Neil Plummer

6.5k citations

16 papers · 4.0k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 11

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Climate variability and models
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Atmospheric Science top 1%
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Cryospheric studies and observations

Papers in ⓘ

Global and Planetary Change 13
- Climate variability and models 10
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 6
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience 1
Atmospheric Science 8
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 3
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 2

Co-authors: Thomas R. Karl (6 shared papers)Richard W. Knight (3 shared papers)P. D. Jones (5 shared papers)M. J. Salinger (3 shared papers)David R. Easterling (2 shared papers)P. Jamason (2 shared papers)C. K. Folland (2 shared papers)B. H. Horton (2 shared papers)
Journals: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (3 papers)Nature (2 papers)Science (1 paper)Climatic Change (1 paper)Atmospheric Research (1 paper)
Partner nations: Australia United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Neil Plummer

15 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Maximum and Minimum Temperature Trends for the Globe 1997 · 1.3k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1997 Science
1995 Nature
1993 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Peers

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Citations

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Neil Plummer, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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16 of 16 papers shown

#	Work
1	Maximum and Minimum Temperature Trends for the Globe Science ·David R. Easterling, B. H. Horton, P. D. Jones, Thomas C. Peterson, Thomas R. Karl, D. E. Parker, M. J. Salinger, Vyacheslav Razuvayev, Neil Plummer, P. Jamason, C. K. Folland Hit paper breakdown →	1997	1332
2	A New Perspective on Recent Global Warming: Asymmetric Trends of Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperature Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·Thomas R. Karl, Richard W. Knight, Kevin P. Gallo, Thomas C. Peterson, P. D. Jones, George Kukla, Neil Plummer, Vyacheslav Razuvayev, Janette Lindseay, Robert J. Charlson Hit paper breakdown →	1993	818
3	Trends in high-frequency climate variability in the twentieth century Nature ·Thomas R. Karl, Richard W. Knight, Neil Plummer Hit paper breakdown →	1995	565
4	Quantification of the Influences of Wind and Cloud on the Nocturnal Urban Heat Island of a Large City Journal of Applied Meteorology ·Chris Morris, Ian Simmonds, Neil Plummer	2001	327
5	Assessment of urbanization effects in time series of surface air temperature over land Nature ·P. D. Jones, Pavel Groisman, Michael Coughlan, Neil Plummer, W. C. Wang, Thomas R. Karl	1990	288
6	Asymmetric Trends of Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperature Insecta mundi ·Thomas R. Karl, P. D. Jones, Richard W. Knight, George Kukla, Neil Plummer, Vyacheslav Razuvayev, Kevin P. Gallo, Janette Lindseay, Robert J. Charlson, Thomas C. Peterson	1993	226
7	Changes in Climate Extremes Over the Australian Region and New Zealand During the Twentieth Century Climatic Change ·Neil Plummer, M. J. Salinger, Neville Nicholls, Ramasamy Suppiah, Kevin Hennessy, Robert M. Leighton, Blair Trewin, Cher M. Page, Janice Lough	1999	226
8	An assessment of the impact of climate change on the nature and frequency of exceptional climatic events Kevin Hennessy, Robert Fawcett, Dewi Kirono, Freddie Mpelasoka, David Jones, Janice Bathols, P. H. Whetton, Mark Stafford‐Smith, Mark Howden, Christopher Mitchell, Neil Plummer	2008	123
9	Trends in the diurnal temperature range over Australia since 1951 Atmospheric Research ·Neil Plummer, Zhang Lin, Simon Torok	1995	45
10	Making climate model forecasts more useful Australian Journal of Agricultural Research ·Scott B. Power, Neil Plummer, P. Alford	2007	16
11	A seasonal water availability prediction service: opportunities and challenges Congress on Modelling and Simulation ·Neil Plummer, Narendra Tuteja, Quan J. Wang, E Wang, David Robertson, Senlin Zhou, Andrew Schepen, Oscar Alves, Bertrand Timbal, Kamal Puri	2009	14
12	A new look at maximum and minimum temperature trends for the globe OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) ·David R. Easterling, B. H. Horton, P. D. Jones, T. C. Peterson, Thomas R. Karl, D. E. Parker, M. J. Salinger, Vyacheslav Razuvayev, Neil Plummer, P. Jamason, C. K. Folland	1997	7
13	Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·Howard J. Diamond, Neil Plummer, Kevin Walsh	2009	3
14	Regional Cooperation on Drought Prediction Science for Disaster Preparedness and Management Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·Jinyoung Rhee, Wenju Cai, Neil Plummer, M. V. K. Sivakumar, Nina Horstmann, Bin Wang, Dewi Kirono	2014	2
15	WAFARi: A new modelling system for Seasonal Streamflow Forecasting service of the Bureau of Meteorology, Australia Chan, F., Marinova, D. and Anderssen, R.S. (eds) MODSIM2011, 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. ·Daehyok Shin, Andrew Schepen, T Peatey, Senlin Zhou, Alison M. Macdonald, T Chia, John M. Perkins, Neil Plummer, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	2011	1
16	Temperature variability and extremes over Australia: part 1 - recent observed changes Neil Plummer	1996	0

About Neil Plummer

Neil Plummer is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Forestry and Water Science and Technology, having authored 16 papers that have together received 4.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate variability and models (10 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (3 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (2 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (2 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (2 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (2 papers) and Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (2.8k citations), Atmospheric Science (1.9k citations), Environmental Engineering (877 citations), Ecological Modeling (198 citations) and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (449 citations). Neil Plummer has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Thomas R. Karl, Richard W. Knight, P. D. Jones, M. J. Salinger, David R. Easterling, P. Jamason, C. K. Folland, B. H. Horton, Thomas C. Peterson and D. E. Parker. Their work appears in journals such as Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Nature, Science, Climatic Change and Atmospheric Research.

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