John Nicol

11.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

John Nicol is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John Nicol has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Atmospheric Science, 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 7 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in John Nicol's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (19 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (14 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (7 papers). John Nicol is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (19 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (14 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (7 papers). John Nicol collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and Germany. John Nicol's co-authors include Thorwald H. M. Stein, Humphrey Lean, Peter Clark, Robert S. Plant, Kirsty Hanley, Robin J. Hogan, Carol Halliwell, C. D. Westbrook, Pierre‐Emmanuel Kirstetter and Guy Delrieu and has published in prestigious journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Monthly Weather Review and Atmospheric chemistry and physics.

In The Last Decade

John Nicol

26 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

2007 4.8k citations John Nicol et al. UCL Discovery (University College London) profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Nicol United Kingdom	15	2.7k	2.1k	1.6k	1.5k	969	27	5.7k
Gyanesh Chander United States	25	2.6k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	555 0.6×	79	5.4k
Hui Lin China	48	2.8k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	2.1k 1.3×	2.3k 1.5×	521 0.5×	276	7.4k
Dennis Helder United States	32	2.4k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	654 0.7×	116	5.6k
Nicholas Clinton United States	37	3.1k 1.1×	2.7k 1.3×	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	597 0.6×	64	5.5k
Ferran Gascon Italy	24	2.2k 0.8×	3.2k 1.5×	2.0k 1.3×	1.0k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	88	5.3k
Kass Green United States	8	2.2k 0.8×	2.6k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	807 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	11	4.6k
Jean‐François Mas Mexico	33	3.2k 1.2×	2.1k 1.0×	856 0.5×	938 0.6×	948 1.0×	136	5.3k
George P. Petropoulos Greece	41	2.3k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	2.0k 1.3×	1.4k 0.9×	668 0.7×	208	5.0k
Sucharita Gopal United States	32	2.5k 0.9×	2.6k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	95	5.4k
Pierre Defourny Belgium	49	3.9k 1.5×	4.5k 2.1×	2.2k 1.4×	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	195	8.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Nicol

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Barrett, Andrew I., C. D. Westbrook, John Nicol, & Thorwald H. M. Stein. (2019). Rapid ice aggregation process revealed through triple-wavelength Doppler spectrum radar analysis. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(8). 5753–5769. 31 indexed citations

Neely, Ryan R., Lindsay Bennett, Alan Blyth, et al.. (2018). The NCAS mobile dual-polarisation Doppler X-band weather radar (NXPol). Atmospheric measurement techniques. 11(12). 6481–6494. 15 indexed citations

Illingworth, A. J., Alessandro Battaglia, J. Bradford, et al.. (2018). WIVERN: A New Satellite Concept to Provide Global In-Cloud Winds, Precipitation, and Cloud Properties. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 99(8). 1669–1687. 39 indexed citations

Stein, Thorwald H. M., Robin J. Hogan, Peter Clark, et al.. (2015). The DYMECS Project: A Statistical Approach for the Evaluation of Convective Storms in High-Resolution NWP Models. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 96(6). 939–951. 70 indexed citations

Stein, Thorwald H. M., C. D. Westbrook, & John Nicol. (2014). Fractal geometry of aggregate snowflakes revealed by triple-wavelength radar measurements. Geophysical Research Letters. 42(1). 176–183. 39 indexed citations

Hanley, Kirsty, Robert S. Plant, Thorwald H. M. Stein, et al.. (2014). Mixing‐length controls on high‐resolution simulations of convective storms. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 141(686). 272–284. 104 indexed citations

Stein, Thorwald H. M., Robin J. Hogan, Kirsty Hanley, et al.. (2014). The Three-Dimensional Morphology of Simulated and Observed Convective Storms over Southern England. Monthly Weather Review. 142(9). 3264–3283. 42 indexed citations

Crosier, Jonathan, T. W. Choularton, C. D. Westbrook, et al.. (2013). Microphysical properties of cold frontal rainbands†. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 140(681). 1257–1268. 41 indexed citations

Browning, K. A., John H. Marsham, Bethan White, & John Nicol. (2012). A case study of a large patch of billows surmounted by elevated convection. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 138(668). 1764–1773. 7 indexed citations

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Browning, K. A., et al.. (2011). Layers of insect echoes near a thunderstorm and implications for the interpretation of radar data in terms of airflow. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 137(656). 723–735. 12 indexed citations

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Nicol, John, et al.. (2011). Operational Radar Refractivity Retrieval for Numerical Weather Prediction. 3 indexed citations

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Marsham, John H., K. A. Browning, John Nicol, et al.. (2010). Multi-sensor observations of a wave beneath an impacting rear-inflow jet in an elevated mesoscale convective system. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 136(652). 1788–1812. 23 indexed citations

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Delrieu, Guy, Brice Boudevillain, John Nicol, et al.. (2009). Bollène-2002 Experiment: Radar Quantitative Precipitation Estimation in the Cévennes–Vivarais Region, France. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 48(7). 1422–1447. 52 indexed citations

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Nicol, John, et al.. (2007). Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. UCL Discovery (University College London). 4775 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morcrette, Cyril, Humphrey Lean, Keith A. Browning, et al.. (2007). Combination of Mesoscale and Synoptic Mechanisms for Triggering an Isolated Thunderstorm: Observational Case Study of CSIP IOP 1. Monthly Weather Review. 135(11). 3728–3749. 24 indexed citations

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Delrieu, Guy, John Nicol, Pierre‐Emmanuel Kirstetter, et al.. (2005). The Catastrophic Flash-Flood Event of 8–9 September 2002 in the Gard Region, France: A First Case Study for the Cévennes–Vivarais Mediterranean Hydrometeorological Observatory. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 6(1). 34–52. 302 indexed citations

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Nicol, John & G. L. Austin. (2003). Attenuation correction constraint for single‐polarisation weather radar. Meteorological Applications. 10(4). 345–354. 12 indexed citations

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Austin, G. L., et al.. (2002). The Measurement and Analysis of The Small-scale Structure of Rainfall Patterns Obtained By X-band Radar. EGS General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2048. 1 indexed citations

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Nicol, John, et al.. (2000). Two classic tales of Australian exploration. 2 indexed citations

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Seed, Alan, John Nicol, G. L. Austin, C. D. Stow, & Stuart Bradley. (1996). The impact of radar and raingauge sampling errors when calibrating a weather radar. Meteorological Applications. 3(1). 43–52. 29 indexed citations

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