W. Timothy Liu

1.4k total citations
27 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

W. Timothy Liu is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Timothy Liu has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Oceanography, 18 papers in Atmospheric Science and 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in W. Timothy Liu's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (20 papers), Climate variability and models (17 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (14 papers). W. Timothy Liu is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (20 papers), Climate variability and models (17 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (14 papers). W. Timothy Liu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. W. Timothy Liu's co-authors include Shang‐Ping Xie, Qinyu Liu, Haiming Xu, Yuqing Wang, N. H. Saji, Masami Nonaka, Xia Jiang, Jan Hafner, Youichi Tanimoto and Hiroki Tokinaga and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

W. Timothy Liu

27 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
W. Timothy Liu United States 15 869 799 786 79 59 27 1.2k
Haijun Yang China 20 954 1.1× 806 1.0× 772 1.0× 73 0.9× 38 0.6× 50 1.3k
Guy Caniaux France 25 1.4k 1.6× 1.0k 1.3× 1.3k 1.6× 92 1.2× 49 0.8× 71 1.8k
J. Jungclaus Germany 10 960 1.1× 931 1.2× 363 0.5× 73 0.9× 27 0.5× 15 1.2k
Neil D. Gordon United States 12 968 1.1× 960 1.2× 351 0.4× 56 0.7× 46 0.8× 21 1.2k
Bulusu Subrahmanyam United States 22 926 1.1× 835 1.0× 1.4k 1.8× 118 1.5× 48 0.8× 96 1.6k
Julie Leloup France 9 1.1k 1.3× 970 1.2× 708 0.9× 121 1.5× 25 0.4× 14 1.3k
Léon Chafik Sweden 23 937 1.1× 989 1.2× 978 1.2× 96 1.2× 77 1.3× 53 1.4k
P. Swapna India 17 800 0.9× 561 0.7× 616 0.8× 131 1.7× 22 0.4× 35 1.0k
Takeshi Izumo France 22 1.4k 1.6× 1.0k 1.3× 1.2k 1.5× 56 0.7× 30 0.5× 43 1.6k
G. Meyers Australia 15 1.2k 1.3× 731 0.9× 1.3k 1.6× 100 1.3× 19 0.3× 35 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by W. Timothy Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. Timothy Liu

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Yihui & W. Timothy Liu. (2015). Observational Evidence of Frontal-Scale Atmospheric Responses to Kuroshio Extension Variability. Journal of Climate. 28(23). 9459–9472. 20 indexed citations
2.
Xie, Shang‐Ping, Haiming Xu, N. H. Saji, Yuqing Wang, & W. Timothy Liu. (2006). Role of Narrow Mountains in Large-Scale Organization of Asian Monsoon Convection*. Journal of Climate. 19(14). 3420–3429. 280 indexed citations
3.
Zheng, Quanan, P. Clemente‐Colón, Xiao‐Hai Yan, W. Timothy Liu, & Norden E. Huang. (2004). Satellite synthetic aperture radar detection of Delaware Bay plumes: Jet‐like feature analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 109(C3). 21 indexed citations
4.
Yan, Xiao‐Hai, Jiayi Pan, Young‐Heon Jo, et al.. (2004). Role of winds in estimation of ocean heat storage anomaly using satellite data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 109(C3). 6 indexed citations
5.
Liu, W. Timothy & Wenqing Tang. (2004). Calibration/validation of SeaWinds on ADEOS-II. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5234. 47–47. 1 indexed citations
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Pan, Jiayi, Xiao‐Hai Yan, Young‐Heon Jo, Quanan Zheng, & W. Timothy Liu. (2004). A New Method for Estimation of the Sensible Heat Flux under Unstable Conditions Using Satellite Vector Winds. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 34(4). 968–977. 5 indexed citations
7.
Liu, Qinyu, Xia Jiang, Shang‐Ping Xie, & W. Timothy Liu. (2004). A gap in the Indo‐Pacific warm pool over the South China Sea in boreal winter: Seasonal development and interannual variability. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 109(C7). 183 indexed citations
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Chen, Dake, et al.. (2003). Air‐sea interaction at an oceanic front: Implications for frontogenesis and primary production. Geophysical Research Letters. 30(14). 26 indexed citations
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Liu, W. Timothy, et al.. (2003). Oceanic thermal and biological responses to Santa Ana winds. Geophysical Research Letters. 30(11). 33 indexed citations
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Jo, Young‐Heon, Xiao‐Hai Yan, Jiayi Pan, Mingxia He, & W. Timothy Liu. (2002). Calculation of the Bowen ratio in the tropical Pacific using sea surface temperature data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 107(C9). 11 indexed citations
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Yan, Xiao‐Hai, Yonghong Zhou, Jiayi Pan, et al.. (2002). Pacific warm pool excitation, earth rotation and El Niño southern oscillations. Geophysical Research Letters. 29(21). 16 indexed citations
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Pan, Jiayi, Xiao‐Hai Yan, Quanan Zheng, & W. Timothy Liu. (2002). Observation of western boundary current atmospheric convergence zones using scatterometer winds. Geophysical Research Letters. 29(17). 10 indexed citations
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Hu, Hua & W. Timothy Liu. (2002). QuikSCAT reveals the surface circulation of the Catalina Eddy. Geophysical Research Letters. 29(17). 10 indexed citations
14.
Pan, Jiayi, Xiao‐Hai Yan, Quanan Zheng, & W. Timothy Liu. (2001). Scatterometers observe the variation of the Walker circulation. Eos. 82(45). 536–537. 4 indexed citations
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Zheng, Quanan, et al.. (1998). A solitary wave packet in the atmosphere observed from space. Geophysical Research Letters. 25(19). 3559–3562. 14 indexed citations
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Hu, Hua & W. Timothy Liu. (1998). The impact of upper tropospheric humidity from microwave limb sounder on the midlatitude greenhouse effect. Geophysical Research Letters. 25(16). 3151–3154. 10 indexed citations
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Liu, W. Timothy, et al.. (1997). Centroid Motion of the Western Pacific Warm Pool during Three Recent El Niño–Southern Oscillation Events. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 27(5). 837–845. 29 indexed citations
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He, Yun, Xiao‐Hai Yan, & W. Timothy Liu. (1997). Surface Heat Fluxes in the Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean Estimated by Bulk Parameterization and by an Inverse Mixed Layer Model. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 27(11). 2477–2487. 2 indexed citations
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Fu, Rong, W. Timothy Liu, & Robert E. Dickinson. (1996). Response of Tropical Clouds to the Interannual Variation of Sea Surface Temperature. Journal of Climate. 9(3). 616–634. 15 indexed citations
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Liu, W. Timothy & Pearn P. Niiler. (1990). The sensitivity of latent heat flux to the air humidity approximations used in ocean circulation models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 95(C6). 9745–9753. 12 indexed citations

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