Peter M. Cox

54.1k total citations · 15 hit papers
197 papers, 25.7k citations indexed

About

Peter M. Cox is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter M. Cox has authored 197 papers receiving a total of 25.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 158 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 78 papers in Atmospheric Science and 22 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Peter M. Cox's work include Climate variability and models (101 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (72 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (71 papers). Peter M. Cox is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (101 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (72 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (71 papers). Peter M. Cox collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Peter M. Cox's co-authors include Chris Jones, Chris Huntingford, Richard Betts, Steven A. Spall, I. J. Totterdell, Stephen Sitch, Nicola Gedney, Pierre Friedlingstein, Oliviér Boucher and Richard Essery and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Peter M. Cox

192 papers receiving 24.7k 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.

Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model

2000 3.1k citations Peter M. Cox, Richard Betts et al. profile →
Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO₂ and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models

2001 1.5k citations Richard Betts, Victor Brovkin et al. profile →
The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 1: Energy and water fluxes

2011 1.0k citations Richard Essery, Nicola Gedney et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate‐carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

2008 958 citations Stephen Sitch, Chris Huntingford et al. profile →
Impact of changes in diffuse radiation on the global land carbon sink

2009 762 citations Peter M. Cox et al. profile →
The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 2: Carbon fluxes and vegetation dynamics

2011 759 citations Lina M. Mercado, Stephen Sitch et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
The impact of new land surface physics on the GCM simulation of climate and climate sensitivity

1999 727 citations Peter M. Cox, Richard Betts et al. profile →
Indirect radiative forcing of climate change through ozone effects on the land-carbon sink

2007 722 citations Stephen Sitch, Peter M. Cox et al. profile →
Detection of a direct carbon dioxide effect in continental river runoff records

2006 641 citations Nicola Gedney, Peter M. Cox et al. profile →
Amazonian forest dieback under climate-carbon cycle projections for the 21st century

2004 576 citations Peter M. Cox, Richard Betts et al. profile →
Sensitivity of tropical carbon to climate change constrained by carbon dioxide variability

2013 539 citations Peter M. Cox, Pierre Friedlingstein et al. profile →
Projected increase in continental runoff due to plant responses to increasing carbon dioxide

2007 537 citations Richard Betts, Peter M. Cox et al. profile →
Observing terrestrial ecosystems and the carbon cycle from space

2014 400 citations Peter M. Cox et al. profile →
An observation-based constraint on permafrost loss as a function of global warming

2017 316 citations Sarah Chadburn, Eleanor Burke et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Progressing emergent constraints on future climate change

