Michael A. Palecki

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

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Michael A. Palecki is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael A. Palecki has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 27 papers in Atmospheric Science and 16 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Michael A. Palecki's work include Climate variability and models (25 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (16 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (11 papers). Michael A. Palecki is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (25 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (16 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (11 papers). Michael A. Palecki collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Michael A. Palecki's co-authors include Gregory J. McCabe, Julio L. Betancourt, Daniel J. Leathers, Brent Yarnal, Roger G. Barry, Ronald D. Leeper, Kenneth E. Kunkel, Jesse E. Bell, Howard J. Diamond and David R. Easterling and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Michael A. Palecki

45 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Pacific and Atlantic Ocean influences on multidecadal drought frequency in the United States

2004 934 citations Gregory J. McCabe, Michael A. Palecki et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael A. Palecki United States	22	2.4k	2.3k	747	479	336	45	3.6k
Serge Planton France	29	2.9k 1.2×	2.3k 1.0×	794 1.1×	572 1.2×	742 2.2×	57	4.0k
Souhail Boussetta United Kingdom	24	2.9k 1.2×	2.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	863 1.8×	333 1.0×	45	4.5k
Carlo Buontempo United Kingdom	22	2.7k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	833 1.1×	780 1.6×	321 1.0×	51	4.3k
Anna Agustí‐Panareda United Kingdom	30	3.2k 1.3×	3.0k 1.3×	868 1.2×	568 1.2×	415 1.2×	58	4.9k
Clinton M. Rowe United States	20	1.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	629 0.8×	573 1.2×	210 0.6×	44	3.4k
Ervin Zsótér United Kingdom	23	2.7k 1.1×	1.9k 0.8×	849 1.1×	1.3k 2.7×	238 0.7×	48	4.1k
René Orth Germany	32	2.6k 1.1×	1.6k 0.7×	855 1.1×	821 1.7×	133 0.4×	79	3.4k
Gabriele Arduini United Kingdom	13	1.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	701 0.9×	569 1.2×	157 0.5×	24	3.0k
Lucie A. Vincent Canada	23	3.1k 1.3×	2.6k 1.1×	408 0.5×	665 1.4×	155 0.5×	28	4.1k
Joseph A. Santanello United States	28	2.4k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.8×	494 1.0×	118 0.4×	78	3.3k

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Kochendorfer, John, Howard J. Diamond, Tilden P. Meyers, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of soil water content and bulk electrical conductivity across the U.S. Climate Reference Network using two electromagnetic sensors. Vadose Zone Journal. 23(4). 4 indexed citations

Leeper, Ronald D., Richard R. Heim, Brian Fuchs, et al.. (2022). Characterizing U.S. drought over the past 20 years using the U.S. drought monitor. International Journal of Climatology. 42(12). 6616–6630. 43 indexed citations

Argüez, Anthony, Anand K. Inamdar, Michael A. Palecki, Carl J. Schreck, & Alisa H. Young. (2019). ENSO Normals: A New U.S. Climate Normals Product Conditioned by ENSO Phase and Intensity and Accounting for Secular Trends. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 58(6). 1381–1397. 7 indexed citations

Thorne, Peter, Howard J. Diamond, B. Goodison, et al.. (2018). Towards a global land surface climate fiducial reference measurements network. International Journal of Climatology. 38(6). 2760–2774. 28 indexed citations

Lee, Temple R., Michael Buban, Michael A. Palecki, et al.. (2018). Great American Eclipse Data May Fine-Tune Weather Forecasts. Eos. 99. 10 indexed citations

Coopersmith, E. J., Michael H. Cosh, Jesse E. Bell, et al.. (2016). Deploying temporary networks for upscaling of sparse network stations. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 52. 433–444. 10 indexed citations

Leeper, Ronald D., et al.. (2015). Methods to Calculate Precipitation from Weighing-Bucket Gauges with Redundant Depth Measurements. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 32(6). 1179–1190. 10 indexed citations

Bell, Jesse E., et al.. (2015). Evaluation of the 2012 Drought with a Newly Established National Soil Monitoring Network. Vadose Zone Journal. 14(11). 1–7. 14 indexed citations

Bell, Jesse E., Michael A. Palecki, C. Bruce Baker, et al.. (2013). U.S. Climate Reference Network Soil Moisture and Temperature Observations. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 14(3). 977–988. 277 indexed citations

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Guillevic, Pierre, J. L. Privette, Bruno Coudert, et al.. (2012). Land Surface Temperature product validation using NOAA's surface climate observation networks—Scaling methodology for the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). Remote Sensing of Environment. 124. 282–298. 105 indexed citations

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Palecki, Michael A. & Pavel Groisman. (2011). Observing Climate at High Elevations Using United States Climate Reference Network Approaches. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 12(5). 1137–1143. 13 indexed citations

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Kunkel, Kenneth E., Michael A. Palecki, David R. Easterling, et al.. (2009). A new look at lake-effect snowfall trends in the Laurentian Great Lakes using a temporally homogeneous data set. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 35(1). 23–29. 52 indexed citations

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McCabe, Gregory J., Julio L. Betancourt, Stephen T. Gray, Michael A. Palecki, & Hugo G. Hidalgo. (2007). Associations of multi-decadal sea-surface temperature variability with US drought. Quaternary International. 188(1). 31–40. 85 indexed citations

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Angel, James R., Michael A. Palecki, & Steven E. Hollinger. (2005). Storm Precipitation in the United States. Part II: Soil Erosion Characteristics. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 44(6). 947–959. 37 indexed citations

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Hollinger, Steven E., James R. Angel, & Michael A. Palecki. (2002). Spatial distribution, variation, and trends in storm precipitation characteristics associated with soil erosion in the United States. IDEALS (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). 13 indexed citations

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Palecki, Michael A., Stanley A. Changnon, & Kenneth E. Kunkel. (2001). The Nature and Impacts of the July 1999 Heat Wave in the Midwestern United States: Learning from the Lessons of 1995. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 82(7). 1353–1367. 162 indexed citations

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Palecki, Michael A.. (2000). Spatial modes of drought in the Central United States. 6 indexed citations

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Mearns, Linda O., István Bogárdi, Filippo Giorgi, István Matyasovszky, & Michael A. Palecki. (1999). Comparison of climate change scenarios generated from regional climate model experiments and statistical downscaling. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 104(D6). 6603–6621. 148 indexed citations

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Robinson, David A., et al.. (1995). Some observations on climate variability as seen in daily temperature structure. Atmospheric Research. 37(1-3). 119–131. 14 indexed citations

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Leathers, Daniel J., Brent Yarnal, & Michael A. Palecki. (1991). The Pacific/North American Teleconnection Pattern and United States Climate. Part I: Regional Temperature and Precipitation Associations. Journal of Climate. 4(5). 517–528. 420 indexed citations

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