Derek J. Posselt

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
109 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Derek J. Posselt is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Derek J. Posselt has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Atmospheric Science, 84 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 13 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Derek J. Posselt's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (79 papers), Climate variability and models (54 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (43 papers). Derek J. Posselt is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (79 papers), Climate variability and models (54 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (43 papers). Derek J. Posselt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Germany. Derek J. Posselt's co-authors include Susan C. van den Heever, Graeme L. Stephens, Catherine M. Naud, Tomislava Vukićević, Allison L. Steiner, Marcus van Lier‐Walqui, Craig H. Bishop, Jonathan E. Martin, David Wright and Robert Atlas and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Derek J. Posselt

103 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Confronting the Challenge of Modeling Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics

2020 284 citations Hugh Morrison, Marcus van Lier‐Walqui et al. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems profile →

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Derek J. Posselt

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J. Teixeira United States

Rainer Hollmann Germany

Curtis R. Alexander United States

Stephen S. Weygandt United States

François Bouttier France

Judith Berner United States

Georg Heygster Germany

Mitchell D. Goldberg United States

Tatiana G. Smirnova United States

Christine Lac France

J. Teixeira United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Derek J. Posselt

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Minamide, Masashi & Derek J. Posselt. (2025). Improving tropical cyclone intensification prediction using high‐resolution all‐sky Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite data assimilation. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 151(769). 1 indexed citations

Naud, Catherine M., et al.. (2025). How Well Does an Earth System Model Represent the Occlusion of Extratropical Cyclones?. Journal of Climate. 38(9). 1999–2014. 2 indexed citations

Chase, Randy J., Brenda Dolan, Peter J. Marinescu, et al.. (2024). Unclouding the Correlations: A Principal Component Analysis of Convective Environments. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(24). 1 indexed citations

Matsui, Toshi, David B. Wolff, S. Lang, et al.. (2023). Systematic Validation of Ensemble Cloud‐Process Simulations Using Polarimetric Radar Observations and Simulator Over the NASA Wallops Flight Facility. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(16). 1 indexed citations

Yanovsky, Igor, Derek J. Posselt, Svetla Hristova‐Veleva, et al.. (2023). Atmospheric Motion Vector Retrieval Using the Total Variation-Based Optical Flow Method. UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona). ncar tn 475+str. 3780–3783.

Yang, John Xun, Yalei You, William J. Blackwell, et al.. (2023). SatERR: A Community Error Inventory for Satellite Microwave Observation Error Representation and Uncertainty Quantification. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 105(1). E1–E20. 7 indexed citations

Naud, Catherine M., et al.. (2023). A CloudSat–CALIPSO view of cloud and precipitation in the occluded quadrants of extratropical cyclones. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 150(760). 1336–1356. 3 indexed citations

Naud, Catherine M., et al.. (2023). Cloud and Precipitation in Low-Latitude Extratropical Cyclones Conditionally Sorted on CYGNSS Surface Latent and Sensible Heat Fluxes. Journal of Climate. 36(16). 5659–5680. 1 indexed citations

Gettelman, Andrew, Alan Geer, Richard Forbes, et al.. (2022). The future of Earth system prediction: Advances in model-data fusion. Science Advances. 8(14). eabn3488–eabn3488. 81 indexed citations

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Park, Hyoshin, et al.. (2022). Temporal Multimodal Multivariate Learning. Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. 3722–3732. 4 indexed citations

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Natraj, Vijay, M. Luo, Jean-François Blavier, et al.. (2022). Simulated multispectral temperature and atmospheric composition retrievals for the JPL GEO-IR Sounder. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(5). 1251–1267. 5 indexed citations

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Posselt, Derek J., et al.. (2020). Which Combinations of Environmental Conditions and Microphysical Parameter Values Produce a Given Orographic Precipitation Distribution?. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 78(2). 619–638. 1 indexed citations

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Morrison, Hugh, Marcus van Lier‐Walqui, Ann M. Fridlind, et al.. (2020). Confronting the Challenge of Modeling Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(8). e2019MS001689–e2019MS001689. 284 indexed citations breakdown →

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Reid, Jeffrey S., Derek J. Posselt, Gao Chen, et al.. (2019). Observations and hypotheses related to low to middle free tropospheric aerosol, water vapor and altocumulus cloud layers within convective weather regimes: a SEAC ⁴ RS case study. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(17). 11413–11442. 5 indexed citations

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Heever, Susan C. van den, et al.. (2019). Tropical Deep Convective Morphology in the Different Thermodynamic and Aerosol Environments of CAMP 2 Ex and PISTON. AGUFM. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Holz, Robert E., et al.. (2018). Exploring the first aerosol indirect effect over Southeast Asia using a 10-year collocated MODIS, CALIOP, and model dataset. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(17). 12747–12764. 18 indexed citations

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Posselt, Derek J., et al.. (2017). Modes of vertical thermodynamic and wind variability over the Maritime Continent. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(7). 4611–4626. 5 indexed citations

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Matsui, Takashi, W. Tao, Hirohiko Masunaga, et al.. (2009). Goddard Satellite Data Simulation Unit: Multi-Sensor Satellite Simulators to Support Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Satellite Missions. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 2 indexed citations

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Posselt, Derek J., Graeme L. Stephens, & M. J. Miller. (2008). CLOUDSAT: Adding a New Dimension to a Classical View of Extratropical Cyclones. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 89(5). 599–610. 39 indexed citations

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Li, Jun, Elisabeth Weisz, J. Davies, et al.. (2003). 14.4 INFRARED HYPERSPECTRAL SOUNDING MODELING AND PROCESSING: AN OVERVIEW. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1265–1273.

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