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101
Citations
47300
World Ranking
351
National Ranking
155

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David A. Randall is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 23 publications in this field, and Environmental Science, accounting for 17 publications. Within these areas, they have a strong emphasis on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Other notable subfields in their research include Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Oceanography.

The main topics of their research cover several aspects of atmospheric and climate sciences. These include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

Key recent papers associated with David A. Randall include:

  • "Clouds and Convective Self-Aggregation in a Multimodel Ensemble of Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Simulations" (2020), published in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Spontaneous Aggregation of Convective Storms" (2021), published in Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Current Indications for Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy" (2020), published in The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
  • "Understanding the Response of Tropical Ascent to Warming Using an Energy Balance Framework" (2020), published in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Singularity image for ClimSim-Online" (2025), published in elib (German Aerospace Center)

David A. Randall has frequently collaborated with several researchers throughout their career. Notable frequent co-authors include Mark Branson, Andrea M. Jenney, Michael R. Needham, Elizabeth A. Barnes, and Christopher S. Bretherton.

The venues where David A. Randall has commonly published include the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Journal of Climate, and Geophysical Research Letters, each with three publications. Other venues include Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics and The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.

David A. Randall has received recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001 and as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Clouds and Aerosols

    Olivier Boucher;David Randall;Paulo Artaxo;Christopher Bretherton

  • Climate models and their evaluation

    D.A. Randall;Thierry Fichefet

  • A Revised Land Surface Parameterization (SiB2) for Atmospheric GCMS. Part I: Model Formulation

    P.J. Sellers;D.A. Randall;G.J. Collatz;J.A. Berry

  • 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

  • How Well Do We Understand and Evaluate Climate Change Feedback Processes

    Sandrine Bony;Robert Colman;Vladimir M. Kattsov;Richard P. Allan

  • A Revised Land Surface Parameterization (SiB2) for Atmospheric GCMS. Part II: The Generation of Global Fields of Terrestrial Biophysical Parameters from Satellite Data

    Piers J. Sellers;Compton J. Tucker;G. James Collatz;Sietse O. Los

  • Intercomparison and interpretation of climate feedback processes in 19 atmospheric general circulation models

    R. D. Cess;G. L. Potter;J. P. Blanchet;G. J. Boer

  • Cloud resolving modeling of the ARM summer 1997 IOP: Model formulation, results, uncertainties, and sensitivities

    Marat F. Khairoutdinov;David A. Randall

  • Overview of Arctic Cloud and Radiation Characteristics

    Judith A. Curry;William B. Rossow;David Randall;Julie L. Schramm

  • Clouds and Aerosols

    O. Boucher;D. Randall;P. Artaxo;C. Bretherton

  • Breaking the Cloud Parameterization Deadlock

    David Randall;Marat Khairoutdinov;Akio Arakawa;Wojciech Grabowski

  • Interpretation of Cloud-Climate Feedback as Produced by 14 Atmospheric General Circulation Models

    R. D. Cess;G. L. Potter;J. P. Blanchet;G. J. Boer

  • Intraseasonal oscillations in 15 atmospheric general circulation models: results from an AMIP diagnostic subproject

    J. M. Slingo;K. R. Sperber;J. S. Boyle;J.-P. Ceron

  • A global 1° by 1° NDVI data set for climate studies. Part 2: The generation of global fields of terrestrial biophysical parameters from the NDVI

    P. J. Sellers;C. J. Tucker;G. J. Collatz;S. O. Los

  • Comparison of radiative and physiological effects of doubled atmospheric CO2 on climate

    P. J. Sellers;L. Bounoua;G. J. Collatz;D. A. Randall

  • A fast radiation parameterization for atmospheric circulation models

    Harshvardhan;Roger Davies;David A. Randall;Thomas G. Corsetti

  • A cloud resolving model as a cloud parameterization in the NCAR Community Climate System Model: Preliminary results

    Marat F. Khairoutdinov;David A. Randall

  • Latitudinal gradient of atmospheric CO 2 due to seasonal exchange with land biota

    A. Scott Denning;A. Scott Denning;A. Scott Denning;Inez Y. Fung;Inez Y. Fung;David Randall

  • Mission to planet Earth: Role of clouds and radiation in climate

    Bruce A. Wielicki;Robert D. Cess;Michael D. King;David A. Randall

  • Simulations of the Atmospheric General Circulation Using a Cloud-Resolving Model as a Superparameterization of Physical Processes

    Marat Khairoutdinov;David Randall;Charlotte DeMott

  • Partitioning of ocean and land uptake of CO2 as inferred by δ13C measurements from the NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory Global Air Sampling Network

    Philippe Ciais;Pieter P. Tans;James W. C. White;Michael Trolier

Frequent Co-Authors

Marat Khairoutdinov
Marat Khairoutdinov Stony Brook University
Kuan-Man Xu
Kuan-Man Xu Langley Research Center
Piers J. Sellers
Piers J. Sellers Goddard Space Flight Center
Minghua Zhang
Minghua Zhang Stony Brook University
A. Scott Denning
A. Scott Denning Colorado State University
Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry Carnegie Institution for Science
Karl E. Taylor
Karl E. Taylor Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Erich Roeckner
Erich Roeckner Max Planck Society
Jean-Jacques Morcrette
Jean-Jacques Morcrette European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
H. Le Treut
H. Le Treut Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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