Craig B. Clements

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Craig B. Clements is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, Craig B. Clements has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 35 papers in Atmospheric Science and 14 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in Craig B. Clements's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (43 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (24 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers). Craig B. Clements is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (43 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (24 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers). Craig B. Clements collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Japan. Craig B. Clements's co-authors include Neil P. Lareau, C. David Whiteman, Shiyuan Zhong, John D. Horel, Daisuke Seto, Warren E. Heilman, Brian E. Potter, Xindi Bian, Adam K. Kochanski and William S. Longland and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Craig B. Clements

60 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California

2023 97 citations Patrick T. Brown, Adam K. Kochanski et al. profile →

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Adam K. Kochanski United States

Xindi Bian United States

Jean Dessens France

S. Korontzi United States

Tetsuya Takemi Japan

F. Petitcolin France

Thomas Haiden United Kingdom

R. Gens United States

Justin R. Minder United States

Christopher G. Fletcher Canada

Adam K. Kochanski United States

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220 ×0.6

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76 ×0.6

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Countries citing papers authored by Craig B. Clements

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Craig B. Clements

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Craig B. Clements. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Craig B. Clements 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 Craig B. Clements. Craig B. Clements is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Carvalho, Leila M. V., Charles Jones, Stephan F. J. De Wekker, et al.. (2025). Insights on the Spatiotemporal Variability of Downslope Winds in Coastal Santa Barbara: A Case Study from the Sundowner Winds Experiment (SWEX). Monthly Weather Review. 153(12). 2635–2649.

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Liu, Yongqiang, Warren E. Heilman, Brian E. Potter, et al.. (2025). Recent Advances in Wildland Fire Smoke Dynamics Research in the United States. Atmosphere. 16(11). 1221–1221.

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Brown, Patrick T., et al.. (2025). The potential for fuel reduction to reduce wildfire intensity in a warming California. Environmental Research Letters. 20(2). 24040–24040. 1 indexed citations

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Zhong, Shiyuan, Craig B. Clements, Xindi Bian, et al.. (2024). Surface-layer turbulence associated with a fast spreading grass fire. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 350. 110000–110000. 1 indexed citations

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Lareau, Neil P., et al.. (2024). Observations of a rotating pyroconvective plume. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 33(3). 2 indexed citations

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Heilman, Warren E., Nicholas S. Skowronski, Kenneth L. Clark, et al.. (2023). Features of turbulence during wildland fires in forested and grassland environments. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 338. 109501–109501. 5 indexed citations

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Mirocha, Jeffrey D., et al.. (2023). Analysis of Fire-Induced Circulations during the FireFlux2 Experiment. Fire. 6(9). 332–332. 4 indexed citations

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Katurji, Marwan, Tara Strand, Mark A. Finney, et al.. (2021). Turbulent Thermal Image Velocimetry at the Immediate Fire and Atmospheric Interface. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(24). 11 indexed citations

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Bagley, J. E., Seongeun Jeong, Xinguang Cui, et al.. (2017). Assessment of an atmospheric transport model for annual inverse estimates of California greenhouse gas emissions. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(3). 1901–1918. 15 indexed citations

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Jeong, Seongeun, Xinguang Cui, D. R. Blake, et al.. (2016). Estimating methane emissions from biological and fossil‐fuel sources in the San Francisco Bay Area. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(1). 486–495. 30 indexed citations

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Lareau, Neil P. & Craig B. Clements. (2016). Environmental controls on pyrocumulus and pyrocumulonimbus initiation and development. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(6). 4005–4022. 61 indexed citations

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Ottmar, Roger D., J. Kevin Hiers, Bret W. Butler, et al.. (2015). Measurements, datasets and preliminary results from the RxCADRE project – 2008, 2011 and 2012. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25(1). 1–9. 53 indexed citations

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Heilman, Warren E., Craig B. Clements, Daisuke Seto, et al.. (2015). Observations of fire‐induced turbulence regimes during low‐intensity wildland fires in forested environments: implications for smoke dispersion. Atmospheric Science Letters. 16(4). 453–460. 27 indexed citations

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Lareau, Neil P. & Craig B. Clements. (2015). Cold Smoke: smoke-induced density currents cause unexpected smoke transport near large wildfires. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(20). 11513–11520. 25 indexed citations

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Kochanski, Adam K., Mary Ann Jenkins, Jan Mandel, et al.. (2013). Evaluation of WRF-SFIRE performance with field observations from the FireFlux experiment. Geoscientific model development. 6(4). 1109–1126. 55 indexed citations

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Kochanski, Adam K., Mary Ann Jenkins, S. K. Krueger, et al.. (2010). Evaluation of The Fire Plume Dynamics Simulated by WRF-Fire. AGUFM. 2010. 3 indexed citations

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Clements, Craig B., et al.. (2008). PM2.5 and Carbon Emissions from Prescribed Fire in a Longleaf Pine Ecosystem. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Clements, Craig B.. (2006). Washoe Zephyr—A daytime downslope wind in the lee of Sierra Nevada. 1 indexed citations

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Clements, Craig B.. (2004). High-Altitude Ozone Concentrations in Yosemite National Park, Sierra Nevada. 2 indexed citations

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Clements, Craig B., C. David Whiteman, & John D. Horel. (2003). Cold-Air-Pool Structure and Evolution in a Mountain Basin: Peter Sinks, Utah. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 42(6). 752–768. 163 indexed citations

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