Leonard K. Amekudzi
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Publishing since 2005, latest 2026
Leonard K. Amekudzi is a Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Science and immediate past Provost, College of Science at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. He holds a BSc Degree in Physics with DipEd, MPhil (Theoretical Physics) from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, in 1997 and 2001. After completing one year of MSC course work at the Institute of Environmental Physics and Remote Sensing at the University of Bremen, Germany, in 2002, the… More on ORCID
- Global and Planetary Change
- Atmospheric Science
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Ecology
- Environmental Engineering
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
In their own words
- Atmospheric Physics
- Atmospheric Remote Sensing
- Tropical Meteorology
- Climate change
- Climate
- Leonard Amekudzi Scholar details
- Publications
- 1522005–2026
- Citations
- 3,336to those papers
- h-index
- 34i10-index 65
- Field-weighted impact
- 2.981.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 34%33 of 96 scored papers
- Open access
- 83%83 of the 100 whose access is recorded
73 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 4,839 citations, h-index 40 and i10-index 91 (3,767 citations and h-index 37 since 2021), as of October 10, 2026. It also counts theses, books and web pages, so it runs higher.
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Papers, and the citations to them
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Positions
- Professor, Meteorology and Climate ScienceKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2020–2028
- Professor and ProvostKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2019–2025
- Associate Professor, PhysicsKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2015–2020
- Postdoc, Institute of Environmental Physics and Remote SensingUniversity of Bremen2006–2008
Education
- PhD, Institute of Environmental Physics and Remote Sensing
Publications
152 in all
- Extreme temperature indices over the Volta Basin: CMIP6 model evaluation
2022Climate DynamicsJournal7 citations10.1007/s00382-022-06503-x
- Analysis of rainfall and temperature trend and variability of the Tordzie Watershed
2022Ghana Journal of Science Technology and DevelopmentJournalOpen access