Simon Lang

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 692 citations indexed

About

Simon Lang is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Lang has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 692 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Atmospheric Science, 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 4 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Simon Lang's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (22 papers), Climate variability and models (19 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 papers). Simon Lang is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (22 papers), Climate variability and models (19 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 papers). Simon Lang collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Japan. Simon Lang's co-authors include Martin Leutbecher, Linus Magnusson, Munehiko Yamaguchi, Sarah C. Jones, Massimo Bonavita, Florence Rabier, Frédéric Vitart, Jean‐Raymond Bidlot, T. N. Palmer and M. J. Rodwell and has published in prestigious journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Hydrology and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Simon Lang

27 papers receiving 680 citations

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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 Rise of Data-Driven Weather Forecasting: A First Statistical Assessment of Machine Learning–Based Weather Forecasts in an Operational-Like Context

2024 70 citations Zied Ben Bouallègue, Mariana Clare et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Lang United Kingdom	17	577	521	127	58	18	27	692
Shu-Chih Yang Taiwan	14	575 1.0×	511 1.0×	158 1.2×	84 1.4×	19 1.1×	22	657
Shiming Xu China	16	485 0.8×	312 0.6×	109 0.9×	109 1.9×	13 0.7×	71	656
Junichi Ishida Japan	6	743 1.3×	594 1.1×	144 1.1×	98 1.7×	28 1.6×	8	916
Meta Sienkiewicz United States	8	995 1.7×	936 1.8×	148 1.2×	100 1.7×	27 1.5×	14	1.2k
R. S. Bell United Kingdom	6	515 0.9×	451 0.9×	146 1.1×	61 1.1×	8 0.4×	8	634
Y. Qiang Sun China	12	534 0.9×	483 0.9×	150 1.2×	31 0.5×	9 0.5×	25	614
Pilar Rípodas Germany	7	675 1.2×	561 1.1×	89 0.7×	91 1.6×	17 0.9×	10	786
Masaru Kunii Japan	20	905 1.6×	826 1.6×	178 1.4×	120 2.1×	24 1.3×	50	1.1k
Andrew Dawson United Kingdom	10	379 0.7×	379 0.7×	130 1.0×	24 0.4×	17 0.9×	17	502
Xueshun Shen China	14	656 1.1×	527 1.0×	79 0.6×	80 1.4×	16 0.9×	57	759

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Lang

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Bouallègue, Zied Ben, Mariana Clare, Linus Magnusson, et al.. (2024). The Rise of Data-Driven Weather Forecasting: A First Statistical Assessment of Machine Learning–Based Weather Forecasts in an Operational-Like Context. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 105(6). E864–E883. 70 indexed citations breakdown →

John, Andrew, Avril Horne, Rory Nathan, & Simon Lang. (2024). High flow management as climate change adaptation for freshwater ecosystems in regulated rivers. Australasian Journal of Water Resources. 28(2). 240–254. 3 indexed citations

Lang, Simon, et al.. (2022). The effect of stochastically perturbed parametrisation tendencies (SPPT) on rapidly ascending air streams. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 148(744). 1242–1261. 10 indexed citations

Magnusson, Linus, Duncan Ackerley, James A. Doyle, et al.. (2022). Skill of Medium-Range Forecast Models Using the Same Initial Conditions. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 103(9). E2050–E2068. 13 indexed citations

Ollinaho, Pirkka, et al.. (2021). Ensemble prediction using a new dataset of ECMWF initial states – OpenEnsemble 1.0. Geoscientific model development. 14(4). 2143–2160. 6 indexed citations

Lang, Simon, Andrew Dawson, Michail Diamantakis, et al.. (2021). More accuracy with less precision. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 147(741). 4358–4370. 19 indexed citations

Lang, Simon, Sarah‐Jane Lock, Martin Leutbecher, Peter Bechtold, & Richard Forbes. (2021). Revision of the Stochastically Perturbed Parametrisations model uncertainty scheme in the Integrated Forecasting System. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 147(735). 1364–1381. 27 indexed citations

McNorton, Joe, Nicolas Bousserez, Anna Agustí‐Panareda, et al.. (2020). Representing model uncertainty for global atmospheric CO ₂ flux inversions using ECMWF-IFS-46R1. Geoscientific model development. 13(5). 2297–2313. 14 indexed citations

Laloyaux, Patrick, Massimo Bonavita, Mohamed Dahoui, et al.. (2020). Towards an unbiased stratospheric analysis. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 146(730). 2392–2409. 24 indexed citations

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Lock, Sarah‐Jane, Simon Lang, Martin Leutbecher, Robin J. Hogan, & Frédéric Vitart. (2019). Treatment of model uncertainty from radiation by the Stochastically Perturbed Parametrization Tendencies (SPPT) scheme and associated revisions in the ECMWF ensembles. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 145(S1). 75–89. 23 indexed citations

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Magnusson, Linus, Jean‐Raymond Bidlot, Massimo Bonavita, et al.. (2018). ECMWF Activities for Improved Hurricane Forecasts. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 100(3). 445–458. 56 indexed citations

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Riemer, Michael, et al.. (2018). Potential Vorticity Dynamics of Forecast Errors: A Quantitative Case Study. Monthly Weather Review. 146(5). 1405–1425. 37 indexed citations

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Lang, Simon, et al.. (2015). Defining and calculating continuing loss for flood estimation. 193. 1 indexed citations

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Yamaguchi, Munehiko, Simon Lang, Martin Leutbecher, et al.. (2015). Observation‐based evaluation of ensemble reliability. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 142(694). 506–514. 12 indexed citations

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Grams, Christian M., Simon Lang, & Julia Keller. (2015). A quantitative assessment of the sensitivity of the downstream midlatitude flow response to extratropical transition of tropical cyclones. Geophysical Research Letters. 42(21). 9521–9529. 17 indexed citations

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Yamaguchi, Munehiko, Frédéric Vitart, Simon Lang, et al.. (2015). Global Distribution of the Skill of Tropical Cyclone Activity Forecasts on Short- to Medium-Range Time Scales. Weather and Forecasting. 30(6). 1695–1709. 41 indexed citations

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Leutbecher, Martin & Simon Lang. (2013). On the reliability of ensemble variance in subspaces defined by singular vectors. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 140(682). 1453–1466. 24 indexed citations

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Lang, Simon, Martin Leutbecher, & Sarah C. Jones. (2012). Impact of perturbation methods in the ECMWF ensemble prediction system on tropical cyclone forecasts. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 138(669). 2030–2046. 37 indexed citations

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Lang, Simon, Sarah C. Jones, Martin Leutbecher, Melinda S. Peng, & Carolyn A. Reynolds. (2011). Sensitivity, Structure, and Dynamics of Singular Vectors Associated with Hurricane Helene (2006). Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 69(2). 675–694. 16 indexed citations

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Zinner, Tobias, Alexander Marshak, Simon Lang, J. Vanderlei Martins, & Bernhard Mayer. (2008). Remote sensing of cloud sides of deep convection: towards a three-dimensional retrieval of cloud particle size profiles. 1 indexed citations

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