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37
Citations
5778
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8867
National Ranking
3179

Overview

John O. Roads was affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed to the academic community primarily through their research activities and affiliations.

There are no publicly listed recent papers or specific titles of publications associated with John O. Roads. Similarly, there are no frequent co-authors or publication venues documented in the available data.

Their research did not have recorded details on main fields or subfields of study, nor are there specific main topics of work attributed to them. No book publications linked to the scientist are documented.

The records indicate no awards were received by John O. Roads, and their passing has been noted as part of the available information.

Best Publications

  • Mid-Century Ensemble Regional Climate Change Scenarios for the Western United States

    L. Ruby Leung;Yun Qian;Xindi Bian;Warren M. Washington

  • Uncertainties in Precipitation and Their Impacts on Runoff Estimates

    Balázs M. Fekete;Charles J. Vörösmarty;John O. Roads;Cort J. Willmott

  • Wind speed trends over the contiguous United States

    S. C. Pryor;R. J. Barthelmie;D. T. Young;Eugene S. Takle

  • Project to Intercompare Regional Climate Simulations (PIRCS): Description and initial results

    Eugene S. Takle;William J. Gutowski;Raymond W. Arritt;Zaitao Pan

  • Evaluation of the land surface water budget in NCEP/NCAR and NCEP/DOE reanalyses using an off‐line hydrologic model

    Edwin P. Maurer;Greg M. O'Donnell;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;John O. Roads

  • Large-Scale Aspects of the United States Hydrologic Cycle

    John O. Roads;Shyh-C. Chen;Alexander K. Guetter;Konstantine P. Georgakakos

  • The Scripps Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Regional (SCOAR) Model, with Applications in the Eastern Pacific Sector

    Hyodae Seo;Arthur J. Miller;John O. Roads

  • Simulations of Present and Future Climates in the Western United States with Four Nested Regional Climate Models

    Phil Duffy;R. Arritt;J. Coquard;William Gutowski

  • GCIP water and energy budget synthesis (WEBS)

    J. Roads;R. Lawford;E. Bainto;E. Berbery

  • NCEP–NCAR and ECMWF Reanalysis Surface Water and Energy Budgets for the Mississippi River Basin

    John Roads;Alan Betts

  • Local Relationships between United States West Coast Precipitation and Monthly Mean Circulation Parameters

    Daniel R. Cayan;John O. Roads

  • CSE Water and Energy Budgets in the NCEP–DOE Reanalysis II

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  • Long-Term Prediction of Soybean Rust Entry into the Continental United States

    Z. Pan;X.B. Yang;S. Pivonia;L. Xue

  • Seasonal fire danger forecasts for the USA

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  • Surface water characteristics in NCEP global spectral model and reanalysis

    J. O. Roads;S.-C. Chen;M. Kanamitsu;H. Juang

  • Regional Extreme Monthly Precipitation Simulated by NARCCAP RCMs

    William J. Gutowski;Raymond W. Arritt;Sho Kawazoe;David M. Flory

  • Feedback of Tropical Instability-Wave-Induced Atmospheric Variability onto the Ocean

    Hyodae Seo;Markus Jochum;Raghu Murtugudde;Arthur J. Miller

  • Transferability Intercomparison: An Opportunity for New Insight on the Global Water Cycle and Energy Budget

    E. S. Takle;J. Roads;B. Rockel;W. J. Gutowski

  • Regional simulation of the low‐level monsoon winds over the Gulf of California and southwestern United States

    Bruce T. Anderson;John O. Roads;Shyh-Chin Chen;Hann-Ming H. Juang

  • Hydrological processes in regional climate model simulations of the central United States flood of June-July 1993.

    Christopher J. Anderson;Raymond W. Arritt;Zaitao Pan;Eugene S. Takle

  • North American regional climate change assessment program

    Linda O. Mearns;Ray Arritt;George Boer;Daniel Caya

  • Reply to “Comments on ‘The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program: Overview of Phase I Results'”

    Linda O. Mearns;Melissa S. Bukovsky;Ruby Leung;Yun Qian

Frequent Co-Authors

Masao Kanamitsu
Masao Kanamitsu University of California, San Diego
Robert J. Oglesby
Robert J. Oglesby University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Raymond W. Arritt
Raymond W. Arritt Iowa State University
William J. Gutowski
William J. Gutowski Iowa State University
Eugene S. Takle
Eugene S. Takle Iowa State University
Bruce T. Anderson
Bruce T. Anderson Boston University
Daniel Caya
Daniel Caya University of Quebec at Montreal
Arthur J. Miller
Arthur J. Miller University of California, San Diego
René Laprise
René Laprise University of Quebec at Montreal
Linda O. Mearns
Linda O. Mearns National Center for Atmospheric Research

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