2026 William D. Collins: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	67	1910	1820	793	731	303	99452

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William D. Collins is a researcher affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States, with a scholarly output focused primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work frequently engages with subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

Their research addresses key topics such as climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, hydrology and drought analysis, and hydrological forecasting using artificial intelligence.

William D. Collins has published notable papers including:

A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States (2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
ClimateNet: an expert-labeled open dataset and deep learning architecture for enabling high-precision analyses of extreme weather (2021, Geoscientific Model Development)
Pushing the frontiers in climate modelling and analysis with machine learning (2024, Nature Climate Change)
Evaluation of extreme sub-daily precipitation in high-resolution global climate model simulations (2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences)
Uncertainties in Atmospheric River Lifecycles by Detection Algorithms: Climatology and Variability (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)

Frequent publication venues include:

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
arXiv (Cornell University)
Geoscientific Model Development
Geophysical Research Letters
Climate Dynamics

Frequent collaborators in their research include Travis O'Brien, Mark D. Risser, Paul Ullrich, Ankur Mahesh, and Michael Wehner.

William D. Collins has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2020 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2014.

Best Publications

The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project

E. Kalnay;M. Kanamitsu;R. Kistler;W. Collins

36491
Citations
Global climate projections. Chapter 10

G A Meehl;T F Stocker;W D Collins;P Friedlingstein

6887
Citations
Global climate projections

G.A. Meehl;T. F. Stocker;W. D. Collins;P. Friedlingstein

6784
Citations
Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing

Piers Forster;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy;Paulo Artaxo;Terje Berntsen

6259
Citations
Radiative forcing by long‐lived greenhouse gases: Calculations with the AER radiative transfer models

Michael J. Iacono;Jennifer S. Delamere;Eli J. Mlawer;Mark W. Shephard

5862
Citations
The NCEP–NCAR 50-Year Reanalysis: Monthly Means CD-ROM and Documentation

Robert Kistler;Eugenia Kalnay;William Collins;Suranjana Saha

5541
Citations
The Community Earth System Model: A Framework for Collaborative Research

James W. Hurrell;M. M. Holland;P. R. Gent;S. Ghan

2888
Citations
Evaluation of climate models

G. M. Flato;J. Marotzke;B. Abiodun;Pascale Braconnot

2858
Citations
The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)

William D. Collins;Cecilia M. Bitz;Maurice L. Blackmon;Gordon B. Bonan

2847
Citations
Description of the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model (CAM 3.0)

William Collins;J. Rasch;A. Boville;James McCaa

1896
Citations
Indian Ocean Experiment: An integrated analysis of the climate forcing and effects of the great Indo-Asian haze

V. Ramanathan;P. J. Crutzen;J. Lelieveld;A. P. Mitra

1670
Citations
The Formulation and Atmospheric Simulation of the Community Atmosphere Model Version 3 (CAM3)

William D. Collins;Philip J. Rasch;Byron A. Boville;James J. Hack

1125
Citations
Thermodynamic regulation of ocean warming by cirrus clouds deduced from observations of the 1987 El Niño

V. Ramanathan;W. Collins

1023
Citations
Toward a Minimal Representation of Aerosols in Climate Models: Description and Evaluation in the Community Atmosphere Model CAM5

Xiaohong Liu;Richard C. Easter;Steven J. Ghan;Rahul A. Zaveri

931
Citations
How much more global warming and sea level rise

Gerald A. Meehl;Warren M. Washington;William D. Collins;Julie M. Arblaster

918
Citations
An AeroCom Initial Assessment - Optical Properties in Aerosol Component Modules of Global Models

S. Kinne;M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Guibert

865
Citations
Taking climate model evaluation to the next level

Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Peter M. Cox;Gregory M. Flato;Peter J. Gleckler

703
Citations
Effects of Black Carbon Aerosols on the Indian Monsoon

Gerald A. Meehl;Julie M. Arblaster;William D. Collins

565
Citations
Simulating aerosols using a chemical transport model with assimilation of satellite aerosol retrievals: Methodology for INDOEX

William D. Collins;Phillip J. Rasch;Brian E. Eaton;Boris V. Khattatov

422
Citations
Impact of Desert Dust Radiative Forcing on Sahel Precipitation: Relative Importance of Dust Compared to Sea Surface Temperature Variations, Vegetation Changes, and Greenhouse Gas Warming

Masaru Yoshioka;Natalie M Mahowald;Andrew J Conley;William D Collins

408
Citations
A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States

Erica R. Siirila-Woodburn;Alan M. Rhoades;Benjamin J. Hatchett;Laurie S. Huning;Laurie S. Huning

407
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jeffrey T. Kiehl University of California, Santa Cruz

George C. Hurtt University of Maryland, College Park

Peter E. Thornton Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Xiaoying Shi Oak Ridge National Laboratory

James A. Edmonds Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Veerabhadran Ramanathan University of California, San Diego

Jiafu Mao Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Philip J. Rasch Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Katherine Calvin Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

External Links

Personal website of William D. Collins

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