Roy W. Spencer

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Roy W. Spencer is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Roy W. Spencer has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Atmospheric Science, 52 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 19 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Roy W. Spencer's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (48 papers), Climate variability and models (42 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (28 papers). Roy W. Spencer is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (48 papers), Climate variability and models (42 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (28 papers). Roy W. Spencer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and United Kingdom. Roy W. Spencer's co-authors include John R. Christy, William D. Braswell, Robbie E. Hood, H. Michael Goodman, F. J. Wentz, William B. Norris, Keiji Imaoka, Akira Shibata, Yoshiyuki Ito and Toshihiro Sezai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Roy W. Spencer

73 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Precipitation Retrieval over Land and Ocean with the SSM/I: Identification and Characteristics of the Scattering Signal

1989 500 citations Roy W. Spencer, Robbie E. Hood et al. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology profile →

Peers

Roy W. Spencer

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OCEAN

Norman C. Grody United States

Paul Poli United Kingdom

David B. Wuertz United States

A. Slingo United Kingdom

Roger M. Wakimoto United States

Peter Bechtold United Kingdom

Arthur Y. Hou United States

A. J. Miller United States

S. Uppala United Kingdom

Andrea Molod United States

Norman C. Grody United States

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3.4k ×1.0

1.8k ×0.6

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315 ×0.5

OCEAN

1.1k ×1.9

186 ×0.8

Citations per year, relative to Roy W. Spencer Roy W. Spencer (= 1×) peers Norman C. Grody

Countries citing papers authored by Roy W. Spencer

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roy W. Spencer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roy W. Spencer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Roy W. Spencer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Roy W. Spencer 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 Roy W. Spencer. Roy W. Spencer 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

Spencer, Roy W. & John R. Christy. (2023). Effective climate sensitivity distributions from a 1D model of global ocean and land temperature trends, 1970–2021. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 155(1). 299–308. 2 indexed citations

Spencer, Roy W. & William D. Braswell. (2013). The role of ENSO in global ocean temperature changes during 1955–2011 simulated with a 1D climate model. Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. 50(2). 229–237. 18 indexed citations

Spencer, Roy W. & William D. Braswell. (2008). Potential Biases in Feedback Diagnosis from Observational Data: A Simple Model Demonstration. Journal of Climate. 21(21). 5624–5628. 27 indexed citations

Spencer, Roy W., William D. Braswell, John R. Christy, & J. J. Hnilo. (2007). Cloud and radiation budget changes associated with tropical intraseasonal oscillations. Geophysical Research Letters. 34(15). 31 indexed citations

Ohring, George, Bruce A. Wielicki, Roy W. Spencer, Bill Emery, & Raju Datla. (2005). Satellite Instrument Calibration for Measuring Global Climate Change: Report of a Workshop. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 86(9). 1303–1314. 200 indexed citations

Seidel, Dian J., J. K. Angell, John R. Christy, et al.. (2004). Uncertainty in Signals of Large-Scale Climate Variations in Radiosonde and Satellite Upper-Air Temperature Datasets. Journal of Climate. 17(11). 2225–2240. 90 indexed citations

Ohring, George, B. Wielicki, Roy W. Spencer, Bill Emery, & R. U. Datla. (2004). Satellite Instrument Calibration for Measuring Global Climate Change. Report of a Workshop at the University of Maryland Inn and Conference Center, College Park, MD. , November 12-14, 2002. 3 indexed citations

Christy, John R., Roy W. Spencer, William B. Norris, William D. Braswell, & D. E. Parker. (2003). Error Estimates of Version 5.0 of MSU–AMSU Bulk Atmospheric Temperatures. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 20(5). 613–629. 196 indexed citations

Spencer, Roy W.. (2000). Global Climate Monitoring with the Eos Pm-Platform's Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E). NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 2 indexed citations

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Imaoka, Keiji & Roy W. Spencer. (2000). Diurnal Variation of Precipitation over the Tropical Oceans Observed by TRMM/TMI Combined with SSM/I. Journal of Climate. 13(23). 4149–4158. 54 indexed citations

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Christy, John R., et al.. (1998). Analysis of the Merging Procedure for the MSU Daily Temperature Time Series. Journal of Climate. 11(8). 2016–2041. 115 indexed citations

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Christy, John R., Roy W. Spencer, & William D. Braswell. (1997). How accurate are satellite ‘thermometers’?. Nature. 389(6649). 342–342. 27 indexed citations

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Christy, John R., Roy W. Spencer, & Richard T. McNider. (1995). Reducing Noise in the MSU Daily Lower-Tropospheric Global Temperature Dataset. Journal of Climate. 8(4). 888–896. 45 indexed citations

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Christy, John R. & Roy W. Spencer. (1995). Assessment of precision in temperatures from the microwave sounding units. Climatic Change. 30(1). 97–102. 16 indexed citations

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Spencer, Roy W.. (1994). Oceanic rainfall monitoring with the Microwave Sounding Units. Remote Sensing Reviews. 11(1-4). 153–162. 5 indexed citations

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Turk, J., Jothiram Vivekanandan, Frank S. Marzano, et al.. (1994). Active and passive microwave remote sensing of precipitating storms during CaPE. Part I: Advanced microwave precipitation radiometer and polarimetric radar measurements and models. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics. 54(1-4). 3–27. 9 indexed citations

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Spencer, Roy W. & John R. Christy. (1993). Precision Lower Stratospheric Temperature Monitoring with the MSU: Technique, Validation, and Results 1979–1991. Journal of Climate. 6(6). 1194–1204. 84 indexed citations

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Spencer, Roy W.. (1986). Oceanic rain retrievals from satellite passive 37 GHz scattering measurements. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 1 indexed citations

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Spencer, Roy W. & David Santek. (1985). Measuring the Global Distribution of Intense Convection over Land with Passive Microwave Radiometry. Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology. 24(8). 860–864. 25 indexed citations

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Spencer, Roy W., et al.. (1985). Severe storm detection with passive 37 GHz observations. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 1 indexed citations

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