| Where are the most intense thunderstorms on Earth? EJ Zipser, DJ Cecil, C Liu, SW Nesbitt, DP Yorty Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 87 (8), 1057-1072, 2006 | 1046 | 2006 |
| Gridded lightning climatology from TRMM-LIS and OTD: Dataset description DJ Cecil, DE Buechler, RJ Blakeslee Atmospheric Research 135, 404-414, 2014 | 608 | 2014 |
| A census of precipitation features in the tropics using TRMM: Radar, ice scattering, and lightning observations SW Nesbitt, EJ Zipser, DJ Cecil Journal of climate 13 (23), 4087-4106, 2000 | 539 | 2000 |
| A cloud and precipitation feature database from nine years of TRMM observations C Liu, EJ Zipser, DJ Cecil, SW Nesbitt, S Sherwood Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 47 (10), 2712-2728, 2008 | 398 | 2008 |
| Three years of TRMM precipitation features. Part I: Radar, radiometric, and lightning characteristics DJ Cecil, SJ Goodman, DJ Boccippio, EJ Zipser, SW Nesbitt Monthly Weather Review 133 (3), 543-566, 2005 | 297 | 2005 |
| Forecasting lightning threat using cloud-resolving model simulations EW McCaul, SJ Goodman, KM LaCasse, DJ Cecil Weather and Forecasting 24 (3), 709-729, 2009 | 266 | 2009 |
| Reflectivity, ice scattering, and lightning characteristics of hurricane eyewalls and rainbands. Part I: Quantitative description DJ Cecil, EJ Zipser, SW Nesbitt Monthly Weather Review 130 (4), 769-784, 2002 | 254 | 2002 |
| Toward a global climatology of severe hailstorms as estimated by satellite passive microwave imagers DJ Cecil, CB Blankenship Journal of Climate 25 (2), 687-703, 2012 | 240 | 2012 |
| Tropical cyclone intensity estimation using a deep convolutional neural network R Pradhan, RS Aygun, M Maskey, R Ramachandran, DJ Cecil IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 27 (2), 692-702, 2017 | 212 | 2017 |
| Radar, passive microwave, and lightning characteristics of precipitating systems in the tropics ER Toracinta, DJ Cecil, EJ Zipser, SW Nesbitt Monthly Weather Review 130 (4), 802-824, 2002 | 206 | 2002 |
| North Alabama Lightning Mapping Array (LMA): VHF source retrieval algorithm and error analyses WJ Koshak, RJ Solakiewicz, RJ Blakeslee, SJ Goodman, HJ Christian, ... Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 21 (4), 543-558, 2004 | 177 | 2004 |
| Relationships between tropical cyclone intensity and satellite-based indicators of inner core convection: 85-GHz ice-scattering signature and lightning DJ Cecil, EJ Zipser Monthly weather review 127 (1), 103-123, 1999 | 177 | 1999 |
| The midlatitude continental convective clouds experiment (MC3E) MP Jensen, WA Petersen, A Bansemer, N Bharadwaj, LD Carey, DJ Cecil, ... Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 97 (9), 1667-1686, 2016 | 175 | 2016 |
| Relationships between lightning flash rates and radar reflectivity vertical structures in thunderstorms over the tropics and subtropics C Liu, DJ Cecil, EJ Zipser, K Kronfeld, R Robertson Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 117 (D6), 2012 | 174 | 2012 |
| Reflectivity, ice scattering, and lightning characteristics of hurricane eyewalls and rainbands. Part II: Intercomparison of observations DJ Cecil, EJ Zipser Monthly Weather Review 130 (4), 785-801, 2002 | 130 | 2002 |
| Effects of vertical wind shear on tropical cyclone precipitation MT Wingo, DJ Cecil Monthly Weather Review 138 (3), 645-662, 2010 | 120 | 2010 |
| Tropical cyclone tornadoes, 1950–2007 LA Schultz, DJ Cecil Monthly Weather Review 137 (10), 3471-3484, 2009 | 113 | 2009 |
| Rewriting the tropical record books: The extraordinary intensification of Hurricane Patricia (2015) RF Rogers, S Aberson, MM Bell, DJ Cecil, JD Doyle, TB Kimberlain, ... Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98 (10), 2091-2112, 2017 | 97 | 2017 |
| Three years of the lightning imaging sensor onboard the international space station: Expanded global coverage and enhanced applications RJ Blakeslee, TJ Lang, WJ Koshak, D Buechler, P Gatlin, DM Mach, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 125 (16), e2020JD032918, 2020 | 95 | 2020 |
| Passive microwave brightness temperatures as proxies for hailstorms DJ Cecil Journal of applied meteorology and climatology 48 (6), 1281-1286, 2009 | 94 | 2009 |
Stephen NesbittProfessor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignVerified email at illinois.edu
