Brian R. Nelson

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Brian R. Nelson is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian R. Nelson has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Atmospheric Science, 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Brian R. Nelson's work include Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (28 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (26 papers) and Climate variability and models (17 papers). Brian R. Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (28 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (26 papers) and Climate variability and models (17 papers). Brian R. Nelson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Brian R. Nelson's co-authors include O. P. Prat, Hamed Ashouri, Dan Braithwaite, L. DeWayne Cecil, Kenneth R. Knapp, Soroosh Sorooshian, Kuolin Hsu, Emad Habib, D. Seo and James A. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Brian R. Nelson

40 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

PERSIANN-CDR: Daily Precipitation Climate Data Record from Multisatellite Observations for Hydrological and Climate Studies

2014 1.1k citations Hamed Ashouri, Kuolin Hsu 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						Papers	Cites
Brian R. Nelson United States	18	1.8k	1.5k	408	358	120	41	2.2k
Hamed Ashouri United States	11	2.5k 1.4×	2.4k 1.6×	715 1.8×	419 1.2×	154 1.3×	15	3.1k
Shinta Seto Japan	18	1.8k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	287 0.7×	581 1.6×	90 0.8×	64	2.1k
Lluís Fita Argentina	22	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	180 0.4×	327 0.9×	173 1.4×	52	1.8k
Xianwu Xue United States	18	967 0.5×	928 0.6×	443 1.1×	304 0.8×	80 0.7×	33	1.4k
Yang Hong United States	25	1.7k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	786 1.9×	565 1.6×	99 0.8×	38	2.4k
Giorgia Fosser Italy	16	1.7k 1.0×	1.9k 1.3×	267 0.7×	125 0.3×	72 0.6×	29	2.1k
Colby K. Fisher United States	8	660 0.4×	916 0.6×	453 1.1×	188 0.5×	125 1.0×	17	1.2k
Tobias Sauter Germany	19	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	480 1.2×	173 0.5×	82 0.7×	48	2.2k
Ashis K. Mitra India	22	1.8k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	194 0.5×	305 0.9×	191 1.6×	112	2.1k
J. Done United States	24	1.7k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	215 0.5×	204 0.6×	258 2.1×	79	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian R. Nelson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nelson, Brian R., et al.. (2025). Exploring the Impact of the Motherhood Penalty on Critical Care Nurses: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 82(2). 1587–1600. 1 indexed citations

Nelson, Brian R., O. P. Prat, & Ronald D. Leeper. (2021). An Investigation of NEXRAD-Based Quantitative Precipitation Estimates in Alaska. Remote Sensing. 13(16). 3202–3202. 1 indexed citations

Prat, O. P., et al.. (2019). Developing an Interactive Global Drought Information Dashboard Using Remotely Sensed Near-Real Time Monitoring. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

Saltikoff, Elena, Katja Friedrich, Joshua Soderholm, et al.. (2019). An Overview of Using Weather Radar for Climatological Studies: Successes, Challenges, and Potential. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 100(9). 1739–1752. 70 indexed citations

Prat, O. P., Ronald D. Leeper, Jesse E. Bell, et al.. (2018). Toward Earlier Drought Detection Using Remotely Sensed Precipitation Data from the Reference Environmental Data Record (REDR) CMORPH. EGUGA. 11468. 2 indexed citations

Seo, Dong-Jun, et al.. (2016). Improving multisensor estimation of heavy-to-extreme precipitation via conditional bias-penalized optimal estimation. Journal of Hydrology. 556. 1096–1109. 14 indexed citations

Prat, O. P., et al.. (2015). Merging Radar Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (QPEs) from the High-resolution NEXRAD Reanalysis over CONUS with Rain-gauge Observations. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

Prat, O. P. & Brian R. Nelson. (2015). Evaluation of precipitation estimates over CONUS derived from satellite, radar, and rain gauge data sets at daily to annual scales (2002–2012). Hydrology and earth system sciences. 19(4). 2037–2056. 84 indexed citations

Prat, O. P., et al.. (2014). Long-Term Large-Scale Bias-Adjusted Precipitation Estimates at High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Derived from the National Mosaic and Multi-Sensor QPE (NMQ/Q2) Precipitation Reanalysis over CONUS. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Ashouri, Hamed, Kuolin Hsu, Soroosh Sorooshian, et al.. (2014). PERSIANN-CDR: Daily Precipitation Climate Data Record from Multisatellite Observations for Hydrological and Climate Studies. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 96(1). 69–83. 1058 indexed citations breakdown →

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Prat, O. P. & Brian R. Nelson. (2014). Evaluation of precipitation estimates over CONUS derived from satellite, radar, and rain gauge datasets (2002–2012). 6 indexed citations

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Qi, Yujin, Kenneth W. Howard, Brian Kaney, et al.. (2013). Retrospective Analysis of High-Resolution Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor QPEs for the Unites States. AGUFM. 2013.

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Prat, O. P. & Brian R. Nelson. (2013). Mapping the world's tropical cyclone rainfall contribution over land using the TRMM Multi‐satellite Precipitation Analysis. Water Resources Research. 49(11). 7236–7254. 80 indexed citations

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Prat, O. P. & Brian R. Nelson. (2012). Precipitation Contribution of Tropical Cyclones in the Southeastern United States from 1998 to 2009 Using TRMM Satellite Data. Journal of Climate. 26(3). 1047–1062. 83 indexed citations

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Prat, O. P., Brian R. Nelson, & Thomas M. Rickenbach. (2010). A Multi-Sensor Approach to Access Precipitation Patterns and Hydro-Climatic Extremes in the Southeastern United States. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2010. 1 indexed citations

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Habib, Emad, William K. Nuttle, Víctor H. Rivera‐Monroy, et al.. (2007). Effect of rainfall spatial variability and sampling on salinity prediction in an estuarine system. Journal of Hydrology. 350(1-2). 56–67. 19 indexed citations

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Nelson, Brian R.. (2006). Western Political Thought. 2 indexed citations

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Nelson, Brian R., Witold F. Krajewski, Anton Kruger, James A. Smith, & Mary Lynn Baeck. (2003). Archival precipitation data set for the Mississippi River Basin: development of a GIS-based data browser. Computers & Geosciences. 29(5). 595–604. 15 indexed citations

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Young, C. Bryan, Brian R. Nelson, A. Allen Bradley, et al.. (1999). An evaluation of NEXRAD precipitation estimates in complex terrain. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 104(D16). 19691–19703. 118 indexed citations

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Nelson, Brian R.. (1981). Western Political Thought: From Socrates to the Age of Ideology. 8 indexed citations

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