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Scott A. Braun 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 Scott A. Braun sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 141 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Scott A. Braun 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 Scott A. Braun sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Scott A. Braun is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 44 publications in this broad field. Within this domain, Braun concentrates on Atmospheric Science, a subfield reflected in 37 of their publications, as well as Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Oceanography, and Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist's main topics of work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds. Other notable topics covered in their research are Climate variability and models, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Scott A. Braun has published in several frequent venues, including the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Monthly Weather Review, and Remote Sensing of Environment.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Braun are:

  • "Chasing Snowstorms: The Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Campaign," 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Mind the Gap - Part 3: Doppler Velocity Measurements From Space," 2022, Frontiers in Remote Sensing
  • "Precipitation Estimation from the NASA TROPICS Mission: Initial Retrievals and Validation," 2022, Remote Sensing
  • "NASA'S Earth System Observatory-Atmosphere Observing System," 2022, IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
  • "Atmospheric humidity and temperature sounding from the CubeSat TROPICS mission: Early performance evaluation with MiRS," 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent co-authors with whom Braun has collaborated include William J. Blackwell, R. Vincent Leslie, John Xun Yang, Ralf Bennartz, and Yalei You.

Best Publications

  • The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission for Science and Society

    Gail Skofronick-Jackson;Walter A Petersen;Wesley Berg;Chris Kidd

  • Sensitivity of High-Resolution Simulations of Hurricane Bob (1991) to Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterizations

    Scott A. Braun;Wei-Kuo Tao

  • Microphysics, radiation and surface processes in the Goddard Cumulus Ensemble (GCE) model

    W.-K. Tao;J. Simpson;D. Baker;S. Braun

  • A Cloud-Resolving Simulation of Hurricane Bob, 1991: Storm Structure and Eyewall Buoyancy

    Scott A. Braun

  • High-Resolution Simulation of Hurricane Bonnie 1998, Part 1: The Organization of Vertical Motion

    Scott A. Braun;Michael T. Montgomery;Zhaoxia Pu

  • A Lagrangian Trajectory View on Transport and Mixing Processes between the Eye, Eyewall, and Environment Using a High-Resolution Simulation of Hurricane Bonnie (1998)

    Thomas A. Cram;John Persing;Michael T. Montgomery;Scott A. Braun

  • Evaluation of Bogus Vortex Techniques with Four-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation

    Zhao-Xia Pu;Scott A. Braun

  • Precipitation and Latent Heating Distributions from Satellite Passive Microwave Radiometry. Part I: Improved Method and Uncertainties

    William S. Olson;Christian D. Kummerow;Song Yang;Grant W. Petty

  • Reevaluating the Role of the Saharan Air Layer in Atlantic Tropical Cyclogenesis and Evolution

    Scott A. Braun

  • An Overview of the TROPICS NASA Earth Venture Mission

    W. J. Blackwell;S. Braun;R. Bennartz;R. Bennartz;C. Velden

  • NASA's Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) Field Experiment

    Scott A. Braun;Ramesh Kakar;Edward Zipser;Gerald Heymsfield

  • NASA’s Remotely Sensed Precipitation: A Reservoir for Applications Users

    Dalia B. Kirschbaum;George J. Huffman;Robert F. Adler;Scott Braun

  • The Transition Zone and Secondary Maximum of Radar Reflectivity behind a Midlatitude Squall Line: Results Retrieved from Doppler Radar Data

    Scott A. Braun;Robert A. Houze

  • High-Resolution Simulation of Hurricane Bonnie, 1998: Part 2, Water Budget

    Scott A. Braun

  • Chasing Snowstorms: The Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Campaign

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  • A numerical study of hurricane erin (2001). Part II : Shear and the organization of eyewall vertical motion

    Scott A. Braun;Liguang Wu

  • The Impact of Dry Midlevel Air on Hurricane Intensity in Idealized Simulations with No Mean Flow

    Scott A. Braun;Jason A. Sippel;David S. Nolan

  • Impacts of Air–Sea Interaction on Tropical Cyclone Track and Intensity

    Liguang Wu;Bin Wang;Scott A. Braun

  • Convective Systems Over the South China Sea: Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations

    W.-K. Tao;C.-L. Shie;J. Simpson;S. Braun

  • A Numerical Study of Hurricane Erin (2001), Part 1: Model Verification and Storm Evolution

    Liguang Wu;Scott A. Braun;J. Halverson;G. Heymsfield

  • The Impact of Trmm Data on Mesoscale Numerical Simulation of Super Typhoon Paka

    Zhaoxia Pu;Wei Kuo Tao;Scott Braun;Joanne Simpson

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher S. Velden
Christopher S. Velden Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
Michael T. Montgomery
Michael T. Montgomery Naval Postgraduate School
Fuqing Zhang
Fuqing Zhang Pennsylvania State University
Robert A. Houze
Robert A. Houze University of Washington
Liguang Wu
Liguang Wu Fudan University
Toshihisa Matsui
Toshihisa Matsui Goddard Space Flight Center
Wei-Kuo Tao
Wei-Kuo Tao Goddard Space Flight Center
Christian D. Kummerow
Christian D. Kummerow Colorado State University
William S. Olson
William S. Olson University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Edward J. Zipser
Edward J. Zipser University of Utah

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