D Finney

4.4k citations

33 papers · 3.5k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 16

Impact in

Insect Science top 0.5%
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
Global and Planetary Change top 2%
- Climate variability and models
- Fire effects on ecosystems

Papers in ⓘ

Atmospheric Science 27
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 17
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 6
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research 5
Global and Planetary Change 31
- Climate variability and models 20
- Fire effects on ecosystems 7
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds 5
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 4

Co-authors: John H. Marsham (19 shared papers)Ruth M. Doherty (4 shared papers)Oliver Wild (4 shared papers)Caroline M. Wainwright (3 shared papers)Emily Black (3 shared papers)David P. Rowell (9 shared papers)Alan Blyth (4 shared papers)Lawrence Jackson (10 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of Climate (8 papers)Atmospheric chemistry and physics (3 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (3 papers)Nature Climate Change (2 papers)npj Climate and Atmospheric Science (2 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Germany

In The Last Decade

D Finney

31 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Probit Analysis (3rd ed). 1972 · 2.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1972 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics)

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1	Probit Analysis (3rd ed). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) ·J. A. Lewis, D Finney Hit paper breakdown →	1972	2445
2	Extreme rainfall in East Africa, October 2019–January 2020 and context under future climate change Weather ·Caroline M. Wainwright, D Finney, Mary Kilavi, Emily Black, John H. Marsham	2020	152
3	A projected decrease in lightning under climate change Nature Climate Change ·D Finney, Ruth M. Doherty, Oliver Wild, David S. Stevenson, Ian A. MacKenzie, Alan Blyth	2018	134
4	‘Eastern African Paradox’ rainfall decline due to shorter not less intense Long Rains npj Climate and Atmospheric Science ·Caroline M. Wainwright, John H. Marsham, Richard J. Keane, David P. Rowell, D Finney, Emily Black, Richard P. Allan	2019	108
5	Nowcasting lightning occurrence from commonly available meteorological parameters using machine learning techniques npj Climate and Atmospheric Science ·Amirhossein Mostajabi, D Finney, Marcos Rubinstein, Farhad Rachidi	2019	88
6	The effect of westerlies on East African rainfall and the associated role of tropical cyclones and the Madden–Julian Oscillation Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·D Finney, John H. Marsham, Dean P. Walker, Cathryn E. Birch, Beth J. Woodhams, Lawrence Jackson, Sam Hardy	2019	65
7	Using cloud ice flux to parametrise large-scale lightning Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·D Finney, Ruth M. Doherty, Oliver Wild, Heidi Huntrieser, H. C. Pumphrey, Alan Blyth	2014	63
8	What Drives the Intensification of Mesoscale Convective Systems over the West African Sahel under Climate Change? Journal of Climate ·Rory G. J. Fitzpatrick, Douglas J. Parker, John H. Marsham, David P. Rowell, Francoise M. Guichard, Christopher M. Taylor, Kerry H. Cook, Edward K. Vizy, Lawrence Jackson, D Finney, Julia Crook, R. A. Stratton, Simon Tucker	2020	57
9	Implications of Improved Representation of Convection for the East Africa Water Budget Using a Convection-Permitting Model Journal of Climate ·D Finney, John H. Marsham, Lawrence Jackson, Elizabeth Kendon, David P. Rowell, Penny Boorman, Richard J. Keane, R. A. Stratton, C. A. Senior	2019	48
10	Response of lightning NO_x emissions and ozone production to climate change: Insights from the Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project Geophysical Research Letters ·D Finney, Ruth M. Doherty, Oliver Wild, Paul J. Young, Adam Butler	2016	41
11	Extratropical forests increasingly at risk due to lightning fires Nature Geoscience ·Thomas Janßen, Matthew W. Jones, D Finney, Guido R. van der Werf, Dave van Wees, Wenxuan Xu, Sander Veraverbeke	2023	40
12	Effects of Explicit Convection on Future Projections of Mesoscale Circulations, Rainfall, and Rainfall Extremes over Eastern Africa Journal of Climate ·D Finney, John H. Marsham, David P. Rowell, Elizabeth Kendon, Simon Tucker, R. A. Stratton, Lawrence Jackson	2020	36
13	The impact of lightning on tropospheric ozone chemistry using a new global lightning parametrisation Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·D Finney, Ruth M. Doherty, Oliver Wild, Nathan Luke Abraham	2016	34
14	Common Mechanism for Interannual and Decadal Variability in the East African Long Rains Geophysical Research Letters ·Dean P. Walker, John H. Marsham, Cathryn E. Birch, Adam A. Scaife, D Finney	2020	18
15	Future Changes in Seasonality in East Africa from Regional Simulations with Explicit and Parameterized Convection Journal of Climate ·Caroline M. Wainwright, John H. Marsham, David P. Rowell, D Finney, Emily Black	2020	18
16	The Effect of Explicit Convection on Couplings between Rainfall, Humidity, and Ascent over Africa under Climate Change Journal of Climate ·Lawrence Jackson, D Finney, Elizabeth Kendon, John H. Marsham, Douglas J. Parker, R. A. Stratton, Lorenzo Tomassini, Simon Tucker	2020	17
17	African Lightning and its Relation to Rainfall and Climate Change in a Convection‐Permitting Model Geophysical Research Letters ·D Finney, John H. Marsham, Jonathan M. Wilkinson, Paul R. Field, Alan Blyth, Lawrence Jackson, Elizabeth Kendon, Simon Tucker, R. A. Stratton	2020	15
18	Future Changes in African Heatwaves and Their Drivers at the Convective Scale Journal of Climate ·Cathryn E. Birch, Lawrence Jackson, D Finney, John H. Marsham, R. A. Stratton, Simon Tucker, Sarah Chapman, C. A. Senior, Richard J. Keane, Françoise Guichard, Elizabeth Kendon	2022	14
19	Improved modelling of Siberian river flow through the use of an alternative frozen soil hydrology scheme in a land surface model The cryosphere ·D Finney, Eleanor Blyth, Rich Ellis	2012	13
20	Circulation Patterns Associated with Current and Future Rainfall over Ethiopia and South Sudan from a Convection-Permitting Model Atmosphere ·Herbert Misiani, D Finney, Zewdu Segele, John H. Marsham, Abebe Tadege, Guleid Artan, Zachary Atheru	2020	13

About D Finney

D Finney is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Earth-Surface Processes, having authored 33 papers that have together received 3.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate variability and models (20 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (17 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (7 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (6 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (6 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (5 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (5 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Insect Science (776 citations), Global and Planetary Change (907 citations), Atmospheric Science (681 citations), Plant Science (1.1k citations) and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (371 citations). D Finney has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include John H. Marsham, Ruth M. Doherty, Oliver Wild, Caroline M. Wainwright, Emily Black, David P. Rowell, Alan Blyth, Lawrence Jackson, Mary Kilavi and Amirhossein Mostajabi. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Climate, Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Geophysical Research Letters, Nature Climate Change and npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.

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