Publications of David M. Willis

A list of publications authored or co-authored by David M. Willis, derived from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). The number in brackets after each title indicates the number of citations that the paper has received.

Orcid ID: 0000-0001-9756-8601

List of publications ordered by citations
Number of papers: 57 (refereed: 56)
No. of citations: 1745
First author papers: 29 (refereed: 29)

2023

  1. The Extreme Space Weather Event of 1872 February: Sunspots, Magnetic Disturbance, and Auroral Displays [15]
    Hayakawa, Hisashi, Cliver, Edward W., Clette, Frédéric, Ebihara, Yusuke, Toriumi, Shin, Ermolli, Ilaria, Chatzistergos, Theodosios, Hattori, Kentaro, Knipp, Delores J., Blake, Séan P., Cauzzi, Gianna, Reardon, Kevin, Bourdin, Philippe-A., Just, Dorothea, Vokhmyanin, Mikhail, Matsumoto, Keitaro, Miyoshi, Yoshizumi, Ribeiro, José R., Correia, Ana P., Willis, David M., Wild, Matthew N. & Silverman, Sam M., ApJ, 959, 23

2020

  1. Provenance of the cross sign of 806 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a possible lunar halo over continental Europe? [3]
    Uchikawa, Yuta, Cowley, Les, Hayakawa, Hisashi, Willis, David M. & Stephenson, F. Richard, History of Geo- and Space Sciences, 11, 81

2019

  1. Unaided-eye Sunspot Observations in 1769 November: A Comparison of Graphical Records in the East and the West [8]
    Hayakawa, Hisashi, Willis, David M., Hattori, Kentaro, Notsu, Yuta, Wild, Matthew N. & Karoff, Christoffer, Solar Physics, 294, 95
  2. The Celestial Sign in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the 770s: Insights on Contemporary Solar Activity [12]
    Hayakawa, Hisashi, Stephenson, F. Richard, Uchikawa, Yuta, Ebihara, Yusuke, Scott, Christopher J., Wild, Matthew N., Wilkinson, Julia & Willis, David M., Solar Physics, 294, 42
  3. Do the Chinese Astronomical Records Dated AD 776 January 12/13 Describe an Auroral Display or a Lunar Halo? A Critical Re-examination [20]
    Stephenson, F. Richard, Willis, David M., Hayakawa, Hisashi, Ebihara, Yusuke, Scott, Christopher J., Wilkinson, Julia & Wild, Matthew N., Solar Physics, 294, 36

2018

  1. The Great Space Weather Event during 1872 February Recorded in East Asia [51]
    Hayakawa, Hisashi, Ebihara, Yusuke, Willis, David M., Hattori, Kentaro, Giunta, Alessandra S., Wild, Matthew N., Hayakawa, Satoshi, Toriumi, Shin, Mitsuma, Yasuyuki, Macdonald, Lee T., Shibata, Kazunari & Silverman, Sam M., ApJ, 862, 15
  2. Sunspot Observations on 10 and 11 February 1917: A Case Study in Collating Known and Previously Undocumented Records [9]
    Willis, D. M., Wilkinson, J., Scott, C. J., Wild, M. N., Stephenson, F. R., Hayakawa, H., Brugge, R. & Macdonald, L. T., Space Weather, 16, 1740

2016

  1. Tests of Sunspot Number Sequences: 1. Using Ionosonde Data [17]
    Lockwood, M., Scott, C. J., Owens, M. J., Barnard, L. & Willis, D. M., Solar Physics, 291, 2785
  2. The Greenwich Photo-heliographic Results (1874 - 1885): Observing Telescopes, Photographic Processes, and Solar Images [18]
    Willis, D. M., Wild, M. N., Appleby, G. M. & Macdonald, L. T., Solar Physics, 291, 2553
  3. Re-examination of the Daily Number of Sunspot Groups for the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (1874 - 1885) [22]
    Willis, D. M., Wild, M. N. & Warburton, J. S., Solar Physics, 291, 2519

2013

  1. The Greenwich Photo-heliographic Results (1874 - 1976): Initial Corrections to the Printed Publications [30]
    Erwin, E. H., Coffey, H. E., Denig, W. F., Willis, D. M., Henwood, R. & Wild, M. N., Solar Physics, 288, 157
  2. The Greenwich Photo-heliographic Results (1874 - 1976): Procedures for Checking and Correcting the Sunspot Digital Datasets [40]
    Willis, D. M., Henwood, R., Wild, M. N., Coffey, H. E., Denig, W. F., Erwin, E. H. & Hoyt, D. V., Solar Physics, 288, 141
  3. The Greenwich Photo-heliographic Results (1874 - 1976): Summary of the Observations, Applications, Datasets, Definitions and Errors [84]
    Willis, D. M., Coffey, H. E., Henwood, R., Erwin, E. H., Hoyt, D. V., Wild, M. N. & Denig, W. F., Solar Physics, 288, 117

