Patrick Minnis

30.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
443 papers, 18.2k citations indexed

About

Patrick Minnis is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Minnis has authored 443 papers receiving a total of 18.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 412 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 376 papers in Atmospheric Science and 78 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Patrick Minnis's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (358 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (248 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (156 papers). Patrick Minnis is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (358 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (248 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (156 papers). Patrick Minnis collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Patrick Minnis's co-authors include Edwin F. Harrison, David F. Young, V. Ramanathan, David R. Doelling, J. Kirk Ayers, R. D. Cess, Bruce R. Barkstrom, Jianping Huang, Rabindra Palikonda and Xiquan Dong and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Minnis

428 papers receiving 17.0k 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.

Cloud-Radiative Forcing and Climate: Results from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment

1989 1.3k citations Edwin F. Harrison, Patrick Minnis et al. profile →
Seasonal variation of cloud radiative forcing derived from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment

1990 518 citations Edwin F. Harrison, Patrick Minnis et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
Dust and Biological Aerosols from the Sahara and Asia Influence Precipitation in the Western U.S.

2013 466 citations Patrick Minnis, J. M. Comstock et al. profile →
CERES Edition-2 Cloud Property Retrievals Using TRMM VIRS and Terra and Aqua MODIS Data—Part I: Algorithms

2011 412 citations Patrick Minnis, Yan Chen et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Identification of ice-over-water multilayer clouds using multispectral satellite data in an artificial neural network 2024 ·Atmospheric measurement techniques ·Sunny Sun‐Mack, Patrick Minnis, Yan Chen, Gang Hong, William L. Smith	1
2	VIIRS Edition 1 Cloud Properties for CERES, Part 2: Evaluation with CALIPSO 2023 ·Remote Sensing ·Christopher R. Yost, Patrick Minnis, Sunny Sun‐Mack, William L. Smith, Qing Z. Trepte	2
3	Observations and hypotheses related to low to middle free tropospheric aerosol, water vapor and altocumulus cloud layers within convective weather regimes: a SEAC ⁴ RS case study 2019 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Jeffrey S. Reid, Derek J. Posselt, (unknown), (unknown), Gao Chen, E. W. Eloranta, Ralph E. Kuehn, Sarah Woods, Jianglong Zhang, B. E. Anderson, T. P. Bui, Glenn S. Diskin, Patrick Minnis, Michael J. Newchurch, Simone Tanelli, Charles R. Trepte, K. L. Thornhill, Luke D. Ziemba	5
4	Determining the Shortwave Radiative Flux From Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera 2018 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Wenying Su, Lusheng Liang, David R. Doelling, Patrick Minnis, David P. Duda, Konstantin Khlopenkov, Mandana M. Thieman, Norman G. Loeb, Seiji Kato, Francisco P. J. Valero, Hailan Wang, Fred G. Rose	25
5	A prototype method for diagnosing high ice water content probability using satellite imager data 2018 ·Atmospheric measurement techniques ·Christopher R. Yost, Kristopher M. Bedka, Patrick Minnis, Louis Nguyen, J. W. Strapp, Rabindra Palikonda, Konstantin Khlopenkov, Douglas A. Spangenberg, William L. Smith, Alain Protat, Julien Delanoe͏̈	25
6	A Prototype Method for Diagnosing High Ice Water Content Probability Using Satellite Imager Data 2017 ·Christopher R. Yost, Kristopher M. Bedka, Patrick Minnis, Louis Nguyen, J. W. Strapp, Rabindra Palikonda, Konstantin Khlopenkov, Douglas A. Spangenberg, William L. Smith, Alain Protat, Julien Delanoe͏̈	1
7	Towards a Seamless Global Long-Term Earth Radiation Budget Climate Data Record 2015 ·2015 AGU Fall Meeting ·Norman G. Loeb, Kory J. Priestley, Patrick Minnis, W. L. Smith, Wenying Su, David P. Kratz, Seiji Kato, (unknown)	1
8	Assessment of NASA GISS CMIP5 and Post-CMIP5 Simulated Clouds and TOA Radiation Budgets Using Satellite Observations 2014 ·Journal of Climate ·(unknown), Norman G. Loeb, David R. Doelling, Xiquan Dong, (unknown), Patrick Minnis, Anthony D. Del Genio	2
9	CERES Edition 3 Cloud Retrievals 2010 ·Patrick Minnis	23
10	An Intercomparison of Microphysical Retrieval Algorithms for Upper-Tropospheric Ice Clouds 2007 ·Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·J. M. Comstock, Robert P. d’Entremont, Daniel H. DeSlover, Gerald G. Mace, Sergey Y. Matrosov, Sally A. McFarlane, Patrick Minnis, David L. Mitchell, Kenneth Sassen, Matthew D. Shupe, David D. Turner, Zhien Wang	70
11	Improved thin cirrus and terminator cloud detection in CERES cloud mask 2006 ·NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) ·Qing Z. Trepte, Patrick Minnis, Rabindra Palikonda, D. A. Spangenberg, Martial Haeffelin	1
12	On the Negative Brightness Temperature Differences Observed by Satellites Above Thick Ice Clouds in the Tropics. 2005 ·AGUSM ·Hélène Chepfer, Marjolaine Chiriaco, P. Dubuisson, Patrick Minnis, (unknown)	1
13	Benchmarking In-Flight Icing Detection Products for Future Upgrades 2004 ·11th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace and the 22nd Conference on Severe Local Storms ·Marcia K. Politovich, Patrick Minnis, David B. Johnson, Cory Wolff, (unknown), Julie Haggerty	3
14	Seasonal Surface Spectral Emissivity Derived from Terra MODIS Data 2004 ·NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA) ·Sunny Sun‐Mack, Yan Chen, Patrick Minnis, (unknown), William Smith	9
15	Clear-Sky Narrowband Albedo Variations Derived from VIRS and MODIS Data 2004 ·Sunny Sun‐Mack, Yan Chen, Robert F. Arduini, Patrick Minnis	5
16	Comparison of Stratus Cloud Properties Deduced from Surface, GOES, and Aircraft Data during the March 2000 ARM Cloud IOP 2002 ·Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences ·Xiquan Dong, Gerald G. Mace, Patrick Minnis, William L. Smith, Michael R. Poellot, Roger Marchand, Anita D. Rapp	103
17	Clouds and Earth radiant energy system (CERES): An overview 2002 ·(unknown), Bruce A. Wielicki, Bruce R. Barkstrom, (unknown), Kory J. Priestley, Thomas P. Charlock, Patrick Minnis, David P. Kratz, Norman G. Loeb	4
18	Intercalibration of Meteorological Satellite Imagers Using VIRS, ATSR-2 and MODIS 2001 ·AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts ·Louis Nguyen, Patrick Minnis, J. Kirk Ayers, David R. Doelling	2
19	A 25‐month database of stratus cloud properties generated from ground‐based measurements at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Southern Great Plains Site 2000 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Xiquan Dong, Patrick Minnis, Thomas P. Ackerman, Eugene E. Clothiaux, Gerald G. Mace, Charles Long, J. C. Liljegren	54
20	Diurnal variability of regional cloud radiative parameters from geostationary satellite data 1981 ·Patrick Minnis, Edwin F. Harrison	2

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