Patrick T. Brown

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 672 citations indexed

About

Patrick T. Brown is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick T. Brown has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 672 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Patrick T. Brown's work include Climate variability and models (14 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (4 papers). Patrick T. Brown is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (14 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (4 papers). Patrick T. Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Patrick T. Brown's co-authors include Ken Caldeira, Wenhong Li, Yi Ming, Spencer A. Hill, M. Susan Lozier, Rong Zhang, Adam K. Kochanski, Shang‐Ping Xie, Colorado Reed and Craig B. Clements and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Patrick T. Brown

23 papers receiving 656 citations

Hit Papers

Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth r... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 25 50 75
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. Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California
    2023 97 citations Patrick T. Brown, Ankur Mahesh et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Patrick T. Brown United States 11 417 267 110 61 52 23 672
Megan Lickley United States 10 239 0.6× 175 0.7× 107 1.0× 52 0.9× 45 0.9× 29 646
Nathan Lenssen United States 6 503 1.2× 420 1.6× 90 0.8× 34 0.6× 39 0.8× 8 715
Jonathan Winn United Kingdom 4 622 1.5× 466 1.7× 81 0.7× 64 1.0× 68 1.3× 5 798
I. Simpson United Kingdom 7 679 1.6× 566 2.1× 95 0.9× 71 1.2× 78 1.5× 9 956
Matz A. Haugen United States 5 509 1.2× 326 1.2× 47 0.4× 93 1.5× 61 1.2× 5 792
Kuno Strassmann Switzerland 11 324 0.8× 248 0.9× 43 0.4× 98 1.6× 43 0.8× 13 611
Emily Hogan United States 6 544 1.3× 490 1.8× 92 0.8× 32 0.5× 53 1.0× 8 701
Rachel Killick United Kingdom 7 630 1.5× 535 2.0× 183 1.7× 45 0.7× 47 0.9× 14 814
William L. Murray United States 7 425 1.0× 353 1.3× 56 0.5× 45 0.7× 35 0.7× 20 664
Mark F. Lunt United Kingdom 14 723 1.7× 508 1.9× 45 0.4× 86 1.4× 44 0.8× 29 871

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick T. Brown

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Fields of papers citing papers by Patrick T. Brown

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Patrick T. Brown. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Patrick T. Brown. The network helps show where Patrick T. Brown may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick T. Brown

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Patrick T. Brown. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Patrick T. Brown 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 Patrick T. Brown. Patrick T. Brown is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brown, Patrick T., et al.. (2025). The potential for fuel reduction to reduce wildfire intensity in a warming California. Environmental Research Letters. 20(2). 24040–24040. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Patrick T., et al.. (2024). The HySICS Pointing System: Precision Pointing of CLARREO Pathfinder from the ISS. 1–13. 2 indexed citations
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Brown, Patrick T.. (2023). When the fraction of attributable risk does not inform the impact associated with anthropogenic climate change. Climatic Change. 176(8). 6 indexed citations
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Brown, Patrick T., Ankur Mahesh, Colorado Reed, et al.. (2023). Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California. Nature. 621(7980). 760–766. 97 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brown, Patrick T., David Farnham, & Ken Caldeira. (2021). Meteorology and climatology of historical weekly wind and solar power resource droughts over western North America in ERA5. SN Applied Sciences. 3(10). 27 indexed citations
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Brown, Patrick T., Juan Moreno‐Cruz, & Ken Caldeira. (2020). Break-even year: a concept for understanding intergenerational trade-offs in climate change mitigation policy. Environmental Research Communications. 2(9). 95002–95002. 5 indexed citations
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Brown, Patrick T. & Ken Caldeira. (2020). Empirical Prediction of Short‐Term Annual Global Temperature Variability. Earth and Space Science. 7(6). 5 indexed citations
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Brown, Patrick T. & Harry D. Saunders. (2020). Approximate calculations of the net economic impact of global warming mitigation targets under heightened damage estimates. PLoS ONE. 15(10). e0239520–e0239520. 4 indexed citations
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Brown, Patrick T. & Ken Caldeira. (2017). Greater future global warming inferred from Earth’s recent energy budget. Nature. 552(7683). 45–50. 216 indexed citations
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Brown, Patrick T., Yi Ming, Wenhong Li, & Spencer A. Hill. (2017). Change in the magnitude and mechanisms of global temperature variability with warming. Nature Climate Change. 7(10). 743–748. 58 indexed citations
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Brown, Patrick T.. (2016). Commentary: Reporting on global warming: A study in headlines. Physics Today. 69(10). 10–11. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Patrick T., M. Susan Lozier, Rong Zhang, & Wenhong Li. (2016). The necessity of cloud feedback for a basin‐scale Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(8). 3955–3963. 56 indexed citations
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Brown, Patrick T., Wenhong Li, Eugene C. Cordero, & Steven A. Mauget. (2015). Comparing the model-simulated global warming signal to observations using empirical estimates of unforced noise. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 9957–9957. 19 indexed citations
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Brown, Patrick T., et al.. (2014). Regions of Significant Influence on Unforced Global Mean Surface Temperature Variability in Climate Models. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Patrick T., Wenhong Li, Laifang Li, & Yi Ming. (2014). Top‐of‐atmosphere radiative contribution to unforced decadal global temperature variability in climate models. Geophysical Research Letters. 41(14). 5175–5183. 44 indexed citations
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Foster, Grant & Patrick T. Brown. (2014). Time and tide: analysis of sea level time series. Climate Dynamics. 45(1-2). 291–308. 19 indexed citations
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Brown, Patrick T., Eugene C. Cordero, & Steven A. Mauget. (2012). Reproduction of twentieth century intradecadal to multidecadal surface temperature variability in radiatively forced coupled climate models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117(D11). 3 indexed citations
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Mauget, Steven A., Eugene C. Cordero, & Patrick T. Brown. (2011). Evaluating Modeled Intra- to Multidecadal Climate Variability Using Running Mann–Whitney Z Statistics. Journal of Climate. 25(5). 1570–1586. 8 indexed citations
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Smith, Anthony M., et al.. (2010). Penetrators for In Situ Sub-Surface Investigations of Europa. BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London). 32 indexed citations
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Shull, Richard L., et al.. (1978). Latencies on response-initiated fixed-interval schedules: Effects of signaling food availability. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 12(3). 207–210. 1 indexed citations

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