Darold E. Ward

9.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Darold E. Ward is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, Darold E. Ward has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 36 papers in Atmospheric Science and 12 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in Darold E. Ward's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (36 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (36 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (29 papers). Darold E. Ward is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (36 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (36 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (29 papers). Darold E. Ward collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and South Africa. Darold E. Ward's co-authors include R. J. Yokelson, J. Boone Kauffman, Wei Min Hao, Ronald A. Susott, Dian L. Cummings, David Griffith, Ronald E. Babbitt, W. Paul Menzel, Yoram J. Kaufman and E. M. Prins and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Environmental Science & Technology and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Darold E. Ward

59 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Darold E. Ward United States	36	5.3k	4.4k	849	810	560	60	6.5k
S. P. Urbanski United States	32	3.9k 0.7×	2.7k 0.6×	952 1.1×	903 1.1×	448 0.8×	69	5.1k
Wei Min Hao United States	42	4.9k 0.9×	5.3k 1.2×	2.0k 2.3×	559 0.7×	625 1.1×	120	7.2k
Fang Li China	33	2.7k 0.5×	1.8k 0.4×	460 0.5×	667 0.8×	205 0.4×	163	4.3k
M. Mu United States	18	4.6k 0.9×	3.5k 0.8×	597 0.7×	861 1.1×	193 0.3×	29	5.7k
T. T. van Leeuwen Netherlands	14	3.6k 0.7×	2.7k 0.6×	589 0.7×	591 0.7×	205 0.4×	19	4.2k
Brendan M. Rogers United States	33	5.2k 1.0×	3.1k 0.7×	376 0.4×	1.5k 1.8×	333 0.6×	106	6.3k
Wolfgang Knorr Germany	39	5.1k 1.0×	3.0k 0.7×	452 0.5×	1.6k 1.9×	95 0.2×	87	7.2k
Wesley R. Cofer United States	28	2.0k 0.4×	1.8k 0.4×	524 0.6×	377 0.5×	112 0.2×	63	2.9k
Silvia Kloster Germany	29	3.9k 0.7×	2.9k 0.7×	450 0.5×	552 0.7×	197 0.4×	48	4.5k

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Korontzi, S., David P. Roy, Christopher O. Justice, & Darold E. Ward. (2004). Modeling and sensitivity analysis of fire emissions in southern Africa during SAFARI 2000. Remote Sensing of Environment. 92(2). 255–275. 61 indexed citations

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Korontzi, S., David P. Roy, Christopher O. Justice, & Darold E. Ward. (2004). Modeling and sensitivity analysis of fire emissions in southern Africa during SAFARI 2000. Remote Sensing of Environment. 92(3). 376–396. 26 indexed citations

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Korontzi, S., Darold E. Ward, Ronald A. Susott, et al.. (2003). Seasonal variation and ecosystem dependence of emission factors for selected trace gases and PM_2.5 for southern African savanna fires. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 108(D24). 58 indexed citations

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Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, Darold E. Ward, et al.. (2001). Characterization of the optical properties of biomass burning aerosols in Zambia during the 1997 ZIBBEE field campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 106(D4). 3425–3448. 206 indexed citations

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Yokelson, R. J., Darold E. Ward, Ronald A. Susott, et al.. (1999). Emissions of formaldehyde, acetic acid, methanol, and other trace gases from biomass fires in North Carolina measured by airborne Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 104(D23). 30109–30125. 240 indexed citations

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Yokelson, R. J., et al.. (1999). Trace gas emissions from laboratory biomass fires measured by open‐path Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy: Fires in grass and surface fuels. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 104(D17). 21237–21245. 94 indexed citations

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Ward, Darold E., Wei Min Hao, Ronald A. Susott, et al.. (1996). Effect of fuel composition on combustion efficiency and emission factors for African savanna ecosystems. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 101(D19). 23569–23576. 191 indexed citations

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Kauffman, J. Boone, et al.. (1996). Fuel biomass and combustion factors associated with fires in savanna ecosystems of South Africa and Zambia. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 101(D19). 23551–23568. 149 indexed citations

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Hao, Wei Min, et al.. (1996). Emissions of CO₂, CO, and hydrocarbons from fires in diverse African savanna ecosystems. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 101(D19). 23577–23584. 103 indexed citations

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Kauffman, J. Boone, Dian L. Cummings, Darold E. Ward, & Ronald E. Babbitt. (1995). Fire in the Brazilian Amazon: 1. Biomass, nutrient pools, and losses in slashed primary forests. Oecologia. 104(4). 397–408. 241 indexed citations

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Ward, Darold E., et al.. (1991). Effects of fire behavior on prescribed fire smoke characteristics: A case study [Chapter 50]. 412–419. 2 indexed citations

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Ward, Darold E. & Colin C. Hardy. (1991). Smoke emissions from wildland fires. Environment International. 17(2-3). 117–134. 230 indexed citations

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Griffith, David, et al.. (1991). FTIR remote sensing of biomass burning emissions of CO2, CO, CH4, CH2O, NO, NO2, NH3, and N2O. 25 indexed citations

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Ward, Darold E.. (1983). Particulate Matter Emissions for Fires in the Palmetto-Gallberry Fuel Type. Forest Science. 29(4). 761–770. 3 indexed citations

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Ward, Darold E., et al.. (1983). Measuring fire behavior with photography. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 49(2). 213–217. 9 indexed citations

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Ward, Darold E., Donald F. Adams, & Charles K. McMahon. (1982). Laboratory measurements of carbonyl sulfide and total sulfur emissions from open burning of forest biomass. 3 indexed citations

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Nelson, Robert M. & Darold E. Ward. (1980). Backfire particulate emissions and Byram's fire intensity.. 3 indexed citations

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Ward, Darold E., et al.. (1976). Georgia Rural Air Quality: Effect of Agricultural and Forestry Burning. Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association. 26(3). 216–220. 1 indexed citations

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Wade, Dale D. & Darold E. Ward. (1975). Management Decisions in Severely Damaged Stands. Journal of Forestry. 73(9). 573–577. 6 indexed citations

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Ward, Darold E., et al.. (1974). Particulate source strength determination for low-intensity prescribed fires. 24(2). 39–54. 4 indexed citations

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