William D. Collins

76.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
246 papers, 22.4k citations indexed

About

William D. Collins is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, William D. Collins has authored 246 papers receiving a total of 22.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 150 papers in Atmospheric Science and 21 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in William D. Collins's work include Climate variability and models (110 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (68 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (51 papers). William D. Collins is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (110 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (68 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (51 papers). William D. Collins collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. William D. Collins's co-authors include E. J. Mlawer, S. A. Clough, Jennifer Delamere, Mark W. Shephard, Michael Iacono, Cecilia M. Bitz, V. Ramanathan, Eugenia Kalnay, Roy L. Jenne and Glenn H. White and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William D. Collins

239 papers receiving 21.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Radiative forcing by long‐lived greenhouse gases: Calculations with the AER radiative transfer models

2008 3.8k citations Michael Iacono, Jennifer Delamere et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
The NCEP–NCAR 50–Year Reanalysis: Monthly Means CD–ROM and Documentation

2001 3.6k citations Robert Kistler, William D. Collins et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →
The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)

2006 2.0k citations William D. Collins et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Description of the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model (CAM 3.0)

2004 1.8k citations William D. Collins et al. profile →
The Formulation and Atmospheric Simulation of the Community Atmosphere Model Version 3 (CAM3)

2006 800 citations William D. Collins et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Thermodynamic regulation of ocean warming by cirrus clouds deduced from observations of the 1987 El Niño

1991 594 citations William D. Collins et al. profile →
How Much More Global Warming and Sea Level Rise?

2005 513 citations William D. Collins et al. profile →
A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States

2021 244 citations Erica R. Siirila‐Woodburn, Alan M. Rhoades et al. profile →

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Citations

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Analyzing and Exploring Training Recipes for Large-Scale Transformer-Based Weather Prediction 2025 ·OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) ·Jared Willard, (unknown), Shashank Subramanian, Ankur Mahesh, Travis O’Brien, William D. Collins	2
2	Recommendations for Comprehensive and Independent Evaluation of Machine Learning‐Based Earth System Models 2025 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Paul Ullrich, Elizabeth A. Barnes, William D. Collins, Katherine Dagon, (unknown), (unknown), Jiwoo Lee, L. Ruby Leung, Dan Lu, María J. Molina, Travis O’Brien, (unknown)	3
3	Back-to-back high category atmospheric river landfalls occur more often on the west coast of the United States 2024 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Yang Zhou, Michael Wehner, William D. Collins	4
4	Monitoring Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·William D. Collins, R. Orbach, (unknown), Sébastien Biraud, Ian Coddington, David A. DiCarlo, Jeff Peischl, Anuradha Radhakrishnan, David Schimel	4
5	Asymmetric emergence of low-to-no snow in the midlatitudes of the American Cordillera 2022 ·Nature Climate Change ·Alan M. Rhoades, Benjamin J. Hatchett, Mark D. Risser, William D. Collins, Nicolás Bambach, Laurie S. Huning, Rachel McCrary, Erica R. Siirila‐Woodburn, Paul Ullrich, Michael Wehner, Colin M. Zarzycki, Andrew D. Jones	30
6	The Influence of Ocean Coupling on Simulated and Projected Tropical Cyclone Precipitation in the HighResMIP–PRIMAVERA Simulations 2021 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Huanping Huang, Christina M. Patricola, William D. Collins	22
7	Constraining and Characterizing the Size of Atmospheric Rivers: A Perspective Independent From the Detection Algorithm 2021 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·(unknown), Travis O’Brien, Yang Zhou, William D. Collins	13
8	Microphysical Sensitivity of Superparameterized Precipitation Extremes in the Contiguous United States Due to Feedbacks on Large‐Scale Circulation 2020 ·Earth and Space Science ·(unknown), William D. Collins, Hossein Parishani, Mark D. Risser, Travis O’Brien	2
9	The spectroscopic foundation of radiative forcing of climate by carbon dioxide 2016 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·M. G. Mlynczak, (unknown), David P. Kratz, Daniel Feldman, William D. Collins, E. J. Mlawer, M. J. Alvarado, J. E. Lawler, L. W. Anderson, D. W. Fahey, L. A. Hunt, J. C. Mast	21
10	The integrated Earth system model version 1: formulation and functionality 2015 ·Geoscientific model development ·William D. Collins, Anthony P Craig, John Truesdale, Alan Di Vittorio, Andrew D. Jones, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Katherine Calvin, Jae Edmonds, (unknown), Allison M. Thomson, Pralit Patel, Yuyu Zhou, Jiafu Mao, Xiaoying Shi, Peter Thornton, Louise Chini, G. C. Hurtt	57
11	U.S. Climate Reference Network Soil Moisture and Temperature Observations 2013 ·Journal of Hydrometeorology ·Jesse E. Bell, Michael A. Palecki, C. Bruce Baker, William D. Collins, J. H. Lawrimore, Ronald D. Leeper, Mark E. Hall, John Kochendorfer, Tilden P. Meyers, Tim Wilson, Howard J. Diamond	277
12	Climate response due to carbonaceous aerosols and aerosol-induced SST effects in NCAR community atmospheric model CAM3.5 2013 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·(unknown), William D. Collins, (unknown), John C. H. Chiang, Chung‐Lin Shie, Ken Caldeira, Long Cao	18
13	Radiative forcing by long‐lived greenhouse gases: Calculations with the AER radiative transfer models breakdown → 2008 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Michael Iacono, Jennifer Delamere, E. J. Mlawer, Mark W. Shephard, S. A. Clough, William D. Collins	3849
14	The Community Climate System Model : CCSM3 2004 ·Journal of Climate ·William D. Collins	181
15	SHARC II, a Second Generation 350 Micron Camera for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory 2001 ·C. D. Dowell, William D. Collins, M. Gardner, A. Kovács, D. C. Lis, T. G. Phillips, Hiroshige Yoshida, (unknown), M. Jhabvala, S. H. Moseley, George M. Voellmer	1
16	Prospects for measurement of far infrared tropospheric spectra: Implications for climate modeling 2001 ·AGUFM ·William D. Collins, M. G. Mlynczak	3
17	The NCEP–NCAR 50–Year Reanalysis: Monthly Means CD–ROM and Documentation breakdown → 2001 ·Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·Robert Kistler, William D. Collins, Suranjana Saha, Glenn H. White, John S. Woollen, Eugenia Kalnay, Muthuvel Chelliah, Wesley Ebisuzaki, Masao Kanamitsu, Vernon E. Kousky, Huug van den Dool, Roy L. Jenne, Michael Fiorino	3616
18	An accurate variation of the two‐step lax‐wendroff integration of horizontal advection 1983 ·Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·William D. Collins	3
19	Some coplanar punch and crack problems in three-dimensional elastostatics 1963 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences ·William D. Collins	35
20	Some axially symmetric stress distributions in elastic solids containing penny-shaped cracks I. Cracks in an infinite solid and a thick plate 1962 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences ·William D. Collins	90

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