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Roger C. Bales 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 Roger C. Bales sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 363 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Roger C. Bales 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 Roger C. Bales sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 79 D-Index — 90th percentile

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

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Roger C. Bales is affiliated with the University of California, Merced in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science with specific emphasis on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Roger C. Bales's recent publications illustrate their focus on environmental and hydrological processes in forested and Mediterranean climate regions. These papers include:

  • "Energy and water co-benefits from covering canals with solar panels" (2021), published in Nature Sustainability
  • "Climate elasticity of evapotranspiration shifts the water balance of Mediterranean climates during multi-year droughts" (2020), published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Tree mortality during long-term droughts is lower in structurally complex forest stands" (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • "Wildfire controls on evapotranspiration in California's Sierra Nevada" (2020), published in Journal of Hydrology
  • "Evapotranspiration Mapping for Forest Management in California's Sierra Nevada" (2020), published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

Their work is often published in venues such as Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Journal of Environmental Management, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Roger C. Bales frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including M. H. Conklin, Michael L. Goulden, Guotao Cui, Benis N. Egoh, and Mohammad Safeeq. Their collaborative efforts have contributed to advancing knowledge in their fields of study.

Over the course of their career, Roger C. Bales has been recognized as a fellow of prominent scientific organizations, specifically the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2001 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Mountain hydrology of the western United States

    Roger C. Bales;Noah P. Molotch;Noah P. Molotch;Thomas H. Painter;Michael D. Dettinger

  • Higher surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet revealed by high-resolution climate modeling.

    Janneke Ettema;Michiel R. van den Broeke;Erik van Meijgaard;Willem Jan van de Berg

  • Estimating Stream Temperature from Air Temperature: Implications for Future Water Quality

    Jean C. Morrill;Jean C. Morrill;Roger C. Bales;Roger C. Bales;Martha H. Conklin;Martha H. Conklin

  • Bacteriophage adsorption during transport through porous media: chemical perturbations and reversibility

    Roger C. Bales;Stephen R. Hinkle;Thomas W. Kroeger;Kristen Stocking

  • California forest die-off linked to multi-year deep soil drying in 2012–2015 drought

    M. L. Goulden;R. C. Bales

  • Soil Moisture Response to Snowmelt and Rainfall in a Sierra Nevada Mixed-Conifer Forest

    Roger C. Bales;Jan W. Hopmans;Anthony T. O'Geen;Matthew Meadows

  • Elevation-dependent influence of snow accumulation on forest greening

    Ernesto Trujillo;Ernesto Trujillo;Noah P. Molotch;Noah P. Molotch;Noah P. Molotch;Michael L. Goulden;Anne E. Kelly

  • CONFIDENCE BUILDERS Evaluating Seasonal Climate Forecasts from User Perspectives

    Holly C. Hartmann;Thomas C. Pagano;S. Sorooshian;R. Bales

  • Scaling snow observations from the point to the grid element: Implications for observation network design

    Noah P. Molotch;Roger C. Bales

  • Estimating the spatial distribution of snow water equivalent in an alpine basin using binary regression tree models: the impact of digital elevation data and independent variable selection

    N. P. Molotch;M. T. Colee;R. C. Bales;J. Dozier

  • Estimating the spatial distribution of snow in mountain basins using remote sensing and energy balance modeling

    Donald W. Cline;Roger C. Bales;Jeff Dozier

  • Evapotranspiration along an elevation gradient in California's Sierra Nevada

    M. L. Goulden;R. G. Anderson;R. G. Anderson;R. C. Bales;A. E. Kelly

  • MS-2 AND POLIOVIRUS TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA : HYDROPHOBIC EFFECTS AND CHEMICAL PERTURBATIONS

    Roger C. Bales;Shimin Li;Kimberly M. Maguire;Moyasar T. Yahya

  • Bacteriophage Transport in Sandy Soil and Fractured Tuff.

    Roger C. Bales;Charles P. Gerba;Gerald H. Grondin;Stephen L. Jensen

  • Snow water equivalent interpolation for the Colorado River Basin from snow telemetry (SNOTEL) data

    S. R. Fassnacht;S. R. Fassnacht;K. A. Dressler;R. C. Bales;R. C. Bales

  • Mountain runoff vulnerability to increased evapotranspiration with vegetation expansion

    Michael L. Goulden;Roger C. Bales

  • Virus and Bacteria Transport in a Sandy Aquifer, Cape Cod, MA

    Roger C. Bales;Shimin Li;Kimberly M. Maguire;Moyasar T. Yahya

  • Dissolution kinetics of chrysotile at pH 7 to 10

    Roger C. Bales;James J. Morgan

  • Bacterial transport in laboratory columns and filters: Influence of ionic strength and pH on collision efficiency

    David G. Jewett;Thomas A. Hilbert;Bruce Ernest Logan;Robert G. Arnold

  • Chemical exchange between the atmosphere and polar snow

    Eric W. Wolff;Roger C. Bales

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph R. McConnell
Joseph R. McConnell Desert Research Institute
Noah P. Molotch
Noah P. Molotch University of Colorado Boulder
Manuel A. Hutterli
Manuel A. Hutterli British Antarctic Survey
Markus M. Frey
Markus M. Frey British Antarctic Survey
John F. Burkhart
John F. Burkhart University of Oslo
Michael L. Goulden
Michael L. Goulden University of California, Irvine
Jan W. Hopmans
Jan W. Hopmans University of California, Davis
Soroosh Sorooshian
Soroosh Sorooshian University of California, Irvine
Thomas Meixner
Thomas Meixner University of Arizona
Hans-Werner Jacobi
Hans-Werner Jacobi Grenoble Alpes University

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