Keith W. Oleson

39.7k total citations · 11 hit papers
84 papers, 14.8k citations indexed

About

Keith W. Oleson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Keith W. Oleson has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 14.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 32 papers in Environmental Engineering and 25 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Keith W. Oleson's work include Climate variability and models (42 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (29 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (27 papers). Keith W. Oleson is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (42 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (29 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (27 papers). Keith W. Oleson collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Keith W. Oleson's co-authors include Gordon B. Bonan, Samuel Levis, David M. Lawrence, Zong‐Liang Yang, Peter Thornton, Xubin Zeng, Peter Lawrence, Lei Zhao, Mariana Vertenstein and Robert E. Dickinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Keith W. Oleson

81 papers receiving 14.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Strong contributions of local background climate to urban heat islands

2014 1.1k citations Lei Zhao, Keith W. Oleson et al. profile →
The Common Land Model

2003 1.1k citations Gordon B. Bonan, Paul A. Dirmeyer 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 Importance of Land-Cover Change in Simulating Future Climates

2005 896 citations Johannes J. Feddema, Keith W. Oleson 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 →
Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM)

2004 582 citations Keith W. Oleson, Paul A. Dirmeyer 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. 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, Peter Lawrence et al. profile →
Implementing Plant Hydraulics in the Community Land Model, Version 5

2019 248 citations Daniel Kennedy, Sean Swenson et al. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems profile →
Global multi-model projections of local urban climates

2021 221 citations Lei Zhao, Keith W. Oleson et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Keith W. Oleson United States	54	10.6k	6.3k	4.7k	2.0k	1.9k	84	14.8k
Xuhui Lee United States	64	9.7k 0.9×	4.9k 0.8×	4.9k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	3.0k 1.6×	236	14.4k
Kaicun Wang China	49	7.6k 0.7×	4.8k 0.8×	3.3k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	183	10.8k
Hylke E. Beck United States	44	9.4k 0.9×	5.2k 0.8×	3.4k 0.7×	5.7k 2.9×	508 0.3×	106	15.4k
Jason P. Evans Australia	60	10.5k 1.0×	6.7k 1.1×	2.9k 0.6×	2.4k 1.2×	531 0.3×	282	14.7k
Toby N. Carlson United States	48	8.3k 0.8×	6.2k 1.0×	4.9k 1.0×	833 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	120	11.9k
Bart van den Hurk Netherlands	61	13.2k 1.2×	8.0k 1.3×	2.5k 0.5×	2.9k 1.5×	589 0.3×	227	16.4k
Christoph Schär Switzerland	76	17.8k 1.7×	15.8k 2.5×	2.5k 0.5×	2.7k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	231	22.3k
Liming Zhou United States	55	10.0k 0.9×	5.6k 0.9×	4.5k 1.0×	956 0.5×	2.2k 1.1×	147	14.6k
Xuebin Zhang Canada	62	20.2k 1.9×	14.2k 2.2×	2.0k 0.4×	3.8k 1.9×	1.5k 0.8×	206	24.3k
Diego G. Miralles Belgium	63	14.7k 1.4×	7.8k 1.2×	4.3k 0.9×	6.3k 3.2×	611 0.3×	165	19.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Oleson, Keith W., Lei Zhao, Gerald Mills, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Global‐Scale Urban Land Cover Representation Using Local Climate Zones in the Community Earth System Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 17(11).

Zheng, Zhonghua, Sarah Lindley, Lei Zhao, et al.. (2025). Leveraging automated machine learning (AutoML) for urban climate emulation. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 1(3). 100040–100040.

Zhao, Lei, TC Chakraborty, Keith W. Oleson, et al.. (2025). U-Surf: a global 1 km spatially continuous urban surface property dataset for kilometer-scale urban-resolving Earth system modeling. Earth system science data. 17(5). 2147–2174. 3 indexed citations

Sun, Yuan, Sarah Lindley, Caroline Jay, et al.. (2025). Integration and execution of Community Land Model Urban (CLMU) in a containerized environment. Environmental Modelling & Software. 188. 106391–106391. 1 indexed citations

Li, X., Lei Zhao, Keith W. Oleson, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Urban Climate‐Energy Modeling in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Through Explicit Representation of Urban Air‐Conditioning Adoption. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(4). 8 indexed citations

Li, X., et al.. (2024). Elevated urban energy risks due to climate-driven biophysical feedbacks. Nature Climate Change. 14(10). 1056–1063. 14 indexed citations

Richter, Jadwiga H., Anne A. Glanville, Sanjiv Kumar, et al.. (2024). Quantifying sources of subseasonal prediction skill in CESM2. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 10 indexed citations

Zhao, Lei, et al.. (2023). Large humidity effects on urban heat exposure and cooling challenges under climate change. Environmental Research Letters. 18(4). 44024–44024. 29 indexed citations

Richter, Jadwiga H., Anne A. Glanville, James Edwards, et al.. (2022). Subseasonal Earth System Prediction with CESM2. Weather and Forecasting. 37(6). 797–815. 30 indexed citations

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Zheng, Zhonghua, Lei Zhao, & Keith W. Oleson. (2021). Large model structural uncertainty in global projections of urban heat waves. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3736–3736. 58 indexed citations

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Jones, Bryan, Claudia Tebaldi, Brian C. O’Neill, Keith W. Oleson, & Jing Gao. (2018). Avoiding population exposure to heat-related extremes: demographic change vs climate change. Climatic Change. 146(3-4). 423–437. 107 indexed citations

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Franks, Peter J., Gordon B. Bonan, Joseph A. Berry, et al.. (2018). Comparing optimal and empirical stomatal conductance models for application in Earth system models. Global Change Biology. 24(12). 5708–5723. 84 indexed citations

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Bonan, Gordon B., Edward G. Patton, Ian N. Harman, et al.. (2018). Modeling canopy-induced turbulence in the Earth system: a unified parameterization of turbulent exchange within plant canopies and the roughness sublayer (CLM-ml v0). Geoscientific model development. 11(4). 1467–1496. 84 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Daniel, et al.. (2017). Representing Plant Hydraulics in a Global Model: Updates to the Community Land Model. AGUFM. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Buzan, Jonathan, Keith W. Oleson, & Matthew Huber. (2015). Implementation and comparison of a suite of heat stress metrics within the Community Land Model version 4.5. Geoscientific model development. 8(2). 151–170. 194 indexed citations

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O’Neill, Brian C., et al.. (2014). Population exposure to heat-related extremes: Demographic change vs climate change. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 2 indexed citations

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Bonan, Gordon B., Mathew Williams, Rosie A. Fisher, & Keith W. Oleson. (2014). Modeling stomatal conductance in the earth system: linking leaf water-use efficiency and water transport along the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum. Geoscientific model development. 7(5). 2193–2222. 264 indexed citations

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Feddema, Johannes J., et al.. (2010). Parameterization of Urban Characteristics for Global Climate Modeling. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 100(4). 848–865. 144 indexed citations

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Kloster, Silvia, N. M. Mahowald, J. T. Randerson, et al.. (2010). Fire dynamics during the 20th century simulated by the Community Land Model. Biogeosciences. 7(6). 1877–1902. 157 indexed citations

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Bonan, Gordon B., Samuel Levis, Stephen Sitch, Mariana Vertenstein, & Keith W. Oleson. (2003). A dynamic global vegetation model for use with climate models: concepts and description of simulated vegetation dynamics. Global Change Biology. 9(11). 1543–1566. 283 indexed citations

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