Walter A. Robinson

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Walter A. Robinson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter A. Robinson has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 66 papers in Atmospheric Science and 40 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Walter A. Robinson's work include Climate variability and models (64 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (33 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (29 papers). Walter A. Robinson is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (64 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (33 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (29 papers). Walter A. Robinson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Walter A. Robinson's co-authors include Shiling Peng, Yochanan Kushnir, Shuanglin Li, Gary M. Lackmann, Yucheng Song, Richard Seager, Nili Harnik, Nicholas M. J. Hall, Rowan Sutton and Ileana Bladé and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Walter A. Robinson

96 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Atmospheric GCM Response to Extratropical SST Anomalies: Synthesis and Evaluation*

2002 565 citations Yochanan Kushnir, Walter A. Robinson et al. Journal of Climate profile →

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David Andrews United Kingdom

William R. Holland United States

David A. Krueger United States

Melvin E. Stern United States

William M. Frank United States

Kuan‐Man Xu United States

J. A. Weinman United States

J. W. Waters United States

C. Barnet United States

H. Laurent France

David Andrews United Kingdom

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Fields of papers citing papers by Walter A. Robinson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walter A. Robinson

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Robinson, Walter A., et al.. (2025). The role of Rossby wave dynamics in spatially compounding heatwaves in mid-summer 2023. Environmental Research Letters. 20(3). 34052–34052. 1 indexed citations

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Hasan, Mahdi, et al.. (2024). Hemisphere-Dependent Impacts of ENSO and Atmospheric Eddies on Hadley Circulation. Journal of Climate. 37(24). 6533–6548. 2 indexed citations

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Baek, Seung H., Yochanan Kushnir, Walter A. Robinson, et al.. (2021). An Atmospheric Bridge Between the Subpolar and Tropical Atlantic Regions: A Perplexing Asymmetric Teleconnection. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(24). 2 indexed citations

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Michaelis, A., Gary M. Lackmann, & Walter A. Robinson. (2019). Evaluation of a unique approach to high-resolution climate modeling using the Model for Prediction Across Scales – Atmosphere (MPAS-A) version 5.1. Geoscientific model development. 12(8). 3725–3743. 25 indexed citations

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Scaife, Adam A., Joanne Camp, Ruth Comer, et al.. (2019). Does increased atmospheric resolution improve seasonal climate predictions?. Atmospheric Science Letters. 20(8). 72 indexed citations

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Willison, Jeff, Walter A. Robinson, & Gary M. Lackmann. (2013). The Importance of Resolving Mesoscale Latent Heating in the North Atlantic Storm Track. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 70(7). 2234–2250. 133 indexed citations

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Kushner, Paul J., J. Austin, Mark Baldwin, et al.. (2007). The SPARC DynVar Project: A SPARC Project on the Dynamics and Variability of the Coupled Stratosphere-Troposphere. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 29. 9–14. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Feng, Alan Z. Liu, G. R. Swenson, J. H. Hecht, & Walter A. Robinson. (2005). Observations of gravity wave breakdown into ripples associated with dynamical instabilities. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 110(D9). 63 indexed citations

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Robinson, Walter A.. (2001). Where’s the heat? Insights from GCM experiments into the lack of Eastern US warming. 1 indexed citations

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Robinson, Walter A. & Yifei Song. (2001). How Does the Stratosphere Influence the Troposphere. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2001. 1 indexed citations

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Weickmann, Klaus M., Walter A. Robinson, & Cécile Penland. (2000). Stochastic and oscillatory forcing of global atmospheric angular momentum. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 105(D12). 15543–15557. 32 indexed citations

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Robinson, Walter A., et al.. (1999). Observational evidence of quasi two‐day/gravity wave interaction using MF Radar. Geophysical Research Letters. 26(8). 1141–1144. 5 indexed citations

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Huang, Huei‐Ping & Walter A. Robinson. (1995). Barotropic Model Simulations of the North Pacific Retrograde Disturbances. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 52(10). 1630–1641. 6 indexed citations

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Robinson, Walter A.. (1994). Comments on “Horizontal Divergence Associated with Zonally Isolated Jet Streams”. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 51(12). 1760–1761. 1 indexed citations

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Robinson, Walter A.. (1994). Eddy Feedbacks on the Zonal Index and Eddy–Zonal Flow Interactions Induced by Zonal Flow Transience. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 51(17). 2553–2562. 31 indexed citations

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Robinson, Walter A.. (1991). The dynamics of the zonal index in a simple model of the atmosphere. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 43(5). 295–305. 30 indexed citations

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Robinson, Walter A.. (1989). On the structure of potential vorticity in baroclinic instability. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 41A(4). 275–284. 26 indexed citations

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Robinson, Walter A.. (1986). Interactions between Stationary Planetary Waves in the Stratosphere. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 43(10). 1006–1016. 3 indexed citations

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O’Sullivan, William J., W. W. Simmons, & Walter A. Robinson. (1963). Cl nmr in Antiferromagnetic CuCl2·2H2O. Physical Review Letters. 10(11). 476–478. 8 indexed citations

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Simmons, W. W., William J. O’Sullivan, & Walter A. Robinson. (1962). Nuclear Spin-Lattice Relaxation in Dilute Paramagnetic Sapphire. Physical Review. 127(4). 1168–1178. 73 indexed citations

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