William D. Sellers

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

William D. Sellers is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, William D. Sellers has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Atmospheric Science and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in William D. Sellers's work include Climate variability and models (8 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (5 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (4 papers). William D. Sellers is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (8 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (5 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (4 papers). William D. Sellers collaborates with scholars based in United States and Czechia. William D. Sellers's co-authors include S. Clark Martin, Thomas P. Charlock, Wenzhao Liu and Owen Davis and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Ecology and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

William D. Sellers

30 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

A Global Climatic Model Based on the Energy Balance of the Earth-Atmosphere System

1969 724 citations William D. Sellers Journal of applied meteorology profile →

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J. Murray Mitchell United States

Glenn W. Brier United States

Frank Lunkeit Germany

Heikki Järvinen Finland

Nathan Paldor Israel

William J. Quirk United States

Laurent Fairhead France

Grant Foster United States

Lawrence J. Pratt United States

Vincenzo Artale Italy

J. Murray Mitchell United States

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889 ×1.0

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31 ×0.2

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149 ×1.2

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205 ×1.7

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Countries citing papers authored by William D. Sellers

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Davis, Owen & William D. Sellers. (1994). Orbital history and seasonality of regional precipitation. Human Ecology. 22(1). 97–113. 4 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D.. (1990). The genesis of energy balance modeling and the cool sun paradox. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 82(3-4). 217–224. 10 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D. & Wenzhao Liu. (1988). Temperature Patterns and Trends in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere. Journal of Climate. 1(6). 573–581. 12 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D.. (1985). The Effect of a Solar Perturbation on a Global Climate Model. Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology. 24(8). 770–776. 9 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D., et al.. (1981). A Study of Visibility in Eighteen Cities in the Western and Southwestern United States. Monthly Weather Review. 109(11). 2394–2399. 10 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D., et al.. (1979). Interannual temperature variability in the United States since 1896. Climatic Change. 2(2). 139–147. 14 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D.. (1976). A Two–Dimensional Global Climatic Model. Monthly Weather Review. 104(3). 233–248. 33 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D.. (1976). Climate and life. Icarus. 27(1). 181–181. 5 indexed citations

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Martin, S. Clark, et al.. (1975). Arizona Climate 1931-1972. Journal of Range Management. 28(3). 248–248. 125 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D.. (1973). A New Global Climatic Model. Journal of applied meteorology. 12(2). 241–254. 115 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D.. (1970). The Effect of Changes in the Earth's Obliquity on the Distribution of Mean Annual Sea-Level Temperatures. Journal of applied meteorology. 9(6). 960–961. 18 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D., et al.. (1969). The Statistical Prediction of the Vertical Ozone Distribution. Journal of applied meteorology. 8(3). 357–361. 6 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D.. (1968). An Encyclopedia of the Atmosphere and Space. Ecology. 49(2). 377–378. 2 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D.. (1968). Weather and the Biosphere. Ecology. 49(1). 188–188. 2 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D.. (1968). CLIMATOLOGY OF MONTHLY PRECIPITATION PATTERNS IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES, 1931–1966. Monthly Weather Review. 96(9). 585–595. 55 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D.. (1964). Potential Evapotranspiration in Arid Regions. Journal of applied meteorology. 3(1). 98–104. 21 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D.. (1962). A Simplified Derivation of the Diabatic Wind Profile. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 19(2). 180–181. 23 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D.. (1960). A STATISTICAL METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY FROM THE MEAN AIR TEMPERATURE. Monthly Weather Review. 88(4). 155–157. 1 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D.. (1958). Statistical-Dynamic Approach to Numerical Weather Prediction.. PhDT. 11 indexed citations

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Sellers, William D.. (1958). The Annual and Diurnal Variations of Cloud Amounts and Cloud Types at Six Arizona Cities. UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona). 3 indexed citations

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