M. Flanner

29.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
91 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

M. Flanner is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, M. Flanner has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Atmospheric Science, 80 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in M. Flanner's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (51 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (43 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (39 papers). M. Flanner is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (51 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (43 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (39 papers). M. Flanner collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. M. Flanner's co-authors include Charles S. Zender, Philip J. Rasch, James T. Randerson, David M. Lawrence, Sean Swenson, Keith W. Oleson, Gordon B. Bonan, Peter Lawrence, Samuel Levis and N. M. Mahowald and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

M. Flanner

89 papers receiving 10.3k 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.

Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model

2011 1.1k citations David M. Lawrence, M. Flanner et al. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems profile →
Present‐day climate forcing and response from black carbon in snow

2007 1000 citations M. Flanner, Charles S. Zender et al. profile →
Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model

2011 676 citations David M. Lawrence, M. Flanner et al. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems profile →
The Impact of Boreal Forest Fire on Climate Warming

2006 672 citations M. Flanner, Charles S. Zender et al. profile →
The size distribution of desert dust aerosols and its impact on the Earth system

2013 473 citations N. M. Mahowald, Rachel A. Scanza et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. Flanner United States	43	8.6k	7.3k	1.5k	830	689	91	10.6k
Baiqing Xu China	43	6.8k 0.8×	3.4k 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	343 0.4×	1.3k 1.9×	162	9.0k
Jim Haywood United Kingdom	61	12.1k 1.4×	12.3k 1.7×	2.1k 1.4×	656 0.8×	223 0.3×	226	14.2k
Margit Schwikowski Switzerland	51	5.9k 0.7×	2.9k 0.4×	1.6k 1.1×	231 0.3×	725 1.1×	216	7.1k
Qinglong You China	51	5.7k 0.7×	6.0k 0.8×	664 0.4×	807 1.0×	582 0.8×	150	8.4k
T. H. Painter United States	55	8.9k 1.0×	5.3k 0.7×	501 0.3×	1.7k 2.1×	2.0k 3.0×	172	12.4k
Yves Balkanski France	55	8.7k 1.0×	7.3k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	635 0.8×	484 0.7×	131	11.1k
Tuula Aalto Finland	57	8.7k 1.0×	6.8k 0.9×	4.6k 3.1×	1.2k 1.4×	351 0.5×	226	10.0k
Daniel Joswiak China	24	3.6k 0.4×	1.8k 0.2×	541 0.4×	219 0.3×	481 0.7×	37	4.6k
G. Faluvegi United States	44	5.7k 0.7×	4.4k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	699 0.8×	681 1.0×	98	7.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by M. Flanner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. Flanner

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xie, Yan, et al.. (2025). Machine Learning Detection of Melting Layers From Radar Observations. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 1 indexed citations

Flanner, M., et al.. (2024). Earth's Sea Ice Radiative Effect From 1980 to 2023. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(14). 7 indexed citations

Flanner, M., et al.. (2024). Quantifying Volumetric Scattering Bias in ICESat‐2 and Operation IceBridge Altimetry Over Greenland Firn and Aged Snow. Earth and Space Science. 11(6). 5 indexed citations

Flanner, M., et al.. (2024). The Effect of Physically Based Ice Radiative Processes on Greenland Ice Sheet Albedo and Surface Mass Balance in E3SM. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(7).

He, Cenlin, M. Flanner, David M. Lawrence, & Yu Gu. (2024). New Features and Enhancements in Community Land Model (CLM5) Snow Albedo Modeling: Description, Sensitivity, and Evaluation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(2). 9 indexed citations

Gerlein‐Safdi, Cynthia, Philipp Köhler, Shujie Wang, et al.. (2023). Algae Blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet Detected Through Solar-Induced Fluorescence. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–9. 1 indexed citations

Flanner, M., et al.. (2022). Sensitivity of modeled snow grain size retrievals to solar geometry, snow particle asphericity, and snowpack impurities. The cryosphere. 16(9). 3801–3814. 7 indexed citations

Brown, Hunter, Hailong Wang, M. Flanner, et al.. (2022). Brown Carbon Fuel and Emission Source Attributions to Global Snow Darkening Effect. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 14(4). 10 indexed citations

Flanner, M., et al.. (2019). Monitoring of snow surface near-infrared bidirectional reflectance factors with added light-absorbing particles. The cryosphere. 13(6). 1753–1766. 9 indexed citations

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Dang, Cheng, Charles S. Zender, & M. Flanner. (2019). Intercomparison and improvement of two-stream shortwave radiative transfer schemes in Earth system models for a unified treatment of cryospheric surfaces. The cryosphere. 13(9). 2325–2343. 38 indexed citations

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Dang, Cheng, Charles S. Zender, & M. Flanner. (2019). Inter-comparison and improvement of 2-stream shortwave radiative transfermodels for unified treatment of cryospheric surfaces in ESMs. 1 indexed citations

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Matsui, Hitoshi, N. M. Mahowald, Nobuhiro Moteki, et al.. (2018). Anthropogenic combustion iron as a complex climate forcer. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1593–1593. 92 indexed citations

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Thomas, Jennie L., Chris Polashenski, A. J. Soja, et al.. (2017). Quantifying black carbon deposition over the Greenland ice sheet from forest fires in Canada. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(15). 7965–7974. 41 indexed citations

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Mahmood, Rashed, Knut von Salzen, M. Flanner, et al.. (2016). Seasonality of global and Arctic black carbon processes in the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 121(12). 7100–7116. 43 indexed citations

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Zhao, Chun, Zhiyuan Hu, Yun Qian, et al.. (2014). Simulating black carbon and dust and their radiative forcing in seasonal snow: a case study over North China with field campaign measurements. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(20). 11475–11491. 115 indexed citations

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Doherty, Sarah J., Cecilia M. Bitz, & M. Flanner. (2014). Biases in modeled surface snow BC mixing ratios in prescribed-aerosol climate model runs. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(21). 11697–11709. 8 indexed citations

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McConnell, Joseph R., et al.. (2013). Retention and radiative forcing of black carbon in eastern Sierra Nevada snow. The cryosphere. 7(1). 365–374. 77 indexed citations

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Flanner, M., Xiaohong Liu, Cheng Zhou, Joyce E. Penner, & C. Jiao. (2012). Enhanced solar energy absorption by internally-mixed black carbon in snow grains. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 12(10). 4699–4721. 117 indexed citations

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Bond, Tami C., Colin M. Zarzycki, M. Flanner, & D. Koch. (2011). Quantifying immediate radiative forcing by black carbon and organic matter with the Specific Forcing Pulse. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 11(4). 1505–1525. 126 indexed citations

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Quinn, Patricia K., A. Stohl, Almut Arneth, et al.. (2011). The Impact of Transported Pollution on Arctic Climate. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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