Ross Maidment

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Ross Maidment is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ross Maidment has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 19 papers in Atmospheric Science and 5 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Ross Maidment's work include Climate variability and models (17 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (14 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (12 papers). Ross Maidment is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (17 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (14 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (12 papers). Ross Maidment collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Ross Maidment's co-authors include Emily Black, Richard P. Allan, Tufa Dinku, Elena Tarnavsky, D. I. F. Grimes, Hussein Gadain, Tsegaye Tadesse, Pietro Ceccato, Chris Funk and Pete Peterson and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of Environment and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Ross Maidment

22 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Validation of the CHIRPS satellite rainfall estimates over eastern Africa

2018 556 citations Tufa Dinku, Chris Funk et al. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society profile →
Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

2023 165 citations Paul I. Palmer, Caroline M. Wainwright et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

Peers

Ross Maidment

GPC

EEBS

WST

Elke Hertig Germany

Brian Ayugi China

Abdou Ali France

Fahad Saeed Germany

J. V. Revadekar India

Liqiang Sun United States

Gérémy Panthou France

Elena Tarnavsky United Kingdom

James R. Angel United States

Matthias Büchner Germany

Elke Hertig Germany

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1.5k ×0.9

GPC

963 ×0.8

334 ×1.0

EEBS

321 ×1.0

WST

123 ×0.7

Citations per year, relative to Ross Maidment Ross Maidment (= 1×) peers Elke Hertig

Countries citing papers authored by Ross Maidment

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ross Maidment

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ross Maidment

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Black, Emily, et al.. (2024). A new drought model for disaster risk management in the Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan. Frontiers in Climate. 6. 2 indexed citations

Bulgin, Claire E., Ross Maidment, Darren Ghent, & Christopher J. Merchant. (2024). Stability of cloud detection methods for Land Surface Temperature (LST) Climate Data Records (CDRs). Remote Sensing of Environment. 315. 114440–114440. 3 indexed citations

Black, Emily, John B. Ellis, & Ross Maidment. (2024). A computationally lightweight model for ensemble forecasting of environmental hazards: General TAMSAT-ALERT v1.2.1. Geoscientific model development. 17(22). 8353–8372.

Palmer, Paul I., Caroline M. Wainwright, Bo Dong, et al.. (2023). Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 4(4). 254–270. 165 indexed citations breakdown →

Black, Emily, et al.. (2023). Application of TAMSAT-ALERT soil moisture forecasts for planting date decision support in Africa. Frontiers in Climate. 4. 6 indexed citations

Traoré, Seydou, et al.. (2023). Validation of high-resolution satellite precipitation products over West Africa for rainfall monitoring and early warning. Frontiers in Climate. 5. 11 indexed citations

Bulgin, Claire E., Owen Embury, Ross Maidment, & Christopher J. Merchant. (2022). Bayesian Cloud Detection over Land for Climate Data Records. Remote Sensing. 14(9). 2231–2231. 3 indexed citations

Asfaw, Dagmawi, Matthew Young, Ross Maidment, et al.. (2020). Evaluation and validation of TAMSAT‐ALERT soil moisture and WRSI for use in drought anticipatory action. Meteorological Applications. 27(5). 21 indexed citations

Hart, Neil, Richard Washington, & Ross Maidment. (2019). Deep Convection over Africa: Annual Cycle, ENSO, and Trends in the Hotspots. Journal of Climate. 32(24). 8791–8811. 29 indexed citations

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Stein, Thorwald H. M., et al.. (2019). An Evaluation of Clouds and Precipitation in Convection-Permitting Forecasts for South Africa. Weather and Forecasting. 34(1). 233–254. 12 indexed citations

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Asfaw, Dagmawi, Emily Black, Matthew Brown, et al.. (2018). TAMSAT-ALERT v1: a new framework for agricultural decision support. Geoscientific model development. 11(6). 2353–2371. 21 indexed citations

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Dinku, Tufa, Chris Funk, Pete Peterson, et al.. (2018). Validation of the CHIRPS satellite rainfall estimates over eastern Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 144(S1). 292–312. 556 indexed citations breakdown →

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Maidment, Ross, D. I. F. Grimes, Emily Black, et al.. (2017). A new, long-term daily satellite-based rainfall dataset for operational monitoring in Africa. Scientific Data. 4(1). 170063–170063. 214 indexed citations

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Black, Emily, Elena Tarnavsky, Helen Greatrex, et al.. (2015). Exploiting Satellite-Based Rainfall for Weather Index Insurance: The Challenges of Spatial and Temporal Aggregation. CentAUR (University of Reading). f002–f002. 5 indexed citations

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Maidment, Ross, Richard P. Allan, & Emily Black. (2015). Recent observed and simulated changes in precipitation over Africa. Geophysical Research Letters. 42(19). 8155–8164. 197 indexed citations

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Maidment, Ross, D. I. F. Grimes, Richard P. Allan, et al.. (2014). The 30 year TAMSAT African Rainfall Climatology And Time series (TARCAT) data set. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 119(18). 221 indexed citations

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Young, Matthew, Charles J. R. Williams, J. Christine Chiu, Ross Maidment, & Shu‐Hua Chen. (2014). Investigation of Discrepancies in Satellite Rainfall Estimates over Ethiopia. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 15(6). 2347–2369. 50 indexed citations

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Dinku, Tufa, et al.. (2013). Combined use of satellite estimates and rain gauge observations to generate high‐quality historical rainfall time series over Ethiopia. International Journal of Climatology. 34(7). 2489–2504. 167 indexed citations

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Maidment, Ross, D. I. F. Grimes, Richard P. Allan, et al.. (2012). Evaluation of satellite-based and model re-analysis rainfall estimates for Uganda. Meteorological Applications. 20(3). 308–317. 100 indexed citations

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Stein, Thorwald H. M., Douglas J. Parker, J. Delanoë, et al.. (2011). The vertical cloud structure of the West African monsoon: A 4 year climatology using CloudSat and CALIPSO. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116(D22). n/a–n/a. 48 indexed citations

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