Wesley Berg

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Wesley Berg is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wesley Berg has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Atmospheric Science, 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 22 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wesley Berg's work include Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (59 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (57 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (22 papers). Wesley Berg is often cited by papers focused on Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (59 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (57 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (22 papers). Wesley Berg collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and United Kingdom. Wesley Berg's co-authors include Christian D. Kummerow, Tristan L’Ecuyer, George J. Huffman, T. T. Wilheit, John M. Haynes, Ralph Ferraro, Eric A. Smith, William S. Olson, Chris Kidd and Erich Franz Stocker and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Wesley Berg

66 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission for Science and Society

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wesley Berg United States	23	2.1k	1.3k	540	197	96	68	2.3k
David E. Kingsmill United States	28	2.4k 1.2×	1.8k 1.4×	329 0.6×	193 1.0×	80 0.8×	54	2.6k
Gail Skofronick‐Jackson United States	22	2.6k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	673 1.2×	169 0.9×	100 1.0×	61	2.9k
Alexander Ryzhkov United States	30	2.7k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 2.0×	101 0.5×	204 2.1×	71	2.9k
Sylvie Malardel France	13	1.1k 0.5×	980 0.8×	249 0.5×	214 1.1×	56 0.6×	25	1.3k
Alexander Gohm Austria	26	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	687 1.3×	90 0.5×	39 0.4×	58	1.7k
Humphrey Lean United Kingdom	20	2.4k 1.1×	2.3k 1.8×	405 0.8×	88 0.4×	41 0.4×	52	2.6k
Michael C. Coniglio United States	30	2.8k 1.4×	2.6k 2.0×	544 1.0×	91 0.5×	39 0.4×	69	3.0k
A. Beljaars United Kingdom	15	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	230 0.4×	241 1.2×	32 0.3×	19	1.6k
Mark T. Stoelinga United States	22	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	137 0.3×	168 0.9×	78 0.8×	47	1.6k
M. K. MacVean United Kingdom	18	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	610 1.1×	283 1.4×	97 1.0×	22	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Wesley Berg

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wesley Berg

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wesley Berg

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Chandrasekar, V., et al.. (2023). TEMPEST-D and GPM-GMI Observations Over Precipitating Systems: A Cross-Validation Study. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 16. 7422–7432.

Petković, Veljko, et al.. (2023). Can We Estimate the Uncertainty Level of Satellite Long-Term Precipitation Records?. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 62(8). 1069–1082. 4 indexed citations

Brown, Shannon, Alan Tanner, Steven C. Reising, & Wesley Berg. (2023). Single-Point Calibration for Microwave Sounders: Application to TEMPEST-D. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 40(6). 669–676. 1 indexed citations

Kroodsma, Rachael, Wesley Berg, & T. T. Wilheit. (2022). Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder Updates for the Global Precipitation Measurement V07 Data Suite. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–11. 2 indexed citations

Chandrasekar, V., et al.. (2022). Cross-Validation of Tempest-D And GPM/GMI Observations Over Precipitating Systems. IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. 4288–4291. 1 indexed citations

Berg, Wesley, et al.. (2021). Design and Analysis of CubeSat Microwave Radiometer Constellations to Observe Temporal Variability of the Atmosphere. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 14. 11728–11736. 9 indexed citations

Berg, Wesley. (2018). Calibration of Microwave Radiometers from GPM to Cubesats. 33. 3101–3104.

Padmanabhan, Sharmila, T. Gaier, Steven C. Reising, et al.. (2017). Radiometer payload for the temporal experiment for storms and tropical systems technology demonstration mission. 1213–1215. 9 indexed citations

Berg, Wesley, et al.. (2016). Agitation in Patients Recovering From Traumatic Brain Injury: Nursing Management. Journal of Neuroscience Nursing. 49(1). 25–30. 23 indexed citations

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Robertson, F. R., Michael G. Bosilovich, J. Brent Roberts, et al.. (2014). Consistency of Estimated Global Water Cycle Variations over the Satellite Era. Journal of Climate. 27(16). 6135–6154. 29 indexed citations

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Kummerow, Christian D., et al.. (2010). An Observationally Generated A Priori Database for Microwave Rainfall Retrievals. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 28(2). 113–130. 134 indexed citations

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L’Ecuyer, Tristan, Wesley Berg, John M. Haynes, Matthew Lebsock, & Toshihiko Takemura. (2009). Global observations of aerosol impacts on precipitation occurrence in warm maritime clouds. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 114(D9). 89 indexed citations

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Kummerow, Christian D., et al.. (2006). Quantifying Global Uncertainties in a Simple Microwave Rainfall Algorithm. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 23(1). 23–37. 31 indexed citations

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L’Ecuyer, Tristan, Christian D. Kummerow, & Wesley Berg. (2004). Toward a Global Map of Raindrop Size Distributions. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 5. 1 indexed citations

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L’Ecuyer, Tristan, Christian D. Kummerow, & Wesley Berg. (2004). Toward a Global Map of Raindrop Size Distributions. Part I: Rain-Type Classification and Its Implications for Validating Global Rainfall Products. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 5(5). 831–849. 9 indexed citations

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Berg, Wesley, William S. Olson, Ralph Ferraro, Steven J. Goodman, & Frank J. LaFontaine. (1998). An Assessment of the First- and Second-Generation Navy Operational Precipitation Retrieval Algorithms. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 55(9). 1558–1575. 17 indexed citations

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Berg, Wesley & S. K. Avery. (1995). Evaluation of monthly rainfall estimates derived from the special sensor microwave/imager (SSM/I) over the tropical Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 100(D1). 1295–1315. 14 indexed citations

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Wilheit, T. T., Robert F. Adler, S. K. Avery, et al.. (1994). Algorithms for the retrieval of rainfall from passive microwave measurements. Remote Sensing Reviews. 11(1-4). 163–194. 93 indexed citations

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Berg, Wesley. (1993). Estimation and Analysis of Climate-Scale Rainfall Over the Tropical Pacific. PhDT. 5 indexed citations

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Berg, Wesley. (1992). Estimation and analysis of interannual variations in tropical oceanic rainfall using data from SSM/I. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 1 indexed citations

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