Charles R. McClain

21.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
217 papers, 15.8k citations indexed

About

Charles R. McClain is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles R. McClain has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 15.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 167 papers in Oceanography, 69 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 63 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Charles R. McClain's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (157 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (77 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (47 papers). Charles R. McClain is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (157 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (77 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (47 papers). Charles R. McClain collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Brazil. Charles R. McClain's co-authors include Gene C. Feldman, David A. Siegel, Bryan A. Franz, Stanford B. Hooker, B. Greg Mitchell, Sérgio R. Signorini, Stéphane Maritorena, Michael J. Behrenfeld, Mati Kahru and Kendall L. Carder and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Charles R. McClain

209 papers receiving 14.7k citations

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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.

Ocean color chlorophyll algorithms for SeaWiFS

1998 2.0k citations David A. Siegel, Charles R. McClain et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivity

2006 1.8k citations Michael J. Behrenfeld, Robert T. O’Malley et al. profile →
A Decade of Satellite Ocean Color Observations

2008 485 citations Charles R. McClain profile →
The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem Mission: Status, Science, Advances

2019 231 citations P. Jeremy Werdell, Michael J. Behrenfeld et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	On-orbit calibration of SeaWiFS 2012 ·Applied Optics ·Robert E. Eplee, Gerhard Meister, Frederick S. Patt, Robert A. Barnes, Sean W. Bailey, Bryan A. Franz, Charles R. McClain	54
2	Cross calibration of SeaWiFS and MODIS using on-orbit observations of the Moon 2011 ·Applied Optics ·Robert E. Eplee, Junqiang Sun, Gerhard Meister, Frederick S. Patt, Xiaoxiong Xiong, Charles R. McClain	54
3	Point-spread function of the ocean color bands of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on Aqua 2010 ·Applied Optics ·Gerhard Meister, Charles R. McClain	34
4	New aerosol models for the retrieval of aerosol optical thickness and normalized water-leaving radiances from the SeaWiFS and MODIS sensors over coastal regions and open oceans 2010 ·Applied Optics ·Ziauddin Ahmad, Bryan A. Franz, Charles R. McClain, Ewa Kwiatkowska, Jeremy Werdell, E. P. Shettle, B. N. Holben	265
5	Satellite-detected fluorescence reveals global physiology of ocean phytoplankton 2009 ·Biogeosciences ·Michael J. Behrenfeld, Toby K. Westberry, Emmanuel Boss, Robert T. O’Malley, David A. Siegel, Jerry D. Wiggert, Bryan A. Franz, Charles R. McClain, Gene C. Feldman, Scott C. Doney, J. Keith Moore, Giorgio Dall’Olmo, A. J. Milligan, Ivan D. Lima, N. M. Mahowald	261
6	Cross calibration of ocean-color bands from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on Terra platform 2008 ·Applied Optics ·Ewa Kwiatkowska, Bryan A. Franz, Gerhard Meister, Charles R. McClain, Xiaoxiong Xiong	97
7	SeaWiFS on-orbit gain and detector calibrations: effect on ocean products 2007 ·Applied Optics ·Robert E. Eplee, Frederick S. Patt, Bryan A. Franz, Sean W. Bailey, Gerhard Meister, Charles R. McClain	5
8	On-orbit vicarious calibration of ocean color sensors using an ocean surface reflectance model 2007 ·Applied Optics ·P. Jeremy Werdell, Sean W. Bailey, Bryan A. Franz, (unknown), Charles R. McClain	44
9	Global statistics of liquid water content and effective number concentration of water clouds over ocean derived from combined CALIPSO and MODIS measurements 2007 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Yongxiang Hu, Mark Vaughan, Charles R. McClain, M. Behrenfeld, Hal Maring, Daniel C. Anderson, Sunny Sun‐Mack, D. E. Flittner, Jianping Huang, B. Wielicki, Patrick Minnis, Carl Weimer, Charles Trepte, Ralph E. Kuehn	49
10	Atmospheric correction for NO_2 absorption in retrieving water-leaving reflectances from the SeaWiFS and MODIS measurements 2007 ·Applied Optics ·Ziauddin Ahmad, Charles R. McClain, J. R. Herman, Bryan A. Franz, Ewa Kwiatkowska, Wayne D. Robinson, E. J. Bucsela, Maria Tzortziou	36
11	SeaWiFS long-term solar diffuser reflectance and sensor noise analyses 2007 ·Applied Optics ·Robert E. Eplee, Frederick S. Patt, Robert A. Barnes, Charles R. McClain	18
12	Comparison of SeaWiFS measurements of the Moon with the US Geological Survey lunar model 2004 ·Applied Optics ·Robert A. Barnes, Robert E. Eplee, Frederick S. Patt, H. H. Kieffer, Thomas C. Stone, Gerhard Meister, James J. Butler, Charles R. McClain	46
13	Unique data repository facilitates ocean color satellite validation 2003 ·Eos ·P. Jeremy Werdell, Sean W. Bailey, Giulietta S. Fargion, Christophe Pietras, Kirk Knobelspiesse, Gene C. Feldman, Charles R. McClain	139
14	Ocean-color optical property data derived from the Japanese Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner and the French Polarization and Directionality of the Earth’s Reflectances: a comparison study 2002 ·Applied Optics ·Menghua Wang, (unknown), Bryan A. Franz, Charles R. McClain	62
15	The Architecture and Utility of SeaBASS: the SeaWiFS Bio-optical Archive and Storage System 2001 ·AGUFM ·P. Jeremy Werdell, Sean W. Bailey, Giulietta S. Fargion, Charles R. McClain	1
16	Calibration of SeaWiFS II Vicarious techniques 2001 ·Applied Optics ·(unknown), Wayne D. Robinson, Sean W. Bailey, Dennis Clark, P. Jeremy Werdell, Menghua Wang, Robert A. Barnes, Charles R. McClain	108
17	Calibration of SeaWiFS I Direct techniques 2001 ·Applied Optics ·Robert A. Barnes, (unknown), (unknown), Frederick S. Patt, Charles R. McClain	90
18	Changes in the radiometric sensitivity of SeaWiFS determined from lunar and solar-based measurements 1999 ·Applied Optics ·Robert A. Barnes, (unknown), Frederick S. Patt, Charles R. McClain	82
19	Vicarious calibration of SeaWiFS 1998 ·Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·R. E. Eplee, Wayne D. Robinson, Brian Schieber, Charles R. McClain, Michael Darzi	2
20	Coastal zone color scanner pigment concentrations in the Southern Ocean and relationships to geophysical surface features 1993 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Josefino C. Comiso, Charles R. McClain, C. W. Sullivan, John P. Ryan, Carrie L. Leonard	234

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