Gerald L. Potter

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Gerald L. Potter is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald L. Potter has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Atmospheric Science, 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 2 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Gerald L. Potter's work include Climate variability and models (22 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (18 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (18 papers). Gerald L. Potter is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (22 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (18 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (18 papers). Gerald L. Potter collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Gerald L. Potter's co-authors include R. D. Cess, James S. Boyle, Michael Fiorino, Thomas J. Phillips, J. J. Hnilo, W. Lawrence Gates, Peter J. Gleckler, D. N. Williams, Kenneth R. Sperber and R. Drach and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Gerald L. Potter

42 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

An Overview of the Results of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP I)

1999 678 citations W. Lawrence Gates, James S. Boyle et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerald L. Potter United States	20	1.8k	1.8k	218	68	62	43	2.0k
Ionela Musat France	13	1.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	272 1.2×	54 0.8×	65 1.0×	17	1.9k
Stephen J. Colucci United States	21	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	272 1.2×	167 2.5×	80 1.3×	45	1.6k
Marc Salzmann Germany	20	1.7k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	227 1.0×	56 0.8×	61 1.0×	37	2.1k
James S. Boyle United States	16	1.9k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	434 2.0×	42 0.6×	60 1.0×	21	2.1k
Traute Crueger Germany	14	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	353 1.6×	55 0.8×	56 0.9×	21	1.9k
Franklin R. Robertson United States	18	1.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	372 1.7×	140 2.1×	137 2.2×	36	1.8k
Arindam Chakraborty India	25	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	240 1.1×	91 1.3×	53 0.9×	80	1.4k
Robert Colman Australia	28	3.1k 1.7×	2.9k 1.6×	461 2.1×	75 1.1×	60 1.0×	60	3.4k
Ingo Kirchner Germany	18	1.5k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	215 1.0×	60 0.9×	98 1.6×	40	1.8k
Shinji Kadokura Japan	9	1.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	419 1.9×	85 1.3×	108 1.7×	19	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerald L. Potter

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Zhang, Chengzhu, Jean‐Christophe Golaz, Ryan M. Forsyth, et al.. (2022). The E3SM Diagnostics Package (E3SM Diags v2.6): A Python-based Diagnostics Package for Earth System Models Evaluation. 2 indexed citations

Roca, Rémy, Lisa V. Alexander, Gerald L. Potter, et al.. (2019). FROGS: a daily 1° × 1° gridded precipitation database of rain gauge, satellite and reanalysis products. Earth system science data. 11(3). 1017–1035. 80 indexed citations

Davis, Sean, Michaela I. Hegglin, Masatomo Fujiwara, et al.. (2017). Assessment of upper tropospheric and stratospheric water vapor and ozone in reanalyses as part of S-RIP. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(20). 12743–12778. 80 indexed citations

Potter, Gerald L., et al.. (2017). Enabling Reanalysis Research Using the Collaborative Reanalysis Technical Environment (CREATE). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 99(4). 677–687. 16 indexed citations

Teixeira, João, Duane E. Waliser, R. Ferraro, et al.. (2014). Satellite Observations for CMIP5: The Genesis of Obs4MIPs. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 95(9). 1329–1334. 48 indexed citations

Posselt, Derek J., et al.. (2012). Object-Based Evaluation of MERRA Cloud Physical Properties and Radiative Fluxes during the 1998 El Niño–La Niña Transition. Journal of Climate. 25(21). 7313–7327. 18 indexed citations

Smith, G. Louis, et al.. (2012). A technique using principal component analysis to compare seasonal cycles of Earth radiation from CERES and model computations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117(D9). 8 indexed citations

Huang, Xianglei, Jason N. S. Cole, Fei He, et al.. (2012). Longwave Band-By-Band Cloud Radiative Effect and Its Application in GCM Evaluation. Journal of Climate. 26(2). 450–467. 11 indexed citations

Potter, Gerald L. & R. D. Cess. (2004). Testing the impact of clouds on the radiation budgets of 19 atmospheric general circulation models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 109(D2). 66 indexed citations

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Gates, W. Lawrence, James S. Boyle, Curt Covey, et al.. (1999). An Overview of the Results of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP I). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 80(1). 29–55. 678 indexed citations breakdown →

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Potter, Gerald L., et al.. (1992). A modeling perspective on cloud radiative forcing. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 97(D18). 20507–20518. 19 indexed citations

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Potter, Gerald L., R. Drach, Thomas G. Corsetti, et al.. (1990). Cloud forcing: A modeling perspective. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 12–15. 2 indexed citations

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Gutowski, William J., Gerald L. Potter, & M. R. Riches. (1988). DOE Model Intercomparison Workshop II. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 69(12). 1453–1454. 1 indexed citations

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Cess, R. D. & Gerald L. Potter. (1986). Narrow- and Broad-Band Satellite Measurements of Shortwave Radiation: Conversion Simulations with a General Circulation Model. Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology. 25(12). 1977–1984. 12 indexed citations

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Potter, Gerald L. & R. D. Cess. (1984). Background tropospheric aerosols: Incorporation within a statistical‐dynamical climate model. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 89(D6). 9521–9526. 22 indexed citations

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Potter, Gerald L. & W. Lawrence Gates. (1984). A Preliminary Intercomparison of the Seasonal Response of Two Atmospheric Climate Models. Monthly Weather Review. 112(5). 909–917. 10 indexed citations

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Potter, Gerald L., et al.. (1981). Climate Change and Cloud Feedback: The Possible Radiative Effects of Latitudinal Redistribution. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 38(3). 489–493. 6 indexed citations

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Potter, Gerald L., et al.. (1981). Case Study of Feedbacks and Synergisms in a Doubled CO₂Experiment. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 38(9). 1906–1910. 4 indexed citations

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Terjung, Werner H., et al.. (1969). Terrestrial, atmospheric and solar radiation fluxes on a high desert mountain in mid-July: White Mountain Peak, California. Solar Energy. 12(3). 363–375. 11 indexed citations

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Terjung, Werner H., et al.. (1969). Energy and Moisture Balances of an Alpine Tundra in Mid July. Arctic and Alpine Research. 1(4). 247–266. 6 indexed citations

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