John Knox
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American meteorologist
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Earth Sciences
#1333
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#1958
Historical Rank
#387
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Meteorology
#227
World Rank
#296
Historical Rank
#69
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John Knox 's Degrees
- Masters Atmospheric Science Texas A&M University
- PhD Climate Science University of California, Berkeley
Why Is John Knox Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John A. Knox is a meteorologist who researches clear-air turbulence and who also received media attention for discussing ways of calculating the mathematical constant e, together with inventor Harlan J. Brothers. He is a professor at the University of Georgia and has been nationally honored for his undergraduate teaching.
John Knox 's Published Works
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Published Works
- Introduction to the SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) and overview of the reanalysis systems (2016) (258)
- Possible Mechanisms of Clear-Air Turbulence in Strongly Anticyclonic Flows (1997) (84)
- Meteorology: Understanding the Atmosphere (2002) (83)
- A retrospective analysis of American football hyperthermia deaths in the United States (2010) (78)
- Application of the Lighthill–Ford Theory of Spontaneous Imbalance to Clear-Air Turbulence Forecasting (2008) (71)
- Banded Convection Caused by Frontogenesis in a Conditionally, Symmetrically, and Inertially Unstable Environment (2007) (48)
- Late Pleistocene and Holocene environments of the Southeastern United States from the stratigraphy and pollen content of a peat deposit on the Georgia Coastal Plain (2009) (41)
- Convective Snowbands Downstream of the Rocky Mountains in an Environment with Conditional, Dry Symmetric, and Inertial Instabilities (2010) (39)
- The 2007‐2009 Drought in Athens, Georgia, United States: A Climatological Analysis and an Assessment of Future Water Availability 1 (2012) (36)
- Global climatology of inertial instability and Rossby wave breaking in the stratosphere (2005) (34)
- Transverse cirrus bands in weather systems: a grand tour of an enduring enigma (2010) (34)
- Improvements to an Operational Clear-Air Turbulence Diagnostic Index by Addition of a Divergence Trend Term (2010) (29)
- A climatological assessment of Greenland blocking conditions associated with the track of Hurricane Sandy and historical North Atlantic hurricanes (2015) (28)
- Non‐Convective High Winds Associated with Extratropical Cyclones (2011) (25)
- The InVEST Volcanic Concept Survey: Exploring Student Understanding About Volcanoes (2010) (25)
- Generalized Nonlinear Balance Criteria and Inertial Stability (1997) (24)
- New closed-form approximations to the logarithmic constant e (1998) (23)
- American football and fatal exertional heat stroke: a case study of Korey Stringer (2017) (22)
- An improvement in clear‐air turbulence forecasting based on spontaneous imbalance theory: the ULTURB algorithm (2012) (21)
- The geography of extreme heat hazards for American football players (2014) (20)
- A Climatology of Cold-Season Nonconvective Wind Events in the Great Lakes Region (2007) (19)
- Influence of Terrain Resolution on Banded Convection in the Lee of the Rocky Mountains (2015) (19)
- Tornado Debris Characteristics And Trajectories During The 27 April 2011 Super Outbreak As Determined Using Social Media Data (2013) (18)
- Novel Series-based Approximations to e (1999) (17)
- Recent and Future Trends in U.S. Undergraduate Meteorology Enrollments, Degree Recipients, and Employment Opportunities (2008) (14)
- On converting potential temperature to altitude in the middle atmosphere (1998) (13)
- A Climatology of Southern Appalachian Cold-Air Damming* (2016) (13)
- Quantitative Assessment of Human Wind Speed Overestimation (2016) (11)
- Through the Eyes of the Experts: Meteorologists’ Perceptions of the Probability of Precipitation (2016) (11)
- Iterative solutions of the gradient wind equation (2006) (11)
- Storytelling in the Meteorology Classroom (1997) (10)
- Throwing Caution to the Wind: National Weather Service Wind Products as Perceived by a Weather-Salient Sample (2017) (10)
- Superstorm Sandy and voter vulnerability in the 2012 US Presidential Election: a case study of New Jersey and Connecticut (2014) (9)
- Maximum Wind Gusts Associated with Human-Reported Nonconvective Wind Events and a Comparison to Current Warning Issuance Criteria (2016) (9)
- Beware of Inertial Instability Masquerading as Gravity Waves in Stratospheric Temperature Perturbations (2019) (9)
- My Drought is Different from Your Drought: A Case Study of the Policy Implications of Multiple Ways of Knowing Drought (2016) (9)
- INSTABILITY | Inertial Instability (2003) (8)
- Two Simple and Accurate Approximations for Wet-Bulb Temperature in Moist Conditions, With Forecasting Applications (2017) (8)
