A. A. White

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

A. A. White is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, A. A. White has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Oceanography, 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 24 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in A. A. White's work include Climate variability and models (26 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (24 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (24 papers). A. A. White is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (26 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (24 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (24 papers). A. A. White collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. A. A. White's co-authors include Andrew Staniforth, N. Wood, Andrew J. Malcolm, Mike Cullen, Terry Davies, R. Hide, R. T. H. Barnes, C. A. Wilson, John Thuburn and Nigel Wood and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

In The Last Decade

A. A. White

55 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A new dynamical core for the Met Office's global and regional modelling of the atmosphere

2005 846 citations Andrew Staniforth, A. A. White et al. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society profile →
An inherently mass‐conserving semi‐implicit semi‐Lagrangian discretization of the deep‐atmosphere global non‐hydrostatic equations

2013 348 citations Andrew Staniforth, A. A. White et al. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. A. White United Kingdom	17	1.6k	1.5k	999	528	251	58	2.5k
Ka Kit Tung United States	40	3.4k 2.1×	3.4k 2.3×	1.1k 1.1×	595 1.1×	251 1.0×	106	4.5k
Erik Lindborg Sweden	24	1.4k 0.9×	927 0.6×	804 0.8×	580 1.1×	930 3.7×	45	2.3k
J. C. McWilliams United States	16	816 0.5×	626 0.4×	944 0.9×	281 0.5×	515 2.1×	26	1.7k
Jun‐Ichi Yano France	27	1.9k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	337 0.3×	173 0.3×	268 1.1×	125	2.3k
P. H. Lauritzen United States	29	3.1k 1.9×	2.4k 1.6×	616 0.6×	593 1.1×	600 2.4×	69	3.9k
G. D. Nastrom United States	27	2.3k 1.4×	1.4k 1.0×	639 0.6×	1.4k 2.7×	289 1.2×	107	3.0k
I. N. James United Kingdom	25	2.1k 1.3×	2.0k 1.3×	996 1.0×	256 0.5×	83 0.3×	60	2.7k
D. O. Staley United States	14	2.5k 1.5×	2.1k 1.4×	734 0.7×	555 1.1×	182 0.7×	44	3.3k
H. L. Kuo United States	20	2.0k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	558 0.6×	287 0.5×	314 1.3×	53	2.6k
Shigeo Yoden Japan	27	1.7k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	327 0.3×	402 0.8×	99 0.4×	107	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of A. A. White

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Staniforth, Andrew & A. A. White. (2018). Forms of the thermodynamic energy equation for moist air. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 145(718). 386–393. 8 indexed citations

White, A. A., et al.. (2016). the Flow and Underflow of Motl v. Boyd - The Problem. SMU Scholar (Southern Methodist University). 9(1). 1.

Staniforth, Andrew & A. A. White. (2014). Geophysically Realistic, Ellipsoidal, Analytically Tractable (GREAT) coordinates for atmospheric and oceanic modelling. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 141(690). 1646–1657. 9 indexed citations

Roulstone, Ian, A. A. White, & S. A. Clough. (2013). Geometric invariants of the horizontal velocity gradient tensor and their dynamics in shallow water flow. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 140(685). 2527–2534. 2 indexed citations

Staniforth, Andrew & A. A. White. (2011). Further non-separable exact solutions of the deep- and shallow-atmosphere equations. Atmospheric Science Letters. 12(4). 356–361. 9 indexed citations

White, A. A. & Gordon Inverarity. (2011). A quasi‐spheroidal system for modelling global atmospheres: geodetic coordinates. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 138(662). 27–33. 9 indexed citations

Staniforth, Andrew, A. A. White, & N. Wood. (2010). Treatment of vector equations in deep‐atmosphere, semi‐Lagrangian models. I: Momentum equation. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 136(647). 497–506. 13 indexed citations

Staniforth, Andrew & A. A. White. (2008). Stability of some exact solutions of the shallow‐water equations for testing numerical models in spherical geometry. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 134(632). 771–778. 7 indexed citations

White, A. A., Andrew Staniforth, & N. Wood. (2008). Spheroidal coordinate systems for modelling global atmospheres. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 134(630). 261–270. 25 indexed citations

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Staniforth, Andrew & A. A. White. (2007). Some exact solutions of geophysical fluid‐dynamics equations for testing models in spherical and plane geometry. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 133(627). 1605–1614. 13 indexed citations

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White, A. A.. (2003). Dynamical equivalence and the departure‐point equation in semi‐Lagrangian numerical models. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 129(589). 1317–1324. 7 indexed citations

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Berrisford, Paul, John Marshall, & A. A. White. (1993). Quasigeostrophic Potential Vorticity in Isentropic Coordinates. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 50(5). 778–782. 10 indexed citations

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White, A. A.. (1989). A Relationship between Energy and Angular Momentum Conservation in Dynamical Models. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 46(12). 1855–1860. 2 indexed citations

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White, A. A.. (1988). Spin vectors and rates of change of wind direction. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 114(484). 1535–1543. 1 indexed citations

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Read, P. L., Peter B. Rhines, & A. A. White. (1986). Geostrophic Scatter Diagrams and Potential Vorticity Dynamics. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 43(24). 3226–3240. 29 indexed citations

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Barnes, R. T. H., R. Hide, A. A. White, & C. A. Wilson. (1983). Atmospheric angular momentum fluctuations, length-of-day changes and polar motion. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 387(1792). 31–73. 385 indexed citations

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Hide, R., et al.. (1980). Atmospheric angular momentum fluctuations and changes in the length of the day. Nature. 286(5769). 114–117. 84 indexed citations

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White, A. A. & Alan Gadian. (1979). Baroclinic instability governed by the modified quasi‐geostrophic equations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 105(446). 759–766. 3 indexed citations

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White, A. A.. (1978). A Note on the Horizontal Boundary Condition in Quasi-Geostrophic Models. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 35(4). 735–740. 6 indexed citations

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White, A. A.. (1977). The surface flow in a statistical climate model ‐ a test of a parameterization of large‐scale momentum fluxes. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 103(435). 93–119. 14 indexed citations

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