James M. Wilczak

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

James M. Wilczak is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, James M. Wilczak has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Atmospheric Science, 59 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 35 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in James M. Wilczak's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (60 papers), Climate variability and models (32 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (25 papers). James M. Wilczak is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (60 papers), Climate variability and models (32 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (25 papers). James M. Wilczak collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Japan. James M. Wilczak's co-authors include Steven Oncley, Laura Bianco, Irina V. Djalalova, Luca Delle Monache, S. A. McKeen, C. Clack, Alexander E. MacDonald, Yuanfu Xie, R. J. Hill and Steven E. Peckham and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

James M. Wilczak

94 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James M. Wilczak United States	32	2.8k	2.7k	1.4k	561	402	97	4.6k
Philippe Drobinski France	39	3.4k 1.2×	3.1k 1.1×	883 0.6×	224 0.4×	249 0.6×	175	4.5k
Wei Gong China	38	2.4k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	438 0.8×	155 0.4×	106	4.4k
Jordi Vilà-Guerau De Arellano Netherlands	42	4.7k 1.6×	4.6k 1.7×	1.8k 1.3×	785 1.4×	65 0.2×	203	6.5k
Stefan Emeis Germany	35	1.7k 0.6×	2.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.3×	763 1.4×	160 0.4×	160	3.8k
R. L. Walko United States	30	4.8k 1.7×	4.5k 1.7×	1.3k 0.9×	324 0.6×	67 0.2×	60	6.4k
B. Klemp	3	5.9k 2.1×	7.0k 2.6×	1.7k 1.3×	840 1.5×	258 0.6×	4	8.5k
O. Gill United States	5	5.9k 2.1×	7.0k 2.6×	1.7k 1.3×	840 1.5×	258 0.6×	7	8.5k
George Kallos Greece	36	2.5k 0.9×	3.2k 1.2×	849 0.6×	1.3k 2.3×	316 0.8×	122	4.7k
Sven‐Erik Gryning Denmark	35	1.6k 0.5×	2.3k 0.8×	2.3k 1.6×	459 0.8×	92 0.2×	124	3.7k
Harindra J. S. Fernando United States	38	1.8k 0.6×	2.6k 0.9×	2.2k 1.6×	585 1.0×	109 0.3×	207	5.0k

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Adler, Bianca, et al.. (2026). Supplementary material to "Multi-season evaluation of temperature and wind in the marine boundary layer along the United States northeast coast in the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh model".

Cox, Christopher J., Janet Intrieri, Brian Butterworth, et al.. (2025). Observations of surface energy fluxes and meteorology in the seasonally snow-covered high-elevation East River watershed during SPLASH, 2021–2023. Earth system science data. 17(4). 1481–1499.

Lee, Jared A., Stefano Alessandrini, Ju‐Hye Kim, et al.. (2024). Comparison of CAMS and CMAQ analyses of surface-level PM2.5 and O3 over the conterminous United States (CONUS). Atmospheric Environment. 338. 120833–120833. 1 indexed citations

Bianco, Laura, Bianca Adler, Ludovic Bariteau, et al.. (2024). Sensitivity of thermodynamic profiles retrieved from ground-based microwave and infrared observations to additional input data from active remote sensing instruments and numerical weather prediction models. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 17(13). 3933–3948. 4 indexed citations

Adler, Bianca, James M. Wilczak, Laura Bianco, et al.. (2023). Impact of Seasonal Snow‐Cover Change on the Observed and Simulated State of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer in a High‐Altitude Mountain Valley. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(12). 7 indexed citations

Djalalova, Irina V., David D. Turner, Laura Bianco, et al.. (2022). Improving thermodynamic profile retrievals from microwave radiometers by including radio acoustic sounding system (RASS) observations. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(2). 521–537. 11 indexed citations

Shaw, William J., Larry K. Berg, Mithu Debnath, et al.. (2022). Scientific challenges to characterizing the wind resource in the marine atmospheric boundary layer. Wind energy science. 7(6). 2307–2334. 21 indexed citations

Duncan, James B., Laura Bianco, Bianca Adler, et al.. (2022). Evaluating convective planetary boundary layer height estimations resolved by both active and passive remote sensing instruments during the CHEESEHEAD19 field campaign. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(8). 2479–2502. 21 indexed citations

Draxl, Caroline, Rochelle P. Worsnop, Geng Xia, et al.. (2021). Mountain waves can impact wind power generation. Wind energy science. 6(1). 45–60. 20 indexed citations

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Bianco, Laura, Irina V. Djalalova, James M. Wilczak, et al.. (2019). Impact of model improvements on 80 m wind speeds during the second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2). Geoscientific model development. 12(11). 4803–4821. 25 indexed citations

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Monache, Luca Delle, Stefano Alessandrini, Irina V. Djalalova, James M. Wilczak, & Jason C. Knievel. (2018). Air Quality Predictions with an Analog Ensemble. 3 indexed citations

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McCaffrey, Katherine, Laura Bianco, & James M. Wilczak. (2017). Improved observations of turbulence dissipation rates from wind profiling radars. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(7). 2595–2611. 24 indexed citations

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Newsom, Rob, W. Alan Brewer, James M. Wilczak, et al.. (2017). Validating precision estimates in horizontal wind measurements from a Doppler lidar. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(3). 1229–1240. 50 indexed citations

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McCaffrey, Katherine, Laura Bianco, Paul E. Johnston, & James M. Wilczak. (2017). A comparison of vertical velocity variance measurements from wind profiling radars and sonic anemometers. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(3). 999–1015. 2 indexed citations

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Bianco, Laura, Katja Friedrich, James M. Wilczak, et al.. (2017). Assessing the accuracy of microwave radiometers and radio acoustic sounding systems for wind energy applications. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(5). 1707–1721. 22 indexed citations

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Debnath, Mithu, Giacomo Valerio Iungo, W. Alan Brewer, et al.. (2017). Assessment of virtual towers performed with scanning wind lidars and Ka-band radars during the XPIA experiment. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(3). 1215–1227. 18 indexed citations

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Debnath, Mithu, Giacomo Valerio Iungo, W. Alan Brewer, et al.. (2017). Vertical profiles of the 3-D wind velocity retrieved from multiple wind lidars performing triple range-height-indicator scans. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(2). 431–444. 18 indexed citations

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McCaffrey, Katherine, Aditya Choukulkar, James M. Wilczak, et al.. (2017). Identification of tower-wake distortions using sonic anemometer and lidar measurements. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(2). 393–407. 22 indexed citations

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Choukulkar, Aditya, W. Alan Brewer, Scott P. Sandberg, et al.. (2017). Evaluation of single and multiple Doppler lidar techniques to measure complex flow during the XPIA field campaign. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(1). 247–264. 29 indexed citations

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McCaffrey, Katherine, Laura Bianco, Paul E. Johnston, & James M. Wilczak. (2016). Vertical Velocity Variance Measurements from WindProfiling Radars. 2 indexed citations

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