Kevin Schaefer

17.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
94 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Kevin Schaefer is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Schaefer has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Atmospheric Science, 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 11 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kevin Schaefer's work include Climate change and permafrost (49 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (38 papers) and Climate variability and models (28 papers). Kevin Schaefer is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (49 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (38 papers) and Climate variability and models (28 papers). Kevin Schaefer collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Kevin Schaefer's co-authors include Tingjun Zhang, Edward A. G. Schuur, V. E. Romanovsky, Gustaf Hugelius, Daniel J. Hayes, Charles D. Koven, Guido Grosse, Susan M. Natali, David M. Lawrence and A. David McGuire and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Schaefer

89 papers receiving 7.8k citations

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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.

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

2015 2.5k citations Daniel J. Hayes, Charles D. Koven et al. profile →
Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements

2019 323 citations Dmitry Yumashev, Chris Hope et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Schaefer

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Permafrost Dynamics Observatory: 3. Remote Sensing Big Data for the Active Layer, Soil Moisture, and Greening and Browning 2025 ·Earth and Space Science ·(unknown), Kevin Schaefer, Roger Michaelides, Richard H. Chen, (unknown), (unknown), Lingcao Huang, A. Parsekian, H. A. Zebker, (unknown), (unknown)	1
2	Identifying active retrogressive thaw slumps from ArcticDEM 2023 ·ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ·Lingcao Huang, M. J. Willis, (unknown), Trevor C. Lantz, Kevin Schaefer, (unknown), Guofeng Cao, K. F. Tiampo	20
3	Design and Implementation of a Hierarchical Digital Twin for Power Systems Using Real-Time Simulation 2023 ·Electronics ·(unknown), Kevin Schaefer, (unknown), (unknown), Peter Bretschneider, Dirk Westermann	12
4	Permafrost Dynamics Observatory (PDO): 2. Joint Retrieval of Permafrost Active Layer Thickness and Soil Moisture From L‐Band InSAR and P‐Band PolSAR 2022 ·Earth and Space Science ·Richard H. Chen, Roger Michaelides, (unknown), Lingcao Huang, (unknown), (unknown), A. Parsekian, H. A. Zebker, Mahta Moghaddam, Kevin Schaefer	11
5	The Terrestrial Biosphere Model Farm 2022 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Joshua B. Fisher, (unknown), (unknown), Christopher R. Schwalm, Nicholas C. Parazoo, Hannah Kolus, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Alexandre Guillaume, (unknown), Kevin Schaefer, Bassil El Masri, Peter Levy, Yaxing Wei, Michael C. Dietze, D. N. Huntzinger	6
6	Permafrost Dynamics Observatory—Part I: Postprocessing and Calibration Methods of UAVSAR L‐Band InSAR Data for Seasonal Subsidence Estimation 2021 ·Earth and Space Science ·Roger Michaelides, Richard H. Chen, (unknown), Kevin Schaefer, A. Parsekian, (unknown), Mahta Moghaddam, H. A. Zebker, Lin Liu, (unknown), Jingyi Chen	19
7	Soil moisture and hydrology projections of the permafrost region – a model intercomparison 2020 ·The cryosphere ·Christian Andresen, David M. Lawrence, Cathy J. Wilson, A. D. McGuire, Charles D. Koven, Kevin Schaefer, Elchin Jafarov, Shushi Peng, Xiaodong Chen, Isabelle Gouttevin, Eleanor Burke, Sarah Chadburn, Duoying Ji, Guangsheng Chen, Daniel J. Hayes, Wenxin Zhang	114
