Piers Forster

48.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
271 papers, 17.5k citations indexed

About

Piers Forster is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Piers Forster has authored 271 papers receiving a total of 17.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 202 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 158 papers in Atmospheric Science and 37 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Piers Forster's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (122 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (107 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (84 papers). Piers Forster is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (122 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (107 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (84 papers). Piers Forster collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Piers Forster's co-authors include Keith P. Shine, Timothy Andrews, Jonathan M. Gregory, Chris Smith, Alexandru Rap, K. S. Carslaw, Myles Allen, Oliviér Boucher, Joeri Rogelj and G. W. Mann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Piers Forster

264 papers receiving 17.0k 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.

Aviation and global climate change in the 21st century

2009 768 citations Piers Forster et al. profile →
Large contribution of natural aerosols to uncertainty in indirect forcing

2013 742 citations K. S. Carslaw, Carly Reddington et al. profile →
Current and future global climate impacts resulting from COVID-19

2020 437 citations Piers Forster, Robin Lamboll et al. profile →
Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C

2017 385 citations Richard Millar, Joeri Rogelj et al. profile →
Characteristics of biochars from crop residues: Potential for carbon sequestration and soil amendment

2014 308 citations Piers Forster et al. profile →
Estimating and tracking the remaining carbon budget for stringent climate targets

2019 258 citations Joeri Rogelj, Piers Forster et al. profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Piers Forster

