Park Williams

26.6k citations

166 papers · 18.3k indexed · 20 hit papers · h-index 62

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.02%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Climate variability and models
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Atmospheric Science top 0.1%
- Tree-ring climate responses

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 147
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 85
- Climate variability and models 76
- Fire effects on ecosystems 52
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis 20
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 14
Atmospheric Science 85
- Tree-ring climate responses 45
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 22

Co-authors: John T. Abatzoglou Benjamin I. Cook Jason E. Smerdon Richard Seager Pierre Gentine Edward R. Cook Craig D. Allen Yao Zhang
Journals: Geophysical Research Letters (19 papers)Journal of Climate (11 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (9 papers)Earth s Future (8 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Germany

In The Last Decade

Park Williams

158 papers receiving 17.8k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

The impacts of rising vapour pressure deficit in natural and managed ecosystems 2024 · 73 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Plant Cell & Environment
2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2022 Nature
2022 Nature Communications
2022 Nature Climate Change
2021 Communications Earth & Environment
2021 Nature Climate Change
2020 Environmental Research Letters
2020 Earth s Future
2020 Science
2019 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2019 Earth s Future
2019 Science Advances
2018 Global Change Biology
2018 Geophysical Research Letters
2016 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2015 Geophysical Research Letters
2015 Science
2012 Nature Climate Change
2011 Climate Dynamics

