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Sergej Zilitinkevich 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 Sergej Zilitinkevich sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 229 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Sergej Zilitinkevich 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 Sergej Zilitinkevich sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Sergej Zilitinkevich is affiliated with the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences, with substantial work in atmospheric science and global and planetary change. The scientist's publication record reflects extensive involvement in the study of atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and climate-related topics, including climate variability, climate change, and permafrost.

The main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Key subfields covered by their work are:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Ecology

The scientist's primary research topics encompass:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts

Sergej Zilitinkevich has published in various scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Boundary-Layer Meteorology
  • Biogeosciences

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Aerosol particle formation in the upper residual layer", 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Revisiting the relation between momentum and scalar roughness lengths of urban surfaces", 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • "Fire and vegetation dynamics in northwest Siberia during the last 60 years based on high-resolution remote sensing", 2021, Biogeosciences
  • "The resistance law for stably stratified atmospheric planetary boundary layers", 2021, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • "On measurements of aerosol particles and greenhouse gases in Siberia and future research needs", 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)

Sergej Zilitinkevich has collaborated on numerous occasions with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Tuukka Petäjä
  • Markku Kulmala
  • Veli-Matti Kerminen
  • Janne Lampilahti
  • Katri Leino

Recognition within the scientific community includes being named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Enhanced haze pollution by black carbon in megacities in China

    A. J. Ding;X. Huang;W. Nie;J. N. Sun

  • Enhanced air pollution via aerosol-boundary layer feedback in China.

    T. Petäjä;L. Järvi;V. M. Kerminen;A. J. Ding

  • Diurnal asymmetry to the observed global warming

    Richard Davy;Igor Esau;Alexander Chernokulsky;Stephen Outten

  • On the determination of the height of the Ekman boundary layer

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  • A Hierarchy of Energy- and Flux-Budget (EFB) Turbulence Closure Models for Stably-Stratified Geophysical Flows

    S. S. Zilitinkevich;T. Elperin;N. Kleeorin;I. Rogachevskii

  • Calculation of the height of the stable boundary layer in practical applications

    Sergej Zilitinkevich;Alexander Baklanov

  • Energy- and flux-budget (EFB) turbulence closure model for stably stratified flows. Part I: steady-state, homogeneous regimes

    S. S. Zilitinkevich;S. S. Zilitinkevich;S. S. Zilitinkevich;T. Elperin;N. Kleeorin;I. Rogachevskii

  • Turbulence energetics in stably stratified geophysical flows: Strong and weak mixing regimes

    S. S. Zilitinkevich;S. S. Zilitinkevich;S. S. Zilitinkevich;T. Elperin;N. Kleeorin;I. Rogachevskii

  • Non-local turbulent transport: pollution dispersion aspects of coherent structure of connective flows

    S. Zilitinkevich

  • Energy- and flux-budget (EFB) turbulence closure model for the stably stratified flows. Part I: Steady-state, homogeneous regimes

    S.S. Zilitinkevich;T. Elperin;N. Kleeorin;I. Rogachevskii

  • The Nature, Theory, and Modeling of Atmospheric Planetary Boundary Layers

    Alexander A. Baklanov;Branko Grisogono;Robert Bornstein;Larry Mahrt

  • Resistance and heat-transfer laws for stable and neutral planetary boundary layers: Old theory advanced and re-evaluated

    Sergej S. Zilitinkevich;Sergej S. Zilitinkevich;Igor N. Esau

  • A Total Turbulent Energy Closure Model for Neutrally and Stably Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layers

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Gunilla Svensson;Sergej S. Zilitinkevich;Igor Esau

  • A multi-limit formulation for the equilibrium depth of a stably stratified boundary layer

    Sergej Zilitinkevich;Sergej Zilitinkevich;Dimitrii V. Mironov

  • Comments on “A Model for the Dynamics of the Inversion Above a Convective Boundary Layer”

    S. S. Zilitinkevich

  • Air and soil pollution

    G S Golitsyn;I G Granberg;A V Andronova;V M Ponomarev

  • Resistance Laws and Prediction Equations for the Depth of the Planetary Boundary Layer

    S. S. Zilitinkevich

  • Velocity profiles, the resistance law and the dissipation rate of mean flow kinetic energy in a neutrally and stably stratified planetary boundary layer

    S. S. Zilitinkevich

  • An extended similarity theory for the stably stratified atmospheric surface layer

    Sergej Zilitinkevich;Pierluigi Calanca

  • On integral measures of the neutral barotropic planetary boundary layer

    Sergej Zilitinkevich;Igor Esau

  • Diagnostic and Prognostic Equations for the Depth of the Stably Stratified Ekman Boundary Layer

    Sergej Zilitinkevich;Alexander Baklanov;Jutta Rost;Jutta Rost;Ann-sofi Smedman

Frequent Co-Authors

Igor Esau
Igor Esau University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Nathan Kleeorin
Nathan Kleeorin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Alexander Baklanov
Alexander Baklanov University of Copenhagen
Markku Kulmala
Markku Kulmala University of Helsinki
Tuukka Petäjä
Tuukka Petäjä University of Helsinki
Tov Elperin
Tov Elperin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Veli-Matti Kerminen
Veli-Matti Kerminen University of Helsinki
Jaana Bäck
Jaana Bäck University of Helsinki
Yrjö Viisanen
Yrjö Viisanen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Andrey A. Grachev
Andrey A. Grachev Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

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