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Piers Forster

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Piers Forster. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Piers Forster based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Piers Forster. Piers Forster is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Observed trend in Earth energy imbalance may provide a constraint for low climate sensitivity models 2025 ·Science ·Gunnar Myhre, Øivind Hodnebrog, Norman G. Loeb, Piers Forster	1
2	Impact of host climate model on contrail cirrus effective radiative forcing estimates 2025 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Weiyu Zhang, Kwinten Van Weverberg, Cyril Morcrette, Wuhu Feng, Kalli Furtado, Paul R. Field, Chih‐Chieh Chen, Andrew Gettelman, Piers Forster, D. R. Marsh, Alexandru Rap	2
3	Sea-surface temperature pattern effects have slowed global warming and biased warming-based constraints on climate sensitivity 2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kyle C. Armour, Cristian Proistosescu, Yue Dong, Lily Hahn, Edward Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth, Andrew G. Pauling, Robert C. J. Wills, Timothy Andrews, Malte F. Stuecker, Stephen Po–Chedley, (unknown), Piers Forster, Jonathan M. Gregory	30
4	Observational Evidence of Increasing Global Radiative Forcing 2021 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Ryan J. Kramer, Haozhe He, Brian J. Soden, Lazaros Oreopoulos, Gunnar Myhre, Piers Forster, Chris Smith	62
5	Effective Radiative Forcing in a GCM With Fixed Surface Temperatures 2021 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Timothy Andrews, Chris Smith, Gunnar Myhre, Piers Forster, Robin Chadwick, Duncan Ackerley	25
6	Effective Radiative Forcing and Adjustments in CMIP6 2020 ·Chris Smith, Ryan J. Kramer, Gunnar Myhre, Kari Alterskjær, W. J. Collins, Robert Pincus, Piers Forster, (unknown)	1
7	New Generation of Climate Models Track Recent Unprecedented Changes in Earth's Radiation Budget Observed by CERES 2020 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Norman G. Loeb, Hailan Wang, Richard P. Allan, Timothy Andrews, Kyle C. Armour, Jason N. S. Cole, Jean‐Louis Dufresne, Piers Forster, Andrew Gettelman, Huan Guo, Thorsten Mauritsen, Yi Ming, David Paynter, Cristian Proistosescu, Malte F. Stuecker, Ulrika Willén, Klaus Wyser	48
8	Climate Impacts of COVID‐19 Induced Emission Changes 2020 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Andrew Gettelman, Robin Lamboll, Charles Bardeen, Piers Forster, Duncan Watson‐Parris	45
9	Intensification of summer precipitation with shorter time-scales in Europe 2019 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Øivind Hodnebrog, Louis Marelle, Kari Alterskjær, Raul R. Wood, Ralf Ludwig, Erich Fischer, T. Richardson, Piers Forster, Jana Sillmann, Gunnar Myhre	40
10	ZERO IN ON the remaining carbon budget and decadal warming rates. The CONSTRAIN Project Annual Report 2019 2019 ·White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) ·Alexander Nauels, (unknown), Thorsten Mauritsen, Amanda C. Maycock, Christine M. McKenna, Joeri Rogelj, (unknown), Eric Alden Smith, Chris Smith, Piers Forster	6
11	An Estimate of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity From Interannual Variability 2018 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·A. E. Dessler, Piers Forster	36
12	Accounting for Changing Temperature Patterns Increases Historical Estimates of Climate Sensitivity 2018 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Timothy Andrews, Jonathan M. Gregory, David Paynter, Levi G. Silvers, Chen Zhou, Thorsten Mauritsen, Mark J. Webb, Kyle C. Armour, Piers Forster, Holly Titchner	137
13	Impact on short-lived climate forcers increases projected warming due to deforestation 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Catherine E. Scott, S. A. Monks, Dominick V. Spracklen, S. R. Arnold, Piers Forster, Alexandru Rap, Mikko Äijälä, Paulo Artaxo, K. S. Carslaw, Martyn P. Chipperfield, Mikael Ehn, Stefania Gilardoni, Liine Heikkinen, Markku Kulmala, Tuukka Petäjä, Carly Reddington, Luciana V. Rizzo, Erik Swietlicki, E. Vignati, Chris Wilson	100
14	Carbon Dioxide Physiological Forcing Dominates Projected Eastern Amazonian Drying 2018 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·T. Richardson, Piers Forster, Timothy Andrews, Oliviér Boucher, G. Faluvegi, Dagmar Fläschner, Matthew Kasoar, Alf Kirkevåg, Jean‐François Lamarque, Gunnar Myhre, Dirk Olivié, B. H. Samset, Dilshad Shawki, Drew Shindell, Toshihiko Takemura, Apostolos Voulgarakis	31
15	Slow and fast responses of mean and extreme precipitation to different forcing in CMIP5 simulations 2017 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Jana Sillmann, Camilla W. Stjern, Gunnar Myhre, Piers Forster	34
16	Determination of the atmospheric lifetime and global warming potential of sulfur hexafluoride using a three-dimensional model 2017 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Tamás Kovács, Wuhu Feng, (unknown), J. M. C. Plane, Sandip Dhomse, Juan Carlos Gómez Martı́n, G. P. Stiller, Florian Haenel, Chris Smith, Piers Forster, Rolando R. García, D. R. Marsh, Martyn P. Chipperfield	55
17	FAIR v1.1: A simple emissions-based impulse response and carbon cycle model 2017 ·Chris Smith, Piers Forster, Myles Allen, Nicholas Leach, Richard Millar, (unknown), Leighton A. Regayre	11
18	Impact of gas-to-particle partitioning approaches on the simulated radiative effects of biogenic secondary organic aerosol 2015 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Catherine E. Scott, D. V. Spracklen, Jeffrey R. Pierce, (unknown), S. D. D'Andrea, Alexandru Rap, K. S. Carslaw, Piers Forster, Paulo Artaxo, Markku Kulmala, Luciana V. Rizzo, Erik Swietlicki, G. W. Mann, K. J. Pringle	32
19	The direct and indirect radiative effects of biogenic secondary organic aerosol 2014 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Catherine E. Scott, Alexandru Rap, Dominick V. Spracklen, Piers Forster, K. S. Carslaw, G. W. Mann, K. J. Pringle, Niku Kivekäs, Markku Kulmala, Heikki Lihavainen, P. Tunved	146
20	Ozone and climate: A review of interconnections 2005 ·JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich) ·J. A. Pyle, Theodore G. Shepherd, G. E. Bodeker, Pablo O. Canziani, M. Dameris, Piers Forster, А. Н. Груздев, Rolf Müller, Nzioka John Muthama, Giovanni Pitari, William J. Randel, Vitali Fioletov, Jens‐Uwe Grooß, S. A. Montzka, Paul A. Newman, L. W. Thomason, Guus J. M. Velders	8

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