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Overview

Peter J. Webster is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Oncology, Geriatrics, and Gerontology.

Their research spans several subfields including Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Oncology, Geriatrics and Gerontology, and Global and Planetary Change. Key topics addressed in their work include Emergency and Acute Care Studies, Trauma and Emergency Care Studies, Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments, Hospital Admissions and Outcomes, Hernia Repair and Management, Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes, and Patient Safety and Medication Errors.

Peter J. Webster has co-authored research with frequent collaborators such as Richard Pilbery, Fiona Bell, Fiona Sampson, Steve Goodacre, and Andy Rosser. This network reflects a consistent engagement in multi-author research projects across their fields of interest.

Their publications appear in a variety of scholarly journals, some of the most frequent venues being Nature Communications, Colorectal Disease, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), InnovAiT Education and Inspiration for General Practice, and the British Journal of Surgery.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter J. Webster include:

  • Seven centuries of reconstructed Brahmaputra River discharge demonstrate underestimated high discharge and flood hazard frequency, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Outcomes following emergency colorectal cancer presentation in the elderly, 2020, Colorectal Disease
  • What factors predict ambulance pre-alerts to the emergency department? Analysis of routine data from 3 UK ambulance services, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Bowel obstruction, 2020, InnovAiT Education and inspiration for general practice
  • Long-term cost-effectiveness of insertion of a biological mesh during stoma-site closure: 5-8-year follow-up of the ROCSS randomized controlled trial, 2024, British Journal of Surgery

Best Publications

  • Changes in tropical cyclone number, duration, and intensity in a warming environment.

    P. J. Webster;G. J. Holland;G. J. Holland;J. A. Curry;J. A. Curry;H.-R. Chang;H.-R. Chang

  • Monsoons: Processes, predictability, and the prospects for prediction

    P. J. Webster;V. O. Magaña;T. N. Palmer;J. Shukla

  • Coupled ocean–atmosphere dynamics in the Indian Ocean during 1997–98

    Peter J. Webster;Andrew M. Moore;Johannes P. Loschnigg;Robert R. Leben

  • Interdecadal changes in the ENSO-monsoon system

    Christopher Torrence;Peter J. Webster

  • Monsoon and Enso: Selectively Interactive Systems

    Peter J. Webster;Song Yang

  • TOGA COARE: The Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment.

    Peter J. Webster;Roger Lukas

  • Tropical Cyclones and Global Climate Change: A Post-IPCC Assessment

    A. Henderson-Sellers;H. Zhang;G. Berz;K. Emanuel

  • Large-Scale Dynamical Fields Associated with Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves

    Matthew Wheeler;George N. Kiladis;Peter J. Webster

  • Recent change of the global monsoon precipitation (1979–2008)

    Bin Wang;Jian Liu;Hyung-Jin Kim;Peter J. Webster

  • The role of hydrological processes in ocean-atmosphere interactions

    P. J. Webster

  • Deconvolution of the factors contributing to the increase in global hurricane intensity.

    Carlos D. Hoyos;Paula A. Agudelo;Peter J. Webster;Judith A. Curry

  • The Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation: Relationship between Northward and Eastward Movement of Convection

    David M. Lawrence;Peter J. Webster

  • Response of the Tropical Atmosphere to Local, Steady Forcing

    Peter J. Webster

  • Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon intensified by mega-El Niño/southern oscillation and Atlantic multidecadal oscillation

    Bin Wang;Jian Liu;Jian Liu;Hyung-Jin Kim;Peter J. Webster

  • Impact of Shifting Patterns of Pacific Ocean Warming on North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones

    Hye-Mi Kim;Peter J. Webster;Judith A. Curry

  • Cross-Equatorial Response to Middle-Latitude Forcing in a Zonally Varying Basic State

    Peter J. Webster;James R. Holton

  • Mechanisms Determining the Atmospheric Response to Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

    Peter J. Webster

  • Heightened tropical cyclone activity in the North Atlantic: natural variability or climate trend?

    Greg J Holland;Peter J Webster

  • A Hydrological Definition of Indian Monsoon Onset and Withdrawal

    J. Fasullo;P. J. Webster

  • Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

    Judith A. Curry;Peter J. Webster

  • The annual cycle of persistence in the El Nño/Southern Oscillation

    Christopher Torrence;Peter J. Webster

Frequent Co-Authors

Judith A. Curry
Judith A. Curry Georgia Institute of Technology
Greg J. Holland
Greg J. Holland National Center for Atmospheric Research
Graeme L. Stephens
Graeme L. Stephens Jet Propulsion Lab
Bin Wang
Bin Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Weiqing Han
Weiqing Han University of Colorado Boulder
John T. Fasullo
John T. Fasullo National Center for Atmospheric Research
Roger Lukas
Roger Lukas University of Hawaii at Manoa
Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Upmanu Lall
Upmanu Lall Columbia University
Baoqiang Xiang
Baoqiang Xiang University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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