Roy Rasmussen

22.0k total citations · 9 hit papers
201 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Roy Rasmussen is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Roy Rasmussen has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Atmospheric Science, 144 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 26 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Roy Rasmussen's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (126 papers), Climate variability and models (71 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (68 papers). Roy Rasmussen is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (126 papers), Climate variability and models (71 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (68 papers). Roy Rasmussen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Roy Rasmussen's co-authors include Gregory Thompson, Kyoko Ikeda, William D. Hall, Paul R. Field, Changhai Liu, Martyn Clark, Andreas F. Prein, Kevin W. Manning, Jon Reisner and Roelof Bruintjes and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Roy Rasmussen

195 papers receiving 14.9k citations

Hit Papers

Explicit Forecasts of Winter Precipitation Using an Impr... 1998 2026 2007 2016 2008 2004 1998 2016 2011 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. Explicit Forecasts of Winter Precipitation Using an Improved Bulk Microphysics Scheme. Part II: Implementation of a New Snow Parameterization
    2008 2.3k citations Roy Rasmussen et al. Monthly Weather Review profile →
  2. Explicit Forecasts of Winter Precipitation Using an Improved Bulk Microphysics Scheme. Part I: Description and Sensitivity Analysis
    2004 951 citations Roy Rasmussen et al. Monthly Weather Review profile →
  3. Explicit forecasting of supercooled liquid water in winter storms using the MM5 mesoscale model
    1998 824 citations Roy Rasmussen, Roelof Bruintjes et al. profile →
  4. The future intensification of hourly precipitation extremes
    2016 705 citations Andreas F. Prein, Roy Rasmussen et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  5. How Well Are We Measuring Snow: The NOAA/FAA/NCAR Winter Precipitation Test Bed
    2011 536 citations Roy Rasmussen, Scott Landolt et al. profile →
  6. Slower snowmelt in a warmer world
    2017 452 citations K. N. Musselman, Martyn Clark et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  7. Continental-scale convection-permitting modeling of the current and future climate of North America
    2016 445 citations Changhai Liu, Kyoko Ikeda et al. Climate Dynamics profile →
  8. High-Resolution Coupled Climate Runoff Simulations of Seasonal Snowfall over Colorado: A Process Study of Current and Warmer Climate
    2011 427 citations Roy Rasmussen, Changhai Liu et al. profile →
  9. Projected increases and shifts in rain-on-snow flood risk over western North America
    2018 342 citations K. N. Musselman, Flavio Lehner et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roy Rasmussen United States 56 12.8k 11.7k 2.2k 1.6k 776 201 15.3k
F. Martin Ralph United States 65 12.6k 1.0× 12.4k 1.1× 1.9k 0.9× 900 0.6× 317 0.4× 250 15.1k
Pinhas Alpert Israel 54 7.1k 0.6× 7.1k 0.6× 623 0.3× 1.3k 0.8× 537 0.7× 241 9.9k
Anton Beljaars United Kingdom 50 7.5k 0.6× 7.4k 0.6× 846 0.4× 2.4k 1.6× 356 0.5× 105 9.7k
Michael Ek United States 45 11.8k 0.9× 13.0k 1.1× 3.7k 1.7× 4.0k 2.6× 397 0.5× 93 17.7k
Kenneth E. Mitchell United States 40 9.9k 0.8× 10.9k 0.9× 3.9k 1.8× 3.7k 2.4× 313 0.4× 67 15.3k
James A. Smith United States 69 8.2k 0.6× 10.5k 0.9× 4.5k 2.1× 3.7k 2.4× 189 0.2× 249 14.2k
A.A.M. Holtslag Netherlands 60 9.8k 0.8× 11.2k 1.0× 1.2k 0.6× 6.5k 4.2× 747 1.0× 220 16.0k
Stefan Hagemann Germany 56 8.6k 0.7× 10.9k 0.9× 3.5k 1.6× 1.4k 0.9× 239 0.3× 164 14.8k
Alan K. Betts United States 58 10.0k 0.8× 11.2k 1.0× 1.5k 0.7× 2.5k 1.6× 177 0.2× 160 13.5k
Jean‐Noël Thépaut United Kingdom 36 6.4k 0.5× 6.5k 0.6× 724 0.3× 1.3k 0.8× 399 0.5× 79 8.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roy Rasmussen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Changhai, Kyoko Ikeda, Andreas F. Prein, et al.. (2025). Convection-permitting climate simulations over South America: Experimentation during different phases of ENSO. Atmospheric Research. 316. 107936–107936.
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Scaff, Lucía, Sebastian A. Krogh, K. N. Musselman, et al.. (2024). The Impacts of Changing Winter Warm Spells on Snow Ablation Over Western North America. Water Resources Research. 60(5). 5 indexed citations
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Huang, Yongjie, Ming Xue, Xiao‐Ming Hu, et al.. (2024). Characteristics of Precipitation and Mesoscale Convective Systems Over the Peruvian Central Andes in Multi 5‐Year Convection‐Permitting Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(17). 1 indexed citations