- The breakdown of balance in low potential vorticity regions: Evidence from a clear air turbulence outbreak (2001) (7)
- What Do Introductory Meteorology Students Want to Learn (2005) (7)
- Piloting and Evaluating a Workshop to Teach Georgia Teachers About Weather Science and Safety (2015) (6)
- Reform of the College Science Lecture through Storytelling. (1997) (5)
- Using GOES total column ozone to diagnose stratospheric intrusions and nowcast non-convective cyclone windstorms: Methodology and initial results (2005) (5)
- Teaching Weather Forecasting in the “Forecast Factory” (2000) (4)
- Automated Turbulence Forecasting Strategies (2016) (4)
- Reaching Students and Parents Through Weather Science and Safety Workshops for Teachers (2018) (4)
- Non-convective high wind events: a climatology for the Great Lakes region (2008) (3)
- Revising NCEI’s Climate Extremes Index and the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index to Analyze Climate Extremes Vulnerability across the United States (2020) (3)
- Teaching advanced concepts with single temperature‐conversion formulas (1996) (2)
- Non-convective windstorms in the Midwest United States: surface and satellite climatologies (2004) (2)
- Analysis of the Twitter Response to Superstorm Sandy: Public Perceptions, Misconceptions, and Reconceptions of an Extreme Atmospheric Hazard (2016) (2)
- AVIATION METEOROLOGY | Clear Air Turbulence (2015) (2)
- Analysis of Tornado Debris Trajectories During the 27 April 2011 Super Outbreak as Determined Using Social Media Data (2012) (1)
- P3.4 A NEW DIRECTION IN CLEAR-AIR TURBULENCE FORECASTING BASED ON SPONTANEOUS IMBALANCE PART 1: APPLICATION OF THEORY (2008) (1)
- WHAT SHOULD WE TEACH IN INTRODUCTORY METEOROLOGY? LET'S ASK THE STUDENTS! (2003) (1)
- Geomythology – A Column about Errors in Geoscience Textbooks Unphysical Descriptions of the Approach to Geostrophic Equilibrium (1998) (1)
- DYNAMICAL METEOROLOGY | Inertial Instability (2015) (1)
- Atmospheric/General Circulation (2017) (1)
- Tornado Debris from the 23 May 2017 “Tybee Tornado” (2019) (1)
- 4 IMPROVED CLEAR AIR TURBULENCE DIAGNOSTICS BASED ON ADJUSTMENT DYNAMICS (2005) (1)
- 15 Years of Teaching Atmospheric Dynamics to Undergraduates via an Introduction to Data Assimilation Course (2018) (1)
- The dynamics of transverse cirrus bands: inferences from observations (2009) (0)
- P 3 . 6 A New Direction in Clear-Air Turbulence Forecasting Based on Spontaneous Imbalance Part II : Case Studies and Statistical Results (2008) (0)
- From Celsius to Chaos to Cyclones: Using Temperature-Conversion Equations to Introduce Advanced Mathematical Concepts in Earth Science Courses (2000) (0)
- Influence of Terrain Smoothness on the Development of Banded Orographic Convection (2014) (0)
- Letter to the Editor: Query Regarding Bein et al. 2009 Article on Geographic Skills Testing (2009) (0)
- The Strange Game of Prestige Scholarships (2017) (0)
- Reweaving the Rainbow: interdisciplinary explorations in meteorology and the humanities (2006) (0)
- Comparison of the stratospheric polar vortices in five reanalyses datasets (2017) (0)
- A Textbook Case of Going Virtual (2018) (0)
- Performance of the Ellrod-Knox and Lighthill-Ford-Knox clear air turbulence algorithms at the Aviation Weather Center (2011) (0)
- Teaching Data Assimilation to Undergraduates at the University of Georgia (2013) (0)
- Comparison of atmospheric fields in the tropical upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere between multiple reanalysis data (2018) (0)
- New Directions for the AMS Symposium on Education (2014) (0)
- Young Lewis Fry Richardson in Yorkshire (2013) (0)
- United States Patent Office 3 , 319 , 714 Patented May 16 , 1967 (2017) (0)
- P 1 . 4 Severe High Altitude Aircraft Turbulence on Thunderstorm Peripheries (2010) (0)
- United States Patent Office 3 , 319 , 714 Patented May 16 , 1967 (2017) (0)
- Observations of mesoscale gravity waves in unbalanced flow (2005) (0)
- Detective walden's web; or, Max Marling, the head-center of the silver gang (0)
- Atmospheric Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Recipients: Trends, Early-Career Earnings, and Student Debt, 2015-2019 (2022) (0)
- Teaching Wet-Bulb Temperature With the One-Third Rule: Theory and Applications (2017) (0)
- United States Patent Office 3 , 382 , 179 Patented May (0)
- Applied Thermodynamics for Meteorologists (2016) (0)
- United States Patent Office 3 , 319 , 714 Patented May 16 , 1967 (2017) (0)
- The emerging role of inertial instability in the initiation and organization of convection (2008) (0)
- Wind-Related Bounce House Incidents in Meteorological, Regulatory, and Outreach Contexts (2022) (0)
- Solitons, numerical experiments, and that mysterious lady (2008) (0)
- Wigner Not the 'W' in WKB (2005) (0)
- Stratospheric channels of Rossby wave–triggered inertial instability (2005) (0)
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