Gordon B. Bonan

70.6k total citations · 18 hit papers
177 papers, 41.0k citations indexed

About

Gordon B. Bonan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gordon B. Bonan has authored 177 papers receiving a total of 41.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 88 papers in Atmospheric Science and 25 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Gordon B. Bonan's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (85 papers), Climate variability and models (75 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (45 papers). Gordon B. Bonan is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (85 papers), Climate variability and models (75 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (45 papers). Gordon B. Bonan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Gordon B. Bonan's co-authors include Keith W. Oleson, Samuel Levis, William R. Wieder, F. Stuart Chapin, Jonathan A. Foley, Michael T. Coe, David M. Lawrence, Christopher J. Kucharik, Chad Monfreda and Tracey Holloway and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gordon B. Bonan

176 papers receiving 39.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Global Consequences of Land Use

2005 9.4k citations Gordon B. Bonan, F. Stuart Chapin et al. Science profile →
Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

2008 4.4k citations Gordon B. Bonan Science profile →
The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)

2006 2.0k citations Gordon B. Bonan, Scott C. Doney et al. Journal of Climate profile →
The Common Land Model

2003 1.1k citations Robert E. Dickinson, Gordon B. Bonan et al. profile →
Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model

2011 1.1k citations David M. Lawrence, Keith W. Oleson et al. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems profile →
The National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate Model: CCM3*

1998 932 citations Gordon B. Bonan et al. Journal of Climate profile →
The Importance of Land-Cover Change in Simulating Future Climates

2005 896 citations Johannes J. Feddema, Keith W. Oleson et al. Science profile →
Effects of boreal forest vegetation on global climate

1992 808 citations Gordon B. Bonan et al. profile →
Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes

2013 738 citations William R. Wieder, Gordon B. Bonan et al. profile →
Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model

2011 676 citations David M. Lawrence, Keith W. Oleson et al. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems profile →
Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle

2008 659 citations Keith W. Oleson, David M. Lawrence et al. profile →
Environmental Factors and Ecological Processes in Boreal Forests

1989 652 citations Gordon B. Bonan et al. profile →
Managing uncertainty in soil carbon feedbacks to climate change

2016 616 citations William R. Wieder, Gordon B. Bonan et al. profile →
The Land Surface Climatology of the Community Land Model Coupled to the NCAR Community Climate Model*

2002 550 citations Gordon B. Bonan, Keith W. Oleson et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Improving canopy processes in the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) using global flux fields empirically inferred from FLUXNET data

2011 512 citations Gordon B. Bonan, Keith W. Oleson et al. profile →
Carbon–Concentration and Carbon–Climate Feedbacks in CMIP5 Earth System Models

2013 512 citations Gordon B. Bonan et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Climate, ecosystems, and planetary futures: The challenge to predict life in Earth system models

2018 410 citations Gordon B. Bonan, Scott C. Doney Science profile →
A roadmap for improving the representation of photosynthesis in Earth system models

