Christopher S. Bretherton

40.2k total citations · 11 hit papers
252 papers, 25.4k citations indexed

About

Christopher S. Bretherton is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher S. Bretherton has authored 252 papers receiving a total of 25.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 233 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 230 papers in Atmospheric Science and 32 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Christopher S. Bretherton's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (168 papers), Climate variability and models (162 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (109 papers). Christopher S. Bretherton is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (168 papers), Climate variability and models (162 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (109 papers). Christopher S. Bretherton collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Christopher S. Bretherton's co-authors include John M. Wallace, Robert Wood, Catherine A. Smith, Sungsu Park, Peter N. Blossey, Larissa E. Back, Adam H. Sobel, Martin Widmann, M. C. Wyant and Marat Khairoutdinov and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Christopher S. Bretherton

249 papers receiving 24.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3) 1992 2026 2003 2014 2006 1992 1999 2006 1994 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)
    2006 2.0k citations Christopher S. Bretherton et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  2. An Intercomparison of Methods for Finding Coupled Patterns in Climate Data
    1992 1.3k citations Christopher S. Bretherton et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  3. The Effective Number of Spatial Degrees of Freedom of a Time-Varying Field
    1999 1.3k citations Christopher S. Bretherton et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  4. How Well Do We Understand and Evaluate Climate Change Feedback Processes?
    2006 765 citations Christopher S. Bretherton et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  5. On large‐scale circulations in convecting atmospheres
    1994 700 citations Christopher S. Bretherton et al. profile →
  6. Relationships between Water Vapor Path and Precipitation over the Tropical Oceans
    2004 588 citations Christopher S. Bretherton et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  7. A Large Eddy Simulation Intercomparison Study of Shallow Cumulus Convection
    2003 583 citations Christopher S. Bretherton et al. profile →
  8. A New Moist Turbulence Parameterization in the Community Atmosphere Model
    2008 542 citations Christopher S. Bretherton et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  9. Singular Value Decomposition of Wintertime Sea Surface Temperature and 500-mb Height Anomalies
    1992 535 citations Christopher S. Bretherton et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  10. On the Relationship between Stratiform Low Cloud Cover and Lower-Tropospheric Stability
    2006 522 citations Robert Wood, Christopher S. Bretherton Journal of Climate profile →
  11. DYAMOND: the DYnamics of the Atmospheric general circulation Modeled On Non-hydrostatic Domains
    2019 332 citations Christopher S. Bretherton, Linjiong Zhou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher S. Bretherton United States 79 22.3k 21.9k 4.4k 1.6k 1.5k 252 25.4k
Björn Stevens Germany 79 25.1k 1.1× 22.8k 1.0× 3.3k 0.8× 2.3k 1.5× 2.8k 1.9× 320 30.6k
Philip J. Rasch United States 67 16.1k 0.7× 17.1k 0.8× 2.3k 0.5× 632 0.4× 748 0.5× 280 20.8k
David A. Randall United States 74 19.5k 0.9× 16.6k 0.8× 2.0k 0.5× 719 0.5× 2.2k 1.4× 265 23.1k
Robert A. Houze United States 86 18.8k 0.8× 22.0k 1.0× 3.4k 0.8× 646 0.4× 1.6k 1.0× 231 23.5k
William D. Collins United States 53 17.0k 0.8× 16.8k 0.8× 3.3k 0.8× 535 0.3× 1.5k 1.0× 246 22.4k
Isaac M. Held United States 81 24.6k 1.1× 23.0k 1.1× 9.2k 2.1× 969 0.6× 730 0.5× 205 30.2k
Graeme L. Stephens United States 79 19.7k 0.9× 20.0k 0.9× 1.3k 0.3× 1.2k 0.7× 928 0.6× 358 22.9k
T. N. Palmer United Kingdom 86 22.5k 1.0× 21.9k 1.0× 6.1k 1.4× 307 0.2× 2.0k 1.3× 330 27.9k
Sandrine Bony France 60 19.3k 0.9× 17.4k 0.8× 2.9k 0.7× 637 0.4× 739 0.5× 149 22.4k
Jimy Dudhia United States 63 33.2k 1.5× 37.9k 1.7× 4.2k 1.0× 964 0.6× 8.8k 5.9× 204 44.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McGibbon, Jeremy, Spencer K. Clark, Brian Henn, et al.. (2024). Global Precipitation Correction Across a Range of Climates Using CycleGAN. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(4). 5 indexed citations
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Merlis, Timothy M., Kai‐Yuan Cheng, Lucas Harris, et al.. (2024). The Vertical Structure of Tropical Temperature Change in Global Storm‐Resolving Model Simulations of Climate Change. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(23). 1 indexed citations
