D. O. Staley

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

D. O. Staley is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, D. O. Staley has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Atmospheric Science, 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 8 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in D. O. Staley's work include Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (13 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (9 papers). D. O. Staley is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (13 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (9 papers). D. O. Staley collaborates with scholars based in United States. D. O. Staley's co-authors include James R. Holton, Robert Gall, P. M. Kuhn, V. E. Suomi, Stephen D. Burk, Tobias Owen, Benjamin M. Herman, S. Twomey and James E. McDonald and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

In The Last Decade

D. O. Staley

40 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology 1973 2026 1990 2008 1973 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology
    1973 2.7k citations D. O. Staley 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
D. O. Staley United States 14 2.5k 2.1k 734 555 293 44 3.3k
H. L. Kuo United States 20 2.0k 0.8× 1.7k 0.8× 558 0.8× 287 0.5× 221 0.8× 53 2.6k
José P. Peixóto United States 17 2.4k 1.0× 2.4k 1.2× 991 1.4× 335 0.6× 143 0.5× 38 3.4k
William Blumen United States 22 1.6k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 603 0.8× 293 0.5× 610 2.1× 84 2.5k
R. Sadourny France 22 1.6k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 762 1.0× 372 0.7× 211 0.7× 51 2.8k
G. J. Shutts United Kingdom 29 3.3k 1.3× 2.8k 1.3× 958 1.3× 648 1.2× 336 1.1× 73 3.9k
K. S. Gage United States 33 3.1k 1.2× 2.0k 0.9× 764 1.0× 1.4k 2.4× 442 1.5× 94 3.9k
A. A. White United Kingdom 17 1.6k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 999 1.4× 528 1.0× 157 0.5× 58 2.5k
Ka Kit Tung United States 40 3.4k 1.4× 3.4k 1.6× 1.1k 1.5× 595 1.1× 123 0.4× 106 4.5k
Thomas H. Vonder Haar United States 41 3.7k 1.5× 3.6k 1.7× 851 1.2× 339 0.6× 502 1.7× 169 4.9k
R. T. Williams United States 21 1.5k 0.6× 1.0k 0.5× 774 1.1× 164 0.3× 116 0.4× 59 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by D. O. Staley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. O. Staley

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Staley, D. O.. (1993). Boundary-Layer Damping of Baroclinic Instability. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 50(5). 772–777. 2 indexed citations
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Staley, D. O.. (1991). Baroclinic Instability and Isentropic Slope. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 48(9). 1133–1140. 1 indexed citations
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Staley, D. O.. (1989). The Surface Sea Breeze: Applicability of Haurwitz-Type Theory. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 28(2). 137–145. 2 indexed citations
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Staley, D. O.. (1989). Ageostrophic Subsynoptic-Scale Baroclinic Instability. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 46(19). 3065–3068. 1 indexed citations
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Staley, D. O.. (1986). Baroclinic and Barotropic Instability Spectra as Functions ofNinN-Level Models. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 43(17). 1817–1832. 1 indexed citations
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Staley, D. O.. (1985). Effect of Viscosity on Inertial Instability in a Tornado Vortex. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 42(3). 293–297. 4 indexed citations
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Staley, D. O.. (1982). Strontium-90 in Surface Air and the Stratosphere: Some Interpretations of the 1963–75 Data. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 39(7). 1571–1590. 23 indexed citations
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Burk, Stephen D. & D. O. Staley. (1979). Comments “On the Rotation Rate of the Direction of Sea and Land Breezes”. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 36(2). 369–371. 7 indexed citations
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Staley, D. O. & Robert Gall. (1977). On the Wavelength of Maximum Baroclinic Instability. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 34(11). 1679–1688. 34 indexed citations
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Staley, D. O.. (1976). Paraselenic Circle Over Tucson. Weatherwise. 29(5). 233–233.
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Staley, D. O., et al.. (1972). Effective Atmospheric Emissivity under Clear Skies. Journal of applied meteorology. 11(2). 349–356. 95 indexed citations
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Staley, D. O.. (1970). Man on an asteroid. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 75(28). 5571–5573. 5 indexed citations
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Staley, D. O., et al.. (1968). Radiative modification of selected vertical temperature distributions. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 94(401). 310–317. 4 indexed citations
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Staley, D. O.. (1966). The diurnal oscillations of radon and thoron and their decay products. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 71(14). 3357–3367. 21 indexed citations
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Owen, Tobias & D. O. Staley. (1963). A Possible Jovian Analogy to the Terrestrial Equatorial Stratospheric Wind Reversal. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 20(4). 347–350. 2 indexed citations
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Staley, D. O.. (1963). Stratospheric Mass Variations and Fission Product Radioactivity in Surface Air. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 20(6). 615–621. 1 indexed citations
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Staley, D. O.. (1962). On the Mechanism of Mass and Radioactivity Transport from Stratosphere to Troposphere. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 19(6). 450–467. 60 indexed citations
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Staley, D. O.. (1959). SOME OBSERVATIONS OF SURFACE-WIND OSCILLATIONS IN A HEATED BASIN. Journal of Meteorology. 16(4). 364–370. 11 indexed citations
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Staley, D. O.. (1957). Some comments on physical processes at and near the tropopause. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics. 10(1). 1–19. 9 indexed citations

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