John Christy
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- Bachelors Mathematics California State University, Fresno
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Raymond Christy is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville whose chief interests are satellite remote sensing of global climate and global climate change. He is best known, jointly with Roy Spencer, for the first successful development of a satellite temperature record.
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- Climate forcings in Goddard Institute for Space Studies SI2000 simulations (2002) (349)
- Precise Monitoring of Global Temperature Trends from Satellites (1990) (291)
- Error Estimates of Version 5.0 of MSU–AMSU Bulk Atmospheric Temperatures (2003) (271)
- SOLAR RADIATIVE FORCING AT SELECTED LOCATIONS AND EVIDENCE FOR GLOBAL LOWER TROPOSPHERIC COOLING FOLLOWING THE ERUPTIONS OF EL (1992) (262)
- MSU Tropospheric Temperatures: Dataset Construction and Radiosonde Comparisons (2000) (261)
- State of the Climate in 2016 (2017) (225)
- State of the Climate in 2014 (2015) (185)
- UNCERTAINTIES IN CLIMATE TRENDS Lessons from Upper-Air Temperature Records (2005) (164)
- Methodology and Results of Calculating Central California Surface Temperature Trends: Evidence of Human-Induced Climate Change? (2006) (147)
- State of the Climate in 2018 (2019) (147)
- Analysis of the Merging Procedure for the MSU Daily Temperature Time Series (1998) (145)
- THE IMPACT OF MOUNT PINATUBO ON WORLD‐WIDE TEMPERATURES (1996) (134)
- Precision and Radiosonde Validation of Satellite Gridpoint Temperature Anomalies. Part I; MSU Channel 2. Pt. 1; MSU Channel 2 (1992) (133)
- Surface Temperature Variations in East Africa and Possible Causes (2009) (128)
- A comparison of tropical temperature trends with model predictions (2008) (121)
- Tropospheric temperature change since 1979 from tropical radiosonde and satellite measurements (2007) (120)
- Global atmospheric temperature monitoring with satellite microwave measurements - Method and results 1979-84 (1990) (118)
- Uncertainty in Signals of Large-Scale Climate Variations in Radiosonde and Satellite Upper-Air Temperature Datasets (2004) (108)
- Analysis of the impacts of station exposure on the U.S. Historical Climatology Network temperatures and temperature trends (2011) (107)
- Precision Lower Stratospheric Temperature Monitoring with the MSU: Technique, Validation, and Results 1979–1991 (1993) (97)
- Caribbean sea surface temperatures: Two‐to‐three degrees cooler than present during the Little Ice Age (2000) (88)
- Global and Hemispheric Temperature Trends: Uncertainties Related to Inadequate Spatial Sampling (1994) (88)
- Monitoring global monthly mean surface temperatures (1992) (85)
- The international surface temperature initiative global land surface databank: monthly temperature data release description and methods (2014) (80)
- Response and sensitivity of the nocturnal boundary layer over land to added longwave radiative forcing (2012) (79)
- Global atmospheric mass, surface pressure, and water vapor variations (1987) (76)
- Guiding the Creation of A Comprehensive Surface Temperature Resource for Twenty-First-Century Climate Science (2011) (69)
- Positive surface temperature feedback in the stable nocturnal boundary layer (2007) (66)
- Satellite greenhouse signal (1994) (66)
- Comparison of tropospheric temperatures from radiosondes and satellites : 1979-98 (2000) (60)
- Cloud and radiation budget changes associated with tropical intraseasonal oscillations (2007) (58)
- IPCC: cherish it, tweak it or scrap it? (2010) (57)
- What Do Observational Datasets Say about Modeled Tropospheric Temperature Trends since 1979? (2010) (56)
- Global change detection (1994) (51)
- Differential trends in tropical sea surface and atmospheric temperatures since 1979 (2001) (50)
- Satellite and VIZ-Radiosonde Intercomparisons for Diagnosis of Nonclimatic Influences (2006) (50)
- Creating Climate Reference Datasets: CARDS Workshop on Adjusting Radiosonde Temperature Data for Climate Monitoring. (2002) (49)
- Reducing Noise in the MSU Daily Lower-Tropospheric Global Temperature Dataset (1995) (49)
- Revisiting the Mystery of Recent Stratospheric Temperature Trends (2018) (45)
- Climate Assessment For 2001 (2002) (45)
