J. David Neelin

22.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
242 papers, 16.8k citations indexed

About

J. David Neelin is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, J. David Neelin has authored 242 papers receiving a total of 16.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 218 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 202 papers in Atmospheric Science and 64 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in J. David Neelin's work include Climate variability and models (211 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (155 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (90 papers). J. David Neelin is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (211 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (155 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (90 papers). J. David Neelin collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Taiwan. J. David Neelin's co-authors include Chia Chou, Fei‐Fei Jin, Ning Zeng, Isaac M. Held, Christopher E. Holloway, Hui Su, Ole Peters, Baird Langenbrunner, Christopher S. Bretherton and Kerry Emanuel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

J. David Neelin

240 papers receiving 16.2k citations

Hit Papers

ENSO theory 1987 2026 2000 2013 1998 1994 2018 1987 2008 250 500 750
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. ENSO theory
    1998 758 citations J. David Neelin et al. profile →
  2. On large‐scale circulations in convecting atmospheres
    1994 700 citations J. David Neelin et al. profile →
  3. Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California
    2018 686 citations J. David Neelin et al. profile →
  4. Modeling Tropical Convergence Based on the Moist Static Energy Budget
    1987 680 citations J. David Neelin et al. Monthly Weather Review profile →
  5. Evaluating the “Rich-Get-Richer” Mechanism in Tropical Precipitation Change under Global Warming
    2008 596 citations J. David Neelin et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  6. Climate-invariant machine learning
    2024 46 citations Pierre Gentine, Fiaz Ahmed et al. profile →

Peers

J. David Neelin
Brian J. Soden United States
E. Roeckner Germany
Chris K. Folland United Kingdom
D. E. Parker United Kingdom
Rowan Sutton United Kingdom
Sandrine Bony France
Hans von Storch Germany
G. J. Boer Canada
Nick A Rayner United Kingdom
Mojib Latif Germany
Brian J. Soden United States
J. David Neelin
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Fields of papers citing papers by J. David Neelin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of J. David Neelin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of J. David Neelin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of J. David Neelin 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 J. David Neelin. J. David Neelin 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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Tsai, Wu-Yang, Travis O’Brien, Jennifer L. Catto, et al.. (2025). Co‐Occurring Atmospheric Features and Their Contributions to Precipitation Extremes. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(5). 2 indexed citations
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Neelin, J. David, et al.. (2025). A Framework for Minimizing Remote Effects of Regional Climate Interventions: Cooling the Great Barrier Reef Without Teleconnections. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(10). 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiuyu, Xiaohui Zhong, Yuanqing Huang, et al.. (2025). A data-to-forecast machine learning system for global weather. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6658–6658. 1 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Fiaz, et al.. (2024). Moist heatwaves intensified by entrainment of dry air that limits deep convection. Nature Geoscience. 17(9). 837–844. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Wei‐Ting, et al.. (2023). Identifying the Deep‐Inflow Mixing Features in Orographically‐Locked Diurnal Convection. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(10). 4 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Fiaz, et al.. (2021). Extreme Tropical Precipitation Clusters Show Strong Increases in Frequency Under Global Warming in CMIP6 Models. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(3). 4 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Fiaz & J. David Neelin. (2021). A Process‐Oriented Diagnostic to Assess Precipitation‐Thermodynamic Relations and Application to CMIP6 Models. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(14). 9 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Fiaz, Ángel F. Adames, & J. David Neelin. (2020). Deep Convective Adjustment of Temperature and Moisture. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 77(6). 2163–2186. 37 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Fiaz & J. David Neelin. (2019). Explaining Scales and Statistics of Tropical Precipitation Clusters with a Stochastic Model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 76(10). 3063–3087. 21 indexed citations
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Martínez-Villalobos, Cristian & J. David Neelin. (2018). Precipitation Accumulations, Intensities and Durations. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2018. 1 indexed citations
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Martínez-Villalobos, Cristian & J. David Neelin. (2017). Shifts in Summertime Precipitation Accumulation Distributions over the US. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations
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Lintner, Benjamin R., et al.. (2017). Relationships among climatological vertical moisture structure, column water vapor, and precipitation over the central Amazon in observations and CMIP5 models. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(4). 1981–1989. 23 indexed citations
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Su, Hui, Jonathan H. Jiang, J. David Neelin, et al.. (2017). Tightening of Hadley Ascent and Tropical High Cloud Region Key to Precipitation Change in a Warmer Climate. Japan Geoscience Union. 1 indexed citations
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Tantet, Alexis, Mickaël D. Chekroun, Henk A. Dijkstra, & J. David Neelin. (2017). Mixing Spectrum in Reduced Phase Spaces of Stochastic Differential Equations. Part II: Stochastic Hopf Bifurcation. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Lee, Jung‐Eun, Benjamin R. Lintner, J. David Neelin, et al.. (2012). Reduction of tropical land region precipitation variability via transpiration. Geophysical Research Letters. 39(19). 35 indexed citations
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Eagle, Robert A., Camille Risi, John Mitchell, et al.. (2012). High regional climate sensitivity over continental China and underlying dynamics constrained by carbonate clumped isotope reconstructions of glacial-recent changes in temperature and the hydrologic cycle. AGUFM. 2012. 1 indexed citations
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Peters, Ole, J. David Neelin, & Stephen W. Nesbitt. (2008). Mesoscale convective systems and critical clusters. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations
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Stevens, Björn, et al.. (2002). Entrainment, Rayleigh Friction, and Boundary Layer Winds over the Tropical Pacific. Journal of Climate. 15(1). 30–44. 84 indexed citations
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Périgaud, C., et al.. (1999). Use of Data to Improve Seasonal-to-Interannual Forecasts Simulated by Intermediate Coupled Models. Monthly Weather Review. 3 indexed citations

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