Gary A. Wick

7.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
76 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Gary A. Wick is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary A. Wick has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Atmospheric Science, 53 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 38 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Gary A. Wick's work include Climate variability and models (44 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (34 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (32 papers). Gary A. Wick is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (44 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (34 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (32 papers). Gary A. Wick collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Gary A. Wick's co-authors include Paul J. Neiman, F. Martin Ralph, Michael D. Dettinger, C. W. Fairall, William J. Emery, Allen B. White, Jessica D. Lundquist, James B. Edson, J. S. Godfrey and E. F. Bradley and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Gary A. Wick

76 papers receiving 4.8k citations

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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.

Cool‐skin and warm‐layer effects on sea surface temperature

1996 649 citations C. W. Fairall, E. F. Bradley et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
Flooding on California's Russian River: Role of atmospheric rivers

2006 619 citations F. Martin Ralph, Paul J. Neiman et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
Satellite and CALJET Aircraft Observations of Atmospheric Rivers over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean during the Winter of 1997/98

2004 592 citations F. Martin Ralph, Paul J. Neiman et al. profile →
Meteorological Characteristics and Overland Precipitation Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers Affecting the West Coast of North America Based on Eight Years of SSM/I Satellite Observations

2008 577 citations Paul J. Neiman, F. Martin Ralph et al. Journal of Hydrometeorology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gary A. Wick United States	30	4.0k	3.9k	1.7k	390	224	76	5.0k
Hirokazu Endo Japan	20	5.8k 1.5×	5.4k 1.4×	1.7k 1.0×	458 1.2×	232 1.0×	45	6.6k
Kiyotoshi Takahashi Japan	10	5.4k 1.4×	5.1k 1.3×	1.8k 1.1×	353 0.9×	226 1.0×	14	6.2k
Hirotaka Kamahori Japan	16	5.6k 1.4×	5.4k 1.4×	1.9k 1.1×	359 0.9×	239 1.1×	26	6.5k
Kazutoshi Onogi Japan	12	5.5k 1.4×	5.2k 1.3×	1.8k 1.1×	361 0.9×	245 1.1×	15	6.3k
Sudhir Nadiga United States	7	3.1k 0.8×	3.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	287 0.7×	301 1.3×	9	3.9k
Shrinivas Moorthi United States	19	4.5k 1.1×	4.5k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	305 0.8×	353 1.6×	38	5.5k
Chiaki Kobayashi Japan	16	4.8k 1.2×	4.5k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	292 0.7×	209 0.9×	47	5.4k
Paul Berrisford United Kingdom	23	3.5k 0.9×	3.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	172 0.4×	190 0.8×	41	4.1k
John S. Woollen United States	11	3.5k 0.9×	3.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	157 0.4×	199 0.9×	14	4.1k
Xingren Wu United States	17	2.5k 0.6×	2.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	253 0.6×	244 1.1×	41	3.6k

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Wick, Gary A., et al.. (2025). The Effect of Water Vapor and Solar Zenith Angle on Oceanic Diurnal Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(9). 2 indexed citations

Wick, Gary A., et al.. (2024). Evaluation of Modeled Diurnal Warming Estimates for Application to Producing Sea Surface Temperature Analyses. Earth and Space Science. 11(9). 2 indexed citations

Castro, Sandra L., Gary A. Wick, Steinar Eastwood, Michael Steele, & Rasmus Tonboe. (2023). Examining the Consistency of Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Concentration in Arctic Satellite Products. Remote Sensing. 15(11). 2908–2908. 2 indexed citations

Wick, Gary A., Darren L. Jackson, & Sandra L. Castro. (2022). Assessing the ability of satellite sea surface temperature analyses to resolve spatial variability – The northwest tropical Atlantic ATOMIC region. Remote Sensing of Environment. 284. 113377–113377. 11 indexed citations

Wick, Gary A., Terrence Hock, Paul J. Neiman, et al.. (2018). The NCAR–NOAA Global Hawk Dropsonde System. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 35(8). 1585–1604. 15 indexed citations

Ralph, F. Martin, Sam F. Iacobellis, Paul J. Neiman, et al.. (2017). Dropsonde Observations of Total Integrated Water Vapor Transport within North Pacific Atmospheric Rivers. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 18(9). 2577–2596. 106 indexed citations

Harris, Andy, Jonathan P. D. Mittaz, John Sapper, et al.. (2017). A New High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Blended Analysis. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 98(5). 1015–1026. 64 indexed citations

McLinden, Matthew, et al.. (2015). An Introduction to the Nasa East Pacific Origins and Characteristics of Hurricanes (Epoch) Field Campaign. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 124–131. 5 indexed citations

Wick, Gary A.. (2014). Implementation and Initial Application of an Atmospheric River Detection Tool Based on Integrated Vapor Transport. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 5 indexed citations

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Wick, Gary A., Robbie E. Hood, Michael L. Black, et al.. (2014). NOAA Utilization of the Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft for Atmospheric Research and Forecast Improvement. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Intrieri, Janet, Gijs de Boer, Matthew D. Shupe, et al.. (2014). Global Hawk dropsonde observations of the Arctic atmosphere obtained during the Winter Storms and Pacific Atmospheric Rivers (WISPAR) field campaign. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 7(11). 3917–3926. 17 indexed citations

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Wick, Gary A., et al.. (2013). Near-surface diurnal warming simulations: validation with high resolution profile measurements. Ocean science. 9(6). 977–986. 4 indexed citations

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Bourassa, Mark A., Sarah T. Gille, Cecilia M. Bitz, et al.. (2013). High-Latitude Ocean and Sea Ice Surface Fluxes: Challenges for Climate Research. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 94(3). 403–423. 136 indexed citations

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Bourassa, Mark A., Sarah T. Gille, Cecilia M. Bitz, et al.. (2012). High-latitude ocean and sea ice surface fluxes: requirements and challenges for climate research. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 4 indexed citations

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Bourassa, Mark A., Sarah T. Gille, Cecilia M. Bitz, et al.. (2012). High-latitude ocean and sea ice surface fluxes. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1 indexed citations

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Castro, Sandra L., Gary A. Wick, Peter J. Minnett, Andrew T. Jessup, & William J. Emery. (2010). The impact of measurement uncertainty and spatial variability on the accuracy of skin and subsurface regression-based sea surface temperature algorithms. Remote Sensing of Environment. 114(11). 2666–2678. 14 indexed citations

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Wick, Gary A. & Darren L. Jackson. (2008). Evaluation of Satellite-Derived Estimates of the Gas Transfer Velocity Using Direct Observations From Research Vessels. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Castro, Sandra L., Gary A. Wick, & William J. Emery. (2003). Further refinements to models for the bulk‐skin sea surface temperature difference. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 108(C12). 25 indexed citations

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Emery, William J., Sandra L. Castro, Gary A. Wick, Peter Schluessel, & Craig Donlon. (2001). Estimating Sea Surface Temperature from Infrared Satellite and In Situ Temperature Data. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 82(12). 2773–2785. 79 indexed citations

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Fairall, C. W., E. F. Bradley, J. S. Godfrey, et al.. (1996). Cool‐skin and warm‐layer effects on sea surface temperature. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 101(C1). 1295–1308. 649 indexed citations breakdown →

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