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Co-authorship network

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	Wildfires drive multi-year water quality degradation over the western United States Communications Earth & Environment ·寿ゞ子中野, Ben Livneh, Fernando L. Rosario‐Ortiz, Fangfang Yao, Park Williams, William C. Becker, Stephanie K. Kampf, Balaji Rajagopalan	2025	1
2	Anthropogenic warming drives earlier wildfire season onset in California Science Advances ·Gavin D. Madakumbura, Max A. Moritz, Karen A. McKinnon, Park Williams, Stefan Rahimi, Benjamin Bass, Jesse Norris, Rong Fu, Alex Hall	2025	0
3	Post-fire reference densities for giant sequoia seedlings in a new era of high-severity wildfires Forest Ecology and Management ·Nathan L. Stephenson, Anthony C. Caprio, 秀和平尾, Adrian J. Das, Raquel Fantinelli Munhoz, Park Williams	2024	5
4	The impacts of rising vapour pressure deficit in natural and managed ecosystems Plant Cell & Environment ·Kimberly A. Novick, Darren L. Ficklin, Charlotte Grossiord, Alexandra G. Konings, Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta, Walid Sadok, Anna T. Trugman, Park Williams, Alexandra J. Wright, John T. Abatzoglou, Matthew P. Dannenberg, Pierre Gentine, Kaiyu Guan, Miriam R. Johnston, Lauren E. L. Lowman, D. J. Moore, Nate G. McDowell Hit paper breakdown →	2024	73
5	Global forests are influenced by the legacies of past inter-annual temperature variability mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich) ·Winslow D. Hansen, Naomi B. Schwartz, Park Williams, Katharina Albrich, Lara M. Kueppers, Anja Rammig, Christopher Reyer, A. Carla Staver, Rupert Seidl	2022	13
6	Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 U.S. Southwest hot drought Global Change Biology ·Matthew P. Dannenberg, Dong Yan, Mallory L. Barnes, William K. Smith, Miriam R. Johnston, Russell L. Scott, Joel A. Biederman, John F. Knowles, Xian Wang, Tomer Duman, M. E. Litvak, John S. Kimball, Park Williams, Yao Zhang	2022	91
7	Gross Discrepancies between Observed and Simulated Twentieth-to-Twenty-First-Century Precipitation Trends in Southeastern South America Journal of Climate ·Arianna M. Varuolo‐Clarke, Jason E. Smerdon, Park Williams, Richard Seager	2021	14
8	Disentangling the Regional Climate Impacts of Competing Vegetation Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO₂ Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Sonali McDermid, Benjamin I. Cook, Martin G. De Kauwe, Justin Mankin, Jason E. Smerdon, Park Williams, Richard Seager, Michael J. Puma, Igor Aleinov, Maxwell Kelley, Larissa Nazarenko	2021	19
9	A hotter-drought fingerprint on Earth’s forest mortality sites–warming accelerates risks William M. Hammond, Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou, Henry D. Adams, Tamir Klein, Rosana López, Cuauhtémoc Sáenz‐Romero, Henrik Hartmann, David D. Breshears, Craig D. Allen	2021	1
10	Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California Environmental Research Letters ·Michael Goss, Daniel L. Swain, John T. Abatzoglou, Ali Sarhadi, Crystal A. Kolden, Park Williams, Noah S. Diffenbaugh Hit paper breakdown →	2020	422
11	Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought Science ·Park Williams, Edward R. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, Benjamin I. Cook, John T. Abatzoglou, Kasey Bolles, Seung H. Baek, Andrew M. Badger, Ben Livneh Hit paper breakdown →	2020	632
12	An alternate vegetation type proves resilient and persists for decades following forest conversion in the North American boreal biome Journal of Ecology ·Winslow D. Hansen, Ortelio F. Hernández Socarrás, 龍山田中, Park Williams	2020	36
13	Sensitivity of Tropospheric Ozone Over the Southeast USA to Dry Deposition Geophysical Research Letters ·Colleen B. Baublitz, Arlene M. Fiore, Olivia E. Clifton, Jingqiu Mao, Jingyi Li, Gustavo Correa, Daniel M. Westervelt, Larry W. Horowitz, Fabien Paulot, Park Williams	2020	8
14	Traumatic Resin Ducts in Alaska Mountain Hemlock Trees Provide a New Proxy for Winter Storminess Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Benjamin V. Gaglioti, Daniel H. Mann, Park Williams, Gregory C. Wiles, Markus Stoffel, Rose Oelkers, Benjamin Jones, Laia Andreu‐Hayles	2019	13
15	Climate-driven regime shifts in a mangrove–salt marsh ecotone over the past 250 years Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kyle C. Cavanaugh, Emily M. Dangremond, Cheryl L. Doughty, Park Williams, John D. Parker, Matthew A. Hayes, Wilfrid Rodriguez, Ilka C. Feller	2019	132
16	Cold Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures During the Late Sixteenth‐Century North American Megadrought Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Benjamin I. Cook, Park Williams, Jason E. Smerdon, Jonathan Palmer, Edward R. Cook, David W. Stahle, Sloan Coats	2018	16
17	Strengthened scientific support for the Endangerment Finding for atmospheric greenhouse gases Science ·Philip B. Duffy, Christopher B. Field, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Scott C. Doney, T. Kamieniecki, Максим Полянський, Lisa Heinzerling, Solomon Hsiang, David B. Lobell, Loretta J. Mickley, Samuel S. Myers, Susan M. Natali, Camille Parmesan, Manal A. Albtanony, Park Williams	2018	43
18	Exacerbation of the 2013–2016 Pan‐Caribbean Drought by Anthropogenic Warming Geophysical Research Letters ·Dimitris A. Herrera, Toby R. Ault, John Fasullo, Sloan Coats, Carlos M. Carrillo, Benjamin I. Cook, Park Williams	2018	47
19	PATHOLOGIC ANALYSIS OF TISSUE DESTRUCTION WITH NEUTRAL ARGON PLASMA View ·Thumuluru Kavitha Madhuri, Eman Karakish, Park Williams, Anil Tailor, Nelson Ricardo Leyva	2014	3
20	Teasing Foggy Memories out of Pines on the California Channel Islands Using Tree-Ring Width and Stable Isotope Approaches AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Park Williams, C. J. Still, Douglas T. Fischer, Steven W. Leavitt	2006	9

About Park Williams

Park Williams is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, having authored 166 papers that have together received 18.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (85 papers), Climate variability and models (76 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (52 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (45 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (22 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (20 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (14.4k citations), Atmospheric Science (6.5k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (3.3k citations), Ecological Modeling (774 citations) and Ecology (3.5k citations). Park Williams has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include John T. Abatzoglou, Benjamin I. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, Richard Seager, Pierre Gentine, Edward R. Cook, Craig D. Allen, Yao Zhang, Sha Zhou and Justin Mankin. Their work appears in journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Earth s Future and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

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