Daniel J. Lunt

22.9k citations

197 papers · 10.4k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 59

Impact in

Paleontology top 0.1%
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
Atmospheric Science top 0.1%
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Cryospheric studies and observations

Papers in

Paleontology 70
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils 49
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies 29
Atmospheric Science 159
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 144
- Cryospheric studies and observations 22

Co-authors: Paul J. Valdes Alan M. Haywood Gavin L. Foster Andy Ridgwell Ulrich Salzmann Richard D. Pancost Dana L. Royer E. J. Stone
Journals: Climate of the past (24 papers)Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences (12 papers)Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology (11 papers)Earth and Planetary Science Letters (10 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (10 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Daniel J. Lunt

186 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature 2024 · 68 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Science
2019 Science Advances
2018 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2017 Nature Communications
2016 Nature
2015 Nature

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1	Stronger and prolonged El Niño-Southern Oscillation in the Early Eocene warmth Nature Communications ·S. Abhik, Dietmar Dommenget, Shayne McGregor, David K. Hutchinson, Sebastian Steinig, Jiang Zhu, Fabio A. Capitanio, Daniel J. Lunt, Igor Niezgodzki, Gregor Knorr, Wing‐Le Chan, Ayako Abe‐Ouchi	2025	0
2	Miocene Ocean Gyre Circulation and Gateway Transports—MioMIP1 Ocean Intercomparison Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology ·T. N. Naik, Agatha M. de Boer, Helen K. Coxall, Natalie Burls, Catherine P. Bradshaw, Yannick Donnadieu, Alex Farnsworth, 武志加藤, Matthew Huber, Mehdi Pasha Karami, Gregor Knorr, Allegra N. LeGrande, 繁雄斎藤, Gerrit Lohmann, Daniel J. Lunt, Matthias Prange, Yurui Zhang	2025	0
3	Unravelling the drivers of marine biodiversity across the Phanerozoic Nature Communications ·María Elena Rodríguez Collazos, Alexandre Pohl, Bertrand Lefèbvre, Thomas Servais, Daniel J. Lunt, Paul J. Valdes, Grégory Beaugrand	2025	0
4	Ocean Meridional Overturning Circulation During the Early and Middle Miocene Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology ·T. N. Naik, Agatha M. de Boer, Helen K. Coxall, Natalie Burls, Catherine P. Bradshaw, Yannick Donnadieu, Alex Farnsworth, 武志加藤, Nicholas Herold, Matthew Huber, Mehdi Pasha Karami, Gregor Knorr, Allegra N. LeGrande, 繁雄斎藤, Gerrit Lohmann, Daniel J. Lunt, Matthias Prange, Yurui Zhang	2025	3
5	Effects of paleogeographic changes and CO2 variability on northern mid-latitudinal temperature gradients in the Cretaceous Nature Communications ·Krithika Ramachandran, Pamela Stone, Ori Adam, Alexander Farnsworth, Hezi Gildor, Daniel J. Lunt, Nathan Paldor	2023	4
6	Early Eocene Ocean Meridional Overturning Circulation: The Roles of Atmospheric Forcing and Strait Geometry Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology ·Yurui Zhang, Agatha M. de Boer, Daniel J. Lunt, David K. Hutchinson, Myak Miga, Tina van de Flierdt, Philip F. Sexton, Helen K. Coxall, Sebastian Steinig, Jean‐Baptiste Ladant, Jiang Zhu, Yannick Donnadieu, Zhongshi Zhang, Wing‐Le Chan, Ayako Abe‐Ouchi, Igor Niezgodzki, Gerrit Lohmann, Gregor Knorr, Christopher J. Poulsen, Matthew Huber	2022	26
7	Absolute seasonal temperature estimates from clumped isotopes in bivalve shells suggest warm and variable greenhouse climate Communications Earth & Environment ·Niels J. de Winter, Inigo A. Müller, Ilja Kocken, Nicolas Thibault, Clemens V. Ullmann, Alex Farnsworth, Daniel J. Lunt, Philippe Claeys, Martin Ziegler	2021	38
8	Hydrological impact of Middle Miocene Antarctic ice-free areas coupled to deep ocean temperatures Nature Geoscience ·Catherine P. Bradshaw, Petra M. Langebroek, Caroline H. Lear, Daniel J. Lunt, Helen K. Coxall, Sindia Sosdian, Agatha M. de Boer	2021	13
9	Impact of global cooling on Early Cretaceous high pCO2 world during the Weissert Event Nature Communications ·Andreas Persihl, Thomas Wagner, Sebastian Steinig, Cinzia Bottini, Wolf Dummann, M. J. Meggitt, Gabriele Gambacorta, Yabuuchi Kiyohiro, Alexander Farnsworth, Sascha Flögel, Peter Hofmann, Daniel J. Lunt, Janet Rethemeyer, Stefano Torricelli, Elisabetta Erba	2021	49
