Chris Funk

17.7k citations
144 papers · 12.4k · 5 hit papers · h-index 49

Impact in

    • Climate variability and models
    • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
    • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
    • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
    • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis

Papers in

    • Climate variability and models 79
    • Hydrology and Drought Analysis 40
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 11
    • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 38
    • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis 29
    • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research 13

Chris Funk

142 papers receiving 12.1k citations

Chris Funk's Hit Papers

Warming accelerates global drought severity 2025 · 41 citations
410+4+8Years since publication10002.0k3.0k

Peers

Chris Funk
Comparison fields: 5 of 156
  • Global and Planetary Change 8.6k
  • Atmospheric Science 5.3k
  • Water Science and Technology 1.9k
  • Soil Science 1.1k
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2.0k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Chris Funk, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes
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20153945
2
A quasi-global precipitation time series for drought monitoring
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2014594
3
Validation of the CHIRPS satellite rainfall estimates over eastern Africa
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2018556
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A land data assimilation system for sub-Saharan Africa food and water security applications
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2017445
5 2008379
6 2015320
7 2011280
8 2006252
9 2005241
10 2015222
11 2008203
12 2014195
13 2017192
14 2009175
15 2012168
16 2015166
17 2011133
18 2012131
19 2014120
20 2012118

About Chris Funk

Chris Funk is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Oceanography and Ecology, having authored 144 papers that have together received 12.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate variability and models (79 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (43 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (40 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (38 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (29 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (13 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (13 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (8.6k citations), Atmospheric Science (5.3k citations), Water Science and Technology (1.9k citations), Soil Science (1.1k citations) and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (2.0k citations). Chris Funk has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include G. J. Husak, Pete Peterson, Joel Michaelsen, Andrew Hoell, J. P. Verdin, Shraddhanand Shukla, L. Harrison, Diego Pedreros, M. F. Landsfeld and James Rowland. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Climate, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Environmental Research Letters, International Journal of Climatology and Climate Dynamics.

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