D. S. Ward

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

D. S. Ward is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, D. S. Ward has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in D. S. Ward's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (18 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (13 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (11 papers). D. S. Ward is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (18 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (13 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (11 papers). D. S. Ward collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. D. S. Ward's co-authors include N. M. Mahowald, Jasper F. Kok, M. Flanner, Samuel Albani, Silvia Kloster, Peter Hess, Rachel A. Scanza, Amato T. Evan, James T. Randerson and Fang Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Geophysical Research Letters and Atmospheric chemistry and physics.

In The Last Decade

D. S. Ward

46 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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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.

The size distribution of desert dust aerosols and its impact on the Earth system

2013 473 citations N. M. Mahowald, Samuel Albani et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. S. Ward United States	22	1.5k	1.3k	388	205	192	47	2.2k
James P. Terry Singapore	25	789 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	632 1.6×	43 0.2×	465 2.4×	112	2.3k
Christopher J. Schenk United States	23	583 0.4×	634 0.5×	490 1.3×	32 0.2×	190 1.0×	224	2.7k
Roberto Rondanelli Chile	20	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	68 0.2×	100 0.5×	234 1.2×	51	2.1k
B. Udall United States	11	1.2k 0.8×	608 0.5×	105 0.3×	47 0.2×	323 1.7×	19	2.4k
Philip Micklin United States	18	597 0.4×	303 0.2×	154 0.4×	44 0.2×	292 1.5×	50	1.9k
Daming He China	29	955 0.6×	523 0.4×	70 0.2×	57 0.3×	563 2.9×	80	2.5k
D. J. Rasmussen United States	13	898 0.6×	796 0.6×	346 0.9×	273 1.3×	187 1.0×	20	2.0k
Z. D. Tessler United States	15	1.1k 0.8×	397 0.3×	349 0.9×	43 0.2×	590 3.1×	18	2.6k
Qiong Zhang Sweden	30	2.2k 1.5×	2.7k 2.2×	286 0.7×	76 0.4×	317 1.7×	167	3.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. S. Ward

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Pouyaei, Arman, Paul Ginoux, D. S. Ward, Yan Yu, & Larry W. Horowitz. (2025). Implementation of Dynamic Fire Injection Height in GFDL's Atmospheric Model (AM4.0): Impacts on Aerosol Profiles and Radiation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 17(4).

Li, Fang, Xiang Song, Sandy P. Harrison, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of global fire simulations in CMIP6 Earth system models. Geoscientific model development. 17(23). 8751–8771. 6 indexed citations

Ward, D. S., Samuel S. Pegler, David Ferguson, Subhrajit Dutta, & R. M. Dorrell. (2019). Modelling the Dispersal of Tephra by a Volcanic Plume using Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS).. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

Kok, Jasper F., D. S. Ward, N. M. Mahowald, & Amato T. Evan. (2018). Global and regional importance of the direct dust-climate feedback. Nature Communications. 9(1). 241–241. 180 indexed citations

Clark, Spencer K., D. S. Ward, & N. M. Mahowald. (2017). Parameterization‐based uncertainty in future lightning flash density. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(6). 2893–2901. 52 indexed citations

Mahowald, N. M., D. S. Ward, Scott C. Doney, Peter Hess, & James T. Randerson. (2017). Are the impacts of land use on warming underestimated in climate policy?. Environmental Research Letters. 12(9). 94016–94016. 21 indexed citations

Mahowald, N. M., James T. Randerson, Keith Lindsay, et al.. (2016). Interactions between land use change and carbon cycle feedbacks. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 31(1). 96–113. 49 indexed citations

Riddick, Stuart N., D. S. Ward, Peter Hess, et al.. (2016). Estimate of changes in agricultural terrestrial nitrogen pathways and ammonia emissions from 1850 to present in the Community Earth System Model. Biogeosciences. 13(11). 3397–3426. 54 indexed citations

Ward, D. S. & N. M. Mahowald. (2015). Local sources of global climate forcing from different categories of land use activities. Earth System Dynamics. 6(1). 175–194. 12 indexed citations

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Ward, D. S., et al.. (2015). The Impact of Changing Climate on Ammonia Emissions from Agriculture and the Associated Climate Forcings. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Kok, Jasper F., N. M. Mahowald, Samuel Albani, et al.. (2014). An improved dust emission model with insights into the global dust cycle's climate sensitivity. 11 indexed citations

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Foereid, Bente, D. S. Ward, N. M. Mahowald, Eric Paterson, & Johannes Lehmann. (2014). The sensitivity of carbon turnover in the Community Land Model to modified assumptions about soil processes. Earth System Dynamics. 5(1). 211–221. 37 indexed citations

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Ward, D. S., N. M. Mahowald, & Silvia Kloster. (2014). Potential climate forcing of land use and land cover change. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(23). 12701–12724. 68 indexed citations

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Li, Fang, Samuel Levis, & D. S. Ward. (2013). Quantifying the role of fire in the Earth system – Part 1: Improved global fire modeling in the Community Earth System Model (CESM1). Biogeosciences. 10(4). 2293–2314. 119 indexed citations

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Ward, D. S., Silvia Kloster, N. M. Mahowald, et al.. (2012). The changing radiative forcing of fires: global model estimates for past, present and future. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 12(22). 10857–10886. 208 indexed citations

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Ward, D. S. & William R. Cotton. (2011). Cold and transition season cloud condensation nuclei measurements in western Colorado. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 11(9). 4303–4317. 6 indexed citations

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Ward, D. S., Trude Eidhammer, William R. Cotton, & Sonia M. Kreidenweis. (2010). The role of the particle size distribution in assessing aerosol composition effects on simulated droplet activation. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(12). 5435–5447. 33 indexed citations

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Ward, D. S., et al.. (1994). Party Organizational Response to Electoral Change: Texas and Arkansas. American Review of Politics. 15. 191–212. 2 indexed citations

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Sykes, J. F., et al.. (1982). Numerical Simulation of Thermal Energy Storage Experiment Conducted by Auburn University. Ground Water. 20(5). 569–576. 19 indexed citations

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Ward, D. S., Charles C. Smith, & John Ward. (1977). Operational modes of solar heating and cooling systems. Solar Energy. 19(1). 55–61. 16 indexed citations

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