Richard A. Anthes

15.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
141 papers, 10.8k citations indexed

About

Richard A. Anthes is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard A. Anthes has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 10.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Atmospheric Science, 55 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 46 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Richard A. Anthes's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (82 papers), Climate variability and models (51 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (44 papers). Richard A. Anthes is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (82 papers), Climate variability and models (51 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (44 papers). Richard A. Anthes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Taiwan. Richard A. Anthes's co-authors include Christian Rocken, Steven Businger, Robert S. Ware, T. A. Herring, Da‐Lin Zhang, Ying‐Hwa Kuo, Michael Bevis, Steven Chiswell, Thomas T. Warner and Sergey Sokolovskiy and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Richard A. Anthes

138 papers receiving 9.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

GPS meteorology: Remote sensing of atmospheric water vapor using the global positioning system

1992 1.9k citations Christian Rocken, Richard A. Anthes et al. profile →
GPS Meteorology: Mapping Zenith Wet Delays onto Precipitable Water

1994 995 citations Richard A. Anthes, Christian Rocken et al. profile →
A High-Resolution Model of the Planetary Boundary Layer—Sensitivity Tests and Comparisons with SESAME-79 Data

1982 859 citations Richard A. Anthes et al. profile →
GPS Sounding of the Atmosphere from Low Earth Orbit: Preliminary Results

1996 464 citations C. Rocken, William Schreiner et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →
COSMIC‐2 Radio Occultation Constellation: First Results

2020 194 citations William Schreiner, Jan‐Peter Weiss et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard A. Anthes United States	46	6.6k	4.7k	4.4k	4.0k	3.8k	141	10.8k
Ying‐Hwa Kuo United States	58	6.7k 1.0×	4.8k 1.0×	2.5k 0.6×	4.4k 1.1×	2.5k 0.7×	190	9.9k
Steven Businger United States	32	2.6k 0.4×	1.8k 0.4×	3.6k 0.8×	3.2k 0.8×	3.8k 1.0×	101	6.5k
B. D. Tapley United States	59	2.2k 0.3×	3.0k 0.6×	11.4k 2.6×	4.8k 1.2×	5.1k 1.3×	279	15.1k
Xiaolei Zou United States	39	4.0k 0.6×	2.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.3×	1.4k 0.4×	1.2k 0.3×	226	5.6k
Olivier Talagrand France	28	3.6k 0.5×	3.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.3×	1.7k 0.4×	498 0.1×	74	6.1k
C. K. Shum United States	51	2.6k 0.4×	3.1k 0.6×	5.7k 1.3×	1.7k 0.4×	2.2k 0.6×	380	10.4k
Richard S. Lindzen United States	55	9.0k 1.4×	6.9k 1.5×	3.8k 0.9×	5.4k 1.4×	326 0.1×	201	12.9k
Jens Wickert Germany	53	2.4k 0.4×	1.0k 0.2×	4.8k 1.1×	5.1k 1.3×	5.8k 1.5×	299	9.1k
James R. Holton United States	52	15.3k 2.3×	11.8k 2.5×	2.5k 0.6×	5.8k 1.5×	265 0.1×	146	17.7k
T. A. Herring United States	45	2.7k 0.4×	839 0.2×	6.6k 1.5×	4.6k 1.2×	6.2k 1.6×	130	12.6k

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Cucurull, Lídia, et al.. (2024). Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) in Support of Next-Generation NOAA Satellite Constellation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 105(6). E884–E904. 2 indexed citations

Zeng, Zhen, Douglas Hunt, Jan‐Peter Weiss, et al.. (2024). Detection of Superrefraction at the Top of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer from COSMIC-2 Radio Occultations. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 41(1). 65–78. 3 indexed citations

Anthes, Richard A., et al.. (2023). Ecological Benefits of Creating Stormwater Wetlands and Woodlands in Philadelphia, PA. 13(1). 1 indexed citations