8	Impacts of land use change and elevated CO ₂ on the interannual variations and seasonal cycles of gross primary productivity in China 2020 ·Earth System Dynamics ·Binghao Jia, Xin Luo, Ximing Cai, Atul K. Jain, D. N. Huntzinger, Zhenghui Xie, Ning Zeng, Jiafu Mao, Xiaoying Shi, Akihiko Ito, Yaxing Wei, Hanqin Tian, Benjamin Poulter, Daniel J. Hayes, Kevin Schaefer	21
9	Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements breakdown → 2019 ·Nature Communications ·Dmitry Yumashev, Chris Hope, Kevin Schaefer, Kathrin Riemann‐Campe, Fernando Iglesias‐Suarez, Elchin Jafarov, Eleanor Burke, Paul J. Young, Yasin Elshorbany, Gail Whiteman	323
10	Divergence in land surface modeling: linking spread to structure 2019 ·Environmental Research Communications ·Christopher R. Schwalm, Kevin Schaefer, Joshua B. Fisher, D. N. Huntzinger, Yasin Elshorbany, Yuanyuan Fang, Daniel J. Hayes, Elchin Jafarov, A. M. Michalak, Mark Piper, (unknown), Kang Wang, Yaxing Wei	18
11	Does Tundra Fire Accelerate Drainage of Lakes in Discontinuous Permafrost? Evidence from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska 2019 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Gerald V. Frost, (unknown), Rachel A. Loehman, Kevin Schaefer, Roger Michaelides, Matthew J. Macander, (unknown)	1
12	Representing Grasslands Using Dynamic Prognostic Phenology Based on Biological Growth Stages: 1. Implementation in the Simple Biosphere Model (SiB4) 2019 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Katherine Haynes, Ian Baker, Scott Denning, Reto Stöckli, Kevin Schaefer, Erandathie Lokupitiya, John M. Haynes	30
13	A synthesis dataset of permafrost-affected soil thermal conditions for Alaska, USA 2018 ·Earth system science data ·Kang Wang, Elchin Jafarov, Irina Overeem, V. E. Romanovsky, Kevin Schaefer, Gary D. Clow, F. E. Urban, William Cable, Mark Piper, Christopher R. Schwalm, Tingjun Zhang, Alexander Kholodov, (unknown), Michael G. Loso, (unknown)	23
14	Forests dominate the interannual variability of the North American carbon sink 2018 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Yoichi P. Shiga, A. M. Michalak, Yuanyuan Fang, Kevin Schaefer, A. E. Andrews, D. N. Huntzinger, Christopher R. Schwalm, K. W. Thoning, Yaxing Wei	23
15	The CarbonTracker Data Assimilation System for CO ₂ and δ ¹³ C (CTDAS-C13 v1.0): retrieving information on land–atmosphere exchange processes 2018 ·Geoscientific model development ·Ivar R. van der Velde, J. B. Miller, M. K. van der Molen, Pieter P. Tans, Bruce H. Vaughn, James W. C. White, Kevin Schaefer, Wouter Peters	7
16	A multi-species data assimilation system to retrieve information on land-atmosphere exchange processes 2017 ·Ivar R. van der Velde, J. B. Miller, M. K. van der Molen, Pieter P. Tans, Bruce H. Vaughn, James W. C. White, Kevin Schaefer, Wouter Peters	1
17	Data Integration Tool: Permafrost Data Debugging 2017 ·AGUFM ·(unknown), Kevin Schaefer, Elchin Jafarov, Peter Pulsifer, Colleen Strawhacker, Lynn Yarmey, (unknown)	1
18	Coupling of snow and permafrost processes using the Basic Modeling Interface (BMI) 2017 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·(unknown), Irina Overeem, Elchin Jafarov, Mark Piper, (unknown), Gary D. Clow, Kevin Schaefer	1
19	Ground-penetrating radar-derived measurements of active-layer thickness on the landscape scale with sparse calibration at Toolik and Happy Valley, Alaska 2016 ·Geophysics ·Albert C. Chen, A. Parsekian, Kevin Schaefer, Elchin Jafarov, Santosh K. Panda, Lin Liu, Tingjun Zhang, H. A. Zebker	15
20	Strength and Timing of the Permafrost Carbon Feedback 2010 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·(unknown), Kevin Schaefer, Lori Bruhwiler, A. P. Barrett	1

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