David G. DeWitt

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

David G. DeWitt is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, David G. DeWitt has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 33 papers in Atmospheric Science and 24 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in David G. DeWitt's work include Climate variability and models (43 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (27 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (22 papers). David G. DeWitt is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (43 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (27 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (22 papers). David G. DeWitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and United Kingdom. David G. DeWitt's co-authors include Bradfield Lyon, Anthony G. Barnston, Shuhua Li, Michael K. Tippett, Michelle L’Heureux, Simon J. Mason, Lisa Goddard, Willem A. Landman, Edwin K. Schneider and Stephen E. Zebiak and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David G. DeWitt

47 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Skill of Real-Time Seasonal ENSO Model Predictions during 2002–11: Is Our Capability Increasing?

2011 521 citations Anthony G. Barnston, Michael K. Tippett et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David G. DeWitt United States	21	1.8k	1.3k	674	251	142	48	2.1k
Karen A. McKinnon United States	21	2.0k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	386 0.6×	220 0.9×	169 1.2×	48	2.3k
Randall M. Dole United States	25	2.7k 1.5×	2.3k 1.7×	566 0.8×	137 0.5×	111 0.8×	39	2.9k
Jack Katzfey Australia	30	1.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	353 0.5×	225 0.9×	183 1.3×	69	2.5k
Naomi Henderson United States	23	2.1k 1.2×	1.7k 1.3×	621 0.9×	122 0.5×	150 1.1×	38	2.5k
Amadou Thierno Gaye Senegal	26	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	287 0.4×	342 1.4×	212 1.5×	98	2.1k
Debra Hudson Australia	24	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	399 0.6×	154 0.6×	134 0.9×	44	1.6k
Fredrick H. M. Semazzi United States	25	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	318 0.5×	243 1.0×	162 1.1×	58	2.2k
Michael S. Halpert United States	20	2.4k 1.3×	1.9k 1.5×	911 1.4×	151 0.6×	154 1.1×	29	2.7k
Andrew Colman United Kingdom	16	2.9k 1.6×	2.3k 1.7×	1.2k 1.7×	190 0.8×	211 1.5×	25	3.2k
M. S. Madhusoodanan India	6	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	212 0.3×	252 1.0×	200 1.4×	7	2.0k

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Baxter, Stephen, M. M. Hurwitz, Keith D. White, et al.. (2024). NWS Regional and Local Climate Services: Past 20 Years, Present, and Future. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 105(5). E832–E847. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Jieshun, Wanqiu Wang, Arun Kumar, Yanyun Liu, & David G. DeWitt. (2024). Assessment of a New Global Ocean Reanalysis in ENSO Predictions With NOAA UFS. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(6). 2 indexed citations

Zhu, Jieshun, Wanqiu Wang, Yanyun Liu, Arun Kumar, & David G. DeWitt. (2023). Advances in Seasonal Predictions of Arctic Sea Ice With NOAA UFS. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(7). 3 indexed citations

Thiaw, Wassila M., et al.. (2022). Toward Experimental Heat–Health Early Warning in Africa. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 103(8). E1843–E1860. 9 indexed citations

Sahu, Netrananda, Andrew W. Robertson, Rizaldi Boer, et al.. (2016). Probabilistic seasonal streamflow forecasts of the Citarum River, Indonesia, based on general circulation models. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 31(7). 1747–1758. 23 indexed citations

Landman, Willem A., et al.. (2014). Seasonal temperature prediction skill over Southern Africa and human health. Meteorological Applications. 21(4). 963–974. 21 indexed citations

Landman, Willem A., et al.. (2014). SST prediction methodologies and verification considerations for dynamical mid-summer rainfall forecasts for South Africa. Water SA. 40(4). 615–615. 17 indexed citations

Lyon, Bradfield, Anthony G. Barnston, & David G. DeWitt. (2013). Tropical pacific forcing of a 1998–1999 climate shift: observational analysis and climate model results for the boreal spring season. Climate Dynamics. 43(3-4). 893–909. 74 indexed citations

Robertson, Andrew W., et al.. (2012). Prediction of Rice Production in the Philippines Using Seasonal Climate Forecasts. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 52(3). 552–569. 57 indexed citations

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Beraki, Asmerom F., Willem A. Landman, & David G. DeWitt. (2012). Southern hemisphere climate variability as represented by an ocean-atmosphere coupled model. 1 indexed citations

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Barnston, Anthony G., Shuhua Li, Simon J. Mason, et al.. (2009). Verification of the First 11 Years of IRI’s Seasonal Climate Forecasts. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 49(3). 493–520. 122 indexed citations

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Zhang, Rong‐Hua, Antonio J. Busalacchi, & David G. DeWitt. (2008). The Roles of Atmospheric Stochastic Forcing (SF) and Oceanic Entrainment Temperature (Te) in Decadal Modulation of ENSO. Journal of Climate. 21(4). 674–704. 39 indexed citations

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Zhang, Rong‐Hua & David G. DeWitt. (2006). Response of tropical Pacific interannual variability to decadal entrainment temperature change in a hybrid coupled model. Geophysical Research Letters. 33(8). 5 indexed citations

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Tippett, Michael K., Anthony G. Barnston, David G. DeWitt, & Rong‐Hua Zhang. (2005). Statistical Correction of Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Forecasts. Journal of Climate. 18(23). 5141–5162. 14 indexed citations

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Barnston, Anthony G., Simon J. Mason, Lisa Goddard, David G. DeWitt, & Stephen E. Zebiak. (2003). Multimodel Ensembling in Seasonal Climate Forecasting at IRI. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 84(12). 1783–1796. 165 indexed citations

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Bhatt, Uma S., Edwin K. Schneider, & David G. DeWitt. (2002). Influence of North American Land Processes on North Atlantic SST Variability. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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DeWitt, David G. & Edwin K. Schneider. (2000). The Tropical Ocean Response to a Change in Solar Forcing. Journal of Climate. 13(6). 1133–1149. 5 indexed citations

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Shukla, J., D. A. Paolino, David M. Straus, et al.. (2000). Dynamical seasonal predictions with the COLA atmospheric model. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 126(567). 2265–2291. 27 indexed citations

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Kirtman, Ben P. & David G. DeWitt. (1997). Comparison of Atmospheric Model Wind Stress with Three Different Convective Parameterizations: Sensitivity of Tropical Pacific Ocean Simulations. Monthly Weather Review. 125(6). 1231–1250. 14 indexed citations

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DeWitt, David G., Edwin K. Schneider, & Anandu D. Vernekar. (1996). Factors Maintaining the Zonally Asymmetric Precipitation Distribution and Low-Level Flow in the Tropics of an Atmospheric General Circulation Model: Diagnostic Studies. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 53(15). 2247–2263. 7 indexed citations

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