2010

  1. Increasing Lifetime of Recurrent Sunspot Groups Within the Greenwich Photoheliographic Results [41]
    Henwood, R., Chapman, S. C. & Willis, D. M., Solar Physics, 262, 299

2009

  1. The presence of large sunspots near the central solar meridian at the times of major geomagnetic storms [7]
    Willis, D. M., Henwood, R. & Stephenson, F. R., Annales Geophysicae, 27, 185

2007

  1. Sporadic aurorae observed in East Asia [37]
    Willis, D. M., Stephenson, F. R. & Fang, Huiping, Annales Geophysicae, 25, 417

2006

  1. The presence of large sunspots near the central solar meridian at the times of modern Japanese auroral observations [10]
    Willis, D. M., Henwood, R. & Stephenson, F. R., Annales Geophysicae, 24, 2743

2005

  1. Identification of possible intense historical geomagnetic storms using combined sunspot and auroral observations from East Asia [31]
    Willis, D. M., Armstrong, G. M., Ault, C. E. & Stephenson, F. R., Annales Geophysicae, 23, 945

2004

  1. Aurorae: The earliest datable observation of the aurora borealis [25]
    Stephenson, F. Richard, Willis, David M. & Hallinan, Thomas J., Astronomy and Geophysics, 45, 6.15

2001

  1. Solar and auroral evidence for an intense recurrent geomagnetic storm during December in AD 1128 [45]
    Willis, D. M. & Stephenson, F. R., Annales Geophysicae, 19, 289

2000

  1. Possible configurations of the magnetic field in the outer magnetosphere during geomagnetic polarity reversals [7]
    Willis, D. M., Holder, A. C. & Davis, C. J., Annales Geophysicae, 18, 11
  2. Simultaneous auroral observations described in the historical records of China, Japan and Korea from ancient times to AD 1700 [31]
    Willis, D. M. & Stephenson, F. R., Annales Geophysicae, 18, 1

1997

  1. Statistics of the largest geomagnetic storms per solar cycle (1844-1993) [20]
    Willis, D. M., Stevens, P. R. & Crothers, S. R., Annales Geophysicae, 15, 719
  2. Uncertainties in field-line tracing in the magnetosphere. Part II: the complete internal geomagnetic field [1]
    Willis, D. M., Singh, J. Robin & Freeman, K. S. C., Annales Geophysicae, 15, 181
  3. Uncertainties in field-line tracing in the magnetosphere. Part I: the axisymmetric part of the internal geomagnetic field [2]
    Willis, D. M., Singh, J. Robin & Comer, Jacqueline, Annales Geophysicae, 15, 165

1994

  1. Synoptic data for solar-terrestrial physics: The U.K. contribution to long-term monitoring [8]
    Willis, D. M., Hewish, A., Rishbeth, H. & Rycroft, M. J., Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 56, 871

1991

  1. Variability of the interplanetary medium at 1 a.u. over 24 years: 1963-1986 [60]
    Hapgood, M. A., Lockwood, M., Bowe, G. A., Willis, D. M. & Tulunay, Y. K., Planetary and Space Science, 39, 411

1990

  1. Short-term variability of solar wind number density, speed and dynamic pressure as a function of the interplanetary magnetic field components: A survey over two solar cycles [9]
    Bowe, G. A., Hapgood, M. A., Lockwood, M. & Willis, D. M., Geophysical Research Letters, 17, 1825
  2. Studies of the cusp and auroral zone with incoherent scatter radar - The scientific and technical case for a polar-cap radar [18]
    Cowley, S. W. H., van Eyken, A. P., Thomas, E. C., Williams, P. J. S. & Willis, D. M., Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 52, 645
  3. Midday auroral breakup events and related energy and momentum transfer from the magnetosheath [180]
    Sandholt, P. E., Lockwood, M., Oguti, T., Cowley, S. W. H., Freeman, K. S. C., Lybekk, B., Egeland, A. & Willis, D. M., Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 1039

1988

  1. The dependence of high-latitude dayside ionospheric flows on the North-South component of the IMF: A high time resolution correlation analysis using EISCAT ``Polar'' and AMPTE UKS and IRM data [133]
    Etemadi, A., Cowley, S. W. H., Lockwood, M., Bromage, B. J. I., Willis, D. M. & Lühr, H., Planetary and Space Science, 36, 471
  2. Ion flows and heating at a contracting polar-cap boundary [35]
    Lockwood, M., Cowley, S. W. H., Todd, H., Willis, D. M. & Clauer, C. R., Planetary and Space Science, 36, 1229
  3. Scattered power from non-thermal, F-region plasma observed by EISCAT - Evidence for coherent echoes? [21]
    Lockwood, M., Bromage, B. J. I., Suvanto, K., St.-Maurice, J.-P. & Kikuchi, K., Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 50, 467
  4. Response time of the high-latitude dayside ionosphere to sudden changes in the north-south component of the IMF [99]
    Todd, H., Cowley, S. W. H., Lockwood, M., Willis, D. M. & Luehr, H., Planetary and Space Science, 36, 1415
  5. Flow in the high latitude ionosphere - Measurements at 15 s resolution made using the EISCAT 'Polar' experiment [24]
    Todd, H., Cowley, S. W. H., Etemadi, A., Bromage, B. J. I. & Lockwood, M., Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 50, 423
  6. Equations for the field lines of a sectorial magnetic multipole [2]
    Willis, D. M. & Gardiner, A. R., Geophysical Journal International, 95, 625