10	Predicting sediment discharges and erosion rates in deep time—examples from the late Cretaceous North American continent Basin Research ·Konrad Mark Stein, Alexander C. Whittaker, Peter A. Allison, Daniel J. Lunt, Alexander Farnsworth	2020	13
11	Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the EECO, PETM and latest Paleocene Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Goethe University Frankfurt) ·Gordon N. Inglis, Fran Bragg, Natalie Burls, David Evans, Gavin L. Foster, Matthew Huber, Daniel J. Lunt, Nicholas Siler, Sebastian Steinig, R. Wilkinson, Eleni Anagnostou, Marlow J. Cramwinckel, Christopher J. Hollis, Richard D. Pancost, Jessica E. Tierney	2020	9
12	The UK contribution to CMIP6/PMIP4: mid-Holocene and Last Interglacial experiments with HadGEM3, and comparison to the pre-industrial era and proxy data Charles J. R. Williams, Maria Vittoria Guarino, Émilie Capron, Irene Malmierca‐Vallet, Joy Singarayer, Louise C. Sime, Daniel J. Lunt, Paul J. Valdes	2020	2
13	Extinction intensity during Ordovician and Cenozoic glaciations explained by cooling and palaeogeography Nature Geoscience ·Erin E. Saupe, Huijie Qiao, Yannick Donnadieu, Alexander Farnsworth, Alan Kennedy-Asser, Jean‐Baptiste Ladant, Daniel J. Lunt, Alexandre Pohl, Paul J. Valdes, Seth Finnegan	2019	48
14	Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·K. Burke, John W. Williams, Mark A. Chandler, Alan M. Haywood, Daniel J. Lunt, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner Hit paper breakdown →	2018	309
15	High temperatures in the terrestrial mid-latitudes during the early Palaeogene Nature Geoscience ·B. David A. Naafs, Megan Rohrssen, Gordon N. Inglis, Outi Lähteenoja, Sarah J. Feakins, Margaret E. Collinson, Elizabeth M. Kennedy, Prakash K. Singh, Manish Pratap Singh, Daniel J. Lunt, Richard D. Pancost	2018	75
16	On the possibility of ice on Greenland during the Eocene-Oligocene transition EGUGA ·Petra M. Langebroek, Kerim H. Nisancioglu, Daniel J. Lunt, Vivi Kathrine Pedersen, Anna Nele Meckler, Edward Gasson	2017	2
17	Sensitivity of the Greenland Ice Sheet to Interglacial Climate Forcing: MIS 5e Versus MIS 11 Paleoceanography ·Rima Rachmayani, Matthias Prange, Daniel J. Lunt, E. J. Stone, Michael Schulz	2017	12
18	Evaluating the dominant components of warming in Pliocene climate simulations Climate of the past ·Daniel J. Hill, Alan M. Haywood, Daniel J. Lunt, Stephen J. Hunter, Fran Bragg, Camille Contoux, Christian Stepanek, Linda E. Sohl, Nan Rosenbloom, Wing‐Le Chan, Youichi Kamae, Zhongshi Zhang, Ayako Abe‐Ouchi, Mark A. Chandler, Anne Jost, Gerrit Lohmann, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Gilles Ramstein, Hiroaki Ueda	2014	48
19	Mid-pliocene Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation not unlike modern Climate of the past ·Zhongshi Zhang, Kerim H. Nisancioglu, Mark A. Chandler, Alan M. Haywood, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Gilles Ramstein, Christian Stepanek, Ayako Abe‐Ouchi, Wing‐Le Chan, Fran Bragg, Camille Contoux, Aisling M. Dolan, Daniel J. Hill, Anne Jost, Youichi Kamae, Gerrit Lohmann, Daniel J. Lunt, Nan Rosenbloom, Linda E. Sohl, Hiroaki Ueda	2013	55
20	“Sunshade World”: A fully coupled GCM evaluation of the climatic impacts of geoengineering Geophysical Research Letters ·Daniel J. Lunt, Andy Ridgwell, Paul J. Valdes, jørgen Elm Larsen	2008	83

About Daniel J. Lunt

Daniel J. Lunt is a scholar working on Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry and Oceanography, having authored 197 papers that have together received 10.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (144 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (49 papers), Climate variability and models (41 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (29 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (28 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (26 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (22 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (3.3k citations), Atmospheric Science (7.6k citations), Earth-Surface Processes (1.0k citations), Oceanography (1.7k citations) and Environmental Chemistry (1.2k citations). Daniel J. Lunt has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Paul J. Valdes, Alan M. Haywood, Gavin L. Foster, Andy Ridgwell, Ulrich Salzmann, Richard D. Pancost, Dana L. Royer, E. J. Stone, Harry J. Dowsett and Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner. Their work appears in journals such as Climate of the past, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Geophysical Research Letters.

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