David Short

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

David Short is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David Short has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Atmospheric Science, 38 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in David Short's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (34 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (32 papers) and Climate variability and models (20 papers). David Short is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (34 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (32 papers) and Climate variability and models (20 papers). David Short collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and United Kingdom. David Short's co-authors include Ali Tokay, J. G. Mengel, Gerald R. North, Thomas J. Crowley, Dennis L. Hartmann, Benjamin Kedem, Kenji Nakamura, David Atlas, Daniel Rosenfeld and Victor De Oliveira and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

David Short

75 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Evidence from Tropical Raindrop Spectra of the Origin of ... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 200 400 600
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. Evidence from Tropical Raindrop Spectra of the Origin of Rain from Stratiform versus Convective Clouds
    1996 620 citations David Short et al. Journal of Applied Meteorology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Short United States 30 2.9k 1.9k 612 345 289 86 3.6k
Jurate M. Landwehr United States 23 1.3k 0.5× 1.6k 0.9× 369 0.6× 326 0.9× 204 0.7× 49 3.8k
Heikki Järvinen Finland 22 2.0k 0.7× 1.8k 1.0× 350 0.6× 389 1.1× 97 0.3× 96 2.7k
Alberto Malinverno United States 34 1.1k 0.4× 586 0.3× 350 0.6× 371 1.1× 258 0.9× 98 5.4k
Hua Lu United Kingdom 32 2.5k 0.8× 1.6k 0.9× 298 0.5× 402 1.2× 124 0.4× 73 4.3k
Frank Lunkeit Germany 27 2.1k 0.7× 2.1k 1.1× 137 0.2× 585 1.7× 100 0.3× 90 2.9k
M. Rixen Italy 24 1.4k 0.5× 1.7k 0.9× 187 0.3× 2.1k 6.0× 39 0.1× 73 3.3k
Shimon Wdowinski United States 43 1.3k 0.5× 906 0.5× 1.1k 1.7× 1.1k 3.1× 69 0.2× 161 6.3k
P. W. Webley United States 22 1.2k 0.4× 901 0.5× 300 0.5× 251 0.7× 53 0.2× 73 2.1k
Bedartha Goswami India 28 2.0k 0.7× 2.2k 1.2× 101 0.2× 680 2.0× 114 0.4× 58 3.0k
G. Wadge United Kingdom 39 1.5k 0.5× 309 0.2× 416 0.7× 177 0.5× 51 0.2× 129 4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by David Short

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Short

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Short

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Short. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Short 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 David Short. David Short 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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Bethel, Paul A., C. M. Cooper, Jerry Evarts, et al.. (2022). Development of Commercial Manufacturing Processes for Acalabrutinib. Organic Process Research & Development. 26(12). 3303–3311. 1 indexed citations
2.
Short, David, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, & Toshio Iguchi. (2013). Reduction of Nonuniform Beam Filling Effects by Vertical Decorrelation: Theory and Simulations. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 91(4). 539–543. 5 indexed citations
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Short, David, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, & Toshio Iguchi. (2012). Empirical Test of Theoretically Based Correction for Path Integrated Attenuation in Simulated Spaceborne Precipitation Radar Observations. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 5(3). 930–935. 5 indexed citations
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Short, David, Masafumi Hirose, & Kenji Nakamura. (2009). An Interpretation of TRMM Radar Observations of Shallow Convection with a Rain Cell Model. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 87A. 67–81. 3 indexed citations
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Hirose, Masafumi, Riko Oki, David Short, & Kenji Nakamura. (2009). Regional Characteristics of Scale-based Precipitation Systems from Ten Years of TRMM PR Data. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 87A. 353–368. 19 indexed citations
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Short, David, et al.. (2008). Forecasting Cool Season Daily Peak Winds at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 1 indexed citations
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Short, David, et al.. (2006). The Sound of the Sundial. World Literature Today. 80(1). 17–17.
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Short, David, et al.. (2004). Effect of Clouds on Optical Imaging of the Space Shuttle During the Ascent Phase: A Statistical Analysis Based on a 3D Model. 11th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace and the 22nd Conference on Severe Local Storms. 1 indexed citations
9.
Manobianco, John & David Short. (2001). On the Utility of Airborne MEMS for Improving Meteorological Analysis and Forecasting. TechConnect Briefs. 1(2001). 342–345. 2 indexed citations
10.
Campbell, Mark, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Roger D. Billica, et al.. (2001). Endoscopic surgery in weightlessness. Surgical Endoscopy. 15(12). 1413–1418. 39 indexed citations
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Short, David. (2000). Volume scan strategies for the WSR-74C in support of Space Launch. 2 indexed citations
12.
Kruger, Anton, Paul A. Kucera, Witold F. Krajewski, & David Short. (1999). TOGA COARE shipborne radar‐rainfall products. Water Resources Research. 35(8). 2597–2600. 2 indexed citations
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Prabhakara, C., R. Meneghini, David Short, et al.. (1998). A TRMM Microwave Radiometer Rain Retrieval Method Based on Fractional Rain Area. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 76(5). 765–781. 3 indexed citations
14.
Short, David, et al.. (1998). Environmental assessment. 18 indexed citations
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Oliveira, Victor De, Benjamin Kedem, & David Short. (1997). Bayesian Prediction of Transformed Gaussian Random Fields. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 92(440). 1422–1433. 141 indexed citations
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Kedem, Benjamin, Ruth M. Pfeiffer, & David Short. (1997). Variability of Space–Time Mean Rain Rate. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 36(5). 443–451. 16 indexed citations
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Shimizu, Kunio, David Short, & Benjamin Kedem. (1993). Single- and Double-Threshold Methods for Estimating the Variance of Area Rain Rate. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 71(6). 673–683. 12 indexed citations
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Prabhakara, C. & David Short. (1984). Nimbus 7 SMMR Derived Seasonal Variations in the Water Vapor, Liquid Water and Surface Winds over the Global Oceans. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 4 indexed citations
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North, Gerald R., David Short, & J. G. Mengel. (1983). Climatic response to a time varying solar constant. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 4 indexed citations
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Stanford, John L. & David Short. (1981). Evidence for Wavelike Anomalies with Short Meridional and Large Zonal Scales in the Lower Stratospheric Temperature Field. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 38(5). 1083–1091. 4 indexed citations

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