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William J. Gutowski

William J. Gutowski

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
53
Citations
16294
World Ranking
4154
National Ranking
1570

William J. Gutowski 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 J. Gutowski sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 198 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William J. Gutowski 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 J. Gutowski sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

William J. Gutowski is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant work in Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics covered in their research include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Climate change impacts on agriculture, Climate Change Communication and Perception, and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance.

Gutowski has published in several scientific venues, including:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • Earth Systems and Environment
  • Water
  • Physics Today

Among their recent works are the following papers:

  • "Projected Changes in Temperature and Precipitation Over the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean in CMIP6 GCMs" (2021), published in Earth Systems and Environment
  • "The Ongoing Need for High-Resolution Regional Climate Models: Process Understanding and Stakeholder Information" (2020), published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Mind the gaps! Climate scientists should heed lessons in collaborative storytelling from William Shakespeare" (2022), published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • "Metrics as tools for bridging climate science and applications" (2022), published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • "Iowa's agriculture is losing its Goldilocks climate" (2020), published in Physics Today

Frequent coauthors in Gutowski's research include:

  • L. Ruby Leung
  • S. C. Pryor
  • Kôichi Sakaguchi
  • Colin M. Zarzycki
  • Seth McGinnis

Best Publications

  • Long-term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility

    M. Collins;R. Knutti;J.M. Arblaster;J.-L. Dufresne

  • Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections

    F. Giorgi;J. Christensen;M. Hulme;H. von Storch

  • Regional Dynamical Downscaling and the CORDEX Initiative

    Filippo Giorgi;William J. Gutowski

  • A Regional Climate Change Assessment Program for North America

    Linda O. Mearns;William Gutowski;Richard Jones;Ruby Leung

  • The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program: Overview of Phase I Results

    Linda O. Mearns;Ray Arritt;Sébastien Biner;Melissa S. Bukovsky

  • Wind speed trends over the contiguous United States

    S. C. Pryor;R. J. Barthelmie;D. T. Young;Eugene S. Takle

  • WCRP COordinated Regional Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX): A diagnostic MIP for CMIP6

    William J. Gutowski;Filippo Giorgi;Bertrand Timbal;Anne Frigon

  • Hydrological responses to dynamically and statistically downscaled climate model output

    Robert L. Wilby;Robert L. Wilby;Lauren E. Hay;William J. Gutowski;Raymond W. Arritt

  • Regional Climate Model Intercomparison Project for Asia

    Congbin Fu;Shuyu` Wang;Zhe Xiong;William J. Gutowski

  • The Arctic freshwater system: Changes and impacts

    Daniel White;Larry Hinzman;Lilian Alessa;John Cassano

  • North American extreme temperature events and related large scale meteorological patterns: a review of statistical methods, dynamics, modeling, and trends

    Richard Grotjahn;Robert Black;Ruby Leung;Michael F. Wehner

  • Altered hydrologic feedback in a warming climate introduces a “warming hole”

    Zaitao Pan;Raymond W. Arritt;Eugene S. Takle;William J. Gutowski

  • Projected Changes in Temperature and Precipitation Over the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean in CMIP6 GCMs

    Mansour Almazroui;M. Nazrul Islam;Fahad Saeed;Sajjad Saeed;Sajjad Saeed

  • Use of Regional Climate Model Output for Hydrologic Simulations

    Lauren E. Hay;Martyn P. Clark;Robert L. Wilby;William J. Gutowski Jr.

  • Project to Intercompare Regional Climate Simulations (PIRCS): Description and initial results

    Eugene S. Takle;William J. Gutowski;Raymond W. Arritt;Zaitao Pan

  • Climate change projections of the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP)

    L. O. Mearns;Steve Sain;Lai-Yung R. Leung;M. S. Bukovsky

  • Putting aquifers into atmospheric simulation models: an example from the Mill Creek Watershed, northeastern Kansas

    Jennifer P York;Mark Person;William J Gutowski;Thomas C Winter

  • The Ongoing Need for High-Resolution Regional Climate Models: Process Understanding and Stakeholder Information

    W. J. Gutowski;P. A. Ullrich;A. Hall;L. R. Leung

  • Simulation of West African monsoon using RegCM3 Part II: impacts of deforestation and desertification

    B. J. Abiodun;J. S. Pal;J. S. Pal;E. A. Afiesimama;W. J. Gutowski

  • Simulation of West African monsoon using the RegCM3. Part I: Model validation and interannual variability

    E. A. Afiesimama;J. S. Pal;B. J. Abiodun;W. J. Gutowski

  • Climate Models: An Assessment of Strengths and Limitations

    David C. Bader;Curtis Covey;William J. Gutowski Jr.;Isaac M. Held

  • Chapter 12 - Long-term climate change: Projections, commitments and irreversibility

    M. Collins;R. Knutti;J. Arblaster;J.-L. Dufresne

  • Reply to “Comments on ‘The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program: Overview of Phase I Results'”

    Linda O. Mearns;Melissa S. Bukovsky;Ruby Leung;Yun Qian

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond W. Arritt
Raymond W. Arritt Iowa State University
Eugene S. Takle
Eugene S. Takle Iowa State University
John J. Cassano
John J. Cassano University of Colorado Boulder
Filippo Giorgi
Filippo Giorgi International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Linda O. Mearns
Linda O. Mearns National Center for Atmospheric Research
Wieslaw Maslowski
Wieslaw Maslowski Naval Postgraduate School
Babatunde J. Abiodun
Babatunde J. Abiodun University of Cape Town
John O. Roads
John O. Roads University of California, San Diego
John L. McGregor
John L. McGregor Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen University of Copenhagen

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