Peter Thorne

18.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
114 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Peter Thorne is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Thorne has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 89 papers in Atmospheric Science and 15 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Peter Thorne's work include Climate variability and models (86 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (66 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (36 papers). Peter Thorne is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (86 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (66 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (36 papers). Peter Thorne collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Peter Thorne's co-authors include J. H. Lawrimore, Russell S. Vose, Boyin Huang, Thomas M. Smith, Huai‐Min Zhang, Viva F. Banzon, P. D. Jones, Matthew J. Menne, Kate M. Willett and Tim Boyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Peter Thorne

111 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Version 5 (ERSSTv5): Upgrades, Validations, and Intercomparisons

2017 2.3k citations Boyin Huang, Peter Thorne et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature Version 4 (ERSST.v4). Part I: Upgrades and Intercomparisons

2014 829 citations Boyin Huang, Viva F. Banzon et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Low‐frequency variations in surface atmospheric humidity, temperature, and precipitation: Inferences from reanalyses and monthly gridded observational data sets

2010 444 citations Kate M. Willett, P. D. Jones et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Thorne United Kingdom	41	7.3k	6.4k	2.4k	518	370	114	8.8k
Jack Woollen United States	10	7.2k 1.0×	6.7k 1.0×	2.2k 0.9×	605 1.2×	421 1.1×	12	8.8k
Jean‐Louis Dufresne France	42	9.7k 1.3×	8.5k 1.3×	1.5k 0.7×	478 0.9×	680 1.8×	111	11.8k
Michael Fiorino United States	22	10.0k 1.4×	9.4k 1.5×	3.4k 1.4×	449 0.9×	323 0.9×	28	11.4k
Stephen A. Klein United States	68	14.2k 2.0×	13.2k 2.1×	2.2k 0.9×	396 0.8×	268 0.7×	194	15.7k
Joaquim G. Pinto Germany	57	7.3k 1.0×	6.4k 1.0×	1.3k 0.5×	589 1.1×	408 1.1×	212	9.6k
Kevin I. Hodges United Kingdom	59	11.4k 1.6×	11.7k 1.8×	3.3k 1.4×	313 0.6×	353 1.0×	230	13.1k
Wesley Ebisuzaki United States	15	11.6k 1.6×	10.7k 1.7×	3.8k 1.6×	823 1.6×	607 1.6×	24	13.9k
Luís Gimeno Spain	49	7.3k 1.0×	5.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	563 1.1×	530 1.4×	329	9.3k
Ulrich Cubasch Germany	40	5.7k 0.8×	6.4k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	393 0.8×	760 2.1×	146	8.8k
Richard P. Allan United Kingdom	49	9.2k 1.3×	7.4k 1.2×	1.3k 0.5×	473 0.9×	410 1.1×	165	10.7k

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Mahony, Martin, et al.. (2022). Insights from 20 years of temperature parallel measurements in Mauritius around the turn of the 20th century. Climate of the past. 18(4). 793–820. 1 indexed citations

Parnell, Andrew, et al.. (2022). A newly reconciled dataset for identifying sea level rise and variability in Dublin Bay. Ocean science. 18(2). 511–522. 3 indexed citations

Thorne, Peter, et al.. (2021). The Critical Role of Observations in Informing Climate Science, Assessment and Policy. 70(2). 27–33. 1 indexed citations

Amede, Tilahun, et al.. (2020). Landscape positions dictating crop fertilizer responses in wheat-based farming systems of East African Highlands. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. 37(S1). S4–S16. 39 indexed citations

Sterckx, Sindy, Ian A. Brown, Andreas Kääb, et al.. (2020). Towards a European Cal/Val service for earth observation. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 41(12). 4496–4511. 10 indexed citations

Madonna, Fabio, Federico Serva, Monica Proto, et al.. (2020). Radiosounding HARMonization (RHARM): a new homogenized dataset of radiosounding temperature, humidity and wind profiles with uncertainty. 3 indexed citations

Noone, Simon, Alison K. Brody, Dick Dee, et al.. (2019). Geo-locate project: a novel approach to resolving meteorological station location issues with the assistance of undergraduate students. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 157–171. 1 indexed citations

Murphy, Conor, Ciarán Broderick, Timothy P. Burt, et al.. (2018). A 305-year continuous monthly rainfall series for the island of Ireland (1711–2016). Climate of the past. 14(3). 413–440. 46 indexed citations

Huang, Boyin, Peter Thorne, Viva F. Banzon, et al.. (2017). Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Version 5 (ERSSTv5): Upgrades, Validations, and Intercomparisons. Journal of Climate. 30(20). 8179–8205. 2343 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thorne, Peter, Fabio Madonna, Bruce Ingleby, et al.. (2017). Making better sense of the mosaic of environmental measurement networks: a system-of-systems approach and quantitative assessment. Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems. 6(2). 453–472. 23 indexed citations

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Thorne, Peter, Stephen Outten, Ingo Bethke, & Øyvind Seland. (2015). Investigating the recent apparent hiatus in surface temperature increases: 2. Comparison of model ensembles to observational estimates. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 120(17). 8597–8620. 13 indexed citations

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Huang, Boyin, Viva F. Banzon, Eric Freeman, et al.. (2014). Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature Version 4 (ERSST.v4). Part I: Upgrades and Intercomparisons. Journal of Climate. 28(3). 911–930. 829 indexed citations breakdown →

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Huang, Boyin, Eric Freeman, J. H. Lawrimore, et al.. (2014). Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature Version 4 (ERSST.v4), Part I. Upgrades and Intercomparisons. Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive (Maynooth University). 2014. 12 indexed citations

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Willett, Kate M., Robert Dunn, Peter Thorne, et al.. (2014). HadISDH land surface multi-variable humidity and temperature record for climate monitoring. Climate of the past. 10(6). 1983–2006. 129 indexed citations

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Merchant, Christopher J., Nick A Rayner, J. J. Remedios, et al.. (2013). The surface temperatures of the earth: steps towards integrated understanding of variability and change. 6 indexed citations

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Willett, Kate M., Claude N. Williams, Robert Dunn, et al.. (2013). HadISDH: an updateable land surface specific humidity product for climate monitoring. Climate of the past. 9(2). 657–677. 41 indexed citations

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Dunn, Robert, Kate M. Willett, Peter Thorne, et al.. (2012). HadISD: a quality controlled global synoptic report database for selected variables at long-term stations from 1973–2010. 13 indexed citations

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Immler, Franz, J. A. Dykema, Tom Gardiner, et al.. (2010). Reference Quality Upper-Air Measurements: guidance for developing GRUAN data products. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 3(5). 1217–1231. 109 indexed citations

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Immler, Franz, J. A. Dykema, Tom Gardiner, et al.. (2010). A guide for upper-air reference measurements. 5 indexed citations

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Thorne, Peter & Russell S. Vose. (2009). Reanalyses Suitable for Characterizing Long-Term Trends. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 91(3). 353–362. 200 indexed citations

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