David R. Legates

14.4k citations
77 papers · 11.2k · 5 hit papers · h-index 34

Impact in

Papers in

    • Climate variability and models 37
    • Hydrology and Drought Analysis 13
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 12
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 8
    • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 21
    • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis 8
    • Cryospheric studies and observations 8

David R. Legates

76 papers receiving 10.5k citations

David R. Legates's Hit Papers

Land cover changes and their biogeophysical effects on climate 2013 · 557 citations
5570+13+27Years since publication10002.0k3.0k

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David R. Legates
Comparison fields: 5 of 168
  • Global and Planetary Change 6.2k
  • Water Science and Technology 3.3k
  • Atmospheric Science 4.0k
  • Environmental Engineering 2.8k
  • Soil Science 1.1k
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All Works

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Evaluating the use of “goodness‐of‐fit” Measures in hydrologic and hydroclimatic model validation
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19993731
2
Statistics for the evaluation and comparison of models
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19851648
3
Mean seasonal and spatial variability in gauge‐corrected, global precipitation
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19901264
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Land cover changes and their biogeophysical effects on climate
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2013557
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Mean seasonal and spatial variability in global surface air temperature
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1990533
6 1994336
7 2010304
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Harmonic analysis of time-series AVHRR NDVI data
2001262
9 2005241
10 2002239
11 2020207
12 2012155
13 1993102
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a Climatology of Global Precipitation.
198788
15 201381
16 199779
17 200362
18 199955
19 199553
20 199553

About David R. Legates

David R. Legates is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology and Plant Science, having authored 77 papers that have together received 11.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate variability and models (37 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (21 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (13 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (8 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (8 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (8 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (6.2k citations), Water Science and Technology (3.3k citations), Atmospheric Science (4.0k citations), Environmental Engineering (2.8k citations) and Soil Science (1.1k citations). David R. Legates has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Gregory J. McCabe, Cort J. Willmott, C. J. Willmott, Robert E. Davis, Katherine Klink, Steven G. Ackleson, James O’Donnell, Clinton M. Rowe, Johannes J. Feddema and Pavel Groisman. Their work appears in journals such as International Journal of Climatology, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, The Professional Geographer and Physical Geography.

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