Anthes, Richard A., et al.. (2022). Comparison of COSMIC and COSMIC-2 Radio Occultation Refractivity and Bending Angle Uncertainties in August 2006 and 2021. Atmosphere. 13(5). 790–790. 18 indexed citations

Zou, Xiaolei, et al.. (2021). Raytracing Simulated GPS Radio Wave Propagation Paths Experiencing Large Disturbances When Going through the Top of the Sub-Cloud Layer. Remote Sensing. 13(22). 4693–4693. 2 indexed citations

Xie, Feiqin, et al.. (2020). Ducting and Biases of GPS Radio Occultation Bending Angle and Refractivity in the Moist Lower Troposphere. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 37(6). 1013–1025. 13 indexed citations

Schreiner, William, Jan‐Peter Weiss, Richard A. Anthes, et al.. (2020). COSMIC‐2 Radio Occultation Constellation: First Results. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(4). 194 indexed citations breakdown →

Rieckh, Therese, Richard A. Anthes, William J. Randel, Shu‐peng Ho, & Ulrich Foelsche. (2018). Evaluating tropospheric humidity from GPS radio occultation, radiosonde, and AIRS from high-resolution time series. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 11(5). 3091–3109. 24 indexed citations

Anthes, Richard A. & Therese Rieckh. (2018). Estimating observation and model error variances using multiple data sets. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 11(7). 4239–4260. 32 indexed citations

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Ho, Shu‐peng, Liang Peng, C. A. Mears, & Richard A. Anthes. (2018). Comparison of global observations and trends of total precipitable water derived from microwave radiometers and COSMIC radio occultation from 2006 to 2013. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(1). 259–274. 37 indexed citations

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Rieckh, Therese, et al.. (2018). Reducing representativeness and sampling errors in radio occultation–radiosonde comparisons. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 11(5). 2567–2582. 21 indexed citations

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Rieckh, Therese & Richard A. Anthes. (2018). Evaluating two methods of estimating error variances from multiple data sets using an error model. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 3 indexed citations

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Rieckh, Therese & Richard A. Anthes. (2018). Evaluating two methods of estimating error variances using simulated data sets with known errors. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 11(7). 4309–4325. 9 indexed citations

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Rieckh, Therese, Richard A. Anthes, William J. Randel, Shu‐peng Ho, & Ulrich Foelsche. (2017). Tropospheric dry layers in the tropical western Pacific: comparisons of GPS radio occultation with multiple data sets. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(3). 1093–1110. 19 indexed citations

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Rieckh, Therese, Richard A. Anthes, William J. Randel, Shu‐peng Ho, & Ulrich Foelsche. (2016). Tropospheric dry layers in the TropicalWestern Pacific:Comparisons of GPS radio occultation with multiple data sets. 2 indexed citations

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Kuo, Ying‐Hwa, Tae‐Kwon Wee, Sergey Sokolovskiy, et al.. (2004). Inversion and Error Estimation of GPS Radio Occultation Data. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 82(1B). 507–531. 348 indexed citations

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Zou, Xiaolei, et al.. (2004). Impact of CHAMP Radio Occultation Observations on Global Analysis and Forecasts in the Absence of AMSU Radiance Data. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 82(1B). 533–549. 38 indexed citations

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Anthes, Richard A., Christian Rocken, & Ying‐Hwa Kuo. (2000). Applications of COSMIC to Meteorology and Climate. Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. 11(1). 115–115. 164 indexed citations

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Kuo, Ying‐Hwa, Sergey Sokolovskiy, Richard A. Anthes, & François Vandenberghe. (2000). Assimilation of GPS Radio Occultation Data for Numerical Weather Prediction. Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. 11(1). 157–157. 133 indexed citations

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Sanders, Frederick, Toby N. Carlson, Richard A. Anthes, et al.. (1980). SESAME News. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 61(9). 1018–1034. 2 indexed citations

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