2016 364 citations Alistair Rogers, Jeffrey S. Dukes et al. profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Land Processes Can Substantially Impact the Mean Climate State 2024 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown), Daniel Kennedy, Katherine Dagon, David M. Lawrence, (unknown), Gordon B. Bonan, Charles D. Koven, Danica Lombardozzi, Abigail L. S. Swann	5
2	Reimagining Earth in the Earth System 2024 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Gordon B. Bonan, (unknown), Deborah R. Coen, Adrianna Foster, J. K. Shuman, Marysa M. Laguë, Abigail L. S. Swann, Danica Lombardozzi, William R. Wieder, Kyla M. Dahlin, Adrian V. Rocha, Michael Sanclements	7
3	Land surface conductance linked to precipitation: Co‐evolution of vegetation and climate in Earth system models 2024 ·Global Change Biology ·Peter J. Franks, Nicholas Herold, Gordon B. Bonan, Keith W. Oleson, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Matthew Huber, Julian I. Schroeder, Peter M. Cox, (unknown)	2
4	Flexible Foliar Stoichiometry Reduces the Magnitude of the Global Land Carbon Sink 2023 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown), William R. Wieder, Gordon B. Bonan, Cory C. Cleveland	5
5	Seeing the Forest for the Trees 2023 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Gordon B. Bonan	4
6	Increasing the spatial and temporal impact of ecological research: A roadmap for integrating a novel terrestrial process into an Earth system model 2021 ·Global Change Biology ·Emily Kyker‐Snowman, Danica Lombardozzi, Gordon B. Bonan, Susan J. Cheng, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Serita D. Frey, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Nicholas G. Smith, R. Quinn Thomas, William R. Wieder, A. Stuart Grandy	33
7	Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Forests, Climate Change, and Our Future 2020 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Gordon B. Bonan	0
8	Climate, ecosystems, and planetary futures: The challenge to predict life in Earth system models breakdown → 2018 ·Science ·Gordon B. Bonan, Scott C. Doney	410
9	Comparing optimal and empirical stomatal conductance models for application in Earth system models 2018 ·Global Change Biology ·Peter J. Franks, Gordon B. Bonan, Joseph A. Berry, Danica Lombardozzi, N. Michele Holbrook, Nicholas Herold, Keith W. Oleson	84
10	The impact of including export limitation in photosynthetic models from leaf to global scales 2017 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Danica Lombardozzi, Nicholas G. Smith, Susan J. Cheng, Gordon B. Bonan, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Rosie A. Fisher, Thomas D. Sharkey, Alistair Rogers	2
11	Stomatal Function across Temporal and Spatial Scales: Deep-Time Trends, Land-Atmosphere Coupling and Global Models 2017 ·PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Peter J. Franks, Joseph A. Berry, Danica Lombardozzi, Gordon B. Bonan	87
12	Evaluating the climate effects of mid-1800s deforestation in New England, USA, using a Weather, Research, and Forecasting (WRF) Model Multi-Physics Ensemble 2016 ·Journal of Climate ·Elizabeth A. Burakowski, Scott V. Ollinger, Gordon B. Bonan, Cameron P. Wake, Jack E. Dibb, David Y. Hollinger	1
13	Changes in Arctic vegetation amplify high-latitude warming through the greenhouse effect 2010 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Abigail L. S. Swann, Inez Fung, Samuel Levis, Gordon B. Bonan, Scott C. Doney	226
14	Ozone-induced reductions in photosynthesis and transpiration: Parameterizing the Community Land Model (CLM) 2010 ·AGUFM ·Danica Lombardozzi, Gordon B. Bonan, Samuel Levis, Jed P. Sparks	2
15	Parameterization of Urban Characteristics for Global Climate Modeling 2010 ·Annals of the Association of American Geographers ·(unknown), Johannes J. Feddema, Keith W. Oleson, Gordon B. Bonan, (unknown)	144
16	Changes in Arctic Vegetation Amplify High-Latitude Warming Through Greenhouse Effect 2009 ·AGUFM ·Abigail L. S. Swann, (unknown), Samuel Levis, Gordon B. Bonan, Scott C. Doney	1
17	Protecting climate with forests 2008 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Robert B. Jackson, James T. Randerson, Josep G. Canadell, Ray G. Anderson, Roni Avissar, Dennis Baldocchi, Gordon B. Bonan, Ken Caldeira, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Christopher B. Field, Bruce A. Hungate, Estéban G. Jobbágy, Lara M. Kueppers, Marcelo D. Nosetto, Diane E. Pataki	321
18	A dynamic global vegetation model for use with climate models: concepts and description of simulated vegetation dynamics 2003 ·Global Change Biology ·Gordon B. Bonan, Samuel Levis, Stephen Sitch, Mariana Vertenstein, Keith W. Oleson	283
19	Nitrogen Controls on Climate Model Evapotranspiration 2002 ·Journal of Climate ·Robert E. Dickinson, Joseph A. Berry, Gordon B. Bonan, G. J. Collatz, Christopher B. Field, Inez Fung, Michael L. Goulden, William A. Hoffmann, Robert B. Jackson, Ranga B. Myneni, P. J. Sellers, Muhammad Shaikh	71
20	The use of a reduced form model to assess the sensitivity of a land surface model to biotic surface parameters 2002 ·Climate Dynamics ·Jason Beringer, (unknown), Amanda H. Lynch, F. Stuart Chapin, Gordon B. Bonan	16

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