Kyle C. Armour

12.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
80 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Kyle C. Armour is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Kyle C. Armour has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 62 papers in Atmospheric Science and 26 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Kyle C. Armour's work include Climate variability and models (72 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (36 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (23 papers). Kyle C. Armour is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (72 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (36 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (23 papers). Kyle C. Armour collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Kyle C. Armour's co-authors include Cecilia M. Bitz, David S. Battisti, Gerard H. Roe, John Marshall, Aaron Donohoe, Yue Dong, Jeffery R. Scott, Cristian Proistosescu, Robert C. J. Wills and Edward Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Kyle C. Armour

74 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Southern Ocean warming delayed by circumpolar upwelling and equatorward transport

2016 383 citations Kyle C. Armour, Aaron Donohoe et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Quantifying climate feedbacks in polar regions

2018 327 citations Kyle C. Armour, Alejandro Bodas‐Salcedo et al. Nature Communications profile →
Systematic Climate Model Biases in the Large‐Scale Patterns of Recent Sea‐Surface Temperature and Sea‐Level Pressure Change

2022 158 citations Robert C. J. Wills, Yue Dong et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kyle C. Armour United States	35	4.1k	3.8k	1.4k	178	175	80	4.8k
Tim Woollings United Kingdom	50	7.0k 1.7×	6.6k 1.8×	2.0k 1.5×	87 0.5×	112 0.6×	140	7.8k
Michael Vellinga United Kingdom	22	2.9k 0.7×	2.7k 0.7×	1.6k 1.1×	196 1.1×	62 0.4×	34	3.6k
Paul J. Kushner Canada	39	4.8k 1.2×	5.2k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	158 0.9×	79 0.5×	118	6.0k
J. K. Willis United States	31	2.6k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	2.7k 2.0×	128 0.7×	77 0.4×	83	4.4k
Matthew D. Palmer United Kingdom	32	2.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.4×	1.8k 1.3×	61 0.3×	56 0.3×	88	3.0k
R. Voß Germany	20	1.5k 0.4×	1.6k 0.4×	724 0.5×	208 1.2×	114 0.7×	32	2.1k
V. A. Alexeev United States	24	2.0k 0.5×	2.8k 0.8×	505 0.4×	325 1.8×	54 0.3×	73	3.4k
David Paynter United States	28	1.8k 0.4×	1.6k 0.4×	572 0.4×	68 0.4×	97 0.6×	68	2.4k
Robert B. Thorpe United Kingdom	20	1.9k 0.5×	1.4k 0.4×	717 0.5×	144 0.8×	61 0.3×	45	2.4k
Paulo Ceppi United Kingdom	26	3.1k 0.8×	2.8k 0.8×	449 0.3×	63 0.4×	63 0.4×	60	3.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nakayama, Yoshihiro, et al.. (2025). Enhanced West Antarctic ice loss triggered by polynya response to meridional winds. Nature Geoscience. 18(9). 840–847.

Armour, Kyle C., Gregory J. Hakim, Jessica E. Tierney, et al.. (2025). Paleoclimate pattern effects help constrain climate sensitivity and 21st-century warming. California Digital Library.

Armour, Kyle C., Cristian Proistosescu, Yue Dong, et al.. (2024). Sea-surface temperature pattern effects have slowed global warming and biased warming-based constraints on climate sensitivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(12). e2312093121–e2312093121. 30 indexed citations

Eisenman, Ian & Kyle C. Armour. (2024). The radiative feedback continuum from Snowball Earth to an ice-free hothouse. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6582–6582. 2 indexed citations

Armour, Kyle C., Gregory J. Hakim, Jessica E. Tierney, et al.. (2024). Last Glacial Maximum pattern effects reduce climate sensitivity estimates. Science Advances. 10(16). eadk9461–eadk9461. 17 indexed citations

Hahn, Lily, et al.. (2023). Seasonal Changes in Atmospheric Heat Transport to the Arctic Under Increased CO₂. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(20). 6 indexed citations

Zhou, Chen, et al.. (2023). Explaining Forcing Efficacy With Pattern Effect and State Dependence. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(3). 16 indexed citations

Pauling, Andrew G., Cecilia M. Bitz, & Kyle C. Armour. (2023). The Climate Response to the Mt. Pinatubo Eruption Does Not Constrain Climate Sensitivity. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(7). 3 indexed citations

Wills, Robert C. J., et al.. (2022). Systematic Climate Model Biases in the Large‐Scale Patterns of Recent Sea‐Surface Temperature and Sea‐Level Pressure Change. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(17). 158 indexed citations breakdown →

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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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Armour, Kyle C., et al.. (2022). Estimating the timing of geophysical commitment to 1.5 and 2.0 °C of global warming. Nature Climate Change. 12(6). 547–552. 51 indexed citations

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Dong, Yue, Kyle C. Armour, Cristian Proistosescu, et al.. (2021). Biased Estimates of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity and Transient Climate Response Derived From Historical CMIP6 Simulations. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(24). 25 indexed citations

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Wills, Robert C. J., Kyle C. Armour, David S. Battisti, Cristian Proistosescu, & Luke Parsons. (2021). Slow Modes of Global Temperature Variability and Their Impact on Climate Sensitivity Estimates. Journal of Climate. 34(21). 8717–8738. 10 indexed citations

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Hahn, Lily, Kyle C. Armour, David S. Battisti, et al.. (2020). Antarctic Elevation Drives Hemispheric Asymmetry in Polar Lapse Rate Climatology and Feedback. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(16). 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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Stuecker, Malte F., Axel Timmermann, Fei‐Fei Jin, et al.. (2020). Strong remote control of future equatorial warming by off-equatorial forcing. Nature Climate Change. 10(2). 124–129. 31 indexed citations

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Wills, Robert C. J., David S. Battisti, Cristian Proistosescu, et al.. (2019). Ocean Circulation Signatures of North Pacific Decadal Variability. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(3). 1690–1701. 22 indexed citations

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Battisti, David S., Cristian Proistosescu, Kyle C. Armour, & Gerard H. Roe. (2019). Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity Controls Regional Warming Uncertainty. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 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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Proistosescu, Cristian, Aaron Donohoe, Kyle C. Armour, et al.. (2018). Radiative Feedbacks From Stochastic Variability in Surface Temperature and Radiative Imbalance. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(10). 5082–5094. 24 indexed citations

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