Michele Thornton

1.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Michele Thornton is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Michele Thornton has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Atmospheric Science, 5 papers in Environmental Engineering and 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Michele Thornton's work include Climate change and permafrost (4 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (4 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (2 papers). Michele Thornton is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (4 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (4 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (2 papers). Michele Thornton collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Puerto Rico. Michele Thornton's co-authors include Peter Thornton, Yaxing Wei, Robert B. Cook, Ranjeet Devarakonda, Benjamin Mayer, Shih‐Chieh Kao, R. Shrestha, Russell S. Vose, Bruce E. Wilson and W. M. Post and has published in prestigious journals such as Biogeosciences, Scientific Data and Journal of Forestry.

In The Last Decade

Michele Thornton

17 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for Nor... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2021 100 200 300
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.

  1. Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 3
    2016 337 citations Peter Thornton, Michele Thornton et al. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics profile →
  2. Gridded daily weather data for North America with comprehensive uncertainty quantification
    2021 162 citations Peter Thornton, R. Shrestha et al. Scientific Data profile →

Peers

Michele Thornton
Pengsen Sun China
Monia Santini Italy
Art Degaetano United States
Adam Terando United States
Miriam Machwitz Germany
Ranjeet Devarakonda United States
James Bradbury United States
Pia Papadopol Canada
Benjamin Mayer United States
Claire Lunch United States
Pengsen Sun China
Michele Thornton
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Countries citing papers authored by Michele Thornton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michele Thornton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michele Thornton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michele Thornton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michele Thornton based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michele Thornton. Michele Thornton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Shi, Mingjie, Michael Keller, Lingcheng Li, et al.. (2024). Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) for Hurricane Disturbance and Recovery. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(1). 1 indexed citations
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Cardoso, Anabelle W., Philip G. Brodrick, Adam M. Wilson, et al.. (2024). Increasing Data Access in Multi-Sensor Airborne Campaigns: Lessons from BioSCape in South Africa. 2898–2901. 1 indexed citations
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Kao, Shih‐Chieh, Michele Thornton, Peter Thornton, & R. Shrestha. (2024). Gridded Sub-daily Climate Forcings for North America Based on Daymet and GSWP3 (Daymet-GSWP3). OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).
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Yuan, Fengming, Dali Wang, Shih‐Chieh Kao, et al.. (2023). An ultrahigh-resolution E3SM land model simulation framework and its first application to the Seward Peninsula in Alaska. Journal of Computational Science. 73. 102145–102145. 4 indexed citations
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Thornton, Peter, R. Shrestha, Michele Thornton, et al.. (2021). Gridded daily weather data for North America with comprehensive uncertainty quantification. Scientific Data. 8(1). 190–190. 162 indexed citations breakdown →
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Devarakonda, Ranjeet, et al.. (2021). FAIR Interfaces for Geospatial Scientific Data Searches. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1–4. 2 indexed citations
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Thornton, Michele, R. Shrestha, Peter Thornton, et al.. (2021). Daymet Version 4 Monthly Latency: Daily Surface Weather Data. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics. 8 indexed citations
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Thornton, Michele, et al.. (2020). Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics. 161 indexed citations
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Thornton, Michele, Yuting Wei, Peter Thornton, R. Shrestha, & Shih‐Chieh Kao. (2020). Daymet: Station-Level Inputs and Cross-Validation Result for North America, Version 4. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics. 9 indexed citations
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Thornton, Peter, Michele Thornton, Benjamin Mayer, et al.. (2016). Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 3. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics. 337 indexed citations breakdown →
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Devarakonda, Ranjeet, Yaxing Wei, & Michele Thornton. (2016). Accessing and distributing large volumes of NetCDF data. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 3966–3967. 2 indexed citations
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Thornton, Michele, et al.. (2015). Daymet: Annual Climate Summaries on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics. 25 indexed citations
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Thornton, Peter, Michele Thornton, Benjamin Mayer, et al.. (2014). Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics. 2014. 319 indexed citations
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Liu, Shishi, et al.. (2014). NACP MsTMIP: Unified North American Soil Map. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics. 14 indexed citations
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Liu, S., Yaxing Wei, W. M. Post, et al.. (2013). The Unified North American Soil Map and its implication on the soil organic carbon stock in North America. Biogeosciences. 10(5). 2915–2930. 59 indexed citations
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Katopis, G., et al.. (2006). High-End Server System Partitioning for Cost Reduction. IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging. 29(1). 5–10. 1 indexed citations
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Running, Steven W., Lloyd Queen, & Michele Thornton. (2000). The Earth Observing System and Forest Management. Journal of Forestry. 98(6). 29–31. 8 indexed citations

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