David Paynter

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

David Paynter is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, David Paynter has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 50 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in David Paynter's work include Climate variability and models (32 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (31 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (29 papers). David Paynter is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (32 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (31 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (29 papers). David Paynter collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. David Paynter's co-authors include Thomas L. Frölicher, V. Ramaswamy, John P. Dunne, Michael Winton, John P. Krasting, Jorge L. Sarmiento, Larry W. Horowitz, Vaishali Naïk, Paul Ginoux and Fabien Paulot 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

David Paynter

64 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Dominance of the Southern Ocean in Anthropogenic Carbon and Heat Uptake in CMIP5 Models

2014 451 citations Thomas L. Frölicher, David Paynter et al. Journal of Climate profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Paynter United States	28	1.8k	1.6k	572	131	106	68	2.4k
Richard D. Rosen United States	26	1.9k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	1.3k 2.2×	69 0.5×	63 0.6×	84	3.0k
Kirstin Krüger Germany	36	2.6k 1.5×	3.4k 2.2×	286 0.5×	65 0.5×	133 1.3×	110	4.0k
Bruce P. Briegleb United States	31	3.9k 2.2×	4.3k 2.8×	1.2k 2.2×	44 0.3×	165 1.6×	38	5.1k
D. F. Hurst United States	35	3.3k 1.9×	3.5k 2.2×	114 0.2×	207 1.6×	110 1.0×	88	3.9k
A. J. Miller United States	33	3.3k 1.9×	3.7k 2.4×	453 0.8×	61 0.5×	101 1.0×	102	4.3k
Robert Bacastow United States	17	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	739 1.3×	39 0.3×	397 3.7×	32	2.4k
Didier P. Monselesan Australia	28	1.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 2.2×	20 0.2×	223 2.1×	69	2.7k
Paolo Di Girolamo Italy	35	2.2k 1.3×	2.3k 1.5×	93 0.2×	236 1.8×	70 0.7×	164	3.5k
Johnathan W. Hair United States	29	2.9k 1.6×	2.6k 1.6×	395 0.7×	81 0.6×	155 1.5×	100	3.4k
V. Sherlock New Zealand	20	2.2k 1.3×	2.0k 1.3×	128 0.2×	444 3.4×	91 0.9×	31	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by David Paynter

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Paynter

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Paynter. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Paynter based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David Paynter. David Paynter is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Feng, Jing, Raymond Menzel, & David Paynter. (2025). Toward Transparency and Consistency: An Open‐Source Optics Parameterization for Clouds and Precipitation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 17(3).

Wall, Casey J., David Paynter, Yi Qin, et al.. (2025). Decomposing Cloud Radiative Feedbacks by Cloud-Top Phase. Journal of Climate. 38(16). 4023–4043.

Guo, Huan, Levi G. Silvers, David Paynter, et al.. (2025). Assessing Clouds in GFDL's AM4.0 With Different Microphysical Parameterizations Using the Satellite Simulator Package COSP. Earth and Space Science. 12(6).

Zhang, Shipeng, Vaishali Naïk, David Paynter, Simone Tilmes, & Jasmin G. John. (2024). Assessing GFDL‐ESM4.1 Climate Responses to a Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Strategy Intended to Avoid Overshoot 2.0°C Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(23). 2 indexed citations

Lin, Pu, et al.. (2024). Does Increasing Horizontal Resolution Improve the Simulation of Intense Tropical Rainfall in GFDL's AM4 Model?. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(12). 1 indexed citations

Zheng, Yiqi, Larry W. Horowitz, Raymond Menzel, et al.. (2023). Anthropogenic amplification of biogenic secondary organic aerosol production. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(15). 8993–9007. 4 indexed citations

Feng, Jing, David Paynter, & Raymond Menzel. (2023). How a Stable Greenhouse Effect on Earth Is Maintained Under Global Warming. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(9). 15 indexed citations

Feng, Jing, et al.. (2023). How atmospheric humidity drives the outgoing longwave radiation–surface temperature relationship and inter-model spread. Environmental Research Letters. 18(10). 104033–104033. 4 indexed citations

Govardhan, Gaurav, David Paynter, & V. Ramaswamy. (2023). Effective Radiative Forcing of the Internally Mixed Sulfate and Black Carbon Aerosol in the GFDL AM4 Model: The Role Played by Other Aerosol Species. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(23). 2 indexed citations

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Paynter, David, et al.. (2023). Greenhouse Gas Forcing and Climate Feedback Signatures Identified in Hyperspectral Infrared Satellite Observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(24). 2 indexed citations

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Andrews, Timothy, Alejandro Bodas‐Salcedo, Jonathan M. Gregory, et al.. (2022). On the Effect of Historical SST Patterns on Radiative Feedback. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(18). 48 indexed citations

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Jeevanjee, Nadir, Jacob T. Seeley, David Paynter, & S. Fueglistaler. (2021).  An analytical model for spatially varying clear-sky CO2 forcing. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lixia, Laura J. Wilcox, Nick Dunstone, et al.. (2021). Future changes in Beijing haze events under different anthropogenic aerosol emission scenarios. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(10). 7499–7514. 5 indexed citations

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Pincus, Robert, Stefan A. Buehler, Manfred Brath, et al.. (2020). Benchmark Calculations of Radiative Forcing by Greenhouse Gases. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(23). 26 indexed citations

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Loeb, Norman G., Hailan Wang, Richard P. Allan, et al.. (2020). New Generation of Climate Models Track Recent Unprecedented Changes in Earth's Radiation Budget Observed by CERES. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(5). 48 indexed citations

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Yang, Wenchang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, S. Fueglistaler, et al.. (2019). Climate Impacts From Large Volcanic Eruptions in a High‐Resolution Climate Model: The Importance of Forcing Structure. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(13). 7690–7699. 33 indexed citations

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Andrews, Timothy, Jonathan M. Gregory, David Paynter, et al.. (2018). Accounting for Changing Temperature Patterns Increases Historical Estimates of Climate Sensitivity. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(16). 8490–8499. 137 indexed citations

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Palter, Jaime B., Thomas L. Frölicher, David Paynter, & Jasmin G. John. (2018). Climate, ocean circulation, and sea level changes under stabilization and overshoot pathways to 1.5 K warming. Earth System Dynamics. 9(2). 817–828. 31 indexed citations

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Ocko, Ilissa, Vaishali Naïk, & David Paynter. (2018). Rapid and reliable assessment of methane impacts on climate. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(21). 15555–15568. 18 indexed citations

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Paulot, Fabien, David Paynter, Paul Ginoux, Vaishali Naïk, & Larry W. Horowitz. (2018). Changes in the aerosol direct radiative forcing from 2001 to 2015: observational constraints and regional mechanisms. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(17). 13265–13281. 71 indexed citations

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