Christopher Funk

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Christopher Funk is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Funk has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 10 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Christopher Funk's work include Climate variability and models (8 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (6 papers) and Human Pose and Action Recognition (6 papers). Christopher Funk is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (8 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (6 papers) and Human Pose and Action Recognition (6 papers). Christopher Funk collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Germany. Christopher Funk's co-authors include Park Williams, Dar A. Roberts, Joel Michaelsen, Shraddhanand Shukla, G. J. Husak, Christoph C. Borel, James Theiler, Kathryn Grace, Narcisa G. Pricope and David López‐Carr and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Funk

45 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

A westward extension of the warm pool leads to a westward extension of the Walker circulation, drying eastern Africa

2011 400 citations Park Williams, Christopher Funk Climate Dynamics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Funk United States	22	830	466	234	188	176	48	1.7k
Peter Zeil Austria	13	725 0.9×	244 0.5×	216 0.9×	73 0.4×	187 1.1×	39	1.5k
Guojie Wang China	26	1.4k 1.7×	566 1.2×	264 1.1×	176 0.9×	353 2.0×	91	2.7k
Andrew Michaelis United States	21	1.4k 1.6×	522 1.1×	109 0.5×	87 0.5×	596 3.4×	41	2.0k
Raúl R. Cordero Chile	25	760 0.9×	887 1.9×	79 0.3×	244 1.3×	243 1.4×	114	2.1k
George Azzari United States	17	815 1.0×	280 0.6×	327 1.4×	94 0.5×	1.2k 6.7×	24	2.1k
Qingxi Tong China	20	945 1.1×	624 1.3×	69 0.3×	143 0.8×	980 5.6×	114	2.3k
Xinwu Li China	23	529 0.6×	552 1.2×	29 0.1×	138 0.7×	246 1.4×	192	2.3k
Shengbo Chen China	23	464 0.6×	356 0.8×	45 0.2×	61 0.3×	603 3.4×	161	1.7k
Christopher D. Lippitt United States	19	1.1k 1.3×	228 0.5×	47 0.2×	65 0.3×	476 2.7×	56	1.8k
Orhan Altan Türkiye	20	720 0.9×	271 0.6×	29 0.1×	76 0.4×	265 1.5×	45	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Funk

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Funk

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christopher Funk. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christopher Funk based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christopher Funk. Christopher Funk is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Turner, William, et al.. (2025). Investigating the performance of high-resolution subseasonal precipitation forecasts in support of food insecurity early warning. Environmental Research Climate. 1 indexed citations

Du, Dawei, et al.. (2024). Human Activity Recognition in an Open World. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. 81. 935–971.

Montgomery, Sean P., et al.. (2022). Detection of pneumothorax on ultrasound using artificial intelligence. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 94(3). 379–384. 12 indexed citations

Funk, Christopher, et al.. (2018). Learning Dynamics from Kinematics: Estimating Foot Pressure from Video. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

Husak, G. J., Shraddhanand Shukla, Christopher Funk, & Mike Hobbins. (2018). Investigating the Inputs to SPEI and Their Importance in Identifying Agroclimatic Hazards. AGUFM. 2018. 1 indexed citations

Nagendra, S., Christopher Funk, Robert T. Collins, & Yanxi Liu. (2018). Foot Pressure from Video: A Deep Learning Approach to Predict Dynamics from Kinematics. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

Ayasse, Alana, Andrew K. Thorpe, Dar A. Roberts, et al.. (2018). Evaluating the effects of surface properties on methane retrievals using a synthetic airborne visible/infrared imaging spectrometer next generation (AVIRIS-NG) image. Remote Sensing of Environment. 215. 386–397. 39 indexed citations

Nobre, Gabriela Guimarães, Frank Davenport, Ted Veldkamp, et al.. (2018). Financing agricultural drought risk through ex-ante cash transfers. The Science of The Total Environment. 653. 523–535. 32 indexed citations

Funk, Christopher, J. P. Verdin, Gideon Galu, et al.. (2016). Advancing Integrated African Early Warning Science and Climate Services. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Funk, Christopher. (2015). The Bar Against Patenting Others' Secrets. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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McNally, Amy, J. P. Verdin, C. D. Peters‐Lidard, et al.. (2015). Land Surface Modeling Applications for Famine Early Warning. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Budde, Michael, Gideon Galu, Christopher Funk, J. P. Verdin, & James Rowland. (2014). Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) Contributions to Strengthening Resilience and Sustainability for the East African Community. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 6 indexed citations

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Pricope, Narcisa G., G. J. Husak, David López‐Carr, Christopher Funk, & Joel Michaelsen. (2013). The climate-population nexus in the East African Horn: Emerging degradation trends in rangeland and pastoral livelihood zones. Global Environmental Change. 23(6). 1525–1541. 107 indexed citations

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Marshall, Michael, Kevin Tu, Christopher Funk, et al.. (2013). Improving operational land surface model canopy evapotranspiration in Africa using a direct remote sensing approach. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(3). 1079–1091. 32 indexed citations

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Funk, Christopher, et al.. (2013). A cognitive approach to vision for a mobile robot. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8756. 87560I–87560I. 4 indexed citations

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Husak, G. J., Christopher Funk, Joel Michaelsen, Tamuka Magadzire, & Kirk Goldsberry. (2013). Developing seasonal rainfall scenarios for food security early warning. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 114(1-2). 291–302. 23 indexed citations

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Marshall, Michael, Kevin Tu, Christopher Funk, et al.. (2012). Combining surface reanalysis and remote sensing data for monitoring evapotranspiration. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 3 indexed citations

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Verspoor, Karin, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, H. L. Johnson, et al.. (2012). A corpus of full-text journal articles is a robust evaluation tool for revealing differences in performance of biomedical natural language processing tools. BMC Bioinformatics. 13(1). 207–207. 81 indexed citations

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Williams, Park & Christopher Funk. (2011). A westward extension of the warm pool leads to a westward extension of the Walker circulation, drying eastern Africa. Climate Dynamics. 37(11-12). 2417–2435. 400 indexed citations breakdown →

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Budde, Michael, James Rowland, & Christopher Funk. (2010). Agriculture and food availability -- remote sensing of agriculture for food security monitoring in the developing world. 5 indexed citations

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