Travis O’Brien

3.0k citations

64 papers · 1.4k indexed · h-index 25

Impact in

Atmospheric Science top 2%
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
Global and Planetary Change top 2%
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 50
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 45
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research 15
- Cryospheric studies and observations 6
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis 5
Global and Planetary Change 55
- Climate variability and models 54
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis 11
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds 7
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 5

Co-authors: William D. Collins Paul Ullrich John P. OʼBrien Michael Wehner Christina M. Patricola Mark D. Risser Alan M. Rhoades Karthik Kashinath
Journals: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (10 papers)Climate Dynamics (9 papers)Geoscientific model development (8 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (5 papers)Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Australia United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Travis O’Brien

58 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Travis O’Brien, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	Similarities in Meteorological Composites Among Different Atmospheric River Detection Tools During Landfall Over Western Coastal North America Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Kwesi Twentwewa Quagraine, Travis O’Brien, Yang Zhou	2025	0
2	Moving beyond post hoc explainable artificial intelligence: a perspective paper on lessons learned from dynamical climate modeling Geoscientific model development ·Ryan O’Loughlin, Dan Li, Richard Neale, Travis O’Brien	2025	0
3	Analyzing and Exploring Training Recipes for Large-Scale Transformer-Based Weather Prediction OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) ·Jared Willard, Peter Harrington, Shashank Subramanian, Ankur Mahesh, Travis O’Brien, William D. Collins	2025	2
4	Recommendations for Comprehensive and Independent Evaluation of Machine Learning‐Based Earth System Models SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Paul Ullrich, Elizabeth A. Barnes, William D. Collins, Katherine Dagon, Shiheng Duan, Joe D. Elms, Jiwoo Lee, L. Ruby Leung, Dan Lu, María J. Molina, Travis O’Brien, F. O. Rebassoo	2025	3
5	Co‐Occurring Atmospheric Features and Their Contributions to Precipitation Extremes Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Wu-Yang Tsai, Suqin Q. Duan, Travis O’Brien, Jennifer L. Catto, Paul Ullrich, Yang Zhou, L. Ruby Leung, Zhe Feng, William R. Boos, D. L. Suhas, Fiaz Ahmed, J. David Neelin	2025	2
6	Future Intensity‐Duration‐Frequency Curves of Extreme Precipitation in the Midwest United States From Convection‐Permitting Modeling Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Trung Nguyen Quang, Ben Kravitz, Travis O’Brien, Darren L. Ficklin, Kristen L. Rasmussen, Andrew Kruczkiewicz, J. Huang, Tony Li, Abraham Lauer	2025	0
7	Regional and Temporal Variability of Atmospheric River Seasonality: Influences of Detection Algorithms and Moisture Transport Dynamics Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Diya Kamnani, Travis O’Brien, Samuel Smith, Paul W. Staten, Christine A. Shields	2025	0
8	Atmospheric Rivers in the Eastern and Midwestern United States Associated With Baroclinic Waves Geophysical Research Letters ·Travis O’Brien, Burlen Loring, Amanda S. Dufek, Mohammad Rubaiat Islam, Diya Kamnani, Kwesi Twentwewa Quagraine, Cody Kirkpatrick	2024	4
9	Leveraging Extremal Dependence to Better Characterize the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics ·Likun Zhang, Mark D. Risser, Michael Wehner, Travis O’Brien	2024	6
10	How Do Climate Model Resolution and Atmospheric Moisture Affect the Simulation of Unprecedented Extreme Events Like the 2021 Western North American Heat Wave? Geophysical Research Letters ·Xue Liu, R. Saravanan, Dan Fu, Ping Chang, Christina M. Patricola, Travis O’Brien	2024	2
11	Scalable Feature Extraction and Tracking (SCAFET): a general framework for feature extraction from large climate data sets Geoscientific model development ·Arjun Babu Nellikkattil, Danielle Lemmon, Travis O’Brien, June‐Yi Lee, Jung‐Eun Chu	2024	2
12	An Overview of ARTMIP's Tier 2 Reanalysis Intercomparison: Uncertainty in the Detection of Atmospheric Rivers and Their Associated Precipitation Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Allison B. Marquardt Collow, Christine A. Shields, Bin Guan, Sol Kim, Juan M. Lora, Elizabeth McClenny, Kyle M. Nardi, Ashley E. Payne, Kimberley J. Reid, E. J. Shearer, Ricardo Tomé, Jonathan Wille, Alexandre M. Ramos, Irina Gorodetskaya, L. Ruby Leung, Travis O’Brien, F. Martin Ralph, Jonathan J. Rutz, Paul Ullrich, Michael Wehner	2022	62
13	Anthropogenic Contributions to the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave Geophysical Research Letters ·Emily Bercos‐Hickey, Travis O’Brien, Michael Wehner, Likun Zhang, Christina M. Patricola, Huanping Huang, Mark D. Risser	2022	40
14	Constraining and Characterizing the Size of Atmospheric Rivers: A Perspective Independent From the Detection Algorithm Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·(unknown), Travis O’Brien, Yang Zhou, William D. Collins	2021	13
15	Quantifying the influence of natural climate variability on in situ measurements of seasonal total and extreme daily precipitation Climate Dynamics ·Mark D. Risser, Michael Wehner, John P. OʼBrien, Christina M. Patricola, Travis O’Brien, William D. Collins, Christopher J. Paciorek, Huanping Huang	2021	18
16	Microphysical Sensitivity of Superparameterized Precipitation Extremes in the Contiguous United States Due to Feedbacks on Large‐Scale Circulation Earth and Space Science ·Alexander Charn, William D. Collins, Hossein Parishani, Mark D. Risser, Travis O’Brien	2020	2
17	Influences of North Pacific Ocean Domain Extent on the Western U.S. Winter Hydroclimatology in Variable‐Resolution CESM Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Alan M. Rhoades, Andrew D. Jones, Travis O’Brien, John P. OʼBrien, Paul Ullrich, Colin M. Zarzycki	2020	26
18	Uncertainties in Atmospheric River Life Cycles by Detection Algorithms: Climatology and Variability Yang Zhou, Travis O’Brien, Paul Ullrich, William D. Collins, Christina M. Patricola, Alan M. Rhoades	2020	3
19	Metrics for understanding large-scale controls of multivariate temperature and precipitation variability Climate Dynamics ·John P. OʼBrien, Travis O’Brien, Christina M. Patricola, Shih‐Yu Wang	2019	17
20	An Analysis Of Simulated California Climate Using Multiple Dynamical And Statistical techniques eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Norman L. Miller, P. Duffy, Daniel R. Cayan, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Jiming Jin, Hideki Kanamaru, Masao Kanamitsu, Travis O’Brien, Nicole‐Jeanne Schlegel, L. C. Sloan, Mark A. Snyder, Kei Yoshimura	2008	5

About Travis O’Brien

Travis O’Brien is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Condensed Matter Physics, Environmental Engineering and Water Science and Technology, having authored 64 papers that have together received 1.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate variability and models (54 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (45 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (15 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (11 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (7 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (6 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (5 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (942 citations), Global and Planetary Change (1.0k citations), Oceanography (84 citations), Water Science and Technology (92 citations) and Environmental Engineering (85 citations). Travis O’Brien has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include William D. Collins, Paul Ullrich, John P. OʼBrien, Michael Wehner, Christina M. Patricola, Mark D. Risser, Alan M. Rhoades, Karthik Kashinath, Harinarayan Krishnan and Nicholas R. Cavanaugh. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Climate Dynamics, Geoscientific model development, Geophysical Research Letters and Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

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