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Richard T. McNider is affiliated with the University of Alabama in Huntsville in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Plant Science.

Their research primarily focuses on topics related to atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, crop yield and soil fertility, climate change impacts on agriculture, rice cultivation and yield improvement, and meteorological phenomena and simulations.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Atmospheric Environment, Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.

Recent research papers by Richard T. McNider include:

  • Improvement of summertime surface ozone prediction by assimilating Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite cloud observations (2021, Atmospheric Environment)
  • Iterative assimilation of geostationary satellite observations in retrospective meteorological modeling for air quality studies (2022, Atmospheric Environment)
  • Contrasting corn acreage trends in the Midwest and Southeast: The role of yield, climate, economics, and irrigation (2024, Journal of Agriculture and Food Research)
  • Validation of GOES-Based Surface Insolation Retrievals and Its Utility for Model Evaluation (2020, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology)
  • Utility of Geostationary Lightning Mapper-derived lightning NO emission estimates in air quality modeling studies (2024, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics)

Richard T. McNider has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Arastoo Pour-Biazar, Peiyang Cheng, Andrew T. White, Lokendra Singh Rathore, and Mukesh Kumar.

Best Publications

  • Land cover changes and their biogeophysical effects on climate

    Rezaul Mahmood;Roger A. Pielke;Kenneth G. Hubbard;Dev Niyogi

  • Diurnal Boundary-Layer Development over Sloping Terrain

    Richard T. McNider;Roger A. Pielke

  • Impacts of land use/land cover change on climate and future research priorities

    Rezaul Mahmood;Roger A. Pielke;Kenneth G. Hubbard;Dev Niyogi

  • Unresolved issues with the assessment of multidecadal global land surface temperature trends

    Roger A. Pielke;Christopher A. Davey;Dev Niyogi;Souleymane Fall

  • Daytime buildup and nighttime transport of urban ozone in the boundary layer during a stagnation episode

    Robert M. Banta;Christoph J. Senff;Allen B. White;Michael Trainer

  • Surface Temperature Variations in East Africa and Possible Causes

    John R. Christy;William B. Norris;Richard T. McNider

  • Influence of diurnal and inertial boundary-layer oscillations on long-range dispersion

    Richard T. McNider;Michael D. Moran;Roger A. Pielke

  • Predictability of the Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layer

    Richard T. McNider;David E. England;Mark J. Friedman;Xingzhong Shi

  • Satellite greenhouse signal

    John R. Christy;Richard T. McNider

  • Toward a Dynamic-Thermodynamic Assimilation of Satellite Surface Temperature in Numerical Atmospheric Models

    Richard T. McNider;Aaron J. Song;Daniel M. Casey;Peter J. Wetzel

  • Numerical Simulation of Slope and Mountain Flows

    Richard T. McNider;Roger A. Pielke

  • A Note on Velocity Fluctuations in Drainage Flows

    Richard T. McNider

  • Investigation of the Impact of Topographic Circulations on the Transport and Dispersion of Air Pollutants.

    Richard Thomas McNider

  • Response and sensitivity of the nocturnal boundary layer over land to added longwave radiative forcing

    R. T. McNider;G. J. Steeneveld;A. A. M. Holtslag;R. A. Pielke

  • Positive surface temperature feedback in the stable nocturnal boundary layer

    Justin T. Walters;Richard T. McNider;Xingzhong Shi;William B. Norris

  • Reducing Noise in the MSU Daily Lower-Tropospheric Global Temperature Dataset

    John R. Christy;Roy W. Spencer;Richard T. McNider

  • What do observational datasets say about modeled tropospheric temperature trends since 1979

    John R. Christy;Benjamin M. Herman;Roger A. Pielke;Philip Klotzbach

  • The Use of a Mesoscale Numerical Model for Evaluations of Pollutant Transport and Diffusion in Coastal Regions and over Irregular Terrain

    Roger A. Pielke;Richard T. McNider;Mordecay Segal;Ytzhaq Mahrer

  • Comparing MM5 radiative fluxes with observations gathered during the 1995 and 1999 Nashville southern oxidants studies

    R. J. Zamora;S. Solomon;E. G. Dutton;J. W. Bao

  • Global change detection

    M.R. Alien;C.T. Mutlow;G.M.C. Blumberg;J.R. Christy

  • Reply to comment by David E. Parker et al. on: Unresolved issues with the assessment of multidecadal global land surface temperature trends

    Roger A. Pielke;Christopher A. Davey;Dev Niyogi;Souleymane Fall

  • Response and Sensitivity of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer Over Land to Added Longwave Radiative Forcing

    R. T. McNider;G. Steeneveld;B. Holtslag;R. A. Pielke

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke University of Colorado Boulder
John R. Christy
John R. Christy University of Alabama in Huntsville
Armistead G. Russell
Armistead G. Russell Georgia Institute of Technology
Dev Niyogi
Dev Niyogi The University of Texas at Austin
Michael Trainer
Michael Trainer National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Roy W. Spencer
Roy W. Spencer University of Alabama in Huntsville
Sundar A. Christopher
Sundar A. Christopher University of Alabama in Huntsville
Peter D. Blanken
Peter D. Blanken University of Colorado Boulder
Kenneth G. Hubbard
Kenneth G. Hubbard University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Allen B. White
Allen B. White National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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