Michael Ek

31.9k total citations · 9 hit papers
93 papers, 17.7k citations indexed

About

Michael Ek is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Ek has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 17.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 66 papers in Atmospheric Science and 26 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Michael Ek's work include Climate variability and models (58 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (53 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (40 papers). Michael Ek is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (58 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (53 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (40 papers). Michael Ek collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Netherlands. Michael Ek's co-authors include Kenneth E. Mitchell, Youlong Xia, Victor Koren, Eric Rogers, Ying Lin, Fei Chen, George Gayno, Pablo Javier Grunmann, J. D. Tarpley and Jesse Meng and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Michael Ek

92 papers receiving 17.3k citations

Hit Papers

North American Regional Reanalysis 1996 2026 2006 2016 2006 2013 2003 2011 2011 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. North American Regional Reanalysis
    2006 2.9k citations Kenneth E. Mitchell, Eric Rogers et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →
  2. The NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2
    2013 2.6k citations Suranjana Saha, Shrinivas Moorthi et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  3. Implementation of Noah land surface model advances in the National Centers for Environmental Prediction operational mesoscale Eta model
    2003 2.5k citations Michael Ek, Kenneth E. Mitchell et al. profile →
  4. The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 1. Model description and evaluation with local-scale measurements
    2011 2.0k citations Guo‐Yue Niu, Zong‐Liang Yang et al. profile →
  5. Continental‐scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for the North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS‐2): 1. Intercomparison and application of model products
    2011 1.0k citations Youlong Xia, Kenneth E. Mitchell et al. profile →
  6. Modeling of land surface evaporation by four schemes and comparison with FIFE observations
    1996 912 citations Fei Chen, Kenneth E. Mitchell et al. profile →
  7. The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 2. Evaluation over global river basins
    2011 581 citations Zong‐Liang Yang, Guo‐Yue Niu et al. profile →
  8. Continental‐scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS‐2): 2. Validation of model‐simulated streamflow
    2011 374 citations Youlong Xia, Kenneth E. Mitchell et al. profile →
  9. Land–Atmosphere Interactions: The LoCo Perspective
    2017 296 citations Paul A. Dirmeyer, Kirsten L. Findell et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Ek United States 45 13.0k 11.8k 4.0k 3.7k 2.2k 93 17.7k
Zong‐Liang Yang United States 63 15.0k 1.2× 12.2k 1.0× 4.2k 1.0× 6.2k 1.7× 2.4k 1.1× 227 21.6k
Kenneth E. Mitchell United States 40 10.9k 0.8× 9.9k 0.8× 3.7k 0.9× 3.9k 1.1× 1.2k 0.6× 67 15.3k
Kun Yang China 79 12.4k 1.0× 13.8k 1.2× 4.7k 1.2× 4.4k 1.2× 1.4k 0.6× 494 21.7k
Randal D. Koster United States 71 10.6k 0.8× 11.5k 1.0× 6.1k 1.5× 3.9k 1.0× 1.4k 0.6× 214 17.2k
Xubin Zeng United States 57 10.9k 0.8× 8.8k 0.7× 3.6k 0.9× 2.9k 0.8× 1.6k 0.7× 272 15.8k
Diego G. Miralles Belgium 63 14.7k 1.1× 7.8k 0.7× 4.3k 1.1× 6.3k 1.7× 1.1k 0.5× 165 19.5k
Paul R. Houser United States 50 8.8k 0.7× 8.2k 0.7× 6.0k 1.5× 5.1k 1.4× 2.1k 0.9× 171 16.1k
Gianpaolo Balsamo United Kingdom 48 7.7k 0.6× 7.3k 0.6× 3.3k 0.8× 2.4k 0.6× 966 0.4× 132 11.6k
Paul A. Dirmeyer United States 67 12.2k 0.9× 9.3k 0.8× 4.4k 1.1× 3.5k 0.9× 1.0k 0.5× 212 15.6k
Christoph Schär Switzerland 76 17.8k 1.4× 15.8k 1.3× 2.5k 0.6× 2.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 231 22.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Ek