1987

  1. Non-Maxwellian ion velocity distributions observed using EISCAT [85]
    Lockwood, M., Bromage, B. J. I., Horne, R. B., St-Maurice, J.-P., Willis, D. M. & Cowley, S. W. H., Geophysical Research Letters, 14, 111
  2. Equation for the field lines of an axisymmetric magnetic multipole [18]
    Willis, D. M. & Young, L. R., Geophysical Journal, 89, 1011

1986

  1. Eastward propagation of a plasma convection enhancement following a southward turning of the interplanetary magnetic field [82]
    Lockwood, M., van Eyken, A. P., Bromage, B. J. I., Willis, D. M. & Cowley, S. W. H., Geophysical Research Letters, 13, 72
  2. EISCAT observations of bursts of rapid flow in the high latitude dayside ionosphere [73]
    Todd, H., Bromage, B. J. I., Cowley, S. W. H., Lockwood, M., van Eyken, A. P. & Willis, D. M., Geophysical Research Letters, 13, 909
  3. A survey of simultaneous observations of the high-latitude ionosphereand interplanetary magnetic field with EISCAT and AMPTE-UKS. [46]
    Willis, D. M., Lockwood, M., Cowley, S. W. H., van Eyken, A. P., Bromage, B. J. I., Rishbeth, H., Smith, P. R. & Crothers, S. R., Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 48, 987

1985

  1. Ionospheric response to changes in the interplanetary magnetic field observed by EISCAT and AMPTE-UKS [38]
    Rishbeth, H., Smith, P. R., Cowley, S. W. H., Willis, D. M., van Eyken, A. P., Bromage, B. J. I. & Crothers, S. R., Nature, 318, 451

1984

  1. Initial EISCAT observations of plasma convection at invariant latitudes 70-77 deg [70]
    van Eyken, A. P., Rishbeth, H., Willis, D. M. & Cowley, S. W. H., Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 46, 635

1982

  1. Quadrupole and octupole parameters of Jupiter's main magnetic field. [5]
    Willis, D. M. & Osborne, A. D., Geophysical Journal, 68, 765
  2. A direct analytic method to calculating the quadrupole parameters of a planetary magnetic field. [2]
    Willis, D. M., Geophysical Journal, 68, 751

1980

  1. Ultraviolet spectra of asteroids [4]
    Butterworth, P. S., Meadows, A. J., Hunt, G. E., Moore, V. & Willis, D. M., Nature, 287, 701
  2. Seasonal variation of oriental sunspot sightings [33]
    Willis, D. M., Easterbrook, M. G. & Stephenson, F. R., Nature, 287, 617

1979

  1. Statistics of the Largest Sunspot and Facular Areas Per Solar Cycle [7]
    Willis, D. M. & Tulunay, Y. K., Solar Physics, 64, 237

1978

  1. Atmospheric water vapour of extraterrestrial origin: a discussion of its possible role in Sun-weather relationship. [3]
    Willis, D. M., Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 40, 513
  2. The magnetopause: microstructure and interaction with magnetospheric plasma. [25]
    Willis, D. M., Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 40, 301

1977

  1. Large-amplitude standing planetary waves induced in the troposphere by the sun. [17]
    King, J. W., Slater, A. J., Stevens, A. D., Smith, P. A. & Willis, D. M., Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 39, 1357

1976

  1. The energetics of sun-weather relationships: magnetospheric processes. [17]
    Willis, D. M., Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 38, 685

1975

  1. The microstructure of the magnetopause. [32]
    Willis, D. M., Geophysical Journal, 41, 355

1974

  1. Simplified representations of the magnetopause boundary surface for a quantitative model of the magnetosphere. [4]
    Thomas, G. R., Willis, D. M. & Pratt, R. J., Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 36, 1037
  2. Solar proton entry to the magnetosphere on 18 November 1968 and 25 February 1969 - I. Interpretation of satellite data using trajectory computations in a model magnetosphere. [5]
    Thomas, G. R., Willis, D. M. & Pratt, R. J., Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 36, 995
  3. Solar proton entry to the magnetosphere on 18 November 1968 and 25 February 1969 - II. Comparison of trajectory computations in two model magnetospheres. [4]
    Willis, D. M., Thomas, G. R. & Pratt, R. J., Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 36, 1019
  4. Phase variations at millimetric wavelengths on an Earth-space path through model atmospheres [0]
    Willis, D. M., Electronics Letters, 10, 281

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