Scott Collis

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Scott Collis is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott Collis has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Atmospheric Science, 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Scott Collis's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (29 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (18 papers) and Climate variability and models (14 papers). Scott Collis is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (29 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (18 papers) and Climate variability and models (14 papers). Scott Collis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Scott Collis's co-authors include Jonathan Helmus, Alain Protat, Scott Giangrande, Christopher R. Williams, Pavlos Kollias, Ann M. Fridlind, Jiwen Fan, Andrew S. Ackerman, Joe Khachan and Robert Jackson and has published in prestigious journals such as Monthly Weather Review, Atmospheric chemistry and physics and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

In The Last Decade

Scott Collis

50 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Python ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART), a Library for Working with Weather Radar Data in the Python Programming Language

2016 309 citations Jonathan Helmus, Scott Collis profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Scott Collis United States	20	1.0k	845	199	87	76	52	1.3k
Michael Baldauf Germany	12	1.5k 1.4×	1.3k 1.5×	225 1.1×	86 1.0×	42 0.6×	41	1.8k
Mario Montopoli Italy	25	1.3k 1.2×	667 0.8×	447 2.2×	121 1.4×	27 0.4×	111	1.6k
Jussi Leinonen United States	22	1.2k 1.1×	821 1.0×	177 0.9×	24 0.3×	33 0.4×	41	1.4k
Ricardo Todling United States	22	1.7k 1.6×	1.5k 1.8×	258 1.3×	80 0.9×	59 0.8×	57	1.9k
M. Corazza Italy	12	996 1.0×	903 1.1×	210 1.1×	25 0.3×	94 1.2×	21	1.2k
Andreas Macke Germany	23	1.7k 1.6×	1.8k 2.2×	117 0.6×	76 0.9×	223 2.9×	31	2.3k
Alan Geer United Kingdom	27	2.5k 2.4×	2.1k 2.5×	243 1.2×	93 1.1×	89 1.2×	72	2.7k
Jon Reisner United States	20	1.5k 1.4×	1.6k 1.9×	219 1.1×	91 1.0×	14 0.2×	64	2.2k
D. J. Patil United States	13	1.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	282 1.4×	45 0.5×	117 1.5×	20	1.6k
K. Franklin Evans United States	27	2.0k 1.9×	2.0k 2.4×	196 1.0×	112 1.3×	160 2.1×	59	2.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott Collis

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Muradyan, Paytsar, Maxwell Grover, Joseph J. O’Brien, et al.. (2025). The Chicago Urban Flux Network with Perspectives from an Eddy Covariance Workshop. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106(8). E1724–E1730. 1 indexed citations

Sankaran, Rajesh, et al.. (2024). Acoustic fingerprints in nature: A self-supervised learning approach for ecosystem activity monitoring. Ecological Informatics. 83. 102823–102823. 3 indexed citations

Jones, William K., Julia Kukulies, Fabian Senf, et al.. (2024). tobac v1.5: introducing fast 3D tracking, splits and mergers, and other enhancements for identifying and analysing meteorological phenomena. Geoscientific model development. 17(13). 5309–5330. 12 indexed citations

Muradyan, Paytsar, Rajesh Sankaran, Robert Jackson, et al.. (2023). Optimizing cloud motion estimation on the edge with phase correlation and optical flow. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 16(5). 1195–1209. 5 indexed citations

Jones, William K., Julia Kukulies, Fabian Senf, et al.. (2023). tobac v1.5: Introducing Fast 3D Tracking, Splits and Mergers, and Other Enhancements for Identifying and Analysing Meteorological Phenomena. 4 indexed citations

Silber, Israel, Robert Jackson, Ann M. Fridlind, et al.. (2022). The Earth Model Column Collaboratory (EMC ² ) v1.1: an open-source ground-based lidar and radar instrument simulator and subcolumn generator for large-scale models. Geoscientific model development. 15(2). 901–927. 11 indexed citations

Jackson, Robert, Scott Collis, Valentin Louf, et al.. (2021). The development of rainfall retrievals from radar at Darwin. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(1). 53–69. 4 indexed citations

Luo, Hao, et al.. (2020). A Revisit of Temporal and Spatial Variability and Resolution of Rainfall Measurements Relevant for Urban Hydrology. 1 indexed citations

Kollias, Pavlos, Nitin Bharadwaj, E. E. Clothiaux, et al.. (2020). Leading Edge Radar: The Upgraded ARM Network. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 101(8). 703–708. 2 indexed citations

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Kollias, Pavlos, Nitin Bharadwaj, Eugene E. Clothiaux, et al.. (2019). The ARM Radar Network: At the Leading Edge of Cloud and Precipitation Observations. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 101(5). E588–E607. 52 indexed citations

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Fridlind, Ann M., Marcus van Lier‐Walqui, Scott Collis, et al.. (2019). Use of polarimetric radar measurements to constrain simulated convective cell evolution: a pilot study with Lagrangian tracking. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(6). 2979–3000. 25 indexed citations

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Jackson, Robert, Scott Collis, Timothy J. Lang, Corey K. Potvin, & Todd Munson. (2019). PyDDA: A new Pythonic Wind Retrieval Package. Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences. 111–117. 3 indexed citations

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Jackson, Robert, et al.. (2018). A 17 year climatology of convective cloud top heights in Darwin. 1 indexed citations

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Jackson, Robert, et al.. (2018). A 17 year climatology of the macrophysical properties of convection in Darwin. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(23). 17687–17704. 10 indexed citations

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North, Kirk, Mariko Oue, Pavlos Kollias, et al.. (2017). Vertical air motion retrievals in deep convective clouds using the ARM scanning radar network in Oklahoma during MC3E. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(8). 2785–2806. 34 indexed citations

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Collis, Scott & Jonathan Helmus. (2015). Using the Scientific Python ecosystem to advance open radar science. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Heistermann, Maik, et al.. (2015). An Open Virtual Machine for Cross-Platform Weather Radar Science. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 96(10). 1641–1645. 5 indexed citations

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Collis, Scott, et al.. (2013). Quantitative rainfall metrics for comparing volumetric rainfall retrievals to fine scale models. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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Collis, Scott, Alain Protat, Peter T. May, & Christopher R. Williams. (2013). Statistics of Storm Updraft Velocities from TWP-ICE Including Verification with Profiling Measurements. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 52(8). 1909–1922. 52 indexed citations

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Giangrande, Scott, Scott Collis, Jerry M. Straka, et al.. (2013). A Summary of Convective-Core Vertical Velocity Properties Using ARM UHF Wind Profilers in Oklahoma. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 52(10). 2278–2295. 74 indexed citations

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