Mark D. Risser

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Mark D. Risser is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark D. Risser has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Atmospheric Science and 7 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Mark D. Risser's work include Climate variability and models (34 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (22 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (10 papers). Mark D. Risser is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (34 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (22 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (10 papers). Mark D. Risser collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and India. Mark D. Risser's co-authors include Michael Wehner, Alan M. Rhoades, Mohammed Ombadi, William D. Collins, Charuleka Varadharajan, Travis O’Brien, Dáithí A. Stone, Paul Ullrich, Christina M. Patricola and Daniel Feldman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Mark D. Risser

47 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

A warming-induced reduction in snow fraction amplifies rainfall extremes

2023 142 citations Mohammed Ombadi, Mark D. Risser et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark D. Risser United States	19	771	650	142	73	66	49	1.2k
Megan C. Kirchmeier‐Young Canada	12	874 1.1×	568 0.9×	90 0.6×	69 0.9×	71 1.1×	25	1.1k
Edoardo Vignotto Switzerland	6	845 1.1×	470 0.7×	116 0.8×	64 0.9×	61 0.9×	9	1.1k
Kathleen D. White United States	14	629 0.8×	465 0.7×	215 1.5×	92 1.3×	116 1.8×	49	1.1k
I. Simpson United Kingdom	7	679 0.9×	566 0.9×	59 0.4×	78 1.1×	95 1.4×	9	956
Jessica Keune Belgium	20	857 1.1×	507 0.8×	316 2.2×	240 3.3×	87 1.3×	38	1.3k
Fraser C. Lott United Kingdom	21	1.1k 1.4×	787 1.2×	108 0.8×	91 1.2×	81 1.2×	57	1.4k
Ana Cristina Costa Portugal	17	654 0.8×	370 0.6×	180 1.3×	168 2.3×	31 0.5×	55	1.1k
Julie Arrighi Netherlands	11	926 1.2×	540 0.8×	84 0.6×	90 1.2×	68 1.0×	18	1.3k
Neil Massey United Kingdom	14	785 1.0×	569 0.9×	112 0.8×	46 0.6×	45 0.7×	24	976
Do‐Woo Kim South Korea	18	663 0.9×	331 0.5×	123 0.9×	135 1.8×	103 1.6×	64	930

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Risser, Mark D., et al.. (2025). Data-driven upper bounds and event attribution for unprecedented heatwaves. Weather and Climate Extremes. 47. 100743–100743. 3 indexed citations

Risser, Mark D., Mohammed Ombadi, & Michael Wehner. (2025). Granger causal inference for climate change attribution. Environmental Research Climate. 4(2). 22001–22001. 3 indexed citations

Risser, Mark D., et al.. (2024). Leveraging Extremal Dependence to Better Characterize the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave. Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics. 31(1). 24–45. 6 indexed citations

Wehner, Michael, et al.. (2024). On the uncertainty of long-period return values of extreme daily precipitation. Frontiers in Climate. 6. 5 indexed citations

Noack, Marcus M., et al.. (2024). A unifying perspective on non-stationary kernels for deeper Gaussian processes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 7 indexed citations

Ullrich, Paul, et al.. (2024). Using Temporal Deep Learning Models to Estimate Daily Snow Water Equivalent Over the Rocky Mountains. Water Resources Research. 60(4). 3 indexed citations

Noack, Marcus M., Harinarayan Krishnan, Mark D. Risser, & Kristofer G. Reyes. (2023). Exact Gaussian processes for massive datasets via non-stationary sparsity-discovering kernels. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 3155–3155. 11 indexed citations

Vishnu, S., Mark D. Risser, Travis O’Brien, Paul Ullrich, & William R. Boos. (2023). Observed increase in the peak rain rates of monsoon depressions. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 7 indexed citations

Rhoades, Alan M., Benjamin J. Hatchett, Mark D. Risser, et al.. (2022). Asymmetric emergence of low-to-no snow in the midlatitudes of the American Cordillera. Nature Climate Change. 12(12). 1151–1159. 30 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Travis, et al.. (2022). Anthropogenic Contributions to the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(23). 40 indexed citations

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Risser, Mark D., William D. Collins, Michael Wehner, et al.. (2022). A framework for detection and attribution of regional precipitation change: Application to the United States historical record. Climate Dynamics. 60(3-4). 705–741. 7 indexed citations

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Rhoades, Alan M., Mark D. Risser, Dáithí A. Stone, Michael Wehner, & Andrew D. Jones. (2021). Implications of warming on western United States landfalling atmospheric rivers and their flood damages. Weather and Climate Extremes. 32. 100326–100326. 36 indexed citations

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Risser, Mark D., Michael Wehner, John P. OʼBrien, et al.. (2021). Quantifying the influence of natural climate variability on in situ measurements of seasonal total and extreme daily precipitation. Climate Dynamics. 56(9-10). 3205–3230. 18 indexed citations

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Collins, William D., et al.. (2020). Microphysical Sensitivity of Superparameterized Precipitation Extremes in the Contiguous United States Due to Feedbacks on Large‐Scale Circulation. Earth and Space Science. 7(7). 2 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Travis, Mark D. Risser, Burlen Loring, et al.. (2020). Detection of atmospheric rivers with inline uncertainty quantification: TECA-BARD v1.0.1. Geoscientific model development. 13(12). 6131–6148. 25 indexed citations

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Risser, Mark D. & Daniel Turek. (2019). Bayesian nonstationary Gaussian process modeling: the BayesNSGP package for R. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Feldman, Daniel, William D. Collins, Sébastien Biraud, et al.. (2018). Observationally derived rise in methane surface forcing mediated by water vapour trends. Nature Geoscience. 11(4). 238–243. 37 indexed citations

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Dayton, Elizabeth A., Christopher Holloman, Sakthi Kumaran Subburayalu, & Mark D. Risser. (2017). Using Crop Management Scenario Simulations to Evaluate the Sensitivity of the Ohio Phosphorus Risk Index. Journal of Environmental Protection. 8(2). 141–158. 2 indexed citations

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Tanner‐Smith, Emily E. & Mark D. Risser. (2016). A meta-analysis of brief alcohol interventions for adolescents and young adults: variability in effects across alcohol measures. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. 42(2). 140–151. 32 indexed citations

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Risser, Mark D.. (2015). Spatially-Varying Covariance Functions for Nonstationary Spatial Process Modeling. OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network). 2 indexed citations

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