Joseph Smagorinsky

16.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
18 papers, 12.4k citations indexed

About

Joseph Smagorinsky is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph Smagorinsky has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 12.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Atmospheric Science, 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 2 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Joseph Smagorinsky's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (3 papers). Joseph Smagorinsky is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (3 papers). Joseph Smagorinsky collaborates with scholars based in United States. Joseph Smagorinsky's co-authors include Syukuro Manabe, R. F. Strickler, Jacinta Holloway, Philip Thompson, K. Miyakoda, Herbert Riehl, Stefan Hastenrath, John O. Roads, William M. Gray and J. Shukla and has published in prestigious journals such as Monthly Weather Review, Mathematics of Computation and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

In The Last Decade

Joseph Smagorinsky

16 papers receiving 11.4k 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.

GENERAL CIRCULATION EXPERIMENTS WITH THE PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS

1963 10.6k citations Joseph Smagorinsky Monthly Weather Review profile →
SIMULATED CLIMATOLOGY OF A GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL WITH A HYDROLOGIC CYCLE¹

1965 589 citations Syukuro Manabe, Joseph Smagorinsky et al. Monthly Weather Review profile →
NUMERICAL RESULTS FROM A NINE-LEVEL GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL OF THE ATMOSPHERE¹

1965 324 citations Joseph Smagorinsky, Syukuro Manabe et al. Monthly Weather Review profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joseph Smagorinsky

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joseph Smagorinsky. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joseph Smagorinsky 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 Joseph Smagorinsky. Joseph Smagorinsky is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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18 of 18 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Prophet”or Professor? The Life and Work of Lewis Fry Richardson 1986 ·Eos ·Joseph Smagorinsky	6
2	Workshop on Drought Forecasting for Northeast Brazil 1980 ·NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA) ·Joseph Smagorinsky, Herbert Riehl, J. Shukla, (unknown), John O. Roads, Stefan Hastenrath, William M. Gray	1
3	The relative importance of variables in initial conditions for dynamical weather prediction 1970 ·Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography ·Joseph Smagorinsky, K. Miyakoda, R. F. Strickler	29
4	SIMULATED CLIMATOLOGY OF A GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL WITH A HYDROLOGIC CYCLE 1970 ·Monthly Weather Review ·Syukuro Manabe, Joseph Smagorinsky, Jacinta Holloway, (unknown)	113
5	The relative importance of variables in initial conditions for dynamical weather prediction 1970 ·Tellus ·Joseph Smagorinsky, K. Miyakoda, R. F. Strickler	19
6	EXPERIMENTAL EXTENDED PREDICTIONS WITH A NINE-LEVEL HEMISPHERIC MODEL 1969 ·Monthly Weather Review ·K. Miyakoda, Joseph Smagorinsky, R. F. Strickler, (unknown)	51
7	problems and promises of deterministic extended range forecasting1 1969 ·Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·Joseph Smagorinsky	123
8	SIMULATED CLIMATOLOGY OF A GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL WITH A HYDROLOGIC CYCLE II. ANALYSIS OF THE TROPICAL ATMOSPHERE 1967 ·Monthly Weather Review ·Syukuro Manabe, Joseph Smagorinsky	41
9	SIMULATED CLIMATOLOGY OF A GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL WITH A HYDROLOGIC CYCLE¹ breakdown → 1965 ·Monthly Weather Review ·Syukuro Manabe, Joseph Smagorinsky, R. F. Strickler	589
10	NUMERICAL RESULTS FROM A NINE-LEVEL GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL OF THE ATMOSPHERE¹ breakdown → 1965 ·Monthly Weather Review ·Joseph Smagorinsky, Syukuro Manabe, Jacinta Holloway	324
11	An Introduction to the Hydrodynamical Methods of Short Period Weather Forecasting 1965 ·Mathematics of Computation ·Joseph Smagorinsky, (unknown)	7
12	Some aspects of the general circulation 1964 ·Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·Joseph Smagorinsky	27
13	GENERAL CIRCULATION EXPERIMENTS WITH THE PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS breakdown → 1963 ·Monthly Weather Review ·Joseph Smagorinsky	10644
14	Numerical Weather Analysis and Prediction. 1962 ·Mathematics of Computation ·Joseph Smagorinsky, Philip Thompson	124
15	ON THE NUMERICAL INTEGRATION OF THE PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS OF MOTION FOR BAROCLINIC FLOW IN A CLOSED REGION 1958 ·Monthly Weather Review ·Joseph Smagorinsky	38
16	ON THE NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF PRECIPITATION 1955 ·Monthly Weather Review ·Joseph Smagorinsky, (unknown)	18
17	Data processing requirements for the purposes of numerical weather prediction 1953 ·Joseph Smagorinsky	1
18	The dynamical influence of large‐scale heat sources and sinks on the quasi‐stationary mean motions of the atmosphere 1953 ·Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·Joseph Smagorinsky	212

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