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John R. Gyakum

John R. Gyakum

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
38
Citations
6514
World Ranking
8580
National Ranking
395

Overview

John R. Gyakum is affiliated with McGill University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, contributing significant work in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics center on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate Variability and Models, Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, and Wind and Air Flow Studies.

Their recent publications include:

  • "P-Type Processes and Predictability: The Winter Precipitation Type Research Multiscale Experiment (WINTRE-MIX)", 2023, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Regional Thermodynamic Characteristics Distinguishing Long- and Short-Duration Freezing Rain Events over North America", 2020, Weather and Forecasting
  • "The Histories of Well-Documented Maritime Cyclones as Portrayed by an Automated Tracking Method", 2023, Monthly Weather Review
  • "Trends in Downwelling Longwave Radiance Over the Southern Great Plains", 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Extreme Winter Precipitation Regimes in Eastern North America: Synoptic-Scale and Thermodynamic Environments", 2022, Monthly Weather Review

John R. Gyakum frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Yi Huang
  • Mengistu Wolde
  • Lei Liu
  • Eyad H. Atallah
  • Quinn Dyer-Hawes

Their work regularly appears in publication venues such as:

  • Weather and Forecasting
  • Monthly Weather Review
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Nature

Best Publications

  • Synoptic-Dynamic Climatology of the “Bomb”

    Frederick Sanders;John R. Gyakum

  • North American extreme temperature events and related large scale meteorological patterns: a review of statistical methods, dynamics, modeling, and trends

    Richard Grotjahn;Robert Black;Ruby Leung;Michael F. Wehner

  • Numerical Simulations of a Case of Explosive Marine Cyclogenesis

    Richard A. Anthes;Ying-Hwa Kuo;John R. Gyakum

  • On the Evolution of the QE II Storm. II: Dynamic and Thermodynamic Structure

    John R. Gyakum

  • On the Evolution of the QE II Storm. I: Synoptic Aspects

    John R. Gyakum

  • The extratropical transition of tropical cyclones. Part I: Cyclone evolution and direct impacts

    Clark Evans;Kimberly M. Wood;Sim D. Aberson;Heather M. Archambault

  • Analysis of Hurricane Catarina (2004)

    Ron McTaggart-Cowan;Lance F. Bosart;Christopher A. Davis;Eyad H. Atallah

  • Northern Lake Impacts on Local Seasonal Climate

    Z. Long;W. Perrie;J. Gyakum;D. Caya

  • North American extreme precipitation events and related large-scale meteorological patterns: a review of statistical methods, dynamics, modeling, and trends

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  • North Pacific Cold-Season Surface Cyclone Activity: 1975–1983

    John R. Gyakum;John R. Anderson;Richard H. Grumm;Elissa L. Gruner

  • Heavy Cold-Season Precipitation in the Northwestern United States: Synoptic Climatology and an Analysis of the Flood of 17-18 January 1986

    Gary M. Lackmann;John R. Gyakum

  • The 1998 ice storm : Analysis of a planetary-scale event

    John R. Gyakum;Paul J. Roebber

  • Sensitivity Testing of Extratropical Transitions Using Potential Vorticity Inversions to Modify Initial Conditions: Hurricane Earl Case Study

    R. McTaggart-Cowan;J. R. Gyakum;M. K. Yau

  • Intraseasonal and Interannual Variability in North American Storm Tracks and Its Relationship to Equatorial Pacific Variability

    Kevin Michael Grise;Seok-Woo Son;John R. Gyakum

  • Representing Extremes in a Daily Gridded Precipitation Analysis over the United States: Impacts of Station Density, Resolution, and Gridding Methods

    Melissa Gervais;L. Bruno Tremblay;John R. Gyakum;Eyad Atallah

  • Analysis of Meteorological Precursors to Ordinary and Explosive Cyclogenesis in the Western North Pacific

    John R. Gyakum;Richard E. Danielson

  • A Meteorological Analysis of the 2013 Alberta Flood: Antecedent Large-Scale Flow Pattern and Synoptic–Dynamic Characteristics

    Shawn M. Milrad;John R. Gyakum;Eyad H. Atallah

  • Characterization and Summary of the 1999–2005 Canadian Prairie Drought

    J. M. Hanesiak;R. E. Stewart;B. R. Bonsal;P. Harder

  • Interaction of Potential Vorticity Anomalies in Extratropical Cyclogenesis. Part I: Static Piecewise Inversion

    Zonghui Huo;Da-Lin Zhang;John R. Gyakum

  • Observational Study of Wind Channeling within the St. Lawrence River Valley

    Marco L. Carrera;John R. Gyakum;Charles A. Lin

  • Energy and Water Cycles in a High-Latitude, North-Flowing River System

    W. R. Rouse;E. M. Blyth;R. W. Crawford;J. R. Gyakum

Frequent Co-Authors

Da-Lin Zhang
Da-Lin Zhang University of Maryland, College Park
Lance F. Bosart
Lance F. Bosart University at Albany, State University of New York
William Perrie
William Perrie Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Seok-Woo Son
Seok-Woo Son Seoul National University
Mike D. Flannigan
Mike D. Flannigan University of Alberta
Ying-Hwa Kuo
Ying-Hwa Kuo University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
René Laprise
René Laprise University of Quebec at Montreal
L. Bruno Tremblay
L. Bruno Tremblay McGill University
Richard A. Anthes
Richard A. Anthes University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Daniel Caya
Daniel Caya University of Quebec at Montreal

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