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D-Index
67
Citations
34535
World Ranking
1918
National Ranking
796

William G. Large 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 William G. Large sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 121 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William G. Large 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 William G. Large 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

William G. Large is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science. The scientist's work includes exploration of Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, and Mechanics of Materials.

Their research topics focus extensively on climate variability and models, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, and meteorological phenomena and simulations. Other areas of study include atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, marine and coastal ecosystems, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with William G. Large include Alice K. DuVivier, Daniel Whitt, Julio T. Bacmeister, P. H. Lauritzen, and Vincent E. Larson.

William G. Large has published in several scientific venues, notably the Journal of Physical Oceanography, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Climate Dynamics, and OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).

Recent publications include:

  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2), 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Reconciling and Improving Formulations for Thermodynamics and Conservation Principles in Earth System Models (ESMs), 2022, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Simulation and Scaling of the Turbulent Vertical Heat Transport and Deep-Cycle Turbulence across the Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue, 2022, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Off-Equatorial Deep-Cycle Turbulence Forced by Tropical Instability Waves in the Equatorial Pacific, 2021, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • On the control of subantarctic stratification by the ocean circulation, 2020, Climate Dynamics

Best Publications

  • Oceanic vertical mixing: a review and a model with a nonlocal boundary layer parameterization

    W. G. Large;J. C. McWilliams;S. C. Doney

  • Open Ocean Momentum Flux Measurements in Moderate to Strong Winds

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  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)

    G. Danabasoglu;J. F. Lamarque;J. Bacmeister;D. A. Bailey

  • The Community Earth System Model: A Framework for Collaborative Research

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

  • The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)

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

  • The global climatology of an interannually varying air–sea flux data set

    W. G. Large;S. G. Yeager

  • Sensible and Latent Heat Flux Measurements over the Ocean

    W. G. Large;S. Pond

  • Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs)

    Stephen M. Griffies;Arne Biastoch;Claus W. Böning;Frank Bryan

  • JRA-55 based surface dataset for driving ocean–sea-ice models (JRA55-do)

    Hiroyuki Tsujino;Shogo Urakawa;Hideyuki Nakano;R. Justin Small

  • The CCSM4 Ocean Component

    Gokhan Danabasoglu;Susan C. Bates;Bruce P. Briegleb;Steven R. Jayne

  • The mean annual cycle in global ocean wind stress

    Kevin E. Trenberth;William G. Large;Jerry G. Olson

  • Sensitivity to Surface Forcing and Boundary Layer Mixing in a Global Ocean Model: Annual-Mean Climatology

    William G. Large;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Scott C. Doney;James C. McWilliams

  • North Atlantic simulations in Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part I: Mean states

    Gokhan Danabasoglu;Steve G. Yeager;David Bailey;Erik Behrens

  • OMIP contribution to CMIP6: experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project

    Stephen M. Griffies;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Paul J. Durack;Alistair J. Adcroft

  • A global perspective on Langmuir turbulence in the ocean surface boundary layer

    Stephen E. Belcher;Stephen E. Belcher;Alan A.L.M. Grant;Kirsty E. Hanley;Baylor Fox-Kemper;Baylor Fox-Kemper

  • Climate Process Team on Internal Wave–Driven Ocean Mixing

    Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Zhongxiang Zhao;Caitlin B. Whalen;Amy F. Waterhouse

  • Attribution and Impacts of Upper-Ocean Biases in CCSM3

    W. G. Large;G. Danabasoglu

  • The Low-Resolution CCSM3

    Stephen G. Yeager;Christine A. Shields;William G. Large;James J. Hack

  • The Community Climate System Model: CCSM3

    W D Collins;M Blackmon;C Bitz;G Bonan

  • A Global Ocean Wind Stress Climatology Based on ECMWF Analyses

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  • Patterns of Indian Ocean sea-level change in a warming climate

    Weiqing Han;Gerald A. Meehl;Balaji Rajagopalan;John T. Fasullo

  • The NCAR Climate System Model Global Ocean Component

    Peter R. Gent;Frank O. Bryan;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Scott C. Doney

Frequent Co-Authors

Gokhan Danabasoglu
Gokhan Danabasoglu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Simona Masina
Simona Masina Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Stephen G. Yeager
Stephen G. Yeager National Center for Atmospheric Research
Eric P. Chassignet
Eric P. Chassignet Florida State University
James C. McWilliams
James C. McWilliams University of California, Los Angeles
Hiroyuki Tsujino
Hiroyuki Tsujino Japan Meteorological Agency
Helge Drange
Helge Drange University of Bergen
Claus W. Böning
Claus W. Böning GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Simon J. Marsland
Simon J. Marsland Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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