W. G. Read

16.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
197 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

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W. G. Read is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, W. G. Read has authored 197 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 180 papers in Atmospheric Science, 134 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 46 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in W. G. Read's work include Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (175 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (99 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (62 papers). W. G. Read is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (175 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (99 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (62 papers). W. G. Read collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. W. G. Read's co-authors include J. W. Waters, N. J. Livesey, G. L. Manney, M. L. Santee, Dong L. Wu, L. Froidevaux, E. J. Campbell, Joe W. Waters, M. Schwartz and L. Froidevaux and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

W. G. Read

195 papers receiving 6.9k 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 Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai Hydration of the Stratosphere

2022 142 citations Luis Millán, M. L. Santee et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. G. Read United States	49	6.5k	5.1k	1.3k	1.0k	827	197	7.5k
Kaley A. Walker Canada	38	5.0k 0.8×	4.1k 0.8×	910 0.7×	975 1.0×	512 0.6×	278	5.7k
A. F. Tuck United States	46	5.8k 0.9×	4.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	670 0.7×	471 0.6×	153	6.9k
A. L. Schmeltekopf United States	52	4.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.3×	1.3k 1.1×	3.3k 3.2×	3.4k 4.1×	105	8.1k
D. L. Albritton United States	47	3.5k 0.5×	1.2k 0.2×	712 0.6×	2.9k 2.9×	2.9k 3.5×	133	7.1k
Wim J. van der Zande Netherlands	34	2.0k 0.3×	1.6k 0.3×	449 0.4×	1.4k 1.3×	2.0k 2.5×	130	4.5k
Rolando R. García United States	71	14.4k 2.2×	9.9k 1.9×	6.3k 5.0×	530 0.5×	267 0.3×	237	16.2k
M. Loewenstein United States	51	7.1k 1.1×	5.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	557 0.5×	206 0.2×	152	7.6k
Mao‐Chang Liang Taiwan	33	1.7k 0.3×	911 0.2×	1.4k 1.1×	420 0.4×	302 0.4×	143	3.4k
R. D. Hudson United States	32	2.2k 0.3×	1.6k 0.3×	438 0.3×	465 0.5×	620 0.7×	71	3.1k
R. C. Whitten United States	39	2.0k 0.3×	1.1k 0.2×	2.4k 1.9×	292 0.3×	769 0.9×	156	4.8k

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Millán, Luis, W. G. Read, M. L. Santee, et al.. (2024). The Evolution of the Hunga Hydration in a Moistening Stratosphere. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(19). 6 indexed citations

Santee, M. L., A. Lambert, L. Froidevaux, et al.. (2023). Strong Evidence of Heterogeneous Processing on Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol in the Extrapolar Southern Hemisphere Following the 2022 Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai Eruption. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(16). 22 indexed citations

Froidevaux, Lucien, Douglas E. Kinnison, M. L. Santee, et al.. (2022). Upper stratospheric ClO and HOCl trends (2005–2020): Aura Microwave Limb Sounder and model results. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(7). 4779–4799. 8 indexed citations

Werner, Frank, N. J. Livesey, M. Schwartz, et al.. (2021). Improved cloud detection for the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS): training an artificial neural network on colocated MLS and Aqua MODIS data. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(12). 7749–7773. 4 indexed citations

Froidevaux, Lucien, Douglas E. Kinnison, M. L. Santee, et al.. (2021). Upper stratospheric ClO and HOCl trends (2005–2020): Aura Microwave Limb Sounder and model results. 2 indexed citations

Manney, G. L., N. J. Livesey, M. L. Santee, et al.. (2020). Record‐Low Arctic Stratospheric Ozone in 2020: MLS Observations of Chemical Processes and Comparisons With Previous Extreme Winters. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(16). 107 indexed citations

Weaver, Dan, Kimberly Strong, Kaley A. Walker, et al.. (2019). Comparison of ground-based and satellite measurements of water vapour vertical profiles over Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(7). 4039–4063. 5 indexed citations

Khosrawi, Farahnaz, Stefan Loßow, G. P. Stiller, et al.. (2018). The SPARC water vapour assessment II: comparison of stratospheric and lower mesospheric water vapour time series observed from satellites. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 11(7). 4435–4463. 11 indexed citations

Loßow, Stefan, D. F. Hurst, Karen H. Rosenlof, et al.. (2018). Trend differences in lower stratospheric water vapour between Boulder and the zonal mean and their role in understanding fundamental observational discrepancies. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(11). 8331–8351. 8 indexed citations

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Pumphrey, H. C., N. Glatthor, P. F. Bernath, et al.. (2018). MLS measurements of stratospheric hydrogen cyanide during the 2015–2016 El Niño event. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(2). 691–703. 14 indexed citations

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Loßow, Stefan, D. F. Hurst, Karen H. Rosenlof, et al.. (2018). Can sampling biases explain the discrepancies between lower stratospheric water vapour trend estimates derived from the FPH observations at Boulder and a merged zonal mean satellite data set?. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 2 indexed citations

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Weigel, Katja, Alexei Rozanov, K. Bramstedt, et al.. (2016). UTLS water vapour from SCIAMACHY limb measurementsV3.01 (2002–2012). Atmospheric measurement techniques. 9(1). 133–158. 8 indexed citations

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Davis, Sean, Karen H. Rosenlof, Birgit Haßler, et al.. (2016). The Stratospheric Water and Ozone Satellite Homogenized (SWOOSH) database:a long-term database for climate studies. Earth system science data. 8(2). 461–490. 122 indexed citations

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Selkirk, Henry B., Andrea Molod, Steven Pawson, et al.. (2015). An Assessment of Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor in the MERRA-2 Reanalysis: Comparisons with MLS and In Situ Water Vapor Measurements. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Hurst, D. F., A. Lambert, W. G. Read, et al.. (2013). Validation of Aura Microwave Limb Sounder stratospheric water vapor measurements by the NOAA frost point hygrometer. AGUFM. 2013. 2 indexed citations

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Wu, Longtao, Hui Su, Jonathan H. Jiang, & W. G. Read. (2012). Hydration or dehydration: competing effects of upper tropospheric cloud radiation on the TTL water vapor. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 12(16). 7727–7735. 13 indexed citations

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Read, W. G., L. Froidevaux, M. L. Santee, & N. J. Livesey. (2009). Observations of Volcanic SO2 and HCl from Aura MLS. AGUFM. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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Schwartz, M., Duane E. Waliser, Baijun Tian, et al.. (2006). MJO in EOS MLS Cloud Ice and Water Vapor. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006. 1 indexed citations

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Santee, M. L., et al.. (2006). Upper Tropospheric Nitric Acid from the Microwave Limb Sounder on Aura: First Results. AGUFM. 2006.

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Read, W. G. & E. J. Campbell. (1982). Rotational Zeeman Effect in ArHF. Physical Review Letters. 49(16). 1146–1149. 9 indexed citations

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