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54
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11662
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4016
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David L. Williamson 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 David L. Williamson sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 111 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David L. Williamson 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 David L. Williamson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 54 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

David L. Williamson is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields related to materials science and engineering, with a focus on the properties and behavior of polymers and carbon-based materials.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

Within these broad areas, Williamson's work covers several subfields, including:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Polymers and Plastics
  • Mechanics of Materials

Key research topics addressed by Williamson include:

  • Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
  • Polymer crystallization and properties
  • Energetic Materials and Combustion

Williamson's recent publication record shows contributions to conferences focused on applied physics and materials science. Notably, there is one documented recent paper:

  • "Split Hopkinson pressure bar measurements of polymer energy dissipation and identification of the glass transition condition," published in 2023 in the AIP conference proceedings

This work aims to explore the mechanical behavior of polymers under dynamic loading conditions, particularly examining the energy dissipation and transitions in polymer states.

Collaboration is a part of Williamson's research approach, with a recorded co-authorship with Malvina Constantinou, indicating joint efforts in experimental investigations in materials science.

Williamson's contributions are published predominantly in the AIP conference proceedings, which is currently the sole frequent venue for their scientific communications.

Best Publications

  • The National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate Model: CCM3*

    J. T. Kiehl;J. J. Hack;G. B. Bonan;B. A. Boville

  • A standard test set for numerical approximations to the shallow water equations in spherical geometry

    David L. Williamson;John B. Drake;James J. Hack;Rüdiger Jakob

  • The Formulation and Atmospheric Simulation of the Community Atmosphere Model Version 3 (CAM3)

    William D. Collins;Philip J. Rasch;Byron A. Boville;James J. Hack

  • Two-Dimensional Semi-Lagrangian Transport with Shape-Preserving Interpolation

    David L. Williamson;Philip J. Rasch

  • A baroclinic instability test case for atmospheric model dynamical cores

    Christiane Jablonowski;David L. Williamson

  • Northern Hemisphere atmospheric blocking as simulated by 15 atmospheric general circulation models in the period 1979–1988

    F. D’Andrea;S. Tibaldi;M. Blackburn;G. Boer

  • Computational aspects of moisture transport in global models of the atmosphere

    Philip J. Rasch;David L. Williamson

  • The Evolution of Dynamical Cores for Global Atmospheric Models

    David L. Williamson

  • Integration of the barotropic vorticity equation on a spherical geodesic grid

    David L. Williamson;David L. Williamson

  • Evaluating Parameterizations in General Circulation Models: Climate Simulation Meets Weather Prediction

    Thomas J. Phillips;Gerald L. Potter;David L. Williamson;Richard T. Cederwall

  • A comparison of scavenging and deposition processes in global models: results from the WCRP Cambridge Workshop of 1995

    P. J. Rasch;J. Feichter;K. Law;N. Mahowald

  • Some results from an intercomparison of the climates simulated by 14 atmospheric general circulation models

    G. J. Boer;K. Arpe;M. Blackburn;M. Déqué

  • Aquaplanets, Climate Sensitivity, and Low Clouds

    Brian Medeiros;Bjorn Stevens;Isaac M. Held;Ming Zhao

  • The Transpose-AMIP II Experiment and Its Application to the Understanding of Southern Ocean Cloud Biases in Climate Models

    Keith Williams;Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo;Michel Deque;Solange Fermepin

  • The Formulation and Atmospheric Simulation of the Community Atmosphere Model: CAM3

    William D. Collins;Philip J. Rasch;Byron A. Boville;James J. Hack

  • The Dynamical Simulation of the NCAR Community Climate Model Version 3 (CCM3)

    James W. Hurrell;James J. Hack;Byron A. Boville;David L. Williamson

  • Climate Simulations with a Semi-Lagrangian Version of the NCAR Community Climate Model

    David L. Williamson;Jerry G. Olson

  • Spectral transform solutions to the shallow water test set

    Ruediger Jakob-Chien;James J. Hack;David L. Williamson

  • Water vapor transport in the NCAR CCM2

    David L. Williamson;Philip J. Rasch

  • The pros and cons of diffusion, filters and fixers in Atmospheric General Circulation Models

    Christiane Jablonowski;David L. Williamson

  • The Evolution of Dynamical Cores for Global Atmospheric Models(125th Anniversary Issue of the Meteorological Society of Japan)

    David L. Williamson

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip J. Rasch
Philip J. Rasch Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
James J. Hack
James J. Hack Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Byron A. Boville
Byron A. Boville National Center for Atmospheric Research
Jeffrey T. Kiehl
Jeffrey T. Kiehl University of California, Santa Cruz
Shaocheng Xie
Shaocheng Xie Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
James S. Boyle
James S. Boyle Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Akio Kitoh
Akio Kitoh University of Tsukuba
William D. Collins
William D. Collins Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michel Déqué
Michel Déqué Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Erich Roeckner
Erich Roeckner Max Planck Society

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