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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1976 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Alan K. Betts is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions to global and planetary change, atmospheric science, water science and technology, and ecology.

Themes central to their work include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, cryospheric studies and observations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, science and climate studies, climate change and permafrost, and hydrology and watershed management studies.

Recent publications by Alan K. Betts demonstrate engagement with climate and environmental science topics. Key papers include:

  • Evaluation of Daily Precipitation from the ERA5 Global Reanalysis against GHCN Observations in the Northeastern United States, 2020, Climate
  • Climate change and society, 2021, AIMS Geosciences
  • Evaluation of the FLake Model in ERA5 for Lake Champlain, 2020, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Accelerating Climate Change and the Living Earth, 2023, International Journal of Environment and Climate Change
  • The Earth's view of climate change, 2022, AIMS Geosciences

Frequent co-authors include Caitlin C. Crossett, R. L. Desjardins, Arne Bomblies, Lesley-Ann L. Dupigny-Giroux, and Darren Z Chan. Collaboration with these researchers spans a range of studies within the environmental and atmospheric sciences fields.

The scientist also has publication records in several prominent journals and venues, such as:

  • AIMS Geosciences
  • Climate
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • International Journal of Environment and Climate Change
  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Alan K. Betts has been recognized with multiple fellowships, including those from the American Geophysical Union (AGU, 2002), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, 1997), and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1976).

Best Publications

  • Modeling the Exchanges of Energy, Water, and Carbon Between Continents and the Atmosphere

    P. J. Sellers;R. E. Dickinson;D. A. Randall;A. K. Betts

  • A new convective adjustment scheme. Part II: Single column tests using GATE wave, BOMEX, ATEX and arctic air‐mass data sets

    A. K. Betts;M. J. Miller

  • Modeling of land surface evaporation by four schemes and comparison with FIFE observations

    Fei Chen;Kenneth Mitchell;John Schaake;Yongkang Xue

  • A new convective adjustment scheme. Part I: Observational and theoretical basis

    A. K. Betts

  • A Revised Hydrology for the ECMWF Model: Verification from Field Site to Terrestrial Water Storage and Impact in the Integrated Forecast System

    Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anton Beljaars;Klaus Scipal;Pedro Viterbo

  • The land surface-atmosphere interaction: A review based on observational and global modeling perspectives

    Alan K. Betts;John H. Ball;Anton C. M. Beljaars;Martin J. Miller

  • Non-precipitating cumulus convection and its parameterization

    A. K. Betts

  • The Anomalous Rainfall over the United States during July 1993: Sensitivity to Land Surface Parameterization and Soil Moisture Anomalies

    Anton C. M. Beljaars;Pedro Viterbo;Martin J. Miller;Alan K. Betts

  • Albedo over the boreal forest

    Alan K. Betts;John H. Ball

  • Convection in GATE

    Robert A. Houze;Alan K. Betts

  • Contrasting convective regimes over the Amazon: Implications for cloud electrification

    E. Williams;D. Rosenfeld;N. Madden;J. Gerlach

  • Global intercomparison of 12 land surface heat flux estimates

    C. Jiménez;C. Prigent;B. Mueller;S. I. Seneviratne

  • Saturation Point Analysis of Moist Convective Overturning

    Alan K. Betts

  • An Agenda for Land-Surface Hydrology Research and a Call for the Second International Hydrological Decade

    Dara Entekhabi;Ghassem R. Asrar;Alan K. Betts;Keith J. Beven

  • The simulation of the diurnal cycle of convective precipitation over land in a global model

    P. Bechtold;J.-P. Chaboureau;A. Beljaars;A. K. Betts

  • A new convective adjustment scheme

    A. K. Betts

  • Climatic Equilibrium of the Atmospheric Convective Boundary Layer over a Tropical Ocean

    Alan K. Betts;W. Ridgway

  • The Betts-Miller Scheme

    Alan K. Betts;Martin J. Miller

  • Understanding Hydrometeorology Using Global Models

    Alan K. Betts

  • FIFE Surface Climate and Site-Average Dataset 1987–89

    Alan K. Betts;John H. Ball

  • Contrasting convective regimes over the Amazon: Implications for cloud electrification : Large-scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment in Amazonia (LBA)

    E. Williams;D. Rosenfeld;N. Madden;J. Gerlach

Frequent Co-Authors

Pedro Viterbo
Pedro Viterbo Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Raymond L. Desjardins
Raymond L. Desjardins Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Anton Beljaars
Anton Beljaars European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Jose D. Fuentes
Jose D. Fuentes Pennsylvania State University
Benjamin R. Lintner
Benjamin R. Lintner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Pierre Gentine
Pierre Gentine Columbia University
Michael Garstang
Michael Garstang University of Virginia
Kenneth E. Mitchell
Kenneth E. Mitchell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Alan G. Barr
Alan G. Barr University of Saskatchewan
Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry Carnegie Institution for Science

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