Peter Nienow

9.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
113 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Peter Nienow is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Nienow has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Atmospheric Science, 59 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 31 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Peter Nienow's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (110 papers), Climate change and permafrost (61 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (59 papers). Peter Nienow is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (110 papers), Climate change and permafrost (61 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (59 papers). Peter Nienow collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Peter Nienow's co-authors include Douglas Mair, Andrew Sole, Martin Sharp, Tom Cowton, I. D. Bartholomew, Ian Willis, Matt A. King, Andrew Shepherd, Alun Hubbard and Steven Palmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Peter Nienow

108 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

Twenty-first century glacier slowdown driven by mass loss... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 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. Twenty-first century glacier slowdown driven by mass loss in High Mountain Asia
    2018 319 citations Noël Gourmelen, Peter Nienow et al. 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 Nienow United Kingdom 49 6.3k 2.4k 1.7k 749 346 113 6.8k
Jon Ove Hagen Norway 47 6.9k 1.1× 1.5k 0.6× 1.4k 0.9× 947 1.3× 959 2.8× 124 7.9k
Ian Willis United Kingdom 43 4.5k 0.7× 1.8k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 406 0.5× 74 0.2× 112 4.9k
Sarah B. Das United States 32 3.4k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 655 0.4× 526 0.7× 373 1.1× 63 3.9k
S. O’Neel United States 32 3.1k 0.5× 843 0.4× 809 0.5× 462 0.6× 499 1.4× 63 3.8k
Carleen H. Reijmer Netherlands 45 5.3k 0.8× 1.6k 0.7× 741 0.4× 560 0.7× 310 0.9× 126 5.6k
N. F. Humphrey United States 34 3.9k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 1.8k 1.1× 418 0.6× 41 0.1× 107 4.4k
Hamish D. Pritchard United Kingdom 26 3.6k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 807 0.5× 388 0.5× 293 0.8× 52 4.1k
Jan T. M. Lenaerts United States 55 8.1k 1.3× 2.4k 1.0× 1.2k 0.7× 509 0.7× 977 2.8× 146 8.7k
H. Conway United States 38 3.9k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 569 0.8× 84 0.2× 122 4.1k
R. R. Forster United States 33 2.4k 0.4× 533 0.2× 765 0.5× 348 0.5× 384 1.1× 103 3.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Nienow

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Nienow

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nienow, Peter, et al.. (2024). Terminus thinning drives recent acceleration of a Greenlandic lake-terminating outlet glacier. Journal of Glaciology. 70. 2 indexed citations
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Nienow, Peter, et al.. (2024). Minimal Impact of Late‐Season Melt Events on Greenland Ice Sheet Annual Motion. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(4). 5 indexed citations
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Nienow, Peter, et al.. (2023). Rapid and synchronous response of outlet glaciers to ocean warming on the Barents Sea coast, Novaya Zemlya. Journal of Glaciology. 70. 3 indexed citations
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Slater, Thomas, Isobel R. Lawrence, Inès Otosaka, et al.. (2021). Review article: Earth's ice imbalance. ˜The œcryosphere. 15(1). 233–246. 81 indexed citations
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Chandler, David, Jemma L. Wadham, Peter Nienow, et al.. (2021). Rapid development and persistence of efficient subglacial drainage under 900 m-thick ice in Greenland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 566. 116982–116982. 12 indexed citations
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Wadham, Jemma L., Jon Hawkings, Jon Telling, et al.. (2016). Sources, cycling and export of nitrogen on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Biogeosciences. 13(22). 6339–6352. 71 indexed citations
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Clason, Caroline, Douglas Mair, Peter Nienow, et al.. (2015). Modelling the transfer of supraglacial meltwater to the bed of Leverett Glacier, Southwest Greenland. ˜The œcryosphere. 9(1). 123–138. 54 indexed citations
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Hawkings, Jon, Jemma L. Wadham, Martyn Tranter, et al.. (2015). The effect of warming climate on nutrient and solute export from the Greenland Ice Sheet. Geochemical Perspectives Letters. 94–104. 114 indexed citations
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Peña, S. de la, Ian M. Howat, Peter Nienow, et al.. (2015). Changes in the firn structure of the western Greenland Ice Sheet caused by recent warming. ˜The œcryosphere. 9(3). 1203–1211. 51 indexed citations
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Nienow, Peter, Jemma L. Wadham, David Chandler, et al.. (2015). Rapid growth and seasonal persistence of efficient subglacial drainage under kilometre thick Greenland ice. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015.
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Lawson, Emily, J. L. Wadham, Martyn Tranter, et al.. (2014). Greenland Ice Sheet exports labile organic carbon to the Arctic oceans. Biogeosciences. 11(14). 4015–4028. 117 indexed citations
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Lea, James M., Douglas Mair, Faezeh M. Nick, et al.. (2014). Fluctuations of a Greenlandic tidewater glacier driven by changes in atmospheric forcing: observations and modelling of Kangiata Nunaata Sermia, 1859–present. ˜The œcryosphere. 8(6). 2031–2045. 27 indexed citations
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Sole, Andrew, A. J. Payne, Peter Nienow, et al.. (2012). Increased glacier runoff enhances the penetration of warm Atlantic water into a large Greenland fjord. 4 indexed citations
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Telling, Jon, Marek Stibal, Alexandre M. Anesio, et al.. (2012). Microbial nitrogen cycling on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Biogeosciences. 9(7). 2431–2442. 60 indexed citations
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Sole, Andrew, A. J. Payne, Jonathan Bamber, Peter Nienow, & William Krabill. (2008). Testing hypotheses of the cause of peripheral thinning of the Greenland Ice Sheet: is land-terminating ice thinning at anomalously high rates?. ˜The œcryosphere. 2(2). 205–218. 48 indexed citations
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Palmer, Steven, Andrew Shepherd, & Peter Nienow. (2008). Greenland Ice Sheet Seasonal Speedup Coupled With Surface Hydrology. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Alun, Heinz Blatter, Peter Nienow, Douglas Mair, & Bryn Hubbard. (1998). Comparison of a three-dimensional model for glacier flow with field data from Haut Glacier d’Arolla, Switzerland. Journal of Glaciology. 44(147). 368–378. 9 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Alun, Heinz Blatter, Peter Nienow, Douglas Mair, & Bryn Hubbard. (1998). Comparison of a three-dimensional model for glacier flow with field data from Haut Glacier d’Arolla, Switzerland. Journal of Glaciology. 44(147). 368–378. 93 indexed citations
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Nienow, Peter, et al.. (1996). Temporal switching between englacial and subglacial drainage pathways: dye tracer evidence from Haut Glacier d'Arolla. Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography. 51–60. 2 indexed citations
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Nienow, Peter, et al.. (1996). Sampling-rate effects on the properties of dye breakthrough curves from glaciers. Journal of Glaciology. 42(140). 184–189. 6 indexed citations

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