Lesley Smith

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Lesley Smith is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Lesley Smith has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Atmospheric Science, 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 5 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Lesley Smith's work include Climate variability and models (15 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (5 papers). Lesley Smith is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (15 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (5 papers). Lesley Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and India. Lesley Smith's co-authors include Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Aiguo Dai, Taotao Qian, D. R. Blake, Peter Hess, L. K. Emmons, A. Klonecki, John J. Orlando and David P. Stepaniak and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, The Astrophysical Journal and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Lesley Smith

23 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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What are hit papers?

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.

Trends and variability in column-integrated atmospheric water vapor

2005 662 citations Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo et al. Climate Dynamics profile →
Estimates of the Global Water Budget and Its Annual Cycle Using Observational and Model Data

2007 602 citations Kevin E. Trenberth, Lesley Smith et al. Journal of Hydrometeorology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lesley Smith United States	13	1.5k	1.3k	480	228	138	23	1.9k
Bomin Sun United States	24	1.7k 1.1×	1.5k 1.2×	330 0.7×	191 0.8×	196 1.4×	39	2.1k
Jyoti Bhate India	15	2.5k 1.7×	2.2k 1.7×	422 0.9×	216 0.9×	113 0.8×	40	3.0k
Jonathon S. Wright China	29	2.3k 1.6×	2.2k 1.8×	410 0.9×	188 0.8×	115 0.8×	86	3.0k
G. Tetzlaff Germany	19	805 0.5×	833 0.7×	256 0.5×	271 1.2×	222 1.6×	40	1.6k
Jiangfeng Wei China	28	2.0k 1.3×	1.7k 1.4×	314 0.7×	383 1.7×	78 0.6×	77	2.5k
John R. Gyakum Canada	33	3.1k 2.1×	3.3k 2.6×	701 1.5×	159 0.7×	72 0.5×	121	3.8k
Nobutaka MANNOJI Japan	6	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	509 1.1×	79 0.3×	113 0.8×	7	1.6k
Kondapalli Niranjan Kumar India	21	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	171 0.4×	107 0.5×	195 1.4×	90	1.6k
Manuela Girotto United States	21	691 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	380 0.8×	583 2.6×	113 0.8×	44	1.8k
Paul Berrisford United Kingdom	23	3.5k 2.3×	3.4k 2.7×	1.0k 2.2×	172 0.8×	134 1.0×	41	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Lesley Smith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lesley Smith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lesley Smith

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hamill, Thomas M., et al.. (2023). Improving National Blend of Models Probabilistic Precipitation Forecasts Using Long Time Series of Reforecasts and Precipitation Reanalyses. Part I: Methods. Monthly Weather Review. 151(6). 1521–1534. 4 indexed citations

Hamill, Thomas M., et al.. (2023). Improving National Blend of Models Probabilistic Precipitation Forecasts Using Long Time Series of Reforecasts and Precipitation Reanalyses. Part II: Results. Monthly Weather Review. 151(6). 1535–1550. 4 indexed citations

Hoerling, Martin P., Lesley Smith, Xiao‐Wei Quan, et al.. (2020). Explaining the Spatial Pattern of U.S. Extreme Daily Precipitation Change. Journal of Climate. 34(7). 2759–2775. 7 indexed citations

Quan, Xiao‐Wei, Martin P. Hoerling, Lesley Smith, et al.. (2018). Extreme California Rains During Winter 2015/16: A Change in El Niño Teleconnection?. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 99(1). S49–S53. 20 indexed citations

Sun, Lantao, Dave Allured, Martin P. Hoerling, et al.. (2017). Drivers of 2016 record Arctic warmth assessed using climate simulations subjected to Factual and Counterfactual forcing. Weather and Climate Extremes. 19. 1–9. 20 indexed citations

Cheng, Linyin, Martin P. Hoerling, Lesley Smith, & Jon Eischeid. (2017). Diagnosing Human-Induced Dynamic and Thermodynamic Drivers of Extreme Rainfall. Journal of Climate. 31(3). 1029–1051. 12 indexed citations

Tegtmeier, Susann, Michaela I. Hegglin, J. G. Anderson, et al.. (2016). The SPARC Data Initiative: comparisons of CFC-11, CFC-12, HF and SF ₆ climatologies from international satellite limb sounders. Earth system science data. 8(1). 61–78. 12 indexed citations

Smith, Lesley, Robert J. Gamble, Sarah Gaichas, & Jason S. Link. (2015). Simulations to evaluate management trade-offs among marine mammal consumption needs, commercial fishing fleets and finfish biomass. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 523. 215–232. 9 indexed citations

Smith, Lesley & J. C. Gille. (2014). Validation of the Aura High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder geopotential heights. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 7(8). 2775–2785. 1 indexed citations

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Gille, J. C., Chris Halvorson, Bruno Nardi, et al.. (2012). Final correction algorithms for HIRDLS version 7 data. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8511. 85110K–85110K. 3 indexed citations

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Trenberth, Kevin E. & Lesley Smith. (2008). Atmospheric Energy Budgets in the Japanese Reanalysis: Evaluation and Variability. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 86(5). 579–592. 14 indexed citations

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Trenberth, Kevin E. & Lesley Smith. (2008). The three dimensional structure of the atmospheric energy budget: methodology and evaluation. Climate Dynamics. 32(7-8). 1065–1079. 14 indexed citations

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Shiklomanov, A. I., Richard B. Lammers, I. A. Shiklomanov, et al.. (2007). Hydrological changes across Northern Eurasia: contemporary status and future projections. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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Trenberth, Kevin E., Lesley Smith, Taotao Qian, Aiguo Dai, & John Fasullo. (2007). Estimates of the Global Water Budget and Its Annual Cycle Using Observational and Model Data. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 8(4). 758–769. 602 indexed citations breakdown →

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Trenberth, Kevin E. & Lesley Smith. (2005). The Mass of the Atmosphere: A Constraint on Global Analyses. Journal of Climate. 18(6). 864–875. 174 indexed citations

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Trenberth, Kevin E., David P. Stepaniak, & Lesley Smith. (2005). Interannual Variability of Patterns of Atmospheric Mass Distribution. Journal of Climate. 18(15). 2812–2825. 63 indexed citations

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Klonecki, A., Peter Hess, L. K. Emmons, et al.. (2003). Seasonal changes in the transport of pollutants into the Arctic troposphere‐model study. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 108(D4). 139 indexed citations

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Baringer, P., et al.. (1997). Single top quark from technipion production. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 56(5). 2914–2919. 5 indexed citations

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Smith, Lesley, et al.. (1994). A Nonperturbative, Schwinger-Dyson-Equation Analysis of Quark Masses and Mixings in a Model with QCD and Higgs Interactions. 1 indexed citations

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Ralston, John P. & Lesley Smith. (1991). Hollow galactic halos of fermionic dark matter. The Astrophysical Journal. 367. 54–54. 11 indexed citations

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