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Peng, Liqing, Justin Sheffield, Zhongwang Wei, Michael Ek, & Eric F. Wood. (2024). An enhanced Standardized Precipitation–Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) drought-monitoring method integrating land surface characteristics. Earth System Dynamics. 15(5). 1277–1300. 11 indexed citations
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Heinzeller, Dominikus, et al.. (2023). The Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) Framework v6. Geoscientific model development. 16(8). 2235–2259. 10 indexed citations
3.
He, Cenlin, Michael Barlage, Fei Chen, et al.. (2023). Modernizing the open-source community Noah with multi-parameterization options (Noah-MP) land surface model (version 5.0) with enhanced modularity, interoperability, and applicability. Geoscientific model development. 16(17). 5131–5151. 30 indexed citations
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He, Cenlin, Fei Chen, Michael Barlage, et al.. (2023). Enhancing the Community Noah-MP Land Model Capabilities for Earth Sciences and Applications. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 104(11). E2023–E2029. 5 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Kenneth E., Sean Helfrich, Bruce H. Ramsay, et al.. (2016). 50 Years of NOAA N. Hemisphere Snow Cover Analysis: Impact on NOAA NWP Forecasts and Vice Versa. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations
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Kumar, Sujay V., Benjamin F. Zaitchik, C. D. Peters‐Lidard, et al.. (2016). Assimilation of Gridded GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Estimates in the North American Land Data Assimilation System. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 17(7). 1951–1972. 141 indexed citations
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Zhan, Xiwu, Weizhong Zheng, Li Fang, et al.. (2016). A preliminary assessment of the impact of SMAP Soil Moisture on numerical weather Forecasts from GFS and NUWRF models. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 5229–5232. 12 indexed citations
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Ek, Michael, et al.. (2015). Introducing conjoint analysis method into delayed lotteries studies: its validity and time stability are higher than in adjusting. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 23–23. 5 indexed citations
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Guillod, Benoît P., Boris Orlowsky, Diego G. Miralles, et al.. (2014). Land-surface controls on afternoon precipitation diagnosed from observational data: uncertainties and confounding factors. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(16). 8343–8367. 65 indexed citations
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Xia, Youlong, Mike Hobbins, Qiaozhen Mu, & Michael Ek. (2014). Evaluation of NLDAS‐2 evapotranspiration against tower flux site observations. Hydrological Processes. 29(7). 1757–1771. 55 indexed citations
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Yang, Rongqian, Michael Ek, & Jesse Meng. (2014). Surface Water and Energy Budgets for the Mississippi River Basin in Three NCEP Reanalyses. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 16(2). 857–873. 8 indexed citations
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Saha, Suranjana, Shrinivas Moorthi, Xingren Wu, et al.. (2013). The NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2. Journal of Climate. 27(6). 2185–2208. 2599 indexed citations breakdown →
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Meng, Jesse, Rongqian Yang, Helin Wei, et al.. (2012). The Land Surface Analysis in the NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 13(5). 1621–1630. 42 indexed citations
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Ferguson, C., et al.. (2011). Local Land-Atmosphere Coupling (LoCo) Research: Status and Results. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 21(4). 7–9. 8 indexed citations
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Velde, R. van der, Zhongbo Su, Michael Ek, Matthew Rodell, & Y. Ma. (2009). Influence of thermodynamic soil and vegetation parameterizations on the simulation of soil temperature states and surface fluxes by the Noah LSM over a Tibetan plateau site. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 13(6). 759–777. 58 indexed citations
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Ek, Michael. (2004). Testing NCEP operational surface layer parameterizations for stable conditions using CASES99 data. 1 indexed citations
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Murthy, B. S., et al.. (2004). Interactions of the land-surface with the atmospheric boundary layer: case studies from LASPEX. Current Science. 86(8). 1128–1134. 8 indexed citations
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Ek, Michael, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Lin Ying, et al.. (2003). Implementation of Noah land-surface model advances in the NCEP operational mesoscale Eta model. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 12845. 97 indexed citations
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Lackmann, Gary M., et al.. (2002). Model Representation of Freezing and Melting Precipitation: Implications for Winter Weather Forecasting. Weather and Forecasting. 17(5). 1016–1033. 40 indexed citations
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Mahrt, L. & Michael Ek. (1993). Spatial variability of turbulent fluxes and roughness lengths in HAPEX-MOBILHY. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 65(4). 381–400. 74 indexed citations

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