Peter Thornton
Impact in
- Global and Planetary Change top 0.02%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Atmospheric Science top 0.1%
- Cryospheric studies and observations
Papers in
-
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 71
- Climate variability and models 56
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 48
-
- Climate change and permafrost 23
- Co-authors
- Steven W. Running (13 shared papers)Michael A. White (8 shared papers)Gordon B. Bonan (12 shared papers)Keith W. Oleson (9 shared papers)David M. Lawrence (10 shared papers)W. M. Post (11 shared papers)Xiaofeng Xu (17 shared papers)Nan Rosenbloom (3 shared papers)
- Journals
- Polyhedron (18 papers)Biogeosciences (16 papers)Journal of Climate (11 papers)Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (9 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences (8 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesUnited KingdomChina
In The Last Decade
Peter Thornton
261 papers receiving 21.8k citations
Peter Thornton's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 166
- Global and Planetary Change 14.2k
- Atmospheric Science 6.7k
- Soil Science 3.0k
- Ecological Modeling 1.3k
- Ecology 5.7k
Countries citing papers authored by Peter Thornton
This map shows the geographic impact of Peter Thornton's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Peter Thornton with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Peter Thornton more than expected).
Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Thornton
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Peter Thornton. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Peter Thornton. The network helps show where Peter Thornton may publish in the future.
Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Peter Thornton, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 275 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Generating surfaces of daily meteorological variables over large regions of complex terrain Hit paper breakdown → | 1997 | 1191 |
| 2 | Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 1059 |
| 3 | A continental phenology model for monitoring vegetation responses to interannual climatic variability Hit paper breakdown → | 1997 | 1030 |
| 4 | A global analysis of soil microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 871 |
| 5 | Parameterization and Sensitivity Analysis of the BIOME–BGC Terrestrial Ecosystem Model: Net Primary Production Controls Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 693 |
| 6 | Modeling and measuring the effects of disturbance history and climate on carbon and water budgets in evergreen needleleaf forests Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 691 |
| 7 | Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 677 |
| 8 | Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 662 |
| 9 | An improved algorithm for estimating incident daily solar radiation from measurements of temperature, humidity, and precipitation Hit paper breakdown → | 1999 | 639 |
| 10 | Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM) Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 583 |
| 11 | Influence of carbon‐nitrogen cycle coupling on land model response to CO2 fertilization and climate variability Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 566 |
| 12 | 2000 | 452 | |
| 13 | 2007 | 412 | |
| 14 | 2009 | 349 | |
| 15 | 2001 | 347 | |
| 16 | 2000 | 338 | |
| 17 | Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 3 Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 338 |
| 18 | 2010 | 337 | |
| 19 | 2014 | 319 | |
| 20 | 2003 | 318 |
About Peter Thornton
Peter Thornton is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Inorganic Chemistry, having authored 275 papers that have together received 22.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (71 papers), Climate variability and models (56 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (48 papers), Magnetism in coordination complexes (43 papers), Metal complexes synthesis and properties (34 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (25 papers), Climate change and permafrost (23 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (14.2k citations), Atmospheric Science (6.7k citations), Soil Science (3.0k citations), Ecological Modeling (1.3k citations) and Ecology (5.7k citations). Peter Thornton has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Frequent co-authors include Steven W. Running, Michael A. White, Gordon B. Bonan, Keith W. Oleson, David M. Lawrence, W. M. Post, Xiaofeng Xu, Nan Rosenbloom, Samuel Levis and Zong‐Liang Yang. Their work appears in journals such as Polyhedron, Biogeosciences, Journal of Climate, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems and Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences.
Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.