Brian V. Smoliak

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Brian V. Smoliak is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian V. Smoliak has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 8 papers in Atmospheric Science and 3 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Brian V. Smoliak's work include Climate variability and models (8 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (4 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (3 papers). Brian V. Smoliak is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (8 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (4 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (3 papers). Brian V. Smoliak collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Taiwan. Brian V. Smoliak's co-authors include John M. Wallace, Clara Deser, Michael A. Alexander, Adam S. Phillips, Xianyao Chen, Norden E. Huang, Zhaohua Wu, Vimal Mishra, Dennis P. Lettenmaier and Pu Lin and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Brian V. Smoliak

11 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Projecting North American Climate over the Next 50 Years: Uncertainty due to Internal Variability*

2013 400 citations Clara Deser, Adam S. Phillips et al. Journal of Climate profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian V. Smoliak United States	9	1.2k	948	246	128	120	11	1.4k
D. R. Pattanaik India	18	1.0k 0.9×	871 0.9×	232 0.9×	108 0.8×	79 0.7×	88	1.2k
Christophe Lavaysse France	22	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	135 0.5×	74 0.6×	71 0.6×	43	1.5k
F. S. Syed Pakistan	15	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	200 0.8×	79 0.6×	159 1.3×	21	1.6k
Fumin Ren China	23	1.8k 1.5×	1.6k 1.7×	379 1.5×	103 0.8×	146 1.2×	64	2.0k
Mio Matsueda Japan	19	1.6k 1.3×	1.6k 1.7×	285 1.2×	89 0.7×	114 0.9×	45	1.8k
Liwei Zou China	26	1.8k 1.5×	1.6k 1.7×	333 1.4×	75 0.6×	151 1.3×	64	2.0k
Peter B. Gibson New Zealand	18	984 0.8×	820 0.9×	114 0.5×	143 1.1×	95 0.8×	43	1.3k
Alejandro Di Luca Australia	24	1.6k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	163 0.7×	167 1.3×	122 1.0×	51	1.8k
Donald Murray United States	11	967 0.8×	836 0.9×	163 0.7×	92 0.7×	63 0.5×	15	1.2k
Ghyslaine Boschat Australia	15	1.0k 0.9×	767 0.8×	239 1.0×	111 0.9×	53 0.4×	27	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Brian V. Smoliak

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian V. Smoliak

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11 of 11 papers shown

Smoliak, Brian V., et al.. (2022). Mapping potential surface contributions to reflected solar radiation. Environmental Research Communications. 4(6). 65003–65003. 3 indexed citations

Smoliak, Brian V., et al.. (2015). Dense Network Observations of the Twin Cities Canopy-Layer Urban Heat Island. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 54(9). 1899–1917. 70 indexed citations

Smoliak, Brian V. & John M. Wallace. (2015). On the Leading Patterns of Northern Hemisphere Sea Level Pressure Variability*. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 72(9). 3469–3486. 22 indexed citations

Smoliak, Brian V., John M. Wallace, Pu Lin, & Qiang Fu. (2014). Dynamical Adjustment of the Northern Hemisphere Surface Air Temperature Field: Methodology and Application to Observations. Journal of Climate. 28(4). 1613–1629. 90 indexed citations

Deser, Clara, Adam S. Phillips, Michael A. Alexander, & Brian V. Smoliak. (2013). Projecting North American Climate over the Next 50 Years: Uncertainty due to Internal Variability*. Journal of Climate. 27(6). 2271–2296. 400 indexed citations breakdown →

Wallace, John M., Qiang Fu, Brian V. Smoliak, Pu Lin, & Celeste M. Johanson. (2012). Simulated versus observed patterns of warming over the extratropical Northern Hemisphere continents during the cold season. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(36). 14337–14342. 144 indexed citations

Mishra, Vimal, Brian V. Smoliak, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, & John M. Wallace. (2012). A prominent pattern of year-to-year variability in Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(19). 7213–7217. 256 indexed citations

Wu, Zhaohua, Norden E. Huang, John M. Wallace, Brian V. Smoliak, & Xianyao Chen. (2011). On the time-varying trend in global-mean surface temperature. Climate Dynamics. 37(3-4). 341 indexed citations

Smoliak, Brian V., John M. Wallace, Mark T. Stoelinga, & Todd P. Mitchell. (2010). Application of partial least squares regression to the diagnosis of year‐to‐year variations in Pacific Northwest snowpack and Atlantic hurricanes. Geophysical Research Letters. 37(3). 46 indexed citations

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Wood, Kevin R., James E. Overland, Trausti Jónsson, & Brian V. Smoliak. (2010). Air temperature variations on the Atlantic‐Arctic boundary since 1802. Geophysical Research Letters. 37(17). 25 indexed citations

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Bendick, Rebecca, Kyla M. Dahlin, Brian V. Smoliak, et al.. (2010). Choosing Carbon Mitigation Strategies Using Ethical Deliberation. Weather Climate and Society. 2(2). 140–147. 1 indexed citations

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