William S. Olson

8.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
85 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

William S. Olson is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William S. Olson has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Atmospheric Science, 54 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in William S. Olson's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (70 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (63 papers) and Climate variability and models (33 papers). William S. Olson is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (70 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (63 papers) and Climate variability and models (33 papers). William S. Olson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and United Kingdom. William S. Olson's co-authors include Christian D. Kummerow, Louis Giglio, Yang Hong, Wei‐Kuo Tao, Mircea Grecu, T. T. Wilheit, Song Yang, Robert F. Adler, Grant W. Petty and S. Lang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

William S. Olson

84 papers receiving 4.7k 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 Evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF) for Rainfall Estimation from Passive Microwave Sensors

2001 675 citations Christian D. Kummerow, Yang Hong et al. Journal of Applied Meteorology profile →
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission for Science and Society

2016 584 citations Gail Skofronick‐Jackson, Wesley Berg et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William S. Olson United States	37	4.7k	3.1k	1.1k	408	133	85	4.9k
Robert Cifelli United States	32	3.0k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	648 0.6×	327 0.8×	187 1.4×	94	3.4k
Kenji Nakamura Japan	27	4.2k 0.9×	2.7k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	297 0.7×	319 2.4×	111	4.5k
Riko Oki Japan	20	3.9k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	287 0.7×	387 2.9×	89	4.3k
F. Joseph Turk United States	27	3.0k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	724 0.7×	340 0.8×	287 2.2×	95	3.4k
R. Meneghini United States	36	5.0k 1.1×	2.3k 0.7×	2.1k 1.9×	374 0.9×	84 0.6×	148	5.4k
Shoichi Shige Japan	25	3.0k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	583 0.5×	293 0.7×	261 2.0×	71	3.2k
Grant W. Petty United States	27	2.6k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	745 0.7×	232 0.6×	111 0.8×	57	2.8k
Évelyne Richard France	28	2.7k 0.6×	2.6k 0.8×	512 0.5×	294 0.7×	147 1.1×	88	3.2k
Stanley B. Trier United States	34	3.3k 0.7×	3.1k 1.0×	495 0.5×	245 0.6×	124 0.9×	62	3.6k
Sandra E. Yuter United States	33	4.6k 1.0×	3.7k 1.2×	502 0.5×	488 1.2×	74 0.6×	89	4.9k

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Johnson, Benjamin T., William S. Olson, & Gail Skofronick‐Jackson. (2016). The microwave properties of simulated melting precipitation particles: sensitivity to initial melting. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 9(1). 9–21. 26 indexed citations

Stocker, Erich Franz, et al.. (2015). Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission: Precipitation Processing System (PPS) GPM Mission Gridded Text Products Provide Surface Precipitation Retrievals. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 1 indexed citations

Munchak, S. Joseph, R. Meneghini, Mircea Grecu, & William S. Olson. (2015). A Consistent Treatment of Microwave Emissivity and Radar Backscatter for Retrieval of Precipitation over Water Surfaces. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 33(2). 215–229. 7 indexed citations

Jiang, Xianan, T. L. Kubar, Sun Wong, William S. Olson, & Duane E. Waliser. (2014). Modulation of Marine Low Clouds Associated with the Tropical Intraseasonal Variability over the Eastern Pacific. Journal of Climate. 27(14). 5560–5574. 3 indexed citations

Kuo, Kwo‐Sen, et al.. (2013). Characterizing Scattering of PSD-Integrated Aggregate Ensembles using a Comprehensive Particle Scattering Database. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 13295.

Masunaga, Hirohiko, Toshihisa Matsui, Wei‐Kuo Tao, et al.. (2010). Satellite Data Simulator Unit. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 91(12). 1625–1632. 74 indexed citations

Xi, Baike, Aaron Kennedy, Jared Entin, et al.. (2010). Investigation of the 2006 Drought and 2007 Flood Extremes at the Southern Great Plains Through an Integrative Analysis of Observations (Invited). AGUFM. 2010. 2 indexed citations

Han, Mei, Scott A. Braun, William S. Olson, Ola Persson, & Jian‐Wen Bao. (2010). Application of TRMM PR and TMI Measurements to Assess Cloud Microphysical Schemes in the MM5 for a Winter Storm. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 49(6). 1129–1148. 10 indexed citations

Matsui, Takashi, W. Tao, Hirohiko Masunaga, et al.. (2009). Goddard Satellite Data Simulation Unit: Multi-Sensor Satellite Simulators to Support Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Satellite Missions. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 2 indexed citations

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Zhou, Y., A. Y. Hou, William K. M. Lau, et al.. (2006). Using High-Resolution Satellite Observations for Evaluation of Cloud and Precipitation Statistics from Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations. Part I: South China Sea Monsoon Experiment. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 2 indexed citations

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Tao, Wei‐Kuo, Eric Smith, & William S. Olson. (2005). Latent Heating from TRMM Satellite Measurements. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Olson, William S., Christian D. Kummerow, Song Yang, et al.. (2004). Precipitation and Latent Heating Distributions from Satellite Passive Microwave Radiometry. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 45. 20 indexed citations

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Grecu, Mircea, William S. Olson, & Emmanouil N. Anagnostou. (2004). Retrieval of Precipitation Profiles from Multiresolution, Multifrequency Active and Passive Microwave Observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 43(4). 562–575. 42 indexed citations

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Kummerow, Christian D., Yang Hong, William S. Olson, et al.. (2001). The Evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF) for Rainfall Estimation from Passive Microwave Sensors. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 40(11). 1801–1820. 675 indexed citations breakdown →

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Olson, William S., Péter Bauer, Nicolas Viltard, et al.. (2001). A Melting-Layer Model for Passive/Active Microwave Remote Sensing Applications. Part I: Model Formulation and Comparison with Observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 40(7). 1145–1163. 65 indexed citations

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Rodgers, E. B., et al.. (2000). Tropical Cyclone Lightning Distribution and Its Relationship to Convection and Intensity Change. 6 indexed citations

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Tao, Wei, S. Lang, Joanne Simpson, et al.. (2000). Vertical Profiles of Latent Heat Release and Their Retrieval for TOGA COARE Convective Systems using a Cloud Resolving Model, SSM/I, and Ship-borne Radar Data. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 78(4). 333–355. 68 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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Haddad, Ziad S., Eric A. Smith, Christian D. Kummerow, et al.. (1997). The TRMM ‘Day-1’ Radar/Radiometer Combined Rain-Profiling Algorithm. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 75(4). 799–809. 161 indexed citations

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Heymsfield, Gerald M., J. Marshall Shepherd, S.W. Bidwell, et al.. (1996). Structure of Florida Thunderstorms Using High-Altitude Aircraft Radiometer and Radar Observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 35(10). 1736–1762. 29 indexed citations

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