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Prein, Andreas F., Zhe Feng, Thomas Fiolleau, et al.. (2024). Km‐Scale Simulations of Mesoscale Convective Systems Over South America—A Feature Tracker Intercomparison. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(8). 14 indexed citations
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Taraphdar, Sourav, Olivier Pauluis, Lulin Xue, et al.. (2023). Anatomy of a Summertime Convective Event over the Arabian Region. Monthly Weather Review. 151(4). 989–1004. 5 indexed citations
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Geresdi, István, Lulin Xue, Youssef Wehbe, et al.. (2021). Impact of hygroscopic seeding on the initiation of precipitation formation: results of a hybrid bin microphysics parcel model. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(21). 16143–16159. 7 indexed citations
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Wehbe, Youssef, Sarah A. Tessendorf, Courtney Weeks, et al.. (2021). Analysis of aerosol–cloud interactions and their implications for precipitation formation using aircraft observations over the United Arab Emirates. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(16). 12543–12560. 22 indexed citations
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Eidhammer, Trude, Adam Booth, Lu Li, et al.. (2021). Mass balance and hydrological modeling of the Hardangerjøkulen ice cap in south-central Norway. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(8). 4275–4297. 20 indexed citations
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Prein, Andreas F., Roy Rasmussen, Dié Wang, & Scott Giangrande. (2021). Sensitivity of organized convective storms to model grid spacing in current and future climates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 379(2195). 20190546–20190546. 84 indexed citations
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Musselman, K. N., Flavio Lehner, Kyoko Ikeda, et al.. (2018). Projected increases and shifts in rain-on-snow flood risk over western North America. Nature Climate Change. 8(9). 808–812. 342 indexed citations breakdown →
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Grubı̆sı́c, Vanda, et al.. (2018). Winter Precipitation Efficiency of Mountain Ranges in the Colorado Rockies under Climate Change. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 2 indexed citations
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Dai, Aiguo, Roy Rasmussen, Changhai Liu, Kyoko Ikeda, & Andreas F. Prein. (2017). A new mechanism for warm-season precipitation response to global warming based on convection-permitting simulations. Climate Dynamics. 55(1-2). 343–368. 121 indexed citations
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Prein, Andreas F., Changhai Liu, Kyoko Ikeda, et al.. (2017). Simulating North American mesoscale convective systems with a convection-permitting climate model. Climate Dynamics. 55(1-2). 95–110. 184 indexed citations
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Dai, Aiguo, Roy Rasmussen, Kyoko Ikeda, & Changhai Liu. (2017). A new approach to construct representative future forcing data for dynamic downscaling. Climate Dynamics. 55(1-2). 315–323. 47 indexed citations
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Rasmussen, Roy, et al.. (2014). Examination of Climate Simulations Across Spatial Resolutions and their Representation of the Continental High Temperature Bias over North America. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations
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Gochis, David, Wei Yu, A. L. Dugger, et al.. (2014). Recent Developments and Applications of the WRF-Hydro Modeling System for Continental Scale Water Cycle Predictions. AGUFM. 2014. 1 indexed citations
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Colli, Matteo, Luca G. Lanza, Roy Rasmussen, & Julie M. Thériault. (2014). Wind induced errors on solid precipitation measurements: an evaluation using time-dependent turbulence simulations. EGUGA. 15956. 1 indexed citations
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Landolt, Scott, Matteo Colli, P. La Barbera, Luca G. Lanza, & Roy Rasmussen. (2012). Using laboratory experiments to improve reliability in rainfall and solid precipitation weighing-gauge measurements. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations
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Geerts, Bart, et al.. (2010). The Impact of Glaciogenic Seeding on Orographic Cloud Processes: Preliminary Results from the Wyoming Weather Modification Pilot Project. The Journal of Weather Modification. 42(1). 105–107. 1 indexed citations
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Sverdrup, Harald, Roy Rasmussen, & Ingemar Bjerle. (1984). A Simple Model for the Reacidification of Limed Lakes, Taking the Simultaneous Deactivation and Dissolution of Calcite in the Sediment Into Account. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 9 indexed citations

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