2019 275 citations Alex Hall, Peter M. Cox et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Machine Learning for Global Bioclimatic Classification: Enhancing Land Cover Prediction through Random Forests 2024 ·Atmosphere ·(unknown), Mark S. Williamson, Peter M. Cox	3
2	Soil carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 Earth system models 2024 ·Biogeosciences ·Rebecca Varney, Pierre Friedlingstein, Sarah Chadburn, Eleanor Burke, Peter M. Cox	1
3	Modelling the impact of forest management and CO2-fertilisation on growth and demography in a Sitka spruce plantation 2023 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), Eddy Robertson, Anna Harper, James Morison, Georgios Xenakis, Astley Hastings, Jon McCalmont, (unknown), Ian J. Bateman, (unknown), Richard Betts, Stephen Bathgate, (unknown), Matthew Heard, Peter M. Cox	1
4	Evaluation of soil carbon simulation in CMIP6 Earth system models 2022 ·Biogeosciences ·Rebecca Varney, Sarah Chadburn, Eleanor Burke, Peter M. Cox	56
5	JULES-CN: a coupled terrestrial carbon–nitrogen scheme (JULES vn5.1) 2021 ·Geoscientific model development ·A. Wiltshire, Eleanor Burke, Sarah Chadburn, Chris Jones, Peter M. Cox, Taraka Davies‐Barnard, Pierre Friedlingstein, Anna Harper, Spencer Liddicoat, Stephen Sitch, Sönke Zaehle	62
6	Regional variation in the effectiveness of methane-based and land-based climate mitigation options 2021 ·Earth System Dynamics ·Garry Hayman, Edward Comyn‐Platt, Chris Huntingford, Anna Harper, Tom Powell, Peter M. Cox, W. J. Collins, Christopher P. Webber, Jason Lowe, Stephen Sitch, Joanna I. House, Jonathan Doelman, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Sarah Chadburn, Eleanor Burke, Nicola Gedney	7
7	Stomatal optimization based on xylem hydraulics (SOX) improves land surface model simulation of vegetation responses to climate 2020 ·New Phytologist ·Cleiton B. Eller, Lucy Rowland, Maurizio Mencuccini, Teresa Rosas, Karina Williams, Anna Harper, Belinda E. Medlyn, (unknown), Tamir Klein, Grazielle Sales Teodoro, Rafael S. Oliveira, Ilaíne Silveira Matos, Bruno H. P. Rosado, Kathrin Fuchs, Georg Wohlfahrt, Leonardo Montagnani, Patrick Meir, Stephen Sitch, Peter M. Cox	111
8	The role of non-structural carbohydrates in simulations of ecosystem carbon fluxes. 2020 ·(unknown), Lucy Rowland, Peter M. Cox, Debbie Hemming, Andy Wiltshire, Karina Williams, Nicholas C. Parazoo, (unknown), Antonio Da Costa, Patrick Meir, Maurizio Mencuccini, Anna Harper	0
9	A spatial emergent constraint on the sensitivity of soil carbon turnover to global warming 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Rebecca Varney, Sarah Chadburn, Pierre Friedlingstein, Eleanor Burke, Charles D. Koven, Gustaf Hugelius, Peter M. Cox	69
10	Theoretical foundations of emergent constraints: relationships between climate sensitivity and global temperature variability in conceptual models 2019 ·Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter) ·Mark S. Williamson, Peter M. Cox, Femke J. M. M. Nijsse	15
11	How can the First ISLSCP Field Experiment contribute to present-day efforts to evaluate water stress in JULESv5.0? 2019 ·Geoscientific model development ·Karina Williams, Anna Harper, Chris Huntingford, Lina M. Mercado, Camilla Mathison, Pete Falloon, Peter M. Cox, Joon Kim	4
12	Progressing emergent constraints on future climate change breakdown → 2019 ·Nature Climate Change ·Alex Hall, Peter M. Cox, Chris Huntingford, Stephen A. Klein	275
13	Leaf area index identified as a major source of variability in modeled CO ₂ fertilization 2018 ·Biogeosciences ·Qianyu Li, Xingjie Lu, Ying‐Ping Wang, Xin Huang, Peter M. Cox, Yiqi Luo	26
14	Revisiting the First ISLSCP Field Experiment to evaluate waterstress in JULESv5.0 2018 ·Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union) ·Karina Williams, Anna Harper, Chris Huntingford, Lina M. Mercado, Camilla Mathison, Pete Falloon, Peter M. Cox, Joon Kim	3
15	Author Correction: Carbon budgets for 1.5 and 2 °C targets lowered by natural wetland and permafrost feedbacks 2018 ·Nature Geoscience ·Edward Comyn‐Platt, Garry Hayman, Chris Huntingford, Sarah Chadburn, Eleanor Burke, Anna Harper, W. J. Collins, Christopher P. Webber, Tom Powell, Peter M. Cox, Nicola Gedney, Stephen Sitch	2
16	Vegetation distribution and terrestrial carbon cycle in a carbon cycle configuration of JULES4.6 with new plant functional types 2018 ·Geoscientific model development ·Anna Harper, A. Wiltshire, Peter M. Cox, Pierre Friedlingstein, Chris Jones, Lina M. Mercado, Stephen Sitch, Karina Williams, Maria Carolina Duran Rojas	56
17	Flexible parameter-sparse global temperature time profiles that stabilise at 1.5 and 2.0  °C 2017 ·Earth System Dynamics ·Chris Huntingford, Hui Yang, Anna Harper, Peter M. Cox, Nicola Gedney, Eleanor Burke, Jason Lowe, Garry Hayman, W. J. Collins, Stephen M. Smith, Edward Comyn‐Platt	12
18	An improved representation of physical permafrost dynamics in the JULES land-surface model 2015 ·Geoscientific model development ·Sarah Chadburn, Eleanor Burke, Richard Essery, Julia Boike, Moritz Langer, Max Heikenfeld, Peter M. Cox, Pierre Friedlingstein	68
19	Positive feedback between global warming and atmospheric CO ₂ concentration inferred from past climate change 2006 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Marten Scheffer, Victor Brovkin, Peter M. Cox	131
20	Incorporating vegetation as a dynamic element in the Hadley Centre GCM 2000 ·Peter M. Cox	2

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