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Vaughan T. J. Phillips

Vaughan T. J. Phillips

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
37
Citations
6424
World Ranking
8832
National Ranking
173

Vaughan T. J. Phillips 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 Vaughan T. J. Phillips sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 122 publications — 25th percentile

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Vaughan T. J. Phillips 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 Vaughan T. J. Phillips sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Vaughan T. J. Phillips is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions to atmospheric and climate-related studies.

The scientist's work is concentrated within subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Aerospace Engineering, General Health Professions, and Earth-Surface Processes. These areas reflect a broad engagement with environmental and atmospheric phenomena across different scientific disciplines.

Key topics in Vaughan T. J. Phillips's research include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Icing and De-icing Technologies, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Aeolian processes and effects, and Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure.

Recent publications illustrate the scope of their work covering cloud microphysics, lightning, and ice nucleation processes. Selected papers include:

  • Impacts of secondary ice production on Arctic mixed-phase clouds based on ARM observations and CAM6 single-column model simulations, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Secondary ice production during the break-up of freezing water drops on impact with ice particles, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Multiple Environmental Influences on the Lightning of Cold-Based Continental Cumulonimbus Clouds. Part I: Description and Validation of Model, 2020, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences / Empirical Formulation for Multiple Groups of Primary Biological Ice Nucleating Particles from Field Observations over Amazonia, 2021, Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
  • New Empirical Formulation for the Sublimational Breakup of Graupel and Dendritic Snow, 2021, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

Vaughan T. J. Phillips collaborates regularly with several researchers, including Sachin Patade, Deepak Waman, Akash Deshmukh, Arti Jadav, and Ashok Kumar Gupta.

Best Publications

  • Simulation of effects of atmospheric aerosols on deep turbulent convective clouds using a spectral microphysics mixed-phase cumulus cloud model. Part I: Model description and possible applications

    A Khain;A Pokrovsky;M Pinsky;A Seifert

  • Representation of microphysical processes in cloud-resolving models: Spectral (bin) microphysics versus bulk parameterization

    A. P. Khain;K. D. Beheng;A. Heymsfield;A. Korolev

  • An Empirical Parameterization of Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation for Multiple Chemical Species of Aerosol

    Vaughan T. J. Phillips;Paul J. Demott;Constantin Andronache

  • Secondary Ice Production: Current State of the Science and Recommendations for the Future

    P. R. Field;P. R. Field;R. P. Lawson;P. R. A. Brown;G. Lloyd

  • Bioprecipitation: a feedback cycle linking Earth history, ecosystem dynamics and land use through biological ice nucleators in the atmosphere

    Cindy E. Morris;Cindy E. Morris;Franz Conen;J. Alex Huffman;Vaughan Phillips

  • Nucleation processes in deep convection simulated by a cloud-system-resolving model with double-moment bulk microphysics

    Vaughan T. J. Phillips;Leo J. Donner;Stephen T. Garner

  • The Anatomy and Physics of ZDR Columns: Investigating a Polarimetric Radar Signature with a Spectral Bin Microphysical Model

    Matthew R. Kumjian;Alexander P. Khain;Nir Benmoshe;Eyal Ilotoviz

  • A New Parameterization of Cloud Droplet Activation Applicable to General Circulation Models

    Yi Ming;V. Ramaswamy;Leo J. Donner;Vaughan T. J. Phillips

  • Improvements to an Empirical Parameterization of Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation and Its Comparison with Observations

    Vaughan T. J. Phillips;Paul J. Demott;Constantin Andronache;Kerri A. Pratt

  • The dependence of aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation on cloud-system organization, shear and stability

    Seoung Soo Lee;Seoung Soo Lee;Leo J. Donner;Vaughan T. J. Phillips;Vaughan T. J. Phillips;Yi Ming

  • Scientific Challenges of Convective-Scale Numerical Weather Prediction

    Jun-Ichi Yano;Michał Z. Ziemiański;Mike Cullen;Piet Termonia

  • Scavenging of ultrafine particles by rainfall at a boreal site: observations and model estimations

    C. Andronache;T. Gronholm;L. Laakso;Vaughan Phillips

  • Small ice crystals and the climatology of lightning

    Steven C. Sherwood;Vaughan T. J. Phillips;J. S. Wettlaufer

  • Boundary layer control on convective available potential energy: Implications for cumulus parameterization

    Leo J. Donner;Vaughan T. Phillips

  • Secondary Ice Production by Fragmentation of Freezing Drops: Formulation and Theory

    Vaughan T. J. Phillips;Sachin Patade;Julie Gutierrez;Aaron Bansemer

  • The Influence of Time-Dependent Melting on the Dynamics and Precipitation Production in Maritime and Continental Storm Clouds

    Vaughan T. J. Phillips;Andrei Pokrovsky;Alexander Khain

  • Modeling the interactions between aerosols and liquid water clouds with a self-consistent cloud scheme in a general circulation model

    Yi Ming;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy;Leo J. Donner;Vaughan T.J. Phillips

  • Potential impacts from biological aerosols on ensembles of continental clouds simulated numerically

    Vaughan Phillips;C. Andronache;B. Christner;C. E. Morris

  • Ice–Ice Collisions: An Ice Multiplication Process in Atmospheric Clouds

    J. I. Yano;Vaughan Phillips

  • Ice Multiplication by Breakup in Ice–Ice Collisions. Part I: Theoretical Formulation

    Vaughan T. J. Phillips;Jun-Ichi Yano;Alexander Khain

  • Examination of aerosol effects on precipitation in deep convective clouds during the 1997 ARM summer experiment

    Seoung Soo Lee;Leo J. Donner;Vaughan T. J. Phillips;Y. i. Ming

Frequent Co-Authors

Leo J. Donner
Leo J. Donner Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Alexander Khain
Alexander Khain Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Aaron Bansemer
Aaron Bansemer National Center for Atmospheric Research
Paul J. DeMott
Paul J. DeMott Colorado State University
Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
Xiaohong Liu
Xiaohong Liu Texas A&M University
Andrew J. Heymsfield
Andrew J. Heymsfield National Center for Atmospheric Research
Yi Ming
Yi Ming Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Thomas Choularton
Thomas Choularton University of Manchester
Ralf Bennartz
Ralf Bennartz Vanderbilt University

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