Roger Saunders

14.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
93 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Roger Saunders is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Roger Saunders has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Atmospheric Science, 72 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 19 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Roger Saunders's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (37 papers), Climate variability and models (32 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (31 papers). Roger Saunders is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (37 papers), Climate variability and models (32 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (31 papers). Roger Saunders collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Roger Saunders's co-authors include K.T. Kriebel, Marco Matricardi, Pascal Brunel, Peter N. Francis, Anne O’Carroll, A. M. Závody, J. R. Eyre, Bernard Séguin, Tim J. Hewison and Michael Cooke and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Roger Saunders

93 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

An improved method for detecting clear sky and cloudy radiances from AVHRR data

1988 650 citations Roger Saunders et al. International Journal of Remote Sensing profile →
An update on the RTTOV fast radiative transfer model (currently at version 12)

2018 374 citations Roger Saunders, James Hocking et al. Geoscientific model development profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roger Saunders United Kingdom	33	3.6k	3.4k	843	650	425	93	4.7k
Filipe Aires France	42	3.0k 0.8×	3.0k 0.9×	687 0.8×	1.8k 2.8×	653 1.5×	145	5.3k
Mitchell D. Goldberg United States	32	2.4k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	369 0.4×	643 1.0×	333 0.8×	128	3.3k
E. P. Shettle United States	38	4.9k 1.4×	4.7k 1.4×	571 0.7×	506 0.8×	445 1.0×	100	6.6k
Timothy J. Schmit United States	33	2.9k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	371 0.4×	428 0.7×	177 0.4×	133	3.7k
Fuzhong Weng United States	44	6.5k 1.8×	4.6k 1.3×	775 0.9×	1.3k 2.0×	221 0.5×	280	7.4k
Takashi Y. Nakajima Japan	36	3.7k 1.0×	4.1k 1.2×	203 0.2×	351 0.5×	325 0.8×	175	5.2k
Andrew K. Heidinger United States	46	4.4k 1.2×	4.8k 1.4×	296 0.4×	377 0.6×	322 0.8×	159	5.6k
Thomas H. Vonder Haar United States	41	3.7k 1.0×	3.6k 1.0×	851 1.0×	502 0.8×	227 0.5×	169	4.9k
Jean‐Jacques Morcrette United Kingdom	36	4.8k 1.3×	5.1k 1.5×	327 0.4×	383 0.6×	302 0.7×	59	5.9k
James D. Spinhirne United States	41	5.2k 1.5×	5.2k 1.5×	213 0.3×	848 1.3×	414 1.0×	152	6.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Roger Saunders

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roger Saunders

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roger Saunders

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Roger Saunders. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Roger Saunders 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 Roger Saunders. Roger Saunders is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Saunders, Roger, et al.. (2020). Ten Years of Satellite Infrared Radiance Monitoring With the Met Office NWP Model. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 59(6). 4561–4569. 12 indexed citations

Moradi, Isaac, Mitchell D. Goldberg, Manfred Brath, et al.. (2020). Performance of Radiative Transfer Models in the Microwave Region. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(6). 18 indexed citations

Saunders, Roger, James Hocking, Emma Turner, et al.. (2018). An update on the RTTOV fast radiative transfer model (currently at version 12). Geoscientific model development. 11(7). 2717–2737. 374 indexed citations breakdown →

Athanassiadou, Maria, Peter N. Francis, Roger Saunders, et al.. (2016). A case study of sulphur dioxide identification in three different volcanic eruptions, using Infrared satellite observations (IASI). Meteorological Applications. 23(3). 477–490. 4 indexed citations

Larsson, Richard, M. Milz, Peter Joseph Rayer, et al.. (2016). Modeling the Zeeman effect in high-altitude SSMIS channels for numerical weather prediction profiles: comparing a fast model and a line-by-line model. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 9(2). 841–857. 2 indexed citations

Seidel, Dian J., Jian Li, C. A. Mears, et al.. (2015). Stratospheric temperature changes during the satellite era. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 121(2). 664–681. 42 indexed citations

Cooke, Michael, Peter N. Francis, Sarah Millington, Roger Saunders, & Claire Witham. (2014). Detection of the Grímsvötn 2011 volcanic eruption plumes using infrared satellite measurements. Atmospheric Science Letters. 15(4). 321–327. 21 indexed citations

Sohn, Byung‐Ju, et al.. (2012). An improved radiance simulation for hyperspectral infrared remote sensing of Asian dust. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117(D9). 14 indexed citations

O’Carroll, Anne, et al.. (2011). Towards a bias correction of the AVHRR Pathfinder SST data from 1985 to 1998 using ATSR. Remote Sensing of Environment. 116. 118–125. 8 indexed citations

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Francis, Peter N., Michael Cooke, & Roger Saunders. (2011). Retrieval of physical properties of volcanic ash using Meteosat: A case study from the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117(D20). 132 indexed citations

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Horrocks, L. A., et al.. (2006). Validation of the AATSR Meteo Product Sea Surface Temperature. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 23(5). 711–726. 39 indexed citations

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English, Stephen, David C. Jones, Peter Joseph Rayer, et al.. (2002). Observations of water vapour absorption using airborne microwave radiometers at 89 and 157 GHz. 2. 1395–1397. 1 indexed citations

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Kelly, Graeme, et al.. (2001). Impact of a New Cloud Motion Wind Product from Meteosat on NWP Analyses and Forecasts. Monthly Weather Review. 129(9). 2392–2403. 31 indexed citations

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Saunders, Roger, et al.. (1999). Four‐dimensional variational assimilation of special sensor microwave/imager total column water vapour in the ECMWF model. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 125(560). 3077–3101. 41 indexed citations

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Matricardi, Marco & Roger Saunders. (1999). Fast radiative transfer model for simulation of infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer radiances. Applied Optics. 38(27). 5679–5679. 76 indexed citations

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Saunders, Roger & Bernard Séguin. (1992). Meteorology and climatology. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 13(6-7). 1231–1259. 112 indexed citations

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Kilsby, Chris, D. P. Edwards, Roger Saunders, & J. S. Foot. (1992). Water‐Vapour Continuum Absorption In the Tropics: Aircraft Measurements and Model Comparisons. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 118(506). 715–748. 28 indexed citations

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Harries, J. E., et al.. (1983). Observations of sea-surface temperature for climate research. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 309(1508). 381–395. 20 indexed citations

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Saunders, Roger & G. E. Hunt. (1983). Some radiation budget and cloud measurements derived from Meteosat 1 data. Tellus B. 35B(3). 177–188. 4 indexed citations

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Saunders, Roger, et al.. (1975). Identification of volatile organic contaminants in Washington, D.C. municipal water. Water Research. 9(12). 1143–1145. 7 indexed citations

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