Amato T. Evan

6.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Amato T. Evan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Amato T. Evan has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 47 papers in Atmospheric Science and 14 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Amato T. Evan's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (32 papers), Climate variability and models (31 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (29 papers). Amato T. Evan is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (32 papers), Climate variability and models (31 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (29 papers). Amato T. Evan collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Italy. Amato T. Evan's co-authors include Jonathan A. Foley, Chad Monfreda, Navin Ramankutty, Andrew K. Heidinger, Cyrille Flamant, Daniel J. Vimont, Joel R. Norris, Suzana J. Camargo, Robert J. Allen and N. M. Mahowald and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Amato T. Evan

54 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000

2008 1.4k citations Navin Ramankutty, Amato T. Evan et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
Mineral dust aerosol impacts on global climate and climate change

2023 221 citations Jasper F. Kok, Adeyemi A. Adebiyi et al. profile →

Peers

Amato T. Evan

GPC

AS

EP

ECOLO

OCEAN

Anders Moberg Sweden

Erik Kjellström Sweden

Manuel Gloor United Kingdom

Murat Türkeş Türkiye

Cameron P. Wake United States

Mark R. Jury South Africa

César Azorín-Molina Spain

Rudolf Brázdil Czechia

Richard Wood United Kingdom

Alexandre M. Ramos Portugal

Anders Moberg Sweden

Amato T. Evan

4.7k ×1.3

GPC

5.0k ×1.8

AS

230 ×0.4

EP

462 ×0.7

ECOLO

376 ×0.7

OCEAN

Citations per year, relative to Amato T. Evan Amato T. Evan (= 1×) peers Anders Moberg

Countries citing papers authored by Amato T. Evan

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Amato T. Evan's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Amato T. Evan with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Amato T. Evan more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Amato T. Evan

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Amato T. Evan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Amato T. Evan. The network helps show where Amato T. Evan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amato T. Evan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Amato T. Evan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Amato T. Evan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Amato T. Evan. Amato T. Evan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

1.

Kok, Jasper F., Ashok Kumar Gupta, Amato T. Evan, et al.. (2025). Desert dust exerts a substantial longwave radiative forcing missing from climate models. California Digital Library.

2.

Evan, Amato T., et al.. (2024). Quantifying the dust direct radiative effect in the southwestern United States: findings from multiyear measurements. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 24(17). 9843–9868.

3.

Evan, Amato T., et al.. (2022). Measurements of a Dusty Density Current in the Western Sonoran Desert. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(8). 7 indexed citations

4.

Evan, Amato T., et al.. (2021). Influence of Dust on Precipitation During Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers in an Idealized Framework. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(22). 2 indexed citations

5.

Evan, Amato T., et al.. (2021). On the Misclassification of Dust as Cloud at an AERONET Site in the Sonoran Desert. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 39(2). 181–191. 10 indexed citations

6.

Evan, Amato T. & Ian Eisenman. (2021). A mechanism for regional variations in snowpack melt under rising temperature. Nature Climate Change. 11(4). 326–330. 27 indexed citations

7.

Francis, Diana, Ricardo Fonseca, Narendra Nelli, et al.. (2020). The Atmospheric Drivers of the Major Saharan Dust Storm in June 2020. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(24). 63 indexed citations

8.

Kok, Jasper F., D. S. Ward, N. M. Mahowald, & Amato T. Evan. (2018). Global and regional importance of the direct dust-climate feedback. Nature Communications. 9(1). 241–241. 180 indexed citations

9.

Evan, Amato T.. (2018). A New Method to Characterize Changes in the Seasonal Cycle of Snowpack. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 58(1). 131–143. 6 indexed citations

10.

Evan, Amato T., Cyrille Flamant, Marco Gaetani, & Françoise Guichard. (2016). The past, present and future of African dust. Nature. 531(7595). 493–495. 176 indexed citations

11.

Lavaysse, Christophe, Cyrille Flamant, Amato T. Evan, Serge Janicot, & Marco Gaetani. (2015). Recent climatological trend of the Saharan heat low and its impact on the West African climate. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 50 indexed citations

12.

Lavaysse, Christophe, Cyrille Flamant, Amato T. Evan, Serge Janicot, & Marco Gaetani. (2015). Recent climatological trend of the Saharan heat low and its impact on the West African climate. Climate Dynamics. 47(11). 3479–3498. 4 indexed citations

13.

Doherty, Owen & Amato T. Evan. (2014). Identification of a new dust‐stratocumulus indirect effect over the tropical North Atlantic. Geophysical Research Letters. 41(19). 6935–6942. 26 indexed citations

14.

Evan, Amato T., et al.. (2012). Increasing intensity of Arabian Sea tropical cyclones and the South Asian atmospheric brown cloud (ABC). 한국기상학회 학술대회 논문집. 5–6. 1 indexed citations

15.

Evan, Amato T., et al.. (2012). Contributions of long‐distance dust transport to atmospheric P inputs in the Yucatan Peninsula. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 27(1). 167–175. 30 indexed citations

16.

Heidinger, Andrew K., Amato T. Evan, Michael J. Foster, & Andi Walther. (2012). A Naive Bayesian Cloud-Detection Scheme Derived from CALIPSO and Applied within PATMOS-x. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 51(6). 1129–1144. 162 indexed citations

17.

Evan, Amato T., James P. Kossin, C. E. Chung, & V. Ramanathan. (2011). Arabian Sea tropical cyclones intensified by emissions of black carbon and other aerosols. Nature. 479(7371). 94–97. 149 indexed citations

18.

Ramankutty, Navin, Amato T. Evan, Chad Monfreda, & Jonathan A. Foley. (2008). Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 22(1). 1397 indexed citations breakdown →

19.

Ramankutty, Navin, Amato T. Evan, Chad Monfreda, & Jonathan A. Foley. (2007). Farming the Planet. Part 1: The 1 Geographic Distribution of Global Agricultural Lands in the Year 2000. 3 indexed citations

20.

Evan, Amato T., Andrew K. Heidinger, & Daniel J. Vimont. (2007). Arguments against a physical long‐term trend in global ISCCP cloud amounts. Geophysical Research Letters. 34(4). 179 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact