Karen M. Shell

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Karen M. Shell is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen M. Shell has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Atmospheric Science and 4 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Karen M. Shell's work include Climate variability and models (18 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (12 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (6 papers). Karen M. Shell is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (18 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (12 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (6 papers). Karen M. Shell collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Karen M. Shell's co-authors include J. T. Kiehl, Christine A. Shields, Isaac M. Held, Brian J. Soden, Robert Colman, Michael Barlage, Donald K. Perovich, M. A. Tschudi, M. Flanner and Gökhan Danabasoglu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Karen M. Shell

22 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Quantifying Climate Feedbacks Using Radiative Kernels

2008 609 citations Brian J. Soden, Isaac M. Held et al. Journal of Climate profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karen M. Shell United States	18	1.9k	1.9k	259	50	44	22	2.2k
Eui‐Seok Chung South Korea	24	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	425 1.6×	50 1.0×	30 0.7×	62	1.7k
Ionela Musat France	13	1.6k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	272 1.1×	54 1.1×	61 1.4×	17	1.9k
Martin B. Andrews United Kingdom	19	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	382 1.5×	40 0.8×	64 1.5×	39	1.5k
Amanda C. Maycock United Kingdom	26	1.9k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	214 0.8×	42 0.8×	107 2.4×	71	2.2k
Kyong‐Hwan Seo South Korea	30	2.1k 1.1×	2.2k 1.2×	820 3.2×	60 1.2×	47 1.1×	86	2.4k
V. Ya. Galin Russia	16	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	323 1.2×	34 0.7×	35 0.8×	30	1.4k
Felix Pithan Germany	14	2.0k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	187 0.7×	38 0.8×	44 1.0×	24	2.1k
Nobuo Yamazaki Japan	10	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	499 1.9×	90 1.8×	51 1.2×	15	1.9k
Laurent Fairhead France	11	1.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	229 0.9×	61 1.2×	112 2.5×	18	1.5k
David P. Stepaniak United States	12	2.1k 1.1×	2.4k 1.3×	965 3.7×	64 1.3×	65 1.5×	12	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karen M. Shell

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shell, Karen M., et al.. (2020). Vertical Structure of Radiative Heating Rates of the MJO during DYNAMO. Journal of Climate. 33(12). 5317–5335. 1 indexed citations

Rupp, David E., Sihan Li, Philip W. Mote, et al.. (2016). Seasonal spatial patterns of projected anthropogenic warming in complex terrain: a modeling study of the western US. Climate Dynamics. 48(7-8). 2191–2213. 51 indexed citations

Skyllingstad, Eric D., et al.. (2015). Simulation of the melt season using a resolved sea ice model with snow cover and melt ponds. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 120(7). 5194–5215. 9 indexed citations

Gordon, Neil D., Alexandra Jonko, Piers Forster, & Karen M. Shell. (2013). An observationally based constraint on the water‐vapor feedback. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 118(22). 29 indexed citations

Shell, Karen M., et al.. (2013). Comparison of Short-Term and Long-Term Radiative Feedbacks and Variability in Twentieth-Century Global Climate Model Simulations. Journal of Climate. 26(24). 10051–10070. 24 indexed citations

Sanderson, Benjamin M. & Karen M. Shell. (2012). Model-Specific Radiative Kernels for Calculating Cloud and Noncloud Climate Feedbacks. Journal of Climate. 25(21). 7607–7624. 19 indexed citations

Jonko, Alexandra, Karen M. Shell, Benjamin M. Sanderson, & Gökhan Danabasoglu. (2012). Climate Feedbacks in CCSM3 under Changing CO2 Forcing. Part II: Variation of Climate Feedbacks and Sensitivity with Forcing. Journal of Climate. 26(9). 2784–2795. 58 indexed citations

Held, Isaac M. & Karen M. Shell. (2012). Using Relative Humidity as a State Variable in Climate Feedback Analysis. Journal of Climate. 25(8). 2578–2582. 95 indexed citations

Jonko, Alexandra, Karen M. Shell, Benjamin M. Sanderson, & Gökhan Danabasoglu. (2012). Climate Feedbacks in CCSM3 under Changing CO2 Forcing. Part I: Adapting the Linear Radiative Kernel Technique to Feedback Calculations for a Broad Range of Forcings. Journal of Climate. 25(15). 5260–5272. 50 indexed citations

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Flanner, M., Karen M. Shell, Michael Barlage, Donald K. Perovich, & M. A. Tschudi. (2011). Radiative forcing and albedo feedback from the Northern Hemisphere cryosphere between 1979 and 2008. Nature Geoscience. 4(3). 151–155. 340 indexed citations

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Gettelman, Andrew, Jennifer E. Kay, & Karen M. Shell. (2011). The Evolution of Climate Sensitivity and Climate Feedbacks in the Community Atmosphere Model. Journal of Climate. 25(5). 1453–1469. 134 indexed citations

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Sanderson, Benjamin M., Karen M. Shell, & William Ingram. (2009). Climate feedbacks determined using radiative kernels in a multi-thousand member ensemble of AOGCMs. Climate Dynamics. 35(7-8). 1219–1236. 51 indexed citations

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Shell, Karen M., J. T. Kiehl, & Christine A. Shields. (2008). Using the Radiative Kernel Technique to Calculate Climate Feedbacks in NCAR’s Community Atmospheric Model. Journal of Climate. 21(10). 2269–2282. 296 indexed citations

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Soden, Brian J., Isaac M. Held, Robert Colman, et al.. (2008). Quantifying Climate Feedbacks Using Radiative Kernels. Journal of Climate. 21(14). 3504–3520. 609 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shell, Karen M. & Richard C. J. Somerville. (2007). Sensitivity of climate forcing and response to dust optical properties in an idealized model. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 112(D3). 19 indexed citations

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Shell, Karen M. & Richard C. J. Somerville. (2007). Direct radiative effect of mineral dust and volcanic aerosols in a simple aerosol climate model. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 112(D3). 32 indexed citations

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Shell, Karen M. & Richard C. J. Somerville. (2005). A Generalized Energy Balance Climate Model with Parameterized Dynamics and Diabatic Heating. Journal of Climate. 18(11). 1753–1772. 12 indexed citations

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Shell, Karen M. & Isaac M. Held. (2004). Abrupt Transition to Strong Superrotation in an Axisymmetric Model of the Upper Troposphere. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 61(23). 2928–2935. 32 indexed citations

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Miller, Arthur J., Michael A. Alexander, G. J. Boer, et al.. (2003). Potential Feedbacks Between Pacific Ocean Ecosystems and Interdecadal Climate Variations. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 84(5). 617–634. 49 indexed citations

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Shell, Karen M., Robert Frouin, Shoichiro Nakamoto, & Richard C. J. Somerville. (2003). Atmospheric response to solar radiation absorbed by phytoplankton. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 108(D15). 46 indexed citations

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