Rachel H. White

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 884 citations indexed

About

Rachel H. White is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachel H. White has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 884 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 24 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Rachel H. White's work include Climate variability and models (24 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (14 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers). Rachel H. White is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (24 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (14 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers). Rachel H. White collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Rachel H. White's co-authors include Ralf Toumi, David S. Battisti, Xavier J. Levine, Robert C. J. Wills, Gerard H. Roe, Christina Draeger, Veeshan Narinesingh, Sarah B. Henderson, James F. Booth and Matthias Jakob and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Biochemistry and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Rachel H. White

33 papers receiving 870 citations

Hit Papers

The unprecedented Pacific Northwest heatwave of June 2021 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. The unprecedented Pacific Northwest heatwave of June 2021
    2023 234 citations Rachel H. White, Sam Anderson et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rachel H. White Canada 14 590 491 151 95 92 36 884
Zhiyuan Wang China 14 317 0.5× 451 0.9× 110 0.7× 68 0.7× 77 0.8× 45 734
Magda C. Sousa Portugal 20 402 0.7× 214 0.4× 578 3.8× 266 2.8× 93 1.0× 55 987
Roman Teisserenc France 18 150 0.3× 216 0.4× 114 0.8× 290 3.1× 139 1.5× 25 740
Xiuzhen Li China 20 1.1k 1.8× 800 1.6× 301 2.0× 146 1.5× 9 0.1× 73 1.3k
Cecilia Enríquez Mexico 16 215 0.4× 206 0.4× 383 2.5× 320 3.4× 70 0.8× 50 870
Tymon Zieliński Poland 14 531 0.9× 489 1.0× 105 0.7× 76 0.8× 24 0.3× 61 765
Yannis Ν. Krestenitis Greece 19 380 0.6× 316 0.6× 496 3.3× 170 1.8× 80 0.9× 49 897
Irene Laiz Spain 15 206 0.3× 122 0.2× 340 2.3× 127 1.3× 88 1.0× 38 613
Jiabi Du United States 20 361 0.6× 502 1.0× 646 4.3× 362 3.8× 74 0.8× 43 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Rachel H. White

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rachel H. White

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rachel H. White

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rachel H. White. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rachel H. White based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Rachel H. White. Rachel H. White is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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White, Rachel H. & Lualawi Mareshet Admasu. (2025). Temporally and zonally varying atmospheric waveguides – climatologies and connections to quasi-stationary waves. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 6(2). 549–570.
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Draeger, Christina, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of reanalysis data and dynamical downscaling for surface energy balance modeling at mountain glaciers in western Canada. ˜The œcryosphere. 18(1). 17–42. 5 indexed citations
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White, Rachel H., Sam Anderson, James F. Booth, et al.. (2023). The unprecedented Pacific Northwest heatwave of June 2021. Nature Communications. 14(1). 727–727. 234 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ludwig, Nicole, et al.. (2023). Mind the (spectral) gap: how the temporal resolution of wind data affects multi-decadal wind power forecasts. Environmental Research Letters. 19(1). 14015–14015. 4 indexed citations
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White, Rachel H., et al.. (2023). Large-Amplitude Quasi-Stationary Rossby Wave Events in ERA5 and the CESM2: Features, Precursors, and Model Biases in Northern Hemisphere Winter. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 80(8). 2075–2090. 3 indexed citations
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Pattiaratchi, Charitha, Mirjam van der Mheen, Cathleen Schlundt, et al.. (2022). Plastics in the Indian Ocean – sources, transport, distribution, and impacts. Ocean science. 18(1). 1–28. 75 indexed citations
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Fu, Qiang, et al.. (2022). Stratosphere‐Troposphere Exchanges of Air Mass and Ozone Concentration in the Last Glacial Maximum. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(10). 6 indexed citations
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Pattiaratchi, Charitha, Mirjam van der Mheen, Cathleen Schlundt, et al.. (2021). Plastics in the Indian Ocean – sources, fate, distribution and impacts. 16 indexed citations
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Madonna, Erica, David S. Battisti, Camille Li, & Rachel H. White. (2021). Reconstructing winter climate anomalies in the Euro-Atlantic sector using circulation patterns. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 2(3). 777–794. 7 indexed citations
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Materia, Stefano, Constantin Ardilouze, Rachel H. White, et al.. (2021). Seasonal prediction of European Summer Heatwaves. 6 indexed citations
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White, Rachel H., Kai Kornhuber, Olivia Martius, & Volkmar Wirth. (2021). From Atmospheric Waves to Heatwaves: A Waveguide Perspective for Understanding and Predicting Concurrent, Persistent, and Extreme Extratropical Weather. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 103(3). E923–E935. 50 indexed citations
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White, Rachel H., et al.. (2020). A Baseline for the Blue Economy: Catch and Effort History in the Republic of Seychelles’ Domestic Fisheries. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7. 25 indexed citations
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Fu, Qiang, et al.. (2020). Stratospheric Ozone in the Last Glacial Maximum. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(21). 11 indexed citations
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Wills, Robert C. J., Rachel H. White, & Xavier J. Levine. (2019). Northern Hemisphere Stationary Waves in a Changing Climate. PubMed. 5(4). 372–389. 75 indexed citations
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White, Rachel H., et al.. (2019). The Importance of Greenland in Setting the Northern Preferred Position of the North Atlantic Eddy‐Driven Jet. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(23). 14126–14134. 13 indexed citations
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White, Rachel H., et al.. (2018). Tropical Precipitation and Cross‐Equatorial Heat Transport in Response to Localized Heating: Basin and Hemisphere Dependence. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(21). 12 indexed citations
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White, Rachel H., David S. Battisti, & Aditi Sheshadri. (2018). Orography and the Boreal Winter Stratosphere: The Importance of the Mongolian Mountains. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(4). 2088–2096. 23 indexed citations
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Heuzé, Céline, William T. Ball, Rachel H. White, et al.. (2016). Improving together: better science writing through peer learning. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 20(7). 2965–2973. 7 indexed citations
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White, Rachel H. & Ralf Toumi. (2012). A tightly bound soil–water scheme within an atmosphere–land–surface model. Journal of Hydrology. 452-453. 51–63. 8 indexed citations

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