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D-Index
67
Citations
30905
World Ranking
1920
National Ranking
797

Samuel Levis 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 Samuel Levis sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 99 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Samuel Levis 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 Samuel Levis sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 80th percentile

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

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

Overview

Samuel Levis is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Atmospheric Science, and Soil Science.

The main topics addressed in Levis's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Plant Responses to Elevated CO2, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, and Climate Variability and Models.

Levis has co-authored research with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Charles D. Koven (6 collaborations)
  • Chonggang Xu (3 collaborations)
  • Erik Kluzek (3 collaborations)
  • Keith W. Oleson (3 collaborations)
  • Danica Lombardozzi (3 collaborations)

Their publications have appeared in various venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 3 publications
  • AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts with 2 publications
  • Biogeosciences
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Selected recent papers by Samuel Levis include:

  • "Capturing functional strategies and compositional dynamics in vegetation demographic models," 2021, Biogeosciences
  • "Quantifying the role of ozone-caused damage to vegetation in the Earth system: a new parameterization scheme for photosynthetic and stomatal responses," 2024, Geoscientific Model Development
  • "tboas/CTSM: CLM_WW_CC," 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "One-at-a-Time Parameter Perturbation Ensemble of the Community Land Model, Version 5.1," 2025, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "An investigation of evapotranspiration rates within mid-western agricultural systems in response to elevated carbon dioxide and ozone concentrations and climate change," 2021, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model

    S Sitch;Benjamin Smith;IC Prentice;A Arneth

  • Technical Description of version 4.0 of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    W. Oleson;M. Lawrence;B. Bonan;G. Flanner

  • Technical description of version 4.5 of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    Keith Oleson;M. Lawrence;B. Bonan;Beth Drewniak

  • An integrated biosphere model of land surface processes, terrestrial carbon balance, and vegetation dynamics

    Jonathan A. Foley;I. Colin Prentice;Navin Ramankutty;Samuel Levis

  • Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in version 4 of the Community Land Model

    David M Lawrence;Keith W Oleson;Mark G Flanner;Peter E Thornton

  • Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    Keith Oleson;Yongjiu Dai;B. Bonan;Mike Bosilovichm

  • Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle

    K. W. Oleson;G. Y. Niu;Zong-Liang Yang;D. M. Lawrence

  • Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    S. Sitch;P. Friedlingstein;N. Gruber;S. D. Jones

  • Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO2 trends.

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Stephen Sitch;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • The land surface climatology of the community land model coupled to the NCAR community climate model

    Gordon B. Bonan;Keith W. Oleson;Mariana Vertenstein;Samuel Levis

  • Change in atmospheric mineral aerosols in response to climate: Last glacial period, preindustrial, modern, and doubled carbon dioxide climates

    Natalie M. Mahowald;Daniel R. Muhs;Samuel Levis;Philip J. Rasch

  • Landscapes as patches of plant functional types: An integrating concept for climate and ecosystem models

    Gordon B. Bonan;Samuel Levis;Laurent Kergoat;Keith W. Oleson

  • Improving canopy processes in the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) using global flux fields empirically inferred from FLUXNET data

    Gordon B. Bonan;Peter J. Lawrence;Keith W. Oleson;Samuel Levis

  • Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene Climate in CCSM3

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Esther C. Brady;Gabriel Clauzet;Robert Tomas

  • The global carbon budget 1959-2011

    C. Le Quere;R.J. Andres;T.A. Boden;T. Conway

  • Feedbacks between climate and boreal forests during the Holocene epoch

    Jonathan A. Foley;John E. Kutzbach;Michael T. Coe;Samuel Levis

  • Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Huijuan Nan;Chris Huntingford;Philippe Ciais

  • A dynamic global vegetation model for use with climate models: concepts and description of simulated vegetation dynamics

    Gordon B. Bonan;Samuel Levis;Stephen Sitch;Mariana Vertenstein

  • Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

    D. C. Frank;B. Poulter;M. Saurer;J. Esper

  • Effects of global irrigation on the near-surface climate

    William J. Sacks;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook;Nikolaus Buenning;Samuel Levis

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon B. Bonan
Gordon B. Bonan National Center for Atmospheric Research
Keith W. Oleson
Keith W. Oleson National Center for Atmospheric Research
Jonathan A. Foley
Jonathan A. Foley University of Minnesota
Peter J. Lawrence
Peter J. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research
Peter E. Thornton
Peter E. Thornton Oak Ridge National Laboratory
David Pollard
David Pollard Pennsylvania State University
Reto Stöckli
Reto Stöckli Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Zong-Liang Yang
Zong-Liang Yang The University of Texas at Austin
David M. Lawrence
David M. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research

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