Richard C. J. Somerville

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Richard C. J. Somerville is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard C. J. Somerville has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 63 papers in Atmospheric Science and 13 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Richard C. J. Somerville's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (36 papers), Climate variability and models (36 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (35 papers). Richard C. J. Somerville is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (36 papers), Climate variability and models (36 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (35 papers). Richard C. J. Somerville collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Richard C. J. Somerville's co-authors include Tzvi Gal‐Chen, Michael S. Pritchard, Sam F. Iacobellis, L. A. Remer, James E. Hansen, Stefan Rahmstorf, D. E. Parker, John Church, Ralph F. Keeling and Susan Joy Hassol and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Richard C. J. Somerville

93 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

On the use of a coordinate transformation for the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard C. J. Somerville United States	29	2.1k	2.0k	413	411	269	98	3.3k
G. P. Können Netherlands	21	2.2k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	212 0.5×	286 0.7×	282 1.0×	75	3.1k
Peter Lynch Ireland	25	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	369 0.9×	146 0.4×	294 1.1×	70	2.2k
Jeremy C. Phillips United Kingdom	37	639 0.3×	1.3k 0.6×	153 0.4×	506 1.2×	406 1.5×	105	3.6k
Steven D. Meyers United States	20	1.0k 0.5×	929 0.5×	771 1.9×	90 0.2×	134 0.5×	55	2.1k
Twan van Noije Netherlands	26	1.7k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	134 0.3×	750 1.8×	264 1.0×	67	3.2k
Volker Wulfmeyer Germany	42	5.0k 2.4×	4.1k 2.0×	308 0.7×	158 0.4×	1.0k 3.8×	199	6.6k
François G. Schmitt France	33	1.3k 0.6×	507 0.3×	985 2.4×	550 1.3×	656 2.4×	156	3.9k
Jan Čermák Germany	30	2.6k 1.2×	2.3k 1.1×	133 0.3×	297 0.7×	748 2.8×	132	3.9k
William J. Merryfield Canada	30	2.5k 1.2×	2.3k 1.1×	1.1k 2.7×	76 0.2×	164 0.6×	95	3.5k
B. E. Anderson United States	59	7.5k 3.6×	9.0k 4.4×	423 1.0×	251 0.6×	614 2.3×	312	11.9k

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Ramanathan, V., Roger D. Aines, Maximilian Auffhammer, et al.. (2019). Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

Shen, Samuel S. P. & Richard C. J. Somerville. (2019). Climate Mathematics. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations

Xu, Li, David W. Pierce, Lynn M. Russell, et al.. (2015). Interannual to decadal climate variability of sea salt aerosols in the coupled climate model CESM1.0. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 120(4). 1502–1519. 13 indexed citations

Kooperman, Gabriel J., Michael S. Pritchard, & Richard C. J. Somerville. (2014). The Response of US Summer Rainfall to Quadrupled CO 2 Climate Change in Conventional and Superparameterized Versions of the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 2014. 1 indexed citations

Lubin, Dan, et al.. (2011). Transect method for Antarctic cloud property retrieval using AVHRR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 32(10). 2887–2903. 2 indexed citations

Somerville, Richard C. J.. (2010). The Co-evolution of Climate Models and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. AGUFM. 2010. 2 indexed citations

Pritchard, Michael S. & Richard C. J. Somerville. (2009). Assessing the Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation in a Multi‐Scale Climate Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 1(4). 56 indexed citations

Shell, Karen M. & Richard C. J. Somerville. (2007). Sensitivity of climate forcing and response to dust optical properties in an idealized model. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 112(D3). 19 indexed citations

Somerville, Richard C. J., et al.. (2007). Historical overview of climate change science. 84 indexed citations

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Somerville, Richard C. J.. (2005). Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 31(1). 55. 2 indexed citations

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Xu, Kuan‐Man, Minghua Zhang, Zachary A. Eitzen, et al.. (2005). Modeling springtime shallow frontal clouds with cloud‐resolving and single‐column models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 110(D15). 46 indexed citations

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Iacobellis, Sam F., Greg M. McFarquhar, David L. Mitchell, & Richard C. J. Somerville. (2003). The Sensitivity of Radiative Fluxes to Parameterized Cloud Microphysics. Journal of Climate. 16(18). 2979–2996. 20 indexed citations

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Somerville, Richard C. J., et al.. (2000). Apparent Multi-Decadal Trend in Shortwave Cloud Forcing Over the Tropical Pacific. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 1 indexed citations

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Somerville, Richard C. J. & Sam F. Iacobellis. (1999). Single-column models, arm observations, and GCM cloud-radiation schemes. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Part B Hydrology Oceans and Atmosphere. 24(6). 733–740. 6 indexed citations

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d’Arge, Ralph C., et al.. (1991). ECONOMIC GROWTH, SUSTAINABILITY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT. Contemporary Economic Policy. 9(1). 1–23. 4 indexed citations

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Somerville, Richard C. J. & Sam F. Iacobellis. (1986). Cloud-Radiation Interactions : Effects of Cirrus Optical Thickness Feedbacks. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 64A(0). 177–185. 4 indexed citations

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Hathaway, David H. & Richard C. J. Somerville. (1986). Nonlinear interactions between convection, rotation and flows with vertical shear. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 164. 91–105. 23 indexed citations

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Roads, John O. & Richard C. J. Somerville. (1982). Predictability of Ultralong Waves in Global and Hemispheric Quasi-Geostrophic Barotropic Models. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 39(4). 745–755. 1 indexed citations

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Somerville, Richard C. J., William J. Quirk, James E. Hansen, Andrew A. Lacis, & Peter H. Stone. (1976). A search for short-term meteorological effects of solar variability in an atmospheric circulation model. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 81(9). 1572–1576. 3 indexed citations

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Stone, Peter H., et al.. (1975). Seasonal changes in the atmospheric heat balance simulated by the GISS general circulation model. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 1 indexed citations

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