John H. Ball

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

John H. Ball is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, John H. Ball has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Atmospheric Science and 3 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in John H. Ball's work include Climate variability and models (10 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (8 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (7 papers). John H. Ball is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (10 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (8 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (7 papers). John H. Ball collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. John H. Ball's co-authors include Alan K. Betts, Pedro Viterbo, Anton Beljaars, M. J. Miller, J. H. McCaughey, Michael Garstang, José D. Fuentes, José A. Marengo, Aiguo Dai and Yuanchong Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John H. Ball

15 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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The land surface‐atmosphere interaction: A review based on observational and global modeling perspectives

1996 575 citations Alan K. Betts, John H. Ball et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →

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15 of 15 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Assessing land-surface-atmosphere coupling in the ERA-40 reanalysis with boreal forest data 2006 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Alan K. Betts, John H. Ball, Alan Barr, T. A. Black, J. H. McCaughey, Pedro Viterbo	28
2	Hydrometeorology of the Amazon in ERA-40 2005 ·Journal of Hydrometeorology ·Alan K. Betts, John H. Ball, Pedro Viterbo, Aiguo Dai, José A. Marengo	53
3	Intercomparison of water and energy budgets for five Mississippi subbasins between ECMWF reanalysis (ERA‐40) and NASA Data Assimilation Office fvGCM for 1990–1999 2003 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Alan K. Betts, John H. Ball, Michael G. Bosilovich, Pedro Viterbo, Yuanchong Zhang, William B. Rossow	62
4	Evaluation of the ERA-40 Surface Water Budget and Surface Temperature for the Mackenzie River Basin 2003 ·Journal of Hydrometeorology ·Alan K. Betts, John H. Ball, Pedro Viterbo	89
5	Surface diurnal cycle and boundary layer structure over Rondônia during the rainy season 2002 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Alan K. Betts, José D. Fuentes, Michael Garstang, John H. Ball	65
6	Near‐surface climate in the boreal forest 2001 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Alan K. Betts, John H. Ball, J. H. McCaughey	48
7	Basin‐scale surface water and energy budgets for the Mississippi from the ECMWF reanalysis 1999 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Alan K. Betts, John H. Ball, Pedro Viterbo	54
8	FIFE Surface Climate and Site-Average Dataset 1987–89 1998 ·Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences ·Alan K. Betts, John H. Ball	173
9	Comparison of BOREAS and Atmospheric Environment Service humidity sensors at Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan 1997 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Alan K. Betts, John H. Ball, (unknown), S. R. Shewchuk	1
10	Albedo over the boreal forest 1997 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Alan K. Betts, John H. Ball	385
11	The land surface‐atmosphere interaction: A review based on observational and global modeling perspectives breakdown → 1996 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Alan K. Betts, John H. Ball, Anton Beljaars, M. J. Miller, Pedro Viterbo	575
12	The FIFE surface diurnal cycle climate 1995 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Alan K. Betts, John H. Ball	117
13	Budget analysis of FIFE 1987 sonde data 1994 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Alan K. Betts, John H. Ball	67
14	Comparison between the land surface response of the ECMWF model and the FIFE‐1987 data 1993 ·Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·Alan K. Betts, John H. Ball, Anton Beljaars	76
15	Experimental Study of the Propagation of Sound over Water in Fog 1960 ·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ·Francis M. Wiener, John H. Ball, (unknown), (unknown)	1

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