Samuel Levis

27.7k total citations · 10 hit papers
81 papers, 15.1k citations indexed

About

Samuel Levis is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel Levis has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 15.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 32 papers in Atmospheric Science and 14 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Samuel Levis's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (43 papers), Climate variability and models (43 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (16 papers). Samuel Levis is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (43 papers), Climate variability and models (43 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (16 papers). Samuel Levis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Samuel Levis's co-authors include Gordon B. Bonan, Keith W. Oleson, Jonathan A. Foley, I. Colin Prentice, David Pollard, S. Sitch, Peter Lawrence, David M. Lawrence, Peter Thornton and Zong‐Liang Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Samuel Levis

81 papers receiving 14.7k citations

Hit Papers

Evaluation of ecosystem d... 1996 2026 2006 2016 2003 2011 1996 2011 2008 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model
    2003 2.5k citations Samuel Levis et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  2. Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model
    2011 1.1k citations David M. Lawrence, Keith W. Oleson et al. profile →
  3. An integrated biosphere model of land surface processes, terrestrial carbon balance, and vegetation dynamics
    1996 1.0k citations Jonathan A. Foley, Samuel Levis et al. profile →
  4. Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model
    2011 676 citations David M. Lawrence, Keith W. Oleson et al. profile →
  5. Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle
    2008 659 citations Keith W. Oleson, Guo‐Yue Niu et al. profile →
  6. Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM)
    2004 582 citations Keith W. Oleson, Yongjiu Dai et al. UCAR/NCAR profile →
  7. The Land Surface Climatology of the Community Land Model Coupled to the NCAR Community Climate Model*
    2002 550 citations Gordon B. Bonan, Keith W. Oleson et al. profile →
  8. Change in atmospheric mineral aerosols in response to climate: Last glacial period, preindustrial, modern, and doubled carbon dioxide climates
    2006 531 citations N. M. Mahowald, Samuel Levis et al. profile →
  9. Improving canopy processes in the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) using global flux fields empirically inferred from FLUXNET data
    2011 512 citations Gordon B. Bonan, Peter Lawrence et al. profile →
  10. Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene Climate in CCSM3
    2006 502 citations Samuel Levis et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Samuel Levis 11.1k 7.3k 2.6k 1.7k 1.6k 81 15.1k
Martin Beniston 7.5k 0.7× 7.7k 1.1× 1.9k 0.7× 2.6k 1.6× 915 0.6× 171 14.0k
Pierre Gentine 11.7k 1.1× 5.9k 0.8× 2.4k 0.9× 2.7k 1.6× 3.2k 1.9× 270 15.2k
A. J. Dolman 12.0k 1.1× 6.9k 1.0× 3.9k 1.5× 2.8k 1.7× 3.2k 1.9× 268 17.5k
John S. Kimball 8.6k 0.8× 7.0k 1.0× 4.2k 1.6× 2.8k 1.7× 4.1k 2.5× 309 16.0k
Joshua B. Fisher 11.1k 1.0× 3.6k 0.5× 4.0k 1.5× 3.1k 1.9× 2.9k 1.8× 223 15.4k
Keith W. Oleson 10.6k 1.0× 6.3k 0.9× 1.7k 0.7× 2.0k 1.2× 4.7k 2.9× 84 14.8k
Michael L. Roderick 12.3k 1.1× 3.9k 0.5× 2.0k 0.8× 5.7k 3.4× 1.8k 1.1× 124 15.6k
Inez Fung 15.6k 1.4× 12.5k 1.7× 4.1k 1.6× 866 0.5× 1.6k 1.0× 166 22.1k
Eric E. Small 4.9k 0.4× 4.9k 0.7× 2.1k 0.8× 1.5k 0.9× 3.8k 2.3× 126 10.9k
Roni Avissar 7.5k 0.7× 4.1k 0.6× 1.7k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 1.9k 1.2× 121 10.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Samuel Levis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samuel Levis

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Samuel Levis. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Samuel Levis 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 Samuel Levis. Samuel Levis is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Fang, Samuel Levis, Stephen Sitch, et al.. (2024). Quantifying the role of ozone-caused damage to vegetation in the Earth system: a new parameterization scheme for photosynthetic and stomatal responses. Geoscientific model development. 17(16). 6173–6193. 2 indexed citations
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Buotte, Polly C., Charles D. Koven, Chonggang Xu, et al.. (2021). Capturing functional strategies and compositional dynamics in vegetation demographic models. Biogeosciences. 18(14). 4473–4490. 9 indexed citations
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Kueppers, Lara M., Samuel Levis, Polly C. Buotte, et al.. (2019). Simulating the role of fire in forest structure and functional type coexistence: Testing FATES-SPITFIRE in California forests. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Hu, Aixue, Samuel Levis, Gerald A. Meehl, et al.. (2015). Impact of solar panels on global climate. Nature Climate Change. 6(3). 290–294. 134 indexed citations
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Li, Fang, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, & Samuel Levis. (2014). Quantifying the role of fire in the Earth system – Part 2: Impact on the net carbon balance of global terrestrial ecosystems for the 20th century. Biogeosciences. 11(5). 1345–1360. 64 indexed citations
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Levis, Samuel, Melannie D. Hartman, & Gordon B. Bonan. (2014). The Community Land Model underestimates land-use CO 2 emissions by neglecting soil disturbance from cultivation. Geoscientific model development. 7(2). 613–620. 22 indexed citations