Adrian Chappell

8.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
113 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Adrian Chappell is a scholar working on Soil Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Adrian Chappell has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Soil Science, 48 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Adrian Chappell's work include Soil erosion and sediment transport (55 papers), Aeolian processes and effects (48 papers) and Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (19 papers). Adrian Chappell is often cited by papers focused on Soil erosion and sediment transport (55 papers), Aeolian processes and effects (48 papers) and Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (19 papers). Adrian Chappell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Adrian Chappell's co-authors include Grant H. McTainsh, Nicholas P. Webb, Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel, Jonathan Sanderman, Jeff Baldock, Yaping Shao, Zhaohui Lin, Soon‐Chang Yoon, Karl‐Heinz Wyrwoll and Xulong Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Adrian Chappell

112 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Dust cycle: An emerging core theme in Earth system science

2011 790 citations Adrian Chappell et al. Aeolian Research profile →
A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production

2019 343 citations Zhenzhong Zeng, Philippe Ciais et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Adrian Chappell United Kingdom	38	2.1k	1.9k	1.9k	1.7k	932	113	5.0k
Shijie Wang China	43	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.7×	242	6.9k
Ted M. Zobeck United States	44	1.3k 0.6×	3.2k 1.7×	1.4k 0.8×	2.9k 1.7×	854 0.9×	111	5.3k
Xunming Wang China	36	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	2.1k 1.1×	2.2k 1.3×	814 0.9×	135	4.5k
Zhibao Dong China	50	1.5k 0.7×	3.0k 1.6×	3.8k 2.0×	4.9k 2.8×	1.3k 1.4×	278	7.7k
Brigitta Schütt Germany	29	1.1k 0.6×	2.3k 1.2×	730 0.4×	823 0.5×	1.3k 1.4×	150	4.5k
Randall J. Schaetzl United States	37	626 0.3×	1.2k 0.6×	1.9k 1.0×	890 0.5×	822 0.9×	133	4.4k
Timothy A. Quine United Kingdom	42	1.2k 0.6×	3.6k 1.9×	880 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	2.4k 2.5×	114	5.7k
Veerle Vanacker Belgium	38	1.4k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	911 0.5×	606 0.4×	1.5k 1.6×	132	4.5k
Simon Dadson United Kingdom	39	2.8k 1.4×	829 0.4×	2.0k 1.1×	737 0.4×	1.2k 1.3×	120	6.2k
José Carlos González Hidalgo Spain	36	2.8k 1.4×	1.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	393 0.2×	973 1.0×	107	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Adrian Chappell

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adrian Chappell

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Chen, Xiaohong, Zhaoyang Lu, Lee Heng, et al.. (2025). The spatio-temporal variability of soil microplastic distribution and erosion-induced microplastic export under extreme rainfall event using sediment fingerprinting and 7Be in intensive agricultural catchment. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 488. 137378–137378. 5 indexed citations

Sharmin, Tania & Adrian Chappell. (2025). Detecting the changing impact of urbanisation on urban heat islands in a tropical megacity using local climate zones. Energy and Built Environment. 2 indexed citations

Chappell, Adrian, Miguel L. Villarreal, Michael C. Duniway, et al.. (2024). Oil and gas development influences potential for dust emission from the Upper Colorado River Basin, USA. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 49(11). 3292–3307. 1 indexed citations

Prăvălie, Remus, Pasquale Borrelli, Panos Panagos, et al.. (2024). A unifying modelling of multiple land degradation pathways in Europe. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3862–3862. 37 indexed citations

Zhang, Chunlai, Adrian Chappell, Xueyong Zou, et al.. (2024). Using Field Measurements Across Land Cover Types to Evaluate Albedo‐Based Wind Friction Velocity and Estimate Sediment Transport. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(4). 3 indexed citations

Chappell, Adrian, et al.. (2024). Reducing Resolution Dependency of Dust Emission Modeling Using Albedo‐Based Wind Friction. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(5). 1 indexed citations

Sharmin, Tania, Adrian Chappell, & Simon Lannon. (2024). Spatio-temporal analysis of LST, NDVI and SUHI in a coastal temperate city using local climate zone. Energy and Built Environment. 6(6). 1142–1155. 15 indexed citations

Lu, Zhaoyang, Hanqing Yu, Joseph Adu-Gyamfi, et al.. (2024). Land management policy shift influenced seasonal variation of erosion-induced nitrogen and phosphorus outputs from intensive agricultural catchment. The Science of The Total Environment. 918. 170590–170590. 4 indexed citations

Chappell, Adrian, Nicholas P. Webb, Charles S. Zender, et al.. (2023). Elucidating Hidden and Enduring Weaknesses in Dust Emission Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(17). 10 indexed citations

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Chappell, Adrian, Nicholas P. Webb, Kerstin Schepanski, et al.. (2023). A new framework for evaluating dust emission model development using dichotomous satellite observations of dust emission. The Science of The Total Environment. 912. 169237–169237. 2 indexed citations

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Chappell, Adrian, Nicholas P. Webb, Kerstin Schepanski, et al.. (2023). Satellites reveal Earth's seasonally shifting dust emission sources. The Science of The Total Environment. 883. 163452–163452. 24 indexed citations

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Chappell, Adrian, Brandon L. Edwards, Akasha M. Faist, et al.. (2021). A North American dust emission climatology (2001–2020) calibrated to dust point sources from satellite observations. Aeolian Research. 54. 100766–100766. 27 indexed citations

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Chappell, Adrian, Nicholas P. Webb, Charles S. Zender, et al.. (2021). Weaknesses in dust emission modelling hidden by tuning to dust in the atmosphere. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations

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Teng, Hongfen, Zongzheng Liang, Songchao Chen, et al.. (2018). Current and future assessments of soil erosion by water on the Tibetan Plateau based on RUSLE and CMIP5 climate models. The Science of The Total Environment. 635. 673–686. 206 indexed citations

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Chappell, Adrian, Nicholas P. Webb, Juan Pablo Guerschman, et al.. (2017). Improving ground cover monitoring for wind erosion assessment using MODIS BRDF parameters. Remote Sensing of Environment. 204. 756–768. 69 indexed citations

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Li, Y., et al.. (2015). Cost-effective sampling of 137Cs-derived net soil redistribution: part 1 – estimating the spatial mean across scales of variation. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 141. 97–105. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Rong, Yves Balkanski, Oliviér Boucher, et al.. (2015). Sources, transport and deposition of iron in the global atmosphere. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(11). 6247–6270. 89 indexed citations

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Chappell, Adrian, Nicholas P. Webb, Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel, & Elisabeth N. Bui. (2014). Australian net (1950s–1990) soil organic carbon erosion: implications for CO ₂ emission and land–atmosphere modelling. Biogeosciences. 11(18). 5235–5244. 27 indexed citations

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Chappell, Adrian. (2006). Using the ‘Grieving’ Process and Learning Journals to Evaluate Students' Responses to Problem-Based Learning in an Undergraduate Geography Curriculum. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 30(1). 15–31. 34 indexed citations

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Agnew, C. T. & Adrian Chappell. (2001). Geostatistical analysis and simulation of West African Sahel Rainfall. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 19–36. 1 indexed citations

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