What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Meteorology
- Statistics
- Tropical cyclone
His primary areas of investigation include Meteorology, Climatology, Lightning, Precipitation and Global Precipitation Measurement.
His Meteorology study frequently draws parallels with other fields, such as Radar observations.
His Climatology research incorporates elements of Atmosphere and Convection.
His Lightning research includes elements of Storm, Severe weather and Convective rainfall.
His Precipitation research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Geographic coordinate system and Remote sensing.
His work carried out in the field of Global Precipitation Measurement brings together such families of science as Climate model, Peninsula and Snow, Snow cover, Rain and snow mixed.
His most cited work include:
- The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission for Science and Society (263 citations)
- Global precipitation measurement: Methods, datasets and applications (252 citations)
- Regional Variability in Tropical Convection: Observations from TRMM (223 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Walter A. Petersen mainly focuses on Meteorology, Precipitation, Remote sensing, Global Precipitation Measurement and Climatology.
Lightning, Storm, Snow, Thunderstorm and Quantitative precipitation estimation are among the areas of Meteorology where Walter A. Petersen concentrates his study.
Walter A. Petersen combines subjects such as Atmospheric sciences and Weather forecasting with his study of Precipitation.
His Remote sensing study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Polarimetry, Ground-penetrating radar, Weather radar, Nowcasting and Disdrometer.
His research investigates the connection between Global Precipitation Measurement and topics such as Cloud physics that intersect with issues in Graupel.
In his study, Mesoscale meteorology and Doppler radar is strongly linked to Convection, which falls under the umbrella field of Climatology.
He most often published in these fields:
- Meteorology (64.44%)
- Precipitation (34.31%)
- Remote sensing (32.22%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2016-2021)?
- Meteorology (64.44%)
- Precipitation (34.31%)
- Global Precipitation Measurement (21.34%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His scientific interests lie mostly in Meteorology, Precipitation, Global Precipitation Measurement, Remote sensing and Snow.
Walter A. Petersen has included themes like Climate change and Doppler radar in his Meteorology study.
His Precipitation research includes themes of Climatology, Estimation, Gauge and Atmospheric sciences.
His Global Precipitation Measurement study incorporates themes from Cloud microphysics, Weather forecasting and Rain and snow mixed.
His Remote sensing study combines topics in areas such as Polarimetry, Weather radar, Drop and Precipitation measurement.
As part of one scientific family, Walter A. Petersen deals mainly with the area of Snow, narrowing it down to issues related to the Microphysics, and often Ice crystals and Microwave sounding unit.
Between 2016 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission for Science and Society (263 citations)
- The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) (87 citations)
- Evaluation of GPM IMERG Early, Late, and Final rainfall estimates using WegenerNet gauge data in southeastern Austria (76 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Meteorology
- Statistics
- Precipitation
Walter A. Petersen spends much of his time researching Meteorology, Precipitation, Global Precipitation Measurement, Climatology and Remote sensing.
As a part of the same scientific family, he mostly works in the field of Meteorology, focusing on Climate model and, on occasion, Range.
His Satellite precipitation study in the realm of Precipitation interacts with subjects such as Inverse distance weighting.
His studies in Global Precipitation Measurement integrate themes in fields like Satellite imagery, Footprint, Gprof, Rain and snow mixed and Spatial variability.
As part of his studies on Climatology, Walter A. Petersen frequently links adjacent subjects like Rain gauge.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Middle latitudes, Severe weather, Drizzle and Standard deviation in addition to Remote sensing.
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