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Member Since 1982
James A. Smith
Professor, Princeton University
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Professional Experience
Princeton University
Professor
1990 - Present
Education
Johns Hopkins University
Doctorate
1981
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Probable Maximum Precipitation: How Hard Can It Rain?
GILBERT F. WHITE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE PRESENTED BY JAMES SMITH
natural hazards | 15 december 2025
Cloudbursts of the Mid‐Atlantic
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
15 september 2025
Increasing flood hazard due to extreme storm sequences in the Lower Mississippi River Basin in a warming climate
HYDROMETEOROLOGIC EXTREMES: PREDICTION, SIMULATION, AND CHANGE III ORAL
hydrology | 09 december 2024
Probable Maximum Precipitation: The Smethport Challenge
HYDROMETEOROLOGIC EXTREMES: PREDICTION, SIMULATION, AND CHANGE III ORAL
hydrology | 09 december 2024
Rainfall Frequency Analysis Based on Long‐Term High‐Resolution Radar Rainfall Fields: Spatial Heterogeneities and Temporal Nonstationarities
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
06 march 2024
Impact of Urban Representation on Simulation of Hurricane Rainfall
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
09 november 2023
Strange Storms: Rainfall Extremes From the Remnants of Hurricane Ida (2021) in the Northeastern US
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
16 march 2023
Extreme Rainfall and Flooding in the Lower Mississippi: The Role of Extratropical Cyclones
HYDROMETEOROLOGIC EXTREMES: PREDICTION, SIMULATION, AND CHANGE I ORAL
hydrology | 16 december 2021
Volunteer Experience
2021 - 2023
Member
Peter S. Eagleson Hydrologic Sciences Award Selection Committee
1997 - 2000
Editor-in-Chief
Reviews of Geophysics
1993 - 1995
Editor
Reviews of Geophysics
Honors & Awards
Gilbert F. White Award and Distinguished Lecture
Received December 2025
Union Fellow
Received January 2002