- What may we conclude about global tropospheric temperature trends? (2004) (43)
- An integrated crop and hydrologic modeling system to estimate hydrologic impacts of crop irrigation demands (2015) (42)
- Temperature above the surface layer (1995) (42)
- An alternative explanation for differential temperature trends at the surface and in the lower troposphere (2009) (41)
- How accurate are satellite ‘thermometers’? (1997) (40)
- UAH Version 6 global satellite temperature products: Methodology and results (2017) (38)
- Variability in daily, zonal mean lower-stratospheric temperatures (1994) (36)
- Assessing levels of uncertainty in recent temperature time series (2000) (31)
- The Influences of TOVS Radiance Assimilation on Temperature and Moisture Tendencies in JRA-25 and ERA-40 (2009) (30)
- Discontinuity Issues with Radiosonde and Satellite Temperatures in the Australian Region 1979–2006 (2009) (26)
- Correcting Temperature Data Sets (2005) (25)
- Global fluctuations in the distribution of atmospheric mass (1985) (24)
- Precision global temperatures from satellites and urban warming effects of non-satellite data (1995) (23)
- When Was The Hottest Summer? A State Climatologist Struggles for an Answer. (2002) (22)
- A Real-Time Gridded Crop Model for Assessing Spatial Drought Stress on Crops in the Southeastern United States (2011) (22)
- Estimation of Tropospheric Temperature Trends from MSU Channels 2 and 4 (2006) (21)
- The carbon cycle response to two El Nino types: an observational study (2018) (21)
- Towards an Understanding of the Twentieth-Century Cooling Trend in the Southeastern United States: Biogeophysical Impacts of Land-Use Change (2016) (21)
- Test for harmful collinearity among predictor variables used in modeling global temperature (2003) (19)
- The role of remote sensing in monitoring global bulk tropospheric temperatures (2011) (19)
- Large-Scale Redistributions of Atmospheric Mass (1989) (18)
- Limits on CO2 Climate Forcing from Recent Temperature Data of Earth (2008) (18)
- Assessment of precision in temperatures from the microwave sounding units (1995) (17)
- Examination of space-based bulk atmospheric temperatures used in climate research (2018) (17)
- Pervasive Warming Bias in CMIP6 Tropospheric Layers (2020) (16)
- Fifth Annual Climate Assessment, 1993 (1994) (16)
- Satellite bulk tropospheric temperatures as a metric for climate sensitivity (2017) (15)
- Hemispheric interannual fluctuations in the distribution of atmospheric mass (1985) (14)
- Climatic variability and the evolution of water technologies in Crete, Hellas (2016) (14)
- Climate Assessment for 1994 (1995) (13)
- Improving the Usefulness of Operational Radiosonde Data (2005) (13)
- Global temperature variations (1991) (12)
- Searching for Information in 133 Years of California Snowfall Observations (2012) (12)
- A technical comment: Analysis of ‘examination of “global atmospheric temperature monitoring with satellite microwave measurements”’ (1996) (12)
- Reliability of Satellite Data Sets (2003) (12)
- A stable boundary layer perspective on global temperature trends (2010) (11)
- A Test of the Tropical 200‐ to 300‐hPa Warming Rate in Climate Models (2018) (11)
- Reconciling Observations of Global Temperature Change: 2013 (2013) (9)
- Changes in Snowfall in the Southern Sierra Nevada of California since 1916 (2010) (9)
- Correction to “An alternative explanation for differential temperature trends at the surface and in the lower troposphere” (2010) (8)
- Diabatic heating rate estimates from European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts analyses (1991) (8)
- Monthly Temperature Observations for Uganda (2013) (8)
- The State of Scientific Visualization with Regard to the NASA EOS Mission to Planet Earth (1996) (7)
- Assessing changes in US regional precipitation on multiple time scales (2019) (7)
- Broadband (UV-VIS-NIR) Mueller matrix polarimeter (2011) (7)
- Version 6 . 0 of the UAH Temperature Dataset Released : New LT Trend = + 0 . 11 C / decade (2015) (7)
- Comments on “A Bias in the Midtropospheric Channel Warm Target Factor on the NOAA-9 Microwave Sounding Unit” (2013) (6)
- Analysis of satellite-based estimates of tropospheric diurnal (1996) (5)
