Peter Kuma

794 total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 437 citations indexed

About

Peter Kuma is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Kuma has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 437 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Atmospheric Science and 3 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Peter Kuma's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (13 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (6 papers). Peter Kuma is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (13 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (6 papers). Peter Kuma collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Sweden and Australia. Peter Kuma's co-authors include Laura E. Revell, Sally Gaw, Eric C. Le Ru, Walter R. C. Somerville, Adrian McDonald, Frida A.‐M. Bender, Simon P. Alexander, Mike Harvey, Olaf Morgenstern and Ján Mašek and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Atmospheric chemistry and physics and Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

In The Last Decade

Peter Kuma

17 papers receiving 421 citations

Hit Papers

Direct radiative effects of airborne microplastics 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150 200 250
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. Direct radiative effects of airborne microplastics
    2021 262 citations Laura E. Revell, Peter Kuma 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
Peter Kuma New Zealand 9 219 159 154 152 50 18 437
Alex Schuddeboom New Zealand 9 235 1.1× 188 1.2× 182 1.2× 160 1.1× 43 0.9× 17 466
Chengde Yang China 7 161 0.7× 70 0.4× 198 1.3× 134 0.9× 45 0.9× 13 405
Zhu Mei China 4 350 1.6× 60 0.4× 36 0.2× 168 1.1× 86 1.7× 5 408
Weimin Wang China 8 443 2.0× 210 1.3× 145 0.9× 339 2.2× 129 2.6× 21 714
Xianglun Kong China 7 373 1.7× 48 0.3× 25 0.2× 292 1.9× 93 1.9× 11 464
Karin Kvale Germany 13 383 1.7× 66 0.4× 56 0.4× 216 1.4× 97 1.9× 33 623
Paula Masiá Spain 11 332 1.5× 24 0.2× 44 0.3× 227 1.5× 72 1.4× 21 418
Tianning Wu United States 7 512 2.3× 38 0.2× 59 0.4× 416 2.7× 104 2.1× 13 655
Xuehai Liu China 8 255 1.2× 41 0.3× 32 0.2× 211 1.4× 85 1.7× 20 389
T.D. Rathod India 8 371 1.7× 30 0.2× 50 0.3× 306 2.0× 90 1.8× 17 461

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Kuma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Kuma

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Kuma

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

All Works

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Kuma, Peter, Frida A.‐M. Bender, Alex Schuddeboom, Adrian McDonald, & Øyvind Seland. (2023). Machine learning of cloud types in satellite observations and climate models. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(1). 523–549. 12 indexed citations
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Fiddes, Sonya, et al.. (2023). Assessing the cloud radiative bias at Macquarie Island in the ACCESS-AM2 model. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(23). 14691–14714. 4 indexed citations
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Kuma, Peter, et al.. (2023). Climate Model Code Genealogy and Its Relation to Climate Feedbacks and Sensitivity. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(7). 30 indexed citations
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Guyot, Adrien, Alain Protat, Simon P. Alexander, et al.. (2022). Detection of supercooled liquid water containing clouds with ceilometers: development and evaluation of deterministic and data-driven retrievals. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(12). 3663–3681. 8 indexed citations
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Kuma, Peter, Frida A.‐M. Bender, Alex Schuddeboom, Adrian McDonald, & Øyvind Seland. (2022). Machine learning of cloud types in satellite observations and climate models. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Kuma, Peter, et al.. (2022). Climate Model Code Genealogy and Its Relation to Climate Feedbacks and Sensitivity. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 3 indexed citations
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Kuma, Peter, Frida A.‐M. Bender, Alex Schuddeboom, Adrian McDonald, & Øyvind Seland. (2022). Machine learning of cloud types in satellite observations and climate models. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Kremser, Stefanie, Jordis S. Tradowsky, G. E. Bodeker, et al.. (2021). The winter 2019 air pollution (PM 2.5 ) measurement campaign in Christchurch, New Zealand. Earth system science data. 13(5). 2053–2075. 2 indexed citations
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Kuma, Peter, Adrian McDonald, Olaf Morgenstern, et al.. (2021). Ground-based lidar processing and simulator framework for comparing models and observations (ALCF 1.0). Geoscientific model development. 14(1). 43–72. 15 indexed citations
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Revell, Laura E., Peter Kuma, Eric C. Le Ru, Walter R. C. Somerville, & Sally Gaw. (2021). Direct radiative effects of airborne microplastics. Nature. 598(7881). 462–467. 262 indexed citations breakdown →
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Toohey, D. W., Laura E. Revell, Karine Sellegri, et al.. (2020). Constraining the Surface Flux of Sea Spray Particles From the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(4). 19 indexed citations
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Kuma, Peter, Adrian McDonald, Olaf Morgenstern, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of Southern Ocean cloud in the HadGEM3 general circulation model and MERRA-2 reanalysis using ship-based observations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(11). 6607–6630. 33 indexed citations
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Kuma, Peter, Adrian McDonald, Olaf Morgenstern, et al.. (2020). Ground-based lidar processing and simulator framework for comparing models and observations. 1 indexed citations
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Klekociuk, Andrew, John French, Simon P. Alexander, Peter Kuma, & Adrian McDonald. (2019). The state of the atmosphere in the 2016 southern Kerguelen Axis campaign region. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography. 174. 7 indexed citations
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Kuma, Peter, et al.. (2018). An analysis of the cloud environment over the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf using CloudSat/CALIPSO satellite observations: the importance of synoptic forcing. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(13). 9723–9739. 13 indexed citations
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Geleyn, J.‐F., Ján Mašek, Radmila Brožková, et al.. (2017). Single interval longwave radiation scheme based on the net exchanged rate decomposition with bracketing. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 143(704). 1313–1335. 11 indexed citations
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Mašek, Ján, et al.. (2015). Single interval shortwave radiation scheme with parameterized optical saturation and spectral overlaps. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 142(694). 304–326. 15 indexed citations

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