R. Wayne Higgins

11.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
74 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

R. Wayne Higgins is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Wayne Higgins has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 64 papers in Atmospheric Science and 17 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in R. Wayne Higgins's work include Climate variability and models (61 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (51 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (27 papers). R. Wayne Higgins is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (61 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (51 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (27 papers). R. Wayne Higgins collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. R. Wayne Higgins's co-authors include Kingtse C. Mo, Vernon E. Kousky, Wei Shi, John E. Janowiak, Viviane B. S. Silva, K. C. Mo, Pingping Xie, Mingyue Chen, Ants Leetmaa and Kenneth E. Mitchell and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

R. Wayne Higgins

72 papers receiving 8.3k 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.

Assessing objective techniques for gauge‐based analyses of global daily precipitation

2008 999 citations Vernon E. Kousky, R. Wayne Higgins et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
Real‐time and retrospective forcing in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project

2003 537 citations B. Cosgrove, Dag Lohmann et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. Wayne Higgins United States	49	7.2k	6.7k	1.4k	1.3k	904	74	8.6k
Kingtse C. Mo United States	46	7.1k 1.0×	5.2k 0.8×	1.8k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	645 0.7×	103	8.0k
Siegfried D. Schubert United States	49	8.8k 1.2×	7.6k 1.1×	2.0k 1.4×	653 0.5×	568 0.6×	196	9.7k
Jean‐Noël Thépaut United Kingdom	36	6.5k 0.9×	6.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	724 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	79	8.8k
Pedro Viterbo United Kingdom	46	6.7k 0.9×	5.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	2.2k 1.7×	2.1k 2.3×	85	9.4k
Paul A. O’Gorman United States	40	7.8k 1.1×	6.6k 1.0×	984 0.7×	847 0.7×	469 0.5×	76	9.2k
R. F. Adler United States	16	6.6k 0.9×	6.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.3×	713 0.5×	541 0.6×	31	7.7k
Jan Polcher‬ France	43	6.1k 0.9×	3.9k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	1.7k 1.3×	992 1.1×	129	7.7k
Jesse Meng United States	14	3.7k 0.5×	3.4k 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	19	5.3k
Uwe Ulbrich Germany	43	5.4k 0.8×	4.7k 0.7×	933 0.7×	719 0.6×	613 0.7×	144	6.8k
Erik van Meijgaard Netherlands	58	6.4k 0.9×	10.0k 1.5×	1.0k 0.7×	764 0.6×	674 0.7×	153	12.3k

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Lu, Er, Wenyue Cai, Zhihong Jiang, et al.. (2013). The day-to-day monitoring of the 2011 severe drought in China. Climate Dynamics. 43(1-2). 1–9. 129 indexed citations

Higgins, R. Wayne & Vernon E. Kousky. (2012). Changes in Observed Daily Precipitation over the United States between 1950–79 and 1980–2009. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 14(1). 105–121. 41 indexed citations

Becker, Emily, Ernesto Hugo Berbery, & R. Wayne Higgins. (2011). Modulation of Cold-Season U.S. Daily Precipitation by the Madden–Julian Oscillation. Journal of Climate. 24(19). 5157–5166. 49 indexed citations

Higgins, R. Wayne, et al.. (2010). Intercomparison of Daily Precipitation Statistics over the United States in Observations and in NCEP Reanalysis Products. Journal of Climate. 23(17). 4637–4650. 36 indexed citations

Baigorria, Guillermo A., Muthuvel Chelliah, Kingtse C. Mo, et al.. (2010). Forecasting Cotton Yield in the Southeastern United States using Coupled Global Circulation Models. Agronomy Journal. 102(1). 187–196. 16 indexed citations

Kousky, Vernon E. & R. Wayne Higgins. (2007). An Alert Classification System for Monitoring and Assessing the ENSO Cycle. Weather and Forecasting. 22(2). 353–371. 90 indexed citations

Gutzler, David S., R. Wayne Higgins, H. M. H. Juang, et al.. (2005). The North American Monsoon Model Assessment Project: Integrating Numerical Modeling into a Field-based Process Study. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 86(10). 1423–1430. 46 indexed citations

Lohmann, Dag, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, et al.. (2004). Streamflow and water balance intercomparisons of four land surface models in the North American Land Data Assimilation System project. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 109(D7). 147 indexed citations

Jones, Charles, et al.. (2004). A Statistical Forecast Model of Tropical Intraseasonal Convective Anomalies. Journal of Climate. 17(11). 2078–2095. 70 indexed citations

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Koster, Randal D., Max J. Suárez, R. Wayne Higgins, & Huug M. van den Dool. (2003). Observational evidence that soil moisture variations affect precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters. 30(5). 225 indexed citations

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Higgins, R. Wayne, Andrea N. Hahmann, Ernesto Hugo Berbery, et al.. (2003). Progress in Pan American CLIVAR research: The North American monsoon system. 16(1). 29–65. 67 indexed citations

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Higgins, R. Wayne, et al.. (2000). Extreme Precipitation Events in the Western United States Related to Tropical Forcing. Journal of Climate. 13(4). 793–820. 181 indexed citations

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Higgins, R. Wayne, Ants Leetmaa, Yuan Xue, & Anthony G. Barnston. (2000). Dominant Factors Influencing the Seasonal Predictability of U.S. Precipitation and Surface Air Temperature. Journal of Climate. 13(22). 3994–4017. 128 indexed citations

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Bell, Gerald D., Michael S. Halpert, R. C. Schnell, et al.. (2000). Climate Assessment for 1999. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 81(6). 1328–1328. 53 indexed citations

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Higgins, R. Wayne, et al.. (1998). Interannual Variability of the U.S. Summer Precipitation Regime with Emphasis on the Southwestern Monsoon. Journal of Climate. 11(10). 2582–2606. 154 indexed citations

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Mo, Kingtse C., Julia N. Paegle, & R. Wayne Higgins. (1997). Atmospheric Processes Associated with Summer Floods and Droughts in the Central United States. Journal of Climate. 10(12). 3028–3046. 118 indexed citations

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Mo, Kingtse C. & R. Wayne Higgins. (1996). Large-Scale Atmospheric Moisture Transport as Evaluated in the NCEP/NCAR and the NASA/DAO Reanalyses. Journal of Climate. 9(7). 1531–1545. 120 indexed citations

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Higgins, R. Wayne, et al.. (1996). Simulations of Persistent North Pacific Circulation Anomalies and Interhemispheric Teleconnections. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 53(1). 188–207. 23 indexed citations

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Higgins, R. Wayne, K. C. Mo, & Siegfried D. Schubert. (1996). The Moisture Budget of the Central United States in Spring as Evaluated in the NCEP/NCAR and the NASA/DAO Reanalyses. Monthly Weather Review. 124(5). 939–963. 81 indexed citations

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Li, Yong, et al.. (1994). Four-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation Experiments with a Multilevel Semi-Lagrangian Semi-Implicit General Circulation Model. Monthly Weather Review. 122(5). 966–983. 21 indexed citations

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