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Blossey, Peter N., et al.. (2024). Improving Stratocumulus Cloud Amounts in a 200‐m Resolution Multi‐Scale Modeling Framework Through Tuning of Its Interior Physics. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(3). 2 indexed citations
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Golaz, Jean‐Christophe, Peter Caldwell, Oliver Watt‐Meyer, et al.. (2024). Application of the AI2 Climate Emulator to E3SMv2's Global Atmosphere Model, With a Focus on Precipitation Fidelity. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1(3). 7 indexed citations
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Kwa, Anna, Oliver Watt‐Meyer, Spencer K. Clark, et al.. (2023). Improving the Reliability of ML‐Corrected Climate Models With Novelty Detection. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(11). 5 indexed citations
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McCoy, Isabel L., Christopher S. Bretherton, Robert Wood, et al.. (2021). Influences of Recent Particle Formation on Southern Ocean Aerosol Variability and Low Cloud Properties. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(8). 51 indexed citations
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Santos, Sean Patrick, Peter Caldwell, & Christopher S. Bretherton. (2021). Cloud Process Coupling and Time Integration in the E3SM Atmosphere Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(5). 9 indexed citations
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Bretherton, Christopher S., et al.. (2021). Tropical Cirrus in Global Storm‐Resolving Models: 1. Role of Deep Convection. Earth and Space Science. 9(2). 25 indexed citations
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Zhou, Xiaoli, Rachel Atlas, Isabel L. McCoy, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of Cloud and Precipitation Simulations in CAM6 and AM4 Using Observations Over the Southern Ocean. Earth and Space Science. 8(2). 14 indexed citations
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Gettelman, Andrew, Charles Bardeen, Christina S. McCluskey, et al.. (2020). Simulating Observations of Southern Ocean Clouds and Implications for Climate. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(21). 53 indexed citations
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Santos, Sean Patrick, Peter Caldwell, & Christopher S. Bretherton. (2020). Numerically Relevant Timescales in the MG2 Microphysics Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(4). 6 indexed citations
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Bretherton, Christopher S. & Peter Caldwell. (2020). Combining Emergent Constraints for Climate Sensitivity. Journal of Climate. 33(17). 7413–7430. 24 indexed citations
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Atlas, Rachel, Christopher S. Bretherton, Peter N. Blossey, et al.. (2020). How Well Do Large‐Eddy Simulations and Global Climate Models Represent Observed Boundary Layer Structures and Low Clouds Over the Summertime Southern Ocean?. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(11). 40 indexed citations
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Brenowitz, Noah & Christopher S. Bretherton. (2019). Peering into the black box of machine learning parameterization. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Terai, Christopher R., et al.. (2014). Aircraft observations of aerosol, cloud, precipitation, and boundary layer properties in pockets of open cells over the southeast Pacific. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(15). 8071–8088. 36 indexed citations
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Fletcher, Jennifer K., Christopher S. Bretherton, Heng Xiao, Ruiyu Sun, & Han Jia. (2014). Improving subtropical boundary layer cloudiness in the 2011 NCEP GFS. Geoscientific model development. 7(5). 2107–2120. 2 indexed citations
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George, R. C., et al.. (2013). Development and impact of hooks of high droplet concentration on remote southeast Pacific stratocumulus. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(13). 6305–6328. 12 indexed citations
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Hohenegger, Cathy & Christopher S. Bretherton. (2011). Simulating deep convection with a shallow convection scheme. 4 indexed citations
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Bretherton, Christopher S., Robert Wood, R. C. George, et al.. (2010). Southeast Pacific stratocumulus clouds, precipitation and boundary layer structure sampled along 20° S during VOCALS-REx. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(21). 10639–10654. 140 indexed citations
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Cornish, C. R., Donald B. Percival, & Christopher S. Bretherton. (2003). The WMTSA Wavelet Toolkit for Data Analysis in the Geosciences. AGUFM. 2003. 10 indexed citations

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