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D-Index
71
Citations
27441
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1546
National Ranking
654

Roy Rasmussen 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 Roy Rasmussen sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 260 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Roy Rasmussen 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 Roy Rasmussen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Roy Rasmussen is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Their work also extends to subfields such as Water Science and Technology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Engineering.

Their main topics of research cover:

  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Roy Rasmussen has contributed to multiple research papers published in notable scientific venues. Some of the recent publications include:

  • "Sensitivity of organized convective storms to model grid spacing in current and future climates," 2021, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "NOAA's National Water Model: Advancing operational hydrology through continental-scale modeling," 2024, JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
  • "CONUS404: The NCAR-USGS 4-km Long-Term Regional Hydroclimate Reanalysis over the CONUS," 2023, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Snowfall and snowpack in the Western U.S. as captured by convection permitting climate simulations: current climate and pseudo global warming future climate," 2021, Climate Dynamics
  • "Quantifying snowfall from orographic cloud seeding," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Lulin Xue
  • Kyoko Ikeda
  • Sarah A. Tessendorf
  • Changhai Liu
  • Andreas F. Prein

Roy Rasmussen's research has been published repeatedly in certain venues, which include:

  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology

Best Publications

  • The Changing Character of Precipitation

    Kevin E. Trenberth;Aiguo Dai;R. O. Y. M. Rasmussen;David B. Parsons

  • Explicit Forecasts of Winter Precipitation Using an Improved Bulk Microphysics Scheme. Part II: Implementation of a New Snow Parameterization

    Gregory Thompson;Paul R. Field;Roy M. Rasmussen;William D. Hall

  • Explicit Forecasts of Winter Precipitation Using an Improved Bulk Microphysics Scheme. Part I: Description and Sensitivity Analysis

    Gregory Thompson;Roy M. Rasmussen;Kevin Manning

  • Explicit forecasting of supercooled liquid water in winter storms using the MM5 mesoscale model

    J. Reisner;R. M. Rasmussen;R. T. Bruintjes

  • The future intensification of hourly precipitation extremes

    Andreas F. Prein;Roy M. Rasmussen;Kyoko Ikeda;Changhai Liu

  • How Well Are We Measuring Snow: The NOAA/FAA/NCAR Winter Precipitation Test Bed

    Roy Rasmussen;Bruce Baker;John Kochendorfer;Tilden Meyers

  • Continental-scale convection-permitting modeling of the current and future climate of North America

    Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;Roy Rasmussen;Mike Barlage

  • Slower snowmelt in a warmer world

    Keith N. Musselman;Martyn P. Clark;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda

  • High resolution coupled climate-runoff simulations of seasonal snowfall over Colorado: A process study of current and warmer climate

    Roy Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;David Gochis

  • A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: 1. Modeling concept

    Martyn P. Clark;Bart Nijssen;Jessica D. Lundquist;Dmitri Kavetski

  • Projected increases and shifts in rain-on-snow flood risk over western North America

    Keith N. Musselman;Flavio Lehner;Kyoko Ikeda;Martyn P. Clark

  • Increased rainfall volume from future convective storms in the US

    Andreas F. Prein;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;Stanley B. Trier

  • A Wind Tunnel Investigation of the Rate of Evaporation of Small Water Drops Falling at Terminal Velocity in Air

    H. R. Pruppacher;R. Rasmussen

  • A Statistical and Physical Description of Hydrometeor Distributions in Colorado Snowstorms Using a Video Disdrometer

    Edward A. Brandes;Kyoko Ikeda;Guifu Zhang;Michael Schönhuber

  • Event-Based Climatology and Typology of Fog in the New York City Region

    Robert Tardif;Roy M. Rasmussen

  • The Great Colorado Flood of September 2013

    David Gochis;Russ Schumacher;Katja Friedrich;Nolan Doesken

  • A Comparison of Statistical and Dynamical Downscaling of Winter Precipitation over Complex Terrain

    Ethan D. Gutmann;Roy M. Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda

  • Improvement of Microphysical Parameterization through Observational Verification Experiment

    Mark T. Stoelinga;Peter V. Hobbs;Clifford F. Mass;John D. Locatelli

  • Melting and Shedding of Graupel and Hail. Part I: Model Physics

    Roy M. Rasmussen;Andrew J. Heymsfield

  • On the Dynamics of Hawaiian Cloud Bands: Island Forcing

    Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz;Roy M. Rasmussen;Terry L. Clark

  • A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: 2. Model implementation and case studies

    Martyn P. Clark;Bart Nijssen;Jessica D. Lundquist;Dmitri Kavetski

Frequent Co-Authors

Kyoko Ikeda
Kyoko Ikeda National Center for Atmospheric Research
Changhai Liu
Changhai Liu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Lulin Xue
Lulin Xue National Center for Atmospheric Research
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan
Ethan Gutmann
Ethan Gutmann National Center for Atmospheric Research
Gregory Thompson
Gregory Thompson National Center for Atmospheric Research
David Gochis
David Gochis National Center for Atmospheric Research
Fei Chen
Fei Chen National Center for Atmospheric Research
Aiguo Dai
Aiguo Dai University at Albany, State University of New York
Michael Barlage
Michael Barlage National Center for Atmospheric Research

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