- Time Series Construction of Summer Surface Temperatures for Alabama, 1883–2014, and Comparisons with Tropospheric Temperature and Climate Model Simulations (2016) (5)
- A new compilation of globally gridded night‐time marine air temperatures: The UAHNMATv1 dataset (2019) (5)
- Satellite Global and Hemispheric Lower Tropospheric Temperature Annual Temperature Cycle (2010) (5)
- Precision tropospheric temperature monitoring 1979–1990 (1991) (4)
- Measuring Global Temperature (2005) (3)
- ON GLOBAL CHANGE AND CLIMATE VARIATIONS 9 . 2 UPDATE ON MICROWAVE-BASED ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES FROM UAH (2003) (2)
- Intercomparison of Global Upper-Air Temperature Datasets from Radiosondes and Satellites (2002) (2)
- Examination of Extreme Rainfall Events in Two Regions of the United States since the 19th Century (2019) (2)
- Detecting impacts of surface development near weather stations since 1895 in the San Joaquin Valley of California (2021) (1)
- Global temperature variations and trends above the surface (2001) (1)
- How representative are the surface temperature records (1998) (1)
- Reply to “Comments on ‘Searching for Information in 133 Years of California Snowfall Observations’” (2013) (1)
- Comparison of Temperature Trends Using an Unperturbed Subset of The U.S. Historical Climatology Network (2015) (1)
- The impact of Mt Pinatubo on climate on world-wide temperatures (1996) (1)
- A New ERA in Global Temperature Monitoring with the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) (1999) (1)
- An area and distance weighted analysis of the impacts of station 1 exposure on the U . S . Historical Climatology Network temperatures and 2 temperature trends 3 PREPRINT DRAFT (2012) (1)
- A preliminary analysis of the covariation of surface and midtropospheric temperatures (1990) (0)
- An analysis of model tropospheric response to various forcings (2006) (0)
- The impact of an observationally based surface emissivity dataset on the simulation of Microwave Sounding Unit Temperatures (2005) (0)
- Monitoring Global Temperatures From Satellites (1992) (0)
- Global distribution of moisture, evaporation-precipitation, and diabatic heating rates (1989) (0)
- SNOWPACK / SNOWMELT (0)
- The scale and persistence of soil moisture anomalies as simulated in a global model (1994) (0)
- Assessing the consistency between short-term global temperature trends in observations and climate model projections (2013) (0)
- State of the Climate in 2012 (SCI) (2013) (0)
- Climate dynamics experiments using a GCM simulations (1991) (0)
- Upper Air Temperature Variations and Change (2000) (0)
- Magnetic shielding of spacecraft hardware (1965) (0)
- Toward Understanding the Significant Disparity Between Observations and Climate Model Simulations of the Tropical Atmosphere (2014) (0)
- A WORKSHOP TO IMPROVE THE USEFULNESS OFOPERATIONAL RADIOSONDE (0)
- Third Annual Climate Assessment, 1991 (1992) (0)
- Monitoring, analyzing, and modeling global climate (1991) (0)
- Global Climate (2020) (0)
- Global atmospheric temperature anomaly monitoring with passive microwave radiometers (1990) (0)
- Globally-Gridded Interpolated Night-Time Marine Air Temperatures 1900-2014 (2016) (0)
- Fourth Annual Climate Assessment, 1992 (2017) (0)
- An Investigation of the General Circulation Associated With Extreme Anomalies in Hemispheric Mean Atmospheric Mass (1987) (0)
- The international surface temperature initiative's global land surface databank (2013) (0)
- A physical interpretation of brightness temperatures observed by the microwave sounding units based upon raobs. [Radiosonde Observation] (1991) (0)
- Assessing error in global atmospheric temperatures (2000) (0)
- Results From the AMIP II Experiment (2001) (0)
- Construction and Radiosonde Verification of the MSU/AMSU Lower Tropospheric Temperature Record (2002) (0)
- The Southern Hemisphere circulation during the FGGE and its representativeness (1985) (0)
- Study of atmospheric dynamics (1993) (0)
- Global water cycle (1991) (0)
- Time series construction of Oregon and Washington snowfall since 1890 and an update of California snowfall through 2020 (2022) (0)
- Global-scale, intraseasonal fluctuations of diabatic forcing of the atmosphere (1990) (0)
- Magnetic classification of metallic materials for spacecraft use (1965) (0)
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