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, Michael Iacono, Jennifer Delamere, Mark W. Shephard, S. A. Clough, Cecilia M. Bitz, V. Ramanathan, Suranjana Saha, Eugenia Kalnay and Roy L. Jenne 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

Radiative forcing by long... 1991 2026 2002 2014 2008 2001 2006 2004 2006 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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.

  1. 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 →
  2. The NCEP–NCAR 50–Year Reanalysis: Monthly Means CD–ROM and Documentation
    2001 3.6k citations William D. Collins et al. profile →
  3. The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)
    2006 2.0k citations William D. Collins et al. profile →
  4. Description of the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model (CAM 3.0)
    2004 1.8k citations William D. Collins et al. profile →
  5. The Formulation and Atmospheric Simulation of the Community Atmosphere Model Version 3 (CAM3)
    2006 800 citations William D. Collins et al. profile →
  6. 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 →
  7. How Much More Global Warming and Sea Level Rise?
    2005 513 citations William D. Collins et al. profile →
  8. 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. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
William D. Collins 17.0k 16.8k 3.3k 1.5k 1.1k 246 22.4k
J. T. Kiehl 15.1k 0.9× 15.5k 0.9× 2.0k 0.6× 825 0.5× 914 0.8× 137 20.0k
Hans von Storch 14.3k 0.8× 12.2k 0.7× 4.2k 1.3× 1.0k 0.7× 856 0.8× 289 18.3k
Sandrine Bony 19.3k 1.1× 17.4k 1.0× 2.9k 0.9× 739 0.5× 937 0.9× 149 22.4k
David Rind 12.8k 0.8× 15.4k 0.9× 2.4k 0.7× 643 0.4× 2.2k 2.0× 243 20.6k
Jürg Luterbacher 14.1k 0.8× 15.3k 0.9× 1.5k 0.5× 887 0.6× 1.5k 1.4× 258 20.9k
Reto Rüedy 10.9k 0.6× 9.6k 0.6× 1.4k 0.4× 1.1k 0.7× 1.4k 1.2× 63 15.9k
E. Roeckner 15.3k 0.9× 14.4k 0.9× 4.0k 1.2× 499 0.3× 909 0.8× 145 18.4k
C. A. Senior 15.1k 0.9× 12.4k 0.7× 3.0k 0.9× 714 0.5× 978 0.9× 95 20.5k
Eugenia Kalnay 18.9k 1.1× 17.6k 1.0× 3.9k 1.2× 4.3k 2.8× 1.0k 0.9× 264 24.7k
J. F. B. Mitchell 17.1k 1.0× 13.8k 0.8× 3.2k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 2.0k 1.8× 127 23.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Willard, Jared, et al.. (2025). Analyzing and Exploring Training Recipes for Large-Scale Transformer-Based Weather Prediction. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 4(2). 2 indexed citations
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Ullrich, Paul, Elizabeth A. Barnes, William D. Collins, et al.. (2025). Recommendations for Comprehensive and Independent Evaluation of Machine Learning‐Based Earth System Models. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 3 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yang, Michael Wehner, & William D. Collins. (2024). Back-to-back high category atmospheric river landfalls occur more often on the west coast of the United States. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 4 indexed citations
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Rhoades, Alan M., Benjamin J. Hatchett, Mark D. Risser, et al.. (2022). Asymmetric emergence of low-to-no snow in the midlatitudes of the American Cordillera. Nature Climate Change. 12(12). 1151–1159. 30 indexed citations
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Collins, William D., R. Orbach, Sébastien Biraud, et al.. (2022). Monitoring methane emissions from oil and gas operations‡. Optics Express. 30(14). 24326–24326. 8 indexed citations
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Collins, William D., R. Orbach, Sébastien Biraud, et al.. (2022). Monitoring Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 4 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Travis, et al.. (2021). Constraining and Characterizing the Size of Atmospheric Rivers: A Perspective Independent From the Detection Algorithm. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(16). 13 indexed citations
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Huang, Huanping, Christina M. Patricola, & William D. Collins. (2021). The Influence of Ocean Coupling on Simulated and Projected Tropical Cyclone Precipitation in the HighResMIP–PRIMAVERA Simulations. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(20). 22 indexed citations
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Siirila‐Woodburn, Erica R., Alan M. Rhoades, Benjamin J. Hatchett, et al.. (2021). A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2(11). 800–819. 244 indexed citations breakdown →
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Freidenreich, S. M., David Paynter, Pu Lin, et al.. (2021). An Investigation Into Biases in Instantaneous Aerosol Radiative Effects Calculated by Shortwave Parameterizations in Two Earth System Models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(11). 1 indexed citations
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Rhoades, Alan M., Paul Ullrich, Colin M. Zarzycki, et al.. (2018). Sensitivity of Mountain Hydroclimate Simulations in Variable‐Resolution CESM to Microphysics and Horizontal Resolution. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 10(6). 1357–1380. 38 indexed citations
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Mlynczak, M. G., David P. Kratz, Daniel Feldman, et al.. (2016). The spectroscopic foundation of radiative forcing of climate by carbon dioxide. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(10). 5318–5325. 21 indexed citations
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Collins, William D., Anthony P Craig, John Truesdale, et al.. (2015). The integrated Earth system model version 1: formulation and functionality. Geoscientific model development. 8(7). 2203–2219. 57 indexed citations
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Bell, Jesse E., Michael A. Palecki, C. Bruce Baker, et al.. (2013). U.S. Climate Reference Network Soil Moisture and Temperature Observations. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 14(3). 977–988. 277 indexed citations
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Collins, William D., et al.. (2013). Climate response due to carbonaceous aerosols and aerosol-induced SST effects in NCAR community atmospheric model CAM3.5. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(15). 7489–7510. 18 indexed citations
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Iacono, Michael, Jennifer Delamere, E. J. Mlawer, et al.. (2008). Radiative forcing by long‐lived greenhouse gases: Calculations with the AER radiative transfer models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 113(D13). 3849 indexed citations breakdown →
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Collins, William D.. (1983). An accurate variation of the two‐step lax‐wendroff integration of horizontal advection. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 109(459). 255–261. 3 indexed citations
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Collins, William D.. (1963). Some coplanar punch and crack problems in three-dimensional elastostatics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 274(1359). 507–528. 35 indexed citations
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Collins, William D.. (1962). Some axially symmetric stress distributions in elastic solids containing penny-shaped cracks I. Cracks in an infinite solid and a thick plate. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 266(1326). 359–386. 90 indexed citations

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