W. James Steenburgh

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

W. James Steenburgh is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, W. James Steenburgh has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Atmospheric Science, 72 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 4 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in W. James Steenburgh's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (74 papers), Climate variability and models (65 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (24 papers). W. James Steenburgh is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (74 papers), Climate variability and models (65 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (24 papers). W. James Steenburgh collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and United Kingdom. W. James Steenburgh's co-authors include Jonathan J. Rutz, F. Martin Ralph, William Y. Y. Cheng, Daryl J. Onton, Leah S. Campbell, Trevor I. Alcott, David M. Schultz, Brian A. Colle, Clifford F. Mass and Justin R. Minder and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Monthly Weather Review and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

In The Last Decade

W. James Steenburgh

78 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Climatological Characteristics of Atmospheric Rivers and Their Inland Penetration over the Western United States

2013 451 citations Jonathan J. Rutz, W. James Steenburgh et al. Monthly Weather Review profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. James Steenburgh United States	31	2.6k	2.4k	294	228	213	82	2.9k
David A. R. Kristovich United States	29	1.6k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	233 0.8×	233 1.0×	198 0.9×	55	2.0k
Sophie Bastin France	28	1.7k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	263 0.9×	377 1.7×	125 0.6×	72	2.3k
John R. Gyakum Canada	33	3.3k 1.3×	3.1k 1.3×	128 0.4×	701 3.1×	159 0.7×	121	3.8k
Pablo Javier Grunmann Brazil	4	1.9k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	645 2.2×	315 1.4×	422 2.0×	5	2.6k
Bertrand Bonan France	14	1.7k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	467 1.6×	212 0.9×	310 1.5×	36	2.5k
George Gayno United States	8	2.3k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	728 2.5×	335 1.5×	434 2.0×	10	3.0k
Yaocun Zhang China	29	2.6k 1.0×	2.8k 1.1×	273 0.9×	583 2.6×	141 0.7×	135	3.0k
Yunfei Fu China	32	2.6k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	300 1.0×	271 1.2×	118 0.6×	149	3.0k
Patrick Tripp United States	3	2.0k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	226 0.8×	874 3.8×	216 1.0×	3	2.6k
Myoung‐Seok Suh South Korea	23	1.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	303 1.0×	131 0.6×	223 1.0×	125	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. James Steenburgh

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Hallar, A. Gannet, Ian B. McCubbin, Randolph Borys, et al.. (2025). Storm Peak Laboratory: A Research and Training Facility for the Atmospheric Sciences. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106(6). E1130–E1148.

Schwartz, Andrew, et al.. (2025). Predicting Snow-to-Liquid Ratio in the Mountains of the Western United States. Weather and Forecasting. 40(10). 1825–1838.

Steenburgh, W. James, et al.. (2024). Diverse Characteristics of Extreme Orographic Snowfall Events in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. Monthly Weather Review. 152(4). 945–966. 2 indexed citations

Strong, Courtenay, et al.. (2024). Climatology of Orographic Precipitation Gradients Over High Mountain Asia Derived From Dynamical Downscaling. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(20).

Rupper, Summer, et al.. (2021). Characteristics of Historical Precipitation in High Mountain Asia Based on a 15-Year High Resolution Dynamical Downscaling. Atmosphere. 12(3). 355–355. 5 indexed citations

Steenburgh, W. James, et al.. (2021). Formation, Thermodynamic Structure, and Airflow of a Japan Sea Polar Airmass Convergence Zone. Monthly Weather Review. 150(1). 157–174. 7 indexed citations

Steenburgh, W. James, et al.. (2020). Intrastorm Variability of the Inland and Orographic Enhancement of a Sea-Effect Snowstorm in the Hokuriku Region of Japan. Monthly Weather Review. 148(6). 2527–2548. 10 indexed citations

Schultz, David M. & W. James Steenburgh. (2019). Nonclassic Evolution of a Cold-Frontal System across the Western United States during the Intermountain Precipitation Experiment (IPEX). Weather and Forecasting. 35(1). 255–271. 1 indexed citations

Burkhart, Matthew, et al.. (2018). Hotplate precipitation gauge calibrations and field measurements. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 11(1). 441–458. 6 indexed citations

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Mayr, Georg J., Laurence Armi, Andrew D. Elvidge, et al.. (2018). The Community Foehn Classification Experiment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 99(11). 2229–2235. 17 indexed citations

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Geerts, Bart, et al.. (2017). The OWLeS IOP2b Lake-Effect Snowstorm: Dynamics of the Secondary Circulation. Monthly Weather Review. 145(7). 2437–2459. 23 indexed citations

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Geerts, Bart, et al.. (2016). Understanding Heavy Lake-Effect Snowfall: The Vertical Structure of Radar Reflectivity in a Deep Snowband over and downwind of Lake Ontario. Monthly Weather Review. 144(11). 4221–4244. 27 indexed citations

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Campbell, Leah S., et al.. (2016). Lake-Effect Mode and Precipitation Enhancement over the Tug Hill Plateau during OWLeS IOP2b. Monthly Weather Review. 144(5). 1729–1748. 36 indexed citations

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Steenburgh, W. James, et al.. (2015). Climatological Characteristics and Orographic Enhancement of Lake-Effect Precipitation East of Lake Ontario and over the Tug Hill Plateau. Monthly Weather Review. 143(9). 3591–3609. 47 indexed citations

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Rutz, Jonathan J. & W. James Steenburgh. (2012). Quantifying the role of atmospheric rivers in the interior western United States. Atmospheric Science Letters. 13(4). 257–261. 98 indexed citations

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Steenburgh, W. James, et al.. (2008). Discrete Frontal Propagation over the Sierra–Cascade Mountains and Intermountain West. Monthly Weather Review. 137(6). 2000–2020. 13 indexed citations

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Colle, Brian A., et al.. (2005). High-Resolution Simulations and Microphysical Validation of an Orographic Precipitation Event over the Wasatch Mountains during IPEX IOP3. Monthly Weather Review. 133(10). 2947–2971. 62 indexed citations

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Steenburgh, W. James, et al.. (2004). An Evaluation of Mesoscale-Model-Based Model Output Statistics (MOS) during the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Weather and Forecasting. 19(2). 200–218. 54 indexed citations

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Stewart, Jebb Q., C. David Whiteman, W. James Steenburgh, & Xindi Bian. (2002). A Climatological Study of Thermally Driven Wind Systems of the U.S. Intermountain West. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 83(5). 699–708. 68 indexed citations

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Steenburgh, W. James, Clifford F. Mass, & Sue A. Ferguson. (1997). The Influence of Terrain-Induced Circulations on Wintertime Temperature and Snow Level in the Washington Cascades. Weather and Forecasting. 12(2). 208–227. 29 indexed citations

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