John D. Horel

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

John D. Horel is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, John D. Horel has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Atmospheric Science, 70 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 13 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in John D. Horel's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (63 papers), Climate variability and models (48 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (23 papers). John D. Horel is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (63 papers), Climate variability and models (48 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (23 papers). John D. Horel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and Ireland. John D. Horel's co-authors include John M. Wallace, Erik T. Crosman, C. David Whiteman, Neil P. Lareau, Sebastian W. Hoch, J. E. Geisler, Andrea N. Hahmann, Jan Paegle, Lawrence B. Dunn and Craig B. Clements and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

John D. Horel

89 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Planetary-Scale Atmospheric Phenomena Associated with the Southern Oscillation

1981 1.6k citations John D. Horel, John M. Wallace Monthly Weather Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John D. Horel United States	31	4.3k	4.2k	1.4k	749	398	94	5.5k
David Parrish United States	19	5.8k 1.3×	6.1k 1.4×	994 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	272 0.7×	52	7.5k
Fedor Mesinger United States	20	3.6k 0.8×	3.7k 0.9×	879 0.6×	572 0.8×	195 0.5×	48	5.1k
Philippe Drobinski France	39	3.4k 0.8×	3.1k 0.7×	578 0.4×	883 1.2×	224 0.6×	175	4.5k
Hartmut Graßl Germany	33	2.5k 0.6×	2.3k 0.5×	850 0.6×	478 0.6×	244 0.6×	127	4.1k
Kyung‐Ja Ha South Korea	41	5.0k 1.1×	4.6k 1.1×	1.8k 1.3×	423 0.6×	132 0.3×	226	5.8k
Da‐Lin Zhang United States	50	5.6k 1.3×	6.7k 1.6×	1.7k 1.2×	1.2k 1.6×	426 1.1×	215	7.9k
Jiang Zhu China	45	3.7k 0.9×	3.3k 0.8×	3.0k 2.1×	545 0.7×	685 1.7×	237	6.7k
Clifford F. Mass United States	44	5.0k 1.1×	5.5k 1.3×	649 0.5×	710 0.9×	179 0.4×	144	6.3k
Song‐You Hong South Korea	46	6.9k 1.6×	7.2k 1.7×	869 0.6×	970 1.3×	256 0.6×	178	8.0k
Zavisă Janjić United States	23	5.2k 1.2×	5.6k 1.3×	554 0.4×	1.2k 1.6×	370 0.9×	55	6.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John D. Horel

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Hallar, A. Gannet, Ian B. McCubbin, Randolph Borys, et al.. (2025). Storm Peak Laboratory: A Research and Training Facility for the Atmospheric Sciences. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106(6). E1130–E1148.

Oakley, Gretchen M., Richard R. Orlandi, Jeremiah A. Alt, et al.. (2025). Characterizing air pollution exposure methodologies in rhinology: a scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Health Research. 35(11). 3588–3603.

Mendoza, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Electric buses as an air pollution and meteorological observation network: Methodology and preliminary results. The Science of The Total Environment. 951. 175327–175327. 2 indexed citations

Horel, John D., et al.. (2023). Operational water forecast ability of the HRRR-iSnobal combination: an evaluation to adapt into production environments. Geoscientific model development. 16(1). 233–250. 9 indexed citations

Umunnakwe, Amarachi, Masood Parvania, Nguyễn Trung Hiếu, John D. Horel, & Katherine Davis. (2022). Data‐driven spatio‐temporal analysis of wildfire risk to power systems operation. IET Generation Transmission & Distribution. 16(13). 2531–2546. 27 indexed citations

Horel, John D., et al.. (2022). Using Cloud Computing to Analyze Model Output Archived in Zarr Format. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 39(4). 449–462. 12 indexed citations

Mendoza, Daniel, Erik T. Crosman, L. Mitchell, et al.. (2019). The TRAX Light-Rail Train Air Quality Observation Project. Urban Science. 3(4). 108–108. 16 indexed citations

Foster, Christopher S., Erik T. Crosman, John D. Horel, et al.. (2019). Quantifying methane emissions in the Uintah Basin during wintertime stagnation episodes. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 7. 11 indexed citations

Mitchell, L., Erik T. Crosman, Alexander A. Jacques, et al.. (2018). Monitoring of greenhouse gases and pollutants across an urban area using a light-rail public transit platform. Atmospheric Environment. 187. 9–23. 61 indexed citations

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Crosman, Erik T., Alexander A. Jacques, & John D. Horel. (2017). A novel approach for monitoring vertical profiles of boundary-layer pollutants: Utilizing routine news helicopter flights. Atmospheric Pollution Research. 8(5). 828–835. 14 indexed citations

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Crosman, Erik T. & John D. Horel. (2017). Large-eddy simulations of a Salt Lake Valley cold-air pool. Atmospheric Research. 193. 10–25. 23 indexed citations

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Foster, Christopher S., Erik T. Crosman, Lacey Holland, et al.. (2017). Confirmation of Elevated Methane Emissions in Utah's Uintah Basin With Ground‐Based Observations and a High‐Resolution Transport Model. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(23). 16 indexed citations

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Crosman, Erik T., et al.. (2015). Simulations of a cold-air pool associated with elevated wintertime ozone in the Uintah Basin, Utah. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(1). 135–151. 36 indexed citations

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Lareau, Neil P. & John D. Horel. (2014). Dynamically Induced Displacements of a Persistent Cold-Air Pool. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 154(2). 291–316. 50 indexed citations

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Horel, John D., et al.. (2006). Verification of Surface Temperature Forecasts from the National Digital Forecast Database over the Western United States. Weather and Forecasting. 21(5). 869–892. 26 indexed citations

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Clements, Craig B., C. David Whiteman, & John D. Horel. (2003). Cold-Air-Pool Structure and Evolution in a Mountain Basin: Peter Sinks, Utah. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 42(6). 752–768. 163 indexed citations

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Horel, John D.. (2001). Application of Road Weather Information Systems in the western United States. 1 indexed citations

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Dunn, Lawrence B. & John D. Horel. (1994). Prediction of Central Arizona Convection. Part II: Further Examination of the Eta Model Forecasts. Weather and Forecasting. 9(4). 508–521. 24 indexed citations

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Sassen, Kenneth & John D. Horel. (1990). Polarization Lidar and Synoptic Analyses of an Unusual Volcanic Aerosol Cloud. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 47(24). 2881–2889. 15 indexed citations

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Horel, John D. & John M. Wallace. (1981). Planetary-Scale Atmospheric Phenomena Associated with the Southern Oscillation. Monthly Weather Review. 109(4). 813–829. 1564 indexed citations breakdown →

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