Claude N. Williams

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

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Claude N. Williams is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Claude N. Williams has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 26 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Claude N. Williams's work include Climate variability and models (26 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (10 papers). Claude N. Williams is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (26 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (10 papers). Claude N. Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. Claude N. Williams's co-authors include Matthew J. Menne, Russell S. Vose, Thomas R. Karl, J. H. Lawrimore, Byron E. Gleason, Jared Rennie, Alan Basist, David B. Wuertz, Peter Thorne and Thomas C. Peterson and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

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Claude N. Williams

39 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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An overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network monthly mean temperature data set, version 3

2011 452 citations J. H. Lawrimore, Matthew J. Menne et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Claude N. Williams United States	26	2.6k	2.1k	643	296	229	40	3.5k
Imke Durre United States	22	3.2k 1.2×	2.7k 1.3×	455 0.7×	433 1.5×	323 1.4×	37	4.4k
Byron E. Gleason United States	13	2.9k 1.1×	2.4k 1.2×	389 0.6×	413 1.4×	273 1.2×	16	4.0k
Thomas J. Phillips United States	27	3.4k 1.3×	2.3k 1.1×	417 0.6×	465 1.6×	427 1.9×	46	4.2k
Christopher A. T. Ferro United Kingdom	25	3.0k 1.1×	2.2k 1.0×	298 0.5×	480 1.6×	235 1.0×	48	4.1k
Hans Alexandersson Sweden	21	2.6k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	379 0.6×	417 1.4×	290 1.3×	43	3.4k
Lucie A. Vincent Canada	23	3.1k 1.2×	2.6k 1.2×	408 0.6×	665 2.2×	155 0.7×	28	4.1k
Simon J. Brown United Kingdom	23	3.0k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	282 0.4×	547 1.8×	235 1.0×	40	3.7k
Claas Teichmann Germany	25	2.5k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	276 0.4×	425 1.4×	171 0.7×	45	3.3k
Andreas Hense Germany	31	2.6k 1.0×	2.7k 1.3×	362 0.6×	356 1.2×	528 2.3×	118	4.0k
Mark A. Liniger Switzerland	31	4.0k 1.5×	3.1k 1.5×	489 0.8×	505 1.7×	306 1.3×	59	5.2k

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Huang, Boyin, Matthew J. Menne, Tim Boyer, et al.. (2019). Uncertainty Estimates for Sea Surface Temperature and Land Surface Air Temperature in NOAAGlobalTemp Version 5. Journal of Climate. 33(4). 1351–1379. 78 indexed citations

Zhang, Huai‐Min, J. H. Lawrimore, Boyin Huang, et al.. (2019). Release of NOAA Global Surface Temperature (NOAAGlobalTemp) Dataset Version 5. 2019. 1 indexed citations

Menne, Matthew J., Claude N. Williams, Byron E. Gleason, Jared Rennie, & J. H. Lawrimore. (2018). The Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly Temperature Dataset, Version 4. Journal of Climate. 31(24). 9835–9854. 182 indexed citations

Thorne, Peter, Matthew J. Menne, Claude N. Williams, et al.. (2016). Reassessing changes in diurnal temperature range: A new data set and characterization of data biases. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 121(10). 5115–5137. 47 indexed citations

Willett, Kate M., Robert Dunn, Peter Thorne, et al.. (2014). HadISDH land surface multi-variable humidity and temperature record for climate monitoring. Climate of the past. 10(6). 1983–2006. 129 indexed citations

Willett, Kate M., Claude N. Williams, Ian T. Jolliffe, et al.. (2014). A framework for benchmarking of homogenisation algorithm performance on the global scale. Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems. 3(2). 187–200. 24 indexed citations

Willett, Kate M., Claude N. Williams, Robert Dunn, et al.. (2013). HadISDH: an updateable land surface specific humidity product for climate monitoring. Climate of the past. 9(2). 657–677. 41 indexed citations

Menne, Matthew J., Claude N. Williams, & Peter Thorne. (2013). Benchmarking the performance of pairwise homogenization of surface temperatures in the United States. AIP conference proceedings. 1072–1077. 3 indexed citations

Vose, Russell S., Derek S. Arndt, Viva F. Banzon, et al.. (2012). NOAA's Merged Land–Ocean Surface Temperature Analysis. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 93(11). 1677–1685. 190 indexed citations

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Hausfather, Zeke, et al.. (2012). Quantifying the effect of urbanization on U.S. Historical Climatology Network temperature records. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 118(2). 481–494. 64 indexed citations

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Menne, Matthew J., Claude N. Williams, & Russell S. Vose. (2009). The U.S. Historical Climatology Network Monthly Temperature Data, Version 2. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 90(7). 993–1008. 254 indexed citations

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Durre, Imke, Claude N. Williams, Xungang Yin, & Russell S. Vose. (2009). Radiosonde‐based trends in precipitable water over the Northern Hemisphere: An update. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 114(D5). 76 indexed citations

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Menne, Matthew J. & Claude N. Williams. (2008). Homogenization of Temperature Series via Pairwise Comparisons. Journal of Climate. 22(7). 1700–1717. 260 indexed citations

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Mendelsohn, Robert, Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Alan Basist, Felix Kogan, & Claude N. Williams. (2007). Climate analysis with satellite versus weather station data. Climatic Change. 81(1). 71–83. 84 indexed citations

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Mendelsohn, Robert, Alan Basist, Ariel Dinar, Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, & Claude N. Williams. (2007). What explains agricultural performance: climate normals or climate variance?. Climatic Change. 81(1). 85–99. 41 indexed citations

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Menne, Matthew J. & Claude N. Williams. (2005). Detection of Undocumented Changepoints Using Multiple Test Statistics and Composite Reference Series. Journal of Climate. 18(20). 4271–4286. 125 indexed citations

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Peterson, Thomas C., Alan Basist, Claude N. Williams, & Norman C. Grody. (2000). A Blended Satellite–In Situ Near–Global Surface Temperature Dataset. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 81(9). 2157–2164. 16 indexed citations

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Williams, Claude N., Alan Basist, Thomas C. Peterson, & Norman C. Grody. (2000). Calibration and Verification of Land Surface Temperature Anomalies Derived from the SSM/I. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 81(9). 2141–2156. 28 indexed citations

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Williams, Claude N., et al.. (1988). Climatic Atlas of the Outer Continental Shelf Waters and Coastal Regions of Alaska. Volume 1. Gulf of Alaska, Revision. 3 indexed citations

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Williams, Claude N., et al.. (1977). Climatic Atlas of the Outer Continental Shelf Waters and Coastal Regions of Alaska. Volume III. Chukchi-Beaufort Sea.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 2 indexed citations

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