Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner

44.9k total citations · 11 hit papers
230 papers, 18.1k citations indexed

About

Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner has authored 230 papers receiving a total of 18.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 206 papers in Atmospheric Science, 94 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 58 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (185 papers), Climate variability and models (86 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (58 papers). Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (185 papers), Climate variability and models (86 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (58 papers). Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner's co-authors include Esther C. Brady, Zhengyu Liu, John E. Kutzbach, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Nan Rosenbloom, Robert A. Tomas, Feng He, Samantha Stevenson, John Fasullo and Aixue Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner

225 papers receiving 17.6k citations

Hit Papers

Transient Simulation of Last Deglaciation with a New Mech... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2009 2006 2012 2006 2013 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Transient Simulation of Last Deglaciation with a New Mechanism for Bølling-Allerød Warming
    2009 880 citations Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Feng He et al. profile →
  2. Simulating Arctic Climate Warmth and Icefield Retreat in the Last Interglaciation
    2006 764 citations Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner et al. profile →
  3. Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained by sea‐ice/ocean feedbacks
    2012 599 citations Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, David A. Bailey et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
  4. Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene Climate in CCSM3
    2006 502 citations Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Esther C. Brady et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  5. Chinese cave records and the East Asia Summer Monsoon
    2013 502 citations Zhengyu Liu, Esther C. Brady et al. profile →
  6. Climate Variability and Change since 850 CE: An Ensemble Approach with the Community Earth System Model
    2015 430 citations Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Esther C. Brady et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →
  7. Climate forcing reconstructions for use in PMIP simulations of the last millennium (v1.0)
    2011 394 citations Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
  8. The Holocene temperature conundrum
    2014 353 citations Zhengyu Liu, Jiang Zhu et al. profile →
  9. The time-transgressive termination of the African Humid Period
    2015 328 citations Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner et al. profile →
  10. Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates
    2018 309 citations John W. Williams, Mark A. Chandler et al. profile →
  11. Greenland temperature response to climate forcing during the last deglaciation
    2014 230 citations Christo Buizert, Feng He et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner United States 72 15.0k 6.7k 3.7k 2.8k 2.6k 230 18.1k
Paul J. Valdes United Kingdom 73 12.4k 0.8× 5.3k 0.8× 3.2k 0.9× 2.3k 0.8× 1.9k 0.7× 365 17.8k
Jonathan T. Overpeck United States 66 12.8k 0.9× 5.5k 0.8× 4.6k 1.2× 1.8k 0.6× 3.0k 1.1× 162 18.5k
Sandy P. Harrison United Kingdom 83 15.7k 1.0× 10.0k 1.5× 4.7k 1.3× 2.3k 0.8× 3.8k 1.5× 296 22.8k
John E. Kutzbach United States 64 18.0k 1.2× 6.1k 0.9× 4.6k 1.2× 2.5k 0.9× 4.6k 1.8× 141 22.6k
Joël Guiot France 66 12.3k 0.8× 3.7k 0.6× 2.8k 0.8× 1.5k 0.5× 2.2k 0.9× 210 15.5k
Raymond S. Bradley United States 73 21.2k 1.4× 13.2k 2.0× 3.6k 1.0× 1.7k 0.6× 1.6k 0.6× 227 26.5k
Paul A. Mayewski United States 73 19.8k 1.3× 5.0k 0.8× 5.8k 1.6× 2.3k 0.8× 3.0k 1.1× 375 23.9k
James W. C. White United States 68 14.9k 1.0× 9.2k 1.4× 4.4k 1.2× 1.6k 0.6× 1.6k 0.6× 176 20.3k
Axel Timmermann United States 74 14.4k 1.0× 12.8k 1.9× 3.6k 1.0× 8.1k 2.9× 1.4k 0.5× 262 20.8k
André F. Lotter Netherlands 66 11.6k 0.8× 1.4k 0.2× 5.7k 1.5× 2.7k 1.0× 3.0k 1.2× 198 16.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lunt, Daniel J., Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Chris Brierley, et al.. (2024). Paleoclimate data provide constraints on climate models' large-scale response to past CO2 changes. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 7 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jiang, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Esther C. Brady, et al.. (2022). LGM Paleoclimate Constraints Inform Cloud Parameterizations and Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity in CESM2. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 14(4). 49 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jiang, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Esther C. Brady, et al.. (2021). Assessment of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity of the Community Earth System Model Version 2 Through Simulation of the Last Glacial Maximum. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(3). 48 indexed citations
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Feng, Ran, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Esther C. Brady, & Nan Rosenbloom. (2020). Increased Climate Response and Earth System Sensitivity From CCSM4 to CESM2 in Mid‐Pliocene Simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(8). 40 indexed citations
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Scussolini, Paolo, Dirk Eilander, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, et al.. (2020). Global River Discharge and Floods in the Warmer Climate of the Last Interglacial. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(18). 56 indexed citations
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Menviel, Laurie, Émilie Capron, Aline Govin, et al.. (2019). The penultimate deglaciation: protocol for PMIP4 transient numerical simulations between 140 and 127 ka, version 1.0. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 2 indexed citations
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Menviel, Laurie, Émilie Capron, Aline Govin, et al.. (2019). The penultimate deglaciation: protocol for Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) phase 4 transient numerical simulations between 140 and 127 ka, version 1.0. Geoscientific model development. 12(8). 3649–3685. 39 indexed citations
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Brady, Esther C., Samantha Stevenson, David A. Bailey, et al.. (2019). The Connected Isotopic Water Cycle in the Community Earth System Model Version 1. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(8). 2547–2566. 152 indexed citations
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Scussolini, Paolo, Pepijn Bakker, Chuncheng Guo, et al.. (2019). Agreement between reconstructed and modeled boreal precipitation of the Last Interglacial. Science Advances. 5(11). eaax7047–eaax7047. 56 indexed citations
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Stevenson, Samantha, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Esther C. Brady, et al.. (2019). Volcanic Eruption Signatures in the Isotope‐Enabled Last Millennium Ensemble. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 34(8). 1534–1552. 26 indexed citations
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Tabor, Clay, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Esther C. Brady, et al.. (2018). Interpreting Precession‐Driven δ18O Variability in the South Asian Monsoon Region. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(11). 5927–5946. 66 indexed citations
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Feng, Ran, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Tamara Fletcher, Ashley P. Ballantyne, & Esther C. Brady. (2016). Contributions to Pliocene Arctic warmth from removal of anthropogenic aerosol and enhanced forest fire emissions. AGUFM. 2016. 2 indexed citations
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Haywood, Alan M., Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Fran Bragg, et al.. (2016). Arctic sea ice simulation in the PlioMIP ensemble. Climate of the past. 12(3). 749–767. 12 indexed citations
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Otto‐Bliesner, Bette L., Esther C. Brady, John Fasullo, et al.. (2015). Climate Variability and Change since 850 CE: An Ensemble Approach with the Community Earth System Model. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 97(5). 735–754. 430 indexed citations breakdown →
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Morrill, Carrie, et al.. (2013). Large sensitivity to freshwater forcing location in 8.2 ka simulations. AGUFM. 2013. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, John W., Jessica L. Blois, Glenn Manion, et al.. (2012). 571 Generalized dissimilarity modeling (GDM) of late-Quaternary variations in palynological compositional dissimilarity. 58. 257–258. 2 indexed citations
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Williams, John W., Heather M. Kharouba, Sam Veloz, et al.. (2012). The ice age ecologist: testing methods for reserve prioritization during the last global warming. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 22(3). 289–301. 47 indexed citations
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Jin, Liya, Fahu Chen, Carrie Morrill, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, & Nan Rosenbloom. (2011). Causes of early Holocene desertification in arid central Asia. Climate Dynamics. 38(7-8). 1577–1591. 133 indexed citations
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Brady, Esther C., Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, & Christine A. Shields. (2002). ENSO Response to Increased Greenhouse Gas Forcing in the NCAR Climate System Model. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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