Christine A. Shields

7.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
68 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Christine A. Shields is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Christine A. Shields has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Atmospheric Science, 48 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 14 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Christine A. Shields's work include Climate variability and models (42 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (25 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (19 papers). Christine A. Shields is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (42 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (25 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (19 papers). Christine A. Shields collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Christine A. Shields's co-authors include J. T. Kiehl, Karen M. Shell, Filippo Giorgi, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, James J. Hack, Brian J. Soden, Isaac M. Held, Robert Colman, Linda O. Mearns and Stephen Yeager and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Christine A. Shields

64 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Quantifying Climate Feedbacks Using Radiative Kernels

2008 609 citations J. T. Kiehl, Christine A. Shields et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Responses and impacts of atmospheric rivers to climate change

2020 267 citations Ashley E. Payne, L. Ruby Leung et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Modulations of Atmospheric River Climatology by the Stratospheric Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation 2025 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·(unknown), Christine A. Shields, Kirsten Hall, Jadwiga H. Richter, (unknown), Chih‐Chieh Chen	0
2	Regional and Temporal Variability of Atmospheric River Seasonality: Influences of Detection Algorithms and Moisture Transport Dynamics 2025 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·(unknown), Travis O’Brien, (unknown), Paul W. Staten, Christine A. Shields	0
3	Rising atmospheric moisture escalates the future impact of atmospheric rivers in the Antarctic climate system 2025 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Michelle Maclennan, Andrew C. Winters, Christine A. Shields, (unknown), (unknown), Francis Codron, Jonathan Wille	1
4	Processes that Contribute to Future South Asian Monsoon Differences in E3SMv2 and CESM2 2024 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Gerald A. Meehl, Christine A. Shields, Julie M. Arblaster, John Fasullo, Nan Rosenbloom, Aixue Hu, Richard Neale, Antonietta Capotondi, Jean‐Christophe Golaz, Luke Van Roekel, H. Annamalai	2
5	An overview of the E3SM version 2 large ensemble and comparison to other E3SM and CESM large ensembles 2024 ·Earth System Dynamics ·John Fasullo, Jean‐Christophe Golaz, Julie M. Caron, Nan Rosenbloom, Gerald A. Meehl, Gary Strand, (unknown), Samantha Stevenson, María J. Molina, Christine A. Shields, Chengzhu Zhang, James J. Benedict, Hailong Wang, Tony Bartoletti	6
6	Investigating Future Arctic Sea Ice Loss and Near‐Surface Wind Speed Changes Related to Surface Roughness Using the Community Earth System Model 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Alice K. DuVivier, Stephen J. Vavrus, Marika M. Holland, Laura Landrum, Christine A. Shields, (unknown)	6
7	Synoptic Drivers of Atmospheric River Induced Precipitation Near Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·(unknown), Andrew C. Winters, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, Christine A. Shields	11
8	Climatology and surface impacts of atmospheric rivers on West Antarctica 2023 ·The cryosphere ·Michelle Maclennan, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, Christine A. Shields, Andrew O. Hoffman, Nander Wever, (unknown), Andrew C. Winters, Erin C. Pettit, T. A. Scambos, Jonathan Wille	18
9	Climate Base State Influences on South Asian Monsoon Processes Derived From Analyses of E3SMv2 and CESM2 2023 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Gerald A. Meehl, Christine A. Shields, Julie M. Arblaster, Richard Neale, Aixue Hu, H. Annamalai, Jean‐Christophe Golaz, John Fasullo, Nan Rosenbloom, Luke Van Roekel, Antonietta Capotondi	7
10	An Overview of ARTMIP's Tier 2 Reanalysis Intercomparison: Uncertainty in the Detection of Atmospheric Rivers and Their Associated Precipitation 2022 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Allison B. Marquardt Collow, Christine A. Shields, Bin Guan, (unknown), Juan M. Lora, Elizabeth McClenny, Kyle M. Nardi, Ashley E. Payne, Kimberley J. Reid, E. J. Shearer, Ricardo Tomé, Jonathan Wille, Alexandre M. Ramos, Irina Gorodetskaya, L. Ruby Leung, Travis O’Brien, F. Martin Ralph, Jonathan J. Rutz, Paul Ullrich, Michael Wehner	62
11	Characteristics of Future Warmer Base States in CESM2 2020 ·Earth and Space Science ·Gerald A. Meehl, Julie M. Arblaster, Susan C. Bates, Jadwiga H. Richter, Claudia Tebaldi, Andrew Gettelman, Brian Medeiros, Julio T. Bacmeister, Patricia DeRepentigny, Nan Rosenbloom, Christine A. Shields, Aixue Hu, Haiyan Teng, Michael Mills, Gary Strand	26
12	Effects of Model Resolution, Physics, and Coupling on Southern Hemisphere Storm Tracks in CESM1.3 2019 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Gerald A. Meehl, Dongxia Yang, Julie M. Arblaster, Susan C. Bates, Nan Rosenbloom, Richard Neale, Julio T. Bacmeister, P. H. Lauritzen, Frank O. Bryan, Justin Small, John Truesdale, Cécile Hannay, Christine A. Shields, Gary Strand, John M. Dennis, Gökhan Danabasoglu	45
13	Permian Megamonsoon Sensitivity to Paleo-Tethys Warm Pool:Model Simulations using CCSM3 2017 ·Christine A. Shields, J. T. Kiehl	1
14	A model–model and data–model comparison for the early Eocene hydrological cycle 2016 ·Climate of the past ·Matthew J. Carmichael, Daniel J. Lunt, Matthew Huber, Malte Heinemann, J. T. Kiehl, Allegra N. LeGrande, Claire Loptson, Christopher D. Roberts, Navjit Sagoo, Christine A. Shields, Paul J. Valdes, A. Winguth, C. Winguth, Richard D. Pancost	65
15	A model-based evaluation of tropical climate in Pangaea during the late Palaeozoic icehouse 2015 ·Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology ·Nicholas Heavens, N. M. Mahowald, Gerilyn S. Soreghan, Michael J. Soreghan, Christine A. Shields	46
16	Insights into the early Eocene hydrological cycle from an ensemble of atmosphere–ocean GCM simulations 2015 ·(unknown), Daniel J. Lunt, Matthew Huber, Malte Heinemann, J. Kiehl, Allegra N. LeGrande, Claire Loptson, Christopher D. Roberts, Navjit Sagoo, Christine A. Shields, Paul J. Valdes, A. Winguth, C. Winguth, Richard D. Pancost	3
17	Vegetation-climate interactions in the warm mid-Cretaceous 2012 ·Climate of the past ·J. Zhou, Christopher J. Poulsen, Nan Rosenbloom, Christine A. Shields, Bruce P. Briegleb	39
18	A paleogeographic approach to aerosol prescription in simulations of deep time climate 2012 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Nicholas Heavens, Christine A. Shields, N. M. Mahowald	24
19	The Climate Sensitivity of the Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3) 2006 ·Journal of Climate ·J. T. Kiehl, Christine A. Shields, James J. Hack, William D. Collins	156
20	ENSO Response to Increased Greenhouse Gas Forcing in the NCAR Climate System Model 2002 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Esther C. Brady, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Christine A. Shields	1

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