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96
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Ron Kwok 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 Ron Kwok sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 360 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ron Kwok 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 Ron Kwok sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 96 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Ron Kwok is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and works primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Geology.

The scientist's main topics of research focus on Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, methane hydrates and related phenomena, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, geological studies and exploration, and climate variability and models.

Ron Kwok has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Oceanography
  • The Cryosphere

Notable recent papers authored by Ron Kwok include:

  • Arctic Snow Depth and Sea Ice Thickness From ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2 Freeboards: A First Examination (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)

Other significant papers in related research, though not authored by Kwok but relevant to their field, include:

  • Winter Arctic Sea Ice Thickness From ICESat-2 Freeboards (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)
  • Enhanced eddy activity in the Beaufort Gyre in response to sea ice loss (2020, Nature Communications)
  • The Scientific Legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge (2021, Reviews of Geophysics)
  • Fluctuating Atlantic inflows modulate Arctic atlantification (2023, Science)

Ron Kwok frequently collaborates with several coauthors. Notable frequent coauthors include:

  • Alek Petty
  • N. T. Kurtz
  • Marco Bagnardi
  • Sahra Kacimi
  • Thomas Armitage

In 2017, Ron Kwok was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), reflecting their professional standing in the geophysical community.

Best Publications

  • The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2): Science requirements, concept, and implementation

    Thorsten Markus;Tom Neumann;Anthony Martino;Waleed Abdalati

  • Decline in Arctic sea ice thickness from submarine and ICESat records: 1958–2008

    R. Kwok;D. A. Rothrock

  • Thinning and volume loss of the Arctic Ocean sea ice cover: 2003–2008

    R. Kwok;G. F. Cunningham;M. Wensnahan;I. Rigor

  • Classification of multi-look polarimetric SAR imagery based on complex Wishart distribution

    J. S. Lee;M. R. Grunes;R. Kwok

  • Greater role for Atlantic inflows on sea-ice loss in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean

    Igor V. Polyakov;Andrey V. Pnyushkov;Matthew B. Alkire;Igor M. Ashik

  • CryoSat-2 estimates of Arctic sea ice thickness and volume

    Seymour W. Laxon;Katharine A. Giles;Andy L. Ridout;Duncan J. Wingham

  • Arctic sea ice thickness, volume, and multiyear ice coverage: Losses and coupled variability (1958-2018)

    R Kwok

  • Divergent consensuses on Arctic amplification influence on midlatitude severe winter weather

    J. Cohen;X. Zhang;J. Francis;T. Jung;T. Jung

  • Uncertainty in modeled Arctic sea ice volume

    Axel Schweiger;Ron Lindsay;Jinlun Zhang;Mike Steele

  • Wind-driven trends in Antarctic sea-ice drift

    Paul R. Holland;Ron Kwok

  • Thermoelasticity of large lecithin bilayer vesicles

    R. Kwok;E. Evans

  • The ICESat-2 Laser Altimetry Mission

    Waleed Abdalati;H Jay Zwally;Robert Bindschadler;Bea Csatho

  • Changing Arctic Ocean freshwater pathways

    James Morison;Ron Kwok;Cecilia Peralta-Ferriz;Matt Alkire

  • ICESat over Arctic sea ice: Estimation of snow depth and ice thickness

    R. Kwok;G. F. Cunningham

  • Analysis of the Arctic System for Freshwater Cycle Intensification: Observations and Expectations

    Michael A. Rawlins;Michael Steele;Marika M. Holland;Jennifer C. Adam

  • Trends in Arctic sea ice drift and role of wind forcing: 1992–2009

    Gunnar Spreen;Ron Kwok;Dimitris Menemenlis

  • Arctic sea ice circulation and drift speed: Decadal trends and ocean currents

    R. Kwok;G. Spreen;S. Pang

  • Southern Ocean Climate and Sea Ice Anomalies Associated with the Southern Oscillation

    R. Kwok;J. C. Comiso

  • Variability of Fram Strait ice flux and North Atlantic Oscillation

    R. Kwok;D. A. Rothrock

  • Block adaptive quantization of Magellan SAR data

    R. Kwok;W.T.K. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Son V. Nghiem
Son V. Nghiem California Institute of Technology
Eric Rignot
Eric Rignot University of California, Irvine
Simon Yueh
Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab
Benjamin Holt
Benjamin Holt California Institute of Technology
Thorsten Markus
Thorsten Markus Goddard Space Flight Center
James H. Morison
James H. Morison University of Washington
Ian Joughin
Ian Joughin University of Washington
Seelye Martin
Seelye Martin University of Washington
Donald K. Perovich
Donald K. Perovich Dartmouth College
Gunnar Spreen
Gunnar Spreen University of Bremen

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