Christian D. Kummerow

18.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
202 papers, 12.6k citations indexed

About

Christian D. Kummerow is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian D. Kummerow has authored 202 papers receiving a total of 12.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 190 papers in Atmospheric Science, 104 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 52 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christian D. Kummerow's work include Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (166 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (162 papers) and Climate variability and models (73 papers). Christian D. Kummerow is often cited by papers focused on Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (166 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (162 papers) and Climate variability and models (73 papers). Christian D. Kummerow collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Italy. Christian D. Kummerow's co-authors include Joanne Simpson, William S. Olson, J. C. Shiue, Toshiaki Kozu, William Barnes, Louis Giglio, Toshio Iguchi, Ramesh K. Kakar, Arthur Y. Hou and Riko Oki and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Christian D. Kummerow

196 papers receiving 12.1k 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.

The Global Precipitation Measurement Mission

2013 2.1k citations Arthur Y. Hou, Christian D. Kummerow et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Sensor Package

1998 2.0k citations Christian D. Kummerow, Joanne Simpson et al. profile →
The Evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF) for Rainfall Estimation from Passive Microwave Sensors

2001 675 citations Christian D. Kummerow, Yang Hong et al. Journal of Applied Meteorology profile →
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission for Science and Society

2016 584 citations Wesley Berg, Erich Franz Stocker et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Advancing Global Precipitation Data Products: Recommendations from the International Precipitation Working Group 2025 ·Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·(unknown), Christian D. Kummerow, Giulia Panegrossi, Sarah Ringerud, Nobuyuki Utsumi, F. Joseph Turk	0
2	GPROF V7 and beyond: assessment of current and potential future versions of the GPROF passive microwave precipitation retrievals against ground radar measurements over the continental US and the Pacific Ocean 2024 ·Atmospheric measurement techniques ·(unknown), Clément Guilloteau, P. Brown, Christian D. Kummerow, Patrick Eriksson	9
3	Applying machine learning methods to detect convection using Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) advanced baseline imager (ABI) data 2021 ·Atmospheric measurement techniques ·(unknown), Christian D. Kummerow, Imme Ebert‐Uphoff	29
4	A Comparison of the GPROF Algorithm Results in the 2A-CLIM and 2A Data Products 2019 ·The EGU General Assembly ·Erich Franz Stocker, (unknown), David L. Randel, Christian D. Kummerow	0
5	Towards variational retrieval of warm rain from passive microwave observations 2018 ·Atmospheric measurement techniques ·David Duncan, Christian D. Kummerow, Brenda Dolan, Veljko Petković	9
6	A Climate Data Record (CDR) for the global terrestrial water budget: 1984–2010 2018 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Yu Zhang, Ming Pan, Justin Sheffield, (unknown), Colby K. Fisher, Miaoling Liang, Hylke E. Beck, Niko Wanders, (unknown), Paul R. Houser, Tian Zhou, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, R. T. Pinker, Janice L. Bytheway, Christian D. Kummerow, Eric F. Wood	93
7	Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission: Precipitation Processing System (PPS) GPM Mission Gridded Text Products Provide Surface Precipitation Retrievals 2015 ·NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) ·Erich Franz Stocker, (unknown), Christian D. Kummerow, George J. Huffman, William S. Olson, John Kwiatkowski	1
8	Overview of Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST) CubeSat constellation mission 2015 ·Steven C. Reising, T. Gaier, Christian D. Kummerow, V. Chandrasekar, Shannon Brown, Sharmila Padmanabhan, Boon Lim, Susan C. van den Heever, Tristan L’Ecuyer, Christopher S. Ruf, Ziad S. Haddad, Zhengzhao Luo, S. Joseph Munchak, (unknown), T. Koch, Sid‐Ahmed Boukabara	28
9	Effect of microphysics scheme in cloud resolving models in passive microwave remote sensing of precipitation over ocean 2014 ·EGUGA ·Ju‐Hye Kim, Dong‐Bin Shin, Christian D. Kummerow	1
10	Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST) CubeSat Constellation 2014 ·AGUFM ·Steven C. Reising, (unknown), Sharmila Padmanabhan, Shannon Brown, Boon Lim, Christian D. Kummerow, (unknown), Susan C. van den Heever, Tristan L’Ecuyer, Zhengzhao Luo, Ziad S. Haddad, S. Joseph Munchak, Christopher S. Ruf, G. Berg, T. Koch, (unknown)	1
11	Developing Consistent Earth System Data Records for the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle 2011 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Ming Pan, A. Sahoo, Rémi Meynadier, Justin Sheffield, (unknown), T. J. Bohn, (unknown), (unknown), Yingtao Ma, (unknown), (unknown), Janice L. Bytheway, Eric F. Wood, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Paul R. Houser, R. T. Pinker, Christian D. Kummerow	1
12	Satellite Data Simulator Unit 2010 ·Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·Hirohiko Masunaga, Toshihisa Matsui, Wei‐Kuo Tao, Arthur Y. Hou, Christian D. Kummerow, Teruyuki Nakajima, Péter Bauer, William S. Olson, Miho Sekiguchi, Takashi Y. Nakajima	74
13	Changes in the TRMM Version 7 Space/Time Averaged Level 3 Data Products Based on GPROF TMI Swath-Based Precipitation Retrievals 2010 ·European geosciences union general assembly ·Erich Franz Stocker, (unknown), Christian D. Kummerow, Joyce Chou, (unknown)	1
14	Goddard Satellite Data Simulation Unit: Multi-Sensor Satellite Simulators to Support Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Satellite Missions 2009 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Takashi Matsui, W. Tao, Hirohiko Masunaga, Christian D. Kummerow, William S. Olson, (unknown), (unknown), Ming‐Chung Chou, Takashi Y. Nakajima, (unknown), Jann–Long Chern, (unknown), Xin‐Min Zeng, Derek J. Posselt, Katsuhiko Suzuki	2
15	Use of the TRMM-PR for Estimating the TMI Beam Filling Correction 2009 ·Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II ·T. T. Wilheit, Christian D. Kummerow	4
16	Precipitation and Latent Heating Distributions from Satellite Passive Microwave Radiometry 2004 ·Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology ·William S. Olson, Christian D. Kummerow, Song Yang, Grant W. Petty, Wei‐Kuo Tao, Thomas L. Bell, Scott A. Braun, Yansen Wang, S. Lang, Daniel E. Johnson	20
17	Toward a Global Map of Raindrop Size Distributions 2004 ·Journal of Hydrometeorology ·Tristan L’Ecuyer, Christian D. Kummerow, Wesley Berg	1
18	The Evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF) for Rainfall Estimation from Passive Microwave Sensors breakdown → 2001 ·Journal of Applied Meteorology ·Christian D. Kummerow, Yang Hong, William S. Olson, Song Yang, Robert F. Adler, J. McCollum, Ralph Ferraro, Grant W. Petty, (unknown), T. T. Wilheit	675
19	Vertical Profiles of Latent Heat Release and Their Retrieval for TOGA COARE Convective Systems using a Cloud Resolving Model, SSM/I, and Ship-borne Radar Data 2000 ·Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II ·Wei Tao, S. Lang, Joanne Simpson, William S. Olson, David W. Johnson, Brad S. Ferrier, Christian D. Kummerow, Robert F. Adler	68
20	The TRMM ‘Day-1’ Radar/Radiometer Combined Rain-Profiling Algorithm 1997 ·Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II ·Ziad S. Haddad, Eric A. Smith, Christian D. Kummerow, Toshio Iguchi, (unknown), Stephen L. Durden, Marcos Nopper Alves, William S. Olson	161

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