Peter U. Clark

25.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
154 papers, 16.6k citations indexed

About

Peter U. Clark is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter U. Clark has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 16.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Atmospheric Science, 29 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 29 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Peter U. Clark's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (124 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (65 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (29 papers). Peter U. Clark is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (124 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (65 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (29 papers). Peter U. Clark collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Peter U. Clark's co-authors include J. X. Mitrovica, Richard B. Alley, Anders E. Carlson, S. W. Hostetler, David Pollard, Anne McCabe, Arthur S. Dyke, Jeremy D. Shakun, Jorie Clark and Andrew J. Weaver and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Peter U. Clark

149 papers receiving 15.9k 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.

The Last Glacial Maximum

2009 2.6k citations Peter U. Clark, Jeremy D. Shakun et al. Science profile →
Holocene climatic instability: A prominent, widespread event 8200 yr ago

1997 1.5k citations Richard B. Alley, Peter U. Clark et al. profile →
The middle Pleistocene transition: characteristics, mechanisms, and implications for long-term changes in atmospheric pCO2

2006 834 citations Peter U. Clark, David Pollard et al. profile →
The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum

2002 651 citations Peter U. Clark et al. profile →
The role of the thermohaline circulation in abrupt climate change

2002 583 citations Peter U. Clark, Nicklas G. Pisias et al. Nature profile →
Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods

2015 538 citations Andrea Dutton, Anders E. Carlson et al. Science profile →
Freshwater Forcing of Abrupt Climate Change During the Last Glaciation

2001 466 citations Peter U. Clark, S. W. Hostetler et al. Science profile →
Global and regional temperature change over the past 4.5 million years

2024 51 citations Peter U. Clark, Jeremy D. Shakun et al. Science profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter U. Clark

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Global mean sea level over the past 4.5 million years 2025 ·Science ·Peter U. Clark, Jeremy D. Shakun, Yair Rosenthal, David Pollard, S. W. Hostetler, Peter Köhler, Patrick J. Bartlein, Jonathan M. Gregory, Chenyu Zhu, Daniel P. Schrag, Zhengyu Liu, Nicklas G. Pisias	3
2	Increase in Deglacial Ocean Heat Content Linked to Contrasts in Extratropical Warming 2025 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Chenyu Zhu, Lijing Cheng, Zhengyu Liu, Peter U. Clark	0
3	Mean ocean temperature change and decomposition of the benthic δ ¹⁸ O record over the past 4.5 million years 2025 ·Climate of the past ·Peter U. Clark, Jeremy D. Shakun, Yair Rosenthal, Chenyu Zhu, Patrick J. Bartlein, Jonathan M. Gregory, Peter Köhler, Zhengyu Liu, Daniel P. Schrag	3
4	SUPER: Evaluating Agents on Setting Up and Executing Tasks from Research Repositories 2024 ·Ben Bogin, (unknown), Shashank Gupta, Kyle Richardson, (unknown), Peter U. Clark, Ashish Sabharwal, Tushar Khot	1
5	Enhanced ocean heat storage efficiency during the last deglaciation 2024 ·Science Advances ·Chenyu Zhu, (unknown), Zhengyu Liu, Peter U. Clark, Chengfei He, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Shaoqing Zhang, Lijing Cheng	3
6	Migration towards Bangladesh coastlines projected to increase with sea-level rise through 2100 2021 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Andrew Reid Bell, David Wrathall, Valerie Mueller, Joyce Chen, Michael Oppenheimer, Mathew Hauer, Helen Adams, Scott Kulp, Peter U. Clark, Elizabeth Fussell, Nicholas R. Magliocca, Tingyin Xiao, Elisabeth Gilmore, (unknown), Maia Call, Aimée B. A. Slangen	50
7	Retreat of the Antarctic Ice Sheet During the Last Interglaciation and Implications for Future Change 2021 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Nicholas R. Golledge, Peter U. Clark, Feng He, Andrea Dutton, Chris Turney, Christopher J. Fogwill, T. Naish, Richard Levy, Robert M. McKay, Daniel P. Lowry, Nancy A. N. Bertler, Gavin Dunbar, Anders E. Carlson	31
8	RAPID POSTGLACIAL REBOUND AMPLIFIES GLOBAL SEA-LEVEL RISE FOLLOWING WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET COLLAPSE 2021 ·Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America ·Linda Pan, Evelyn Powell, Konstantin Latychev, J. X. Mitrovica, Jessica R. Creveling, Natalya Gomez, Mark Hoggard, Peter U. Clark	1
9	Assessing population exposure to coastal flooding due to sea level rise 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Mathew Hauer, Dean Hardy, Scott Kulp, Valerie Mueller, David Wrathall, Peter U. Clark	74
10	Attributing long-term sea-level rise to Paris Agreement emission pledges 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Alexander Nauels, Johannes Gütschow, Matthias Mengel, Malte Meinshausen, Peter U. Clark, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner	39
11	Climate evolution across the Mid-Brunhes Transition 2018 ·Climate of the past ·Aaron M. Barth, Peter U. Clark, (unknown), Feng He, Nicklas G. Pisias	65
12	Climate evolution across the Mid-Brunhes Transition 2018 ·Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union) ·Aaron M. Barth, Peter U. Clark, (unknown), Feng He, Nicklas G. Pisias	5
13	Regional and global sea-surface temperatures during the last interglaciation 2017 ·Science ·Jeremy S. Hoffman, Peter U. Clark, Andrew Parnell, Feng He	161
14	Regional and global forcing of glacier retreat during the last deglaciation 2015 ·Nature Communications ·Jeremy D. Shakun, Peter U. Clark, Feng He, Nathaniel A. Lifton, Zhengyu Liu, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner	79
15	Ice sheet sources of sea level rise and freshwater discharge during the last deglaciation 2012 ·Reviews of Geophysics ·Anders E. Carlson, Peter U. Clark	199
16	Holocene winter climate variability in mid-latitude western North America 2012 ·Nature Communications ·Vasile Ersek, Peter U. Clark, Alan C Mix, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards	51
17	Routing of western Canadian Plains runoff during the 8.2 ka cold event 2009 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Anders E. Carlson, Peter U. Clark, Brian A. Haley, G. P. Klinkhammer	26
18	The role of the thermohaline circulation in abrupt climate change breakdown → 2002 ·Nature ·Peter U. Clark, Nicklas G. Pisias, Thomas F. Stocker, Andrew J. Weaver	583
19	THE DEGLACIATION OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE: A Global Perspective 1999 ·Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences ·Richard B. Alley, Peter U. Clark	239
20	Late Quaternary land-sea correlations, northern Labrador, Canada 1985 ·Geol. Soc. Am., Abstr. Programs; (United States) ·Peter U. Clark, H Josenhans	2

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