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55
Citations
11025
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2989
National Ranking
1054

Overview

Walter A. Petersen is affiliated with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Atmospheric Science and Environmental Science.

Their scholarly output includes work spanning various interdisciplinary topics such as Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Climate variability and models, Cryospheric studies and observations, Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for Walter A. Petersen include Remote Sensing, Atmosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, and the International Journal of Climatology.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Validation of Satellite-Based Precipitation Products from TRMM to GPM, 2021, Remote Sensing
  • The Precipitation Imaging Package: Assessment of Microphysical and Bulk Characteristics of Snow, 2020, Atmosphere
  • The GPM Validation Network and Evaluation of Satellite-Based Retrievals of the Rain Drop Size Distribution, 2020, Atmosphere
  • Ground validation of TRMM 3B43 V7 precipitation estimates over Colombia. Part I: Monthly and seasonal timescales, 2020, International Journal of Climatology
  • Snowfall in the Northern Great Lakes: Lessons Learned from a Multisensor Observatory, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Frequent collaborators include David B. Wolff, Claire Pettersen, Larry F. Bliven, Norman B. Wood, and Mark S. Kulie.

Best Publications

  • Regional Variability in Tropical Convection: Observations from TRMM

    Walter A. Petersen;Steven A. Rutledge

  • Evaluation of GPM IMERG Early, Late, and Final rainfall estimates using WegenerNet gauge data in southeastern Austria

    Sungmin O;Ulrich Foelsche;Gottfried Kirchengast;Juergen Fuchsberger

  • TRMM Observations of Intraseasonal Variability in Convective Regimes over the Amazon

    Walter A. Petersen;Stephen W. Nesbitt;Richard J. Blakeslee;Robert Cifelli

  • EPIC2001 and the Coupled Ocean Atmosphere System of the Tropical East Pacific.

    David J. Raymond;Steven K. Esbensen;Clayton Paulson;Michael Gregg

  • Convection and Easterly Wave Structures Observed in the Eastern Pacific Warm Pool during EPIC-2001

    Walter A. Petersen;Robert Cifelli;Dennis J. Boccippio;Steven A. Rutledge

  • Validation of Satellite-Based Precipitation Products from TRMM to GPM

    Jianxin Wang;Walter A. Petersen;David B. Wolff

  • Measurements and Modeling of the Full Rain Drop Size Distribution

    Merhala Thurai;Viswanathan Bringi;Patrick N. Gatlin;Walter A. Petersen

  • The Precipitation Imaging Package: Assessment of Microphysical and Bulk Characteristics of Snow

    Claire Pettersen;Larry F. Bliven;Annakaisa von Lerber;Norman B. Wood

  • The GPM Validation Network and Evaluation of Satellite-Based Retrievals of the Rain Drop Size Distribution

    Patrick N. Gatlin;Walter A. Petersen;Jason L. Pippitt;Todd A. Berendes

  • A Composite Analysis of Snowfall Modes from Four Winter Seasons in Marquette, Michigan

    Claire Pettersen;Mark S. Kulie;Larry F. Bliven;Aronne J. Merrelli

  • Observed Response of the Raindrop Size Distribution to Changes in the Melting Layer

    Patrick N. Gatlin;Walter A. Petersen;Kevin R. Knupp;Lawrence D. Carey

  • Ground based remote sensing retrievals and observations of snowfall in the Telemark region of Norway

    C. Pettersen;T. S. L'Ecuyer;N. Wood;S. Cooper

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence D. Carey
Lawrence D. Carey University of Alabama in Huntsville
Tristan L'Ecuyer
Tristan L'Ecuyer University of Wisconsin–Madison
V. N. Bringi
V. N. Bringi Colorado State University
Ali Tokay
Ali Tokay University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Kenneth E. Pickering
Kenneth E. Pickering University of Maryland, College Park

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