Standout Papers

Generating surfaces of daily meteorological variables over large regions of complex terrain 1997 2026 2006 2016 1.1k
  1. Generating surfaces of daily meteorological variables over large regions of complex terrain (1997)
    Peter Thornton, Steven W. Running et al. Journal of Hydrology
  2. Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model (2011)
    David M. Lawrence, Keith W. Oleson et al. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  3. A continental phenology model for monitoring vegetation responses to interannual climatic variability (1997)
    Michael A. White, Peter Thornton et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  4. A global analysis of soil microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems (2012)
    Xiaofeng Xu, Peter Thornton et al. Global Ecology and Biogeography
  5. Parameterization and Sensitivity Analysis of the BIOME–BGC Terrestrial Ecosystem Model: Net Primary Production Controls (2000)
    Michael A. White, Peter Thornton et al. Earth Interactions
  6. Modeling and measuring the effects of disturbance history and climate on carbon and water budgets in evergreen needleleaf forests (2002)
    Peter Thornton, B. E. Law et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  7. Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle (2008)
    Keith W. Oleson, Guo‐Yue Niu et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  8. Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model (2011)
    David M. Lawrence, Keith W. Oleson et al. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  9. An improved algorithm for estimating incident daily solar radiation from measurements of temperature, humidity, and precipitation (1999)
    Peter Thornton, Steven W. Running Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  10. Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM) (2004)
    Keith W. Oleson, Yongjiu Dai et al. UCAR/NCAR
  11. Influence of carbon‐nitrogen cycle coupling on land model response to CO2 fertilization and climate variability (2007)
    Peter Thornton, Jean‐François Lamarque et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  12. Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 3 (2016)
    Peter Thornton, Michele Thornton et al. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics
  13. Gridded daily weather data for North America with comprehensive uncertainty quantification (2021)
    Peter Thornton, R. Shrestha et al. Scientific Data

Immediate Impact

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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Peter Thornton 13672 6370 5441 258 21.4k
Richard Betts 14973 6892 3754 160 22.6k
Peter M. Cox 16780 9542 3682 183 23.3k
Stephen Sitch 22741 9762 6779 250 29.5k
Hanqin Tian 11436 4234 5845 310 20.1k
Benjamin Poulter 11853 4950 4616 216 16.2k
B. E. Law 16515 4657 6265 208 21.6k
Benjamin Smith 12605 5392 5227 189 19.5k
Pierre Friedlingstein 26181 12758 7046 214 39.0k
David Schimel 12376 4720 8431 218 22.0k
Berrien Moore 10747 4051 7103 121 16.5k

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