Peter Thornton

44.9k citations
274 papers · 22.4k indexed · 13 hit papers · h-index 69

Peter Thornton

261 papers receiving 21.6k citations

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Peers

Peter Thornton
Comparison fields: 5 of 167
  • Global and Planetary Change 14.2k
  • Atmospheric Science 6.6k
  • Soil Science 3.0k
  • Ecological Modeling 1.3k
  • Ecology 5.7k
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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Thornton

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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Peter Thornton, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Effect of Freeze-Thaw Cycles on Soil Nitrogen Reactive Transport in a Polygonal Arctic Tundra Ecosystem at Barrow AK Using 3-D Coupled ALM-PFLOTRAN
20171
16 201738
17 201633
18 201557
19 200445
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Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System: Integration of satellite and surface weather observations with ecosystem models
20023

About Peter Thornton

Peter Thornton is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Inorganic Chemistry, Ecological Modeling and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, having authored 274 papers that have together received 22.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (71 papers), Climate variability and models (56 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (48 papers), Magnetism in coordination complexes (43 papers), Metal complexes synthesis and properties (34 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (25 papers), Climate change and permafrost (23 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (14.2k citations), Atmospheric Science (6.6k citations), Soil Science (3.0k citations), Ecological Modeling (1.3k citations) and Ecology (5.7k citations). Peter Thornton has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Frequent co-authors include Steven W. Running, Michael A. White, Gordon B. Bonan, Keith W. Oleson, David M. Lawrence, W. M. Post, Xiaofeng Xu, Nan Rosenbloom, Samuel Levis and Zong‐Liang Yang. Their work appears in journals such as Polyhedron, Biogeosciences, Journal of Climate, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems and Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences.

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