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D-Index
68
Citations
16030
World Ranking
1877
National Ranking
785

Christopher A. Davis publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher A. Davis sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 179 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Christopher A. Davis D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher A. Davis sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christopher A. Davis is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in Environmental Science.

Their main subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Information Systems and Management, and Computational Mechanics.

Major topics covered in Davis's work are Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate Variability and Models, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Davis has collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • F. Martin Ralph
  • Luca Delle Monache
  • Vijay Tallapragada
  • James D. Doyle
  • Anna M. Wilson

Their frequent publication venues reflect their engagement with key journals in the atmospheric and earth sciences fields:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Monthly Weather Review
  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Davis include:

  • West Coast Forecast Challenges and Development of Atmospheric River Reconnaissance, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Nonlinear Impacts of Surface Exchange Coefficient Uncertainty on Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Air-Sea Interactions, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Atmospheric River Reconnaissance 2021: A Review, 2022, Weather and Forecasting
  • Exploring Spatial Patterns of Virginia Tornadoes Using Kernel Density and Space-Time Cube Analysis (1960-2019), 2021, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • Examination of the Combined Effect of Deep-Layer Vertical Shear Direction and Lower-Tropospheric Mean Flow on Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Size Based on the ERA5 Reanalysis, 2021, Monthly Weather Review

Best Publications

  • The Weather Research and Forecasting Model: Overview, System Efforts, and Future Directions

    Jordan G. Powers;Joseph B. Klemp;William C. Skamarock;Christopher A. Davis

  • Potential Vorticity Diagnostics of Cyclogenesis

    Christopher A. Davis;Kerry A. Emanuel

  • Object-Based Verification of Precipitation Forecasts. Part I: Methodology and Application to Mesoscale Rain Areas

    Christopher Davis;Barbara Brown;Randy Bullock

  • The Role of “Vortical” Hot Towers in the Formation of Tropical Cyclone Diana (1984)

    Eric A. Hendricks;Michael T. Montgomery;Christopher A. Davis

  • Prediction of Landfalling Hurricanes with the Advanced Hurricane WRF Model

    Christopher Davis;Wei Wang;Shuyi S. Chen;Yongsheng Chen

  • The next generation of NWP: explicit forecasts of convection using the weather research and forecasting (WRF) model

    James Done;Christopher A. Davis;Morris Weisman

  • Experiences with 0–36-h Explicit Convective Forecasts with the WRF-ARW Model

    Morris L. Weisman;Christopher Davis;Wei Wang;Kevin W. Manning

  • Object-Based Verification of Precipitation Forecasts. Part II: Application to Convective Rain Systems

    Christopher Davis;Barbara Brown;Randy Bullock

  • Piecewise potential vorticity inversion

    Christopher A. Davis

  • The Method for Object-Based Diagnostic Evaluation (MODE) Applied to Numerical Forecasts from the 2005 NSSL/SPC Spring Program

    Christopher A. Davis;Barbara G. Brown;Randy Bullock;John Halley-Gotway

  • The Integrated Effect of Condensation in Numerical Simulations of Extratropical Cyclogenesis

    Christopher A. Davis;Mark T. Stoelinga;Ying-Hwa Kuo

  • The Bow Echo and MCV Experiment: Observations and Opportunities

    Christopher A. Davis;Nolan Atkins;Diana Bartels;Diana Bartels;Lance Bosart

  • Global Distribution and Characteristics of Diurnally Varying Low-Level Jets

    Daran L. Rife;James O. Pinto;Andrew J. Monaghan;Christopher A. Davis

  • Mechanisms for the Generation of Mesoscale Vortices within Quasi-Linear Convective Systems

    Morris L. Weisman;Christopher A. Davis

  • Large-Eddy Simulation of an Idealized Tropical Cyclone

    R. Rotunno;Y. Chen;W. Wang;C. Davis

  • A new perspective on the dynamical link between the stratosphere and troposphere

    Dana E. Hartley;Jose T. Villarin;Robert X. Black;Christopher A. Davis

  • Coherence of Warm-Season Continental Rainfall in Numerical Weather Prediction Models

    Christopher A. Davis;Kevin W. Manning;Richard E. Carbone;Stanley B. Trier

  • Mechanisms supporting long-lived episodes of propagating nocturnal convection within a 7-day WRF model simulation

    S. B. Trier;C. A. Davis;D. A. Ahijevych;M. L. Weisman

  • A Potential-Vorticity Diagnosis of the importance of initial Structure and Condensational Heating in Observed Extratropical Cyclogenesis

    Christopher A. Davis

  • Baroclinically Induced Tropical Cyclogenesis

    Christopher A. Davis;Lance F. Bosart

  • Balanced Dynamics of Mesoscale Vortices Produced in Simulated Convective Systems

    Christopher A. Davis;Morris L. Weisman

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanley B. Trier
Stanley B. Trier National Center for Atmospheric Research
Lance F. Bosart
Lance F. Bosart University at Albany, State University of New York
Fuqing Zhang
Fuqing Zhang Pennsylvania State University
Morris L. Weisman
Morris L. Weisman National Center for Atmospheric Research
Melvyn A. Shapiro
Melvyn A. Shapiro National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Andrew J. Monaghan
Andrew J. Monaghan University of Colorado Boulder
Thomas T. Warner
Thomas T. Warner National Center for Atmospheric Research
Michael T. Montgomery
Michael T. Montgomery Naval Postgraduate School
Teresa L. Campos
Teresa L. Campos National Center for Atmospheric Research
Jimy Dudhia
Jimy Dudhia National Center for Atmospheric Research

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