machine Learning (2021, Journal of Hydrometeorology)

Frequent co-authors of Robert F. Adler include:

  • Guojun Gu
  • George J. Huffman
  • Ali Behrangi
  • Robert Dunn
  • Kate M. Willett

Their work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, among which the most frequent are:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Climate

Best Publications

  • The TRMM Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA): Quasi-Global, Multiyear, Combined-Sensor Precipitation Estimates at Fine Scales

    George J. Huffman;Robert F. Adler;David T. Bolvin;Guojun Gu;Guojun Gu

  • The Version 2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Precipitation Analysis (1979-Present)

    Robert F. Adler;George J. Huffman;Alfred Chang;Ralph Ferraro

  • Global Precipitation at One-Degree Daily Resolution from Multisatellite Observations

    George J. Huffman;Robert F. Adler;Mark M. Morrissey;David T. Bolvin

  • The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) combined precipitation dataset

    George J. Huffman;Robert F. Adler;Philip Arkin;Alfred Chang

  • The status of the tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM) after two years in orbit

    C. Kummerow;J. Simpson;O. Thiele;W. Barnes

  • MSWEP V2 Global 3-Hourly 0.1° Precipitation: Methodology and Quantitative Assessment

    Hylke E. Beck;Eric F. Wood;Ming Pan;Colby K. Fisher

  • Improving the global precipitation record: GPCP Version 2.1

    George J. Huffman;Robert F. Adler;Robert F. Adler;David T. Bolvin;Guojun Gu;Guojun Gu

  • A Proposed Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Satellite

    Joanne Simpson;Robert F. Adler;Gerald R. North

  • The Evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF) for Rainfall Estimation from Passive Microwave Sensors

    Christian Kummerow;Y. Hong;W. S. Olson;S. Yang

  • The TRMM Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA)

    George J. Huffman;Robert F. Adler;Robert F. Adler;David T. Bolvin;Eric J. Nelkin

  • The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Analysis (New Version 2.3) and a Review of 2017 Global Precipitation

    Robert F. Adler;Mathew R.P. Sapiano;George J. Huffman;Jian Jian Wang

  • A Satellite Infrared Technique to Estimate Tropical Convective and Stratiform Rainfall

    Robert F. Adler;Andrew J. Negri

  • On the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)

    Joanne Simpson

  • Global precipitation estimates based on a technique for combining satellite-based estimates, rain gauge analysis, and NWP model precipitation information

    George J. Huffman;Robert F. Adler;Bruno Rudolf;Udo Schneider

  • Daily evaluation of 26 precipitation datasets using Stage-IV gauge-radar data for the CONUS

    Hylke E. Beck;Ming Pan;Tirthankar Roy;Graham P. Weedon

  • A global landslide catalog for hazard applications: method, results, and limitations

    Dalia Bach Kirschbaum;Robert Adler;Robert Adler;Yang Hong;Stephanie Hill

  • Evaluation of Global Precipitation in Reanalyses

    Michael G. Bosilovich;Junye Chen;Franklin R. Robertson;Robert F. Adler

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

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

  • Component analysis of errors in satellite-based precipitation estimates

    Yudong Tian;Yudong Tian;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;John B. Eylander;Robert J. Joyce

  • Tropical Rainfall Distributions Determined Using TRMM Combined with Other Satellite and Rain Gauge Information

    Robert F. Adler;George J. Huffman;David T. Bolvin;Scott Curtis

  • Intercomparison of global precipitation products : The third Precipitation Intercomparison Project (PIP-3)

    Robert F. Adler;Christopher Kidd;Grant Petty;Mark Morissey

Frequent Co-Authors

George J. Huffman
George J. Huffman Goddard Space Flight Center
Yang Hong
Yang Hong University of Oklahoma
Dalia Kirschbaum
Dalia Kirschbaum Goddard Space Flight Center
Yudong Tian
Yudong Tian University of Maryland, College Park
Joanne Simpson
Joanne Simpson Goddard Space Flight Center
Ali Behrangi
Ali Behrangi University of Arizona
Christian D. Kummerow
Christian D. Kummerow Colorado State University
William S. Olson
William S. Olson University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Michael G. Bosilovich
Michael G. Bosilovich Goddard Space Flight Center
Ralph Ferraro
Ralph Ferraro University of Maryland, College Park

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