Philip Thompson

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 778 citations indexed

About

Philip Thompson is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Computational Mechanics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Philip Thompson has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 778 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Atmospheric Science, 11 papers in Computational Mechanics and 8 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Philip Thompson's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (14 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (8 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (8 papers). Philip Thompson is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (14 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (8 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (8 papers). Philip Thompson collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Tunisia. Philip Thompson's co-authors include Joseph Smagorinsky and K.P. Galvin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences and Monthly Weather Review.

In The Last Decade

Philip Thompson

37 papers receiving 650 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philip Thompson United States	14	500	470	173	70	66	38	778
M. A. Pedder United Kingdom	12	633 1.3×	581 1.2×	342 2.0×	42 0.6×	162 2.5×	25	959
G. J. Haltiner United States	10	694 1.4×	541 1.2×	307 1.8×	147 2.1×	152 2.3×	24	1.1k
Richard L. Pfeffer United States	19	563 1.1×	480 1.0×	348 2.0×	161 2.3×	41 0.6×	48	979
A. Wiin‐Nielsen United States	21	875 1.8×	787 1.7×	360 2.1×	193 2.8×	85 1.3×	86	1.2k
Joseph G. Sela United States	16	964 1.9×	811 1.7×	238 1.4×	103 1.5×	123 1.9×	27	1.2k
Martin Ehrendorfer Austria	15	901 1.8×	847 1.8×	114 0.7×	31 0.4×	135 2.0×	33	1.1k
Leonid I. Piterbarg United States	18	390 0.8×	348 0.7×	595 3.4×	98 1.4×	50 0.8×	49	900
John DeVore United States	9	554 1.1×	549 1.2×	247 1.4×	44 0.6×	23 0.3×	19	929
Mats Hamrud United Kingdom	14	1.0k 2.1×	917 2.0×	170 1.0×	70 1.0×	191 2.9×	23	1.2k
Albert Barcilon United States	19	523 1.0×	482 1.0×	246 1.4×	190 2.7×	92 1.4×	57	919

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Philip Thompson

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Thompson, Philip, et al.. (2017). Vocal traditions: Knight-Thompson Speechwork. Voice and Speech Review. 11(3). 329–338. 4 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1988). Haurwitz solutions of the nonlinear shallow-water equations for small froude number. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics. 38(1-2). 89–94. 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1987). The Maturing of the Science1. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 68(6). 631–637. 3 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1986). A Simple Approximate Method of Stochastic-Dynamic Prediction for Small Initial Errors and Short Range. Monthly Weather Review. 114(9). 1709–1715. 11 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1985). Moment Closures for the Equilibrium Statistics of Randomly-Forced Triads. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 42(6). 631–640. 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1985). Prediction of the Probable Errors of Predictions. Monthly Weather Review. 113(2). 248–259. 3 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1985). A statistical-hydrodynamical approach to problems of climate and its evolution. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 37(1). 1–1. 2 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1983). A review of the predictability problem. AIP conference proceedings. 106. 1–10. 4 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1982). Nonequilibrium probability distributions for randomly forced two- dimensional flows. The Physics of Fluids. 25(7). 1159–1161. 5 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1975). A Simple Statistical Treatment of Highly Turbulent Couette Flow. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 32(3). 569–576. 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1974). The Integral Invariants of Two-Dimensional Inviscid Flow and Their Role in the Theory of Two-Dimensional Turbulence. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 31(5). 1453–1457. 2 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1973). The Equilibrium Energy Spectrum of Randomly Forced Two-Dimensional Turbulence. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 30(8). 1593–1598. 14 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1972). Some exact statistics of two-dimensional viscous flow with random forcing. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 55(4). 711–717. 13 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1969). Reduction of Analysis Error Through Constraints of Dynamical Consistency. Journal of applied meteorology. 8(5). 738–742. 36 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1957). Numerical Prediction: An Exposition and Review for the Nonspecialist1. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 38(8). 447–452. 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1957). Uncertainty of Initial State as a Factor in the Predictability of Large Scale Atmospheric Flow Patterns. Tellus. 9(3). 275–295. 139 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1956). Optimum Smoothing of Two-Dimensional Fields. Tellus. 8(3). 384–393. 11 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1956). Optimum Smoothing of Two-Dimensional Fields. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 8(3). 384–393. 17 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1954). A Note on the Integration of the Vorticity Equation for Quasi-Geostrophic Flow. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 6(4). 319–325. 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, Philip. (1953). On the theory of large‐scale disturbances in a two‐dimensional baroclinic equivalent of the atmosphere. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 79(339). 51–69. 33 indexed citations

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