Christopher Watson

5.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
83 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Christopher Watson is a scholar working on Oceanography, Aerospace Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Watson has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Oceanography, 32 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 21 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Christopher Watson's work include Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (46 papers), GNSS positioning and interference (29 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (16 papers). Christopher Watson is often cited by papers focused on Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (46 papers), GNSS positioning and interference (29 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (16 papers). Christopher Watson collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Christopher Watson's co-authors include Arko Lucieer, Darren Turner, Luke Wallace, Matt A. King, Paul Tregoning, John Church, Richard Coleman, B. Legrésy, Reed J. Burgette and Alvaro Santamaría‐Gómez and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Watson

82 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

An Automated Technique for Generating Georectified Mosaics from Ultra-High Resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Imagery, Based on Structure from Motion (SfM) Point Clouds

2012 585 citations Darren Turner, Arko Lucieer et al. profile →
Development of a UAV-LiDAR System with Application to Forest Inventory

2012 544 citations Luke Wallace, Arko Lucieer et al. profile →
The increasing rate of global mean sea-level rise during 1993–2014

2017 292 citations Christopher Watson, Matt A. King et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Watson Australia	30	1.6k	1.3k	1.3k	712	691	83	4.0k
S. B. Luthcke United States	41	3.1k 2.0×	1.3k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	862 1.2×	219 0.3×	117	5.9k
Joseph L. Awange Australia	41	2.0k 1.3×	740 0.5×	908 0.7×	556 0.8×	118 0.2×	204	5.1k
Shimon Wdowinski United States	43	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	2.9k 2.3×	537 0.8×	251 0.4×	161	6.3k
Michael Eineder Germany	37	755 0.5×	2.1k 1.6×	4.5k 3.5×	384 0.5×	152 0.2×	243	6.4k
Masanobu Shimada Japan	39	888 0.6×	2.7k 2.0×	2.9k 2.3×	2.0k 2.8×	143 0.2×	326	6.7k
Frédéric Frappart France	48	2.6k 1.7×	2.3k 1.7×	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.7×	57 0.1×	242	7.4k
Shuanggen Jin China	51	3.3k 2.1×	2.1k 1.6×	3.6k 2.9×	317 0.4×	233 0.3×	461	8.5k
R. Forsberg Denmark	35	2.0k 1.3×	219 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	130 0.2×	346 0.5×	205	4.3k
Takeo Tadono Japan	30	259 0.2×	1.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	1.0k 1.4×	187 0.3×	224	4.1k
Pascal Allemand France	42	168 0.1×	721 0.5×	574 0.5×	512 0.7×	535 0.8×	146	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Watson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Watson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Watson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Watson, Christopher, et al.. (2025). Small Scale Variability in the Wet Troposphere Impacts the Interpretation of SWOT Satellite Observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(4). 3 indexed citations

Sharples, C & Christopher Watson. (2025). An abrupt change in long-term shoreline behaviour at Roches Beach, Tasmania: An early response to contemporary climate change-induced sea-level rise?. Marine Geology. 480. 107475–107475. 1 indexed citations

Watson, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Quantifying the Mean Sea Level, Tide, and Surge Contributions to Changing Coastal High Water Levels. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(8). 3 indexed citations

Watson, Christopher, et al.. (2023). In Situ Validation of Altimetry and CFOSAT SWIM Measurements in a High Wave Environment. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 40(10). 1137–1152. 2 indexed citations

King, Matt A., et al.. (2021). Limitations in One‐Dimensional (an)Elastic Earth Models for Explaining GPS‐Observed M ₂ Ocean Tide Loading Displacements in New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(6). 6 indexed citations

Samrat, Nahidul Hoque, et al.. (2021). Upper Mantle Viscosity Underneath Northern Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula Constrained by Bedrock Uplift and Ice Mass Variability. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(24). 14 indexed citations

King, Matt A., et al.. (2020). Estimating ocean tide loading displacements with GPS and GLONASS. Solid Earth. 11(5). 1849–1863. 14 indexed citations

White, Christopher J., et al.. (2018). Can your community cope with rising tides. Australian Journal of Emergency Management. 33(1). 5–6. 1 indexed citations

Watson, Christopher, et al.. (2018). Strategic adaptation pathway planning to manage sea-level rise and changing coastal flood risk. Environmental Science & Policy. 87. 92–101. 61 indexed citations

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Steer, Adam, Petra Heil, Christopher Watson, et al.. (2016). Estimating small-scale snow depth and ice thickness from total freeboard for East Antarctic sea ice. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography. 131. 41–52. 3 indexed citations

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Roberts, Jason L., et al.. (2013). Flow of the Amery Ice Shelf and its tributary glaciers. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 3 indexed citations

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Bonnefond, Pascal, et al.. (2013). Absolute Calibration of the TOPEX/POSEIDON and Jason Measurement Systems: Twenty Years of Monitoring from Dedicated Sites. Neuroscience Letters. 710. 17–135026. 1 indexed citations

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Tregoning, Paul, et al.. (2013). A decade of horizontal deformation from great earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 118(5). 2371–2381. 56 indexed citations

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Wallace, Luke, Arko Lucieer, & Christopher Watson. (2012). ASSESSING THE FEASIBILITY OF UAV-BASED LIDAR FOR HIGH RESOLUTION FOREST CHANGE DETECTION. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. XXXIX-B7. 499–504. 57 indexed citations

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Wallace, Luke, Arko Lucieer, Darren Turner, & Christopher Watson. (2011). Error assessment and mitigation for hyper-temporal UAV-borne LiDAR surveys of forest inventory.. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 1–13. 26 indexed citations

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Tregoning, Paul & Christopher Watson. (2011). Correction to “Atmospheric effects and spurious signals in GPS analyses”. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116(B2). 22 indexed citations

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Watson, Christopher, et al.. (2007). GPS-VIEW: VISUALISING GEODETIC GPS TIME SERIES ANALYSES. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 1 indexed citations

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Pugh, David, John Hunter, Richard Coleman, & Christopher Watson. (2002). A Comparison of Historical and Recent Sea Level Measurements at Port Arthur, Tasmania. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 13 indexed citations

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Watson, Christopher & T P Newcomb. (1990). A THREE-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT APPROACH TO DRUM BRAKE ANALYSIS . PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part D Journal of Automobile Engineering. 204. 2 indexed citations

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Watson, Christopher & T P Newcomb. (1990). New Developments in Drum Brake Analysis. SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series. 1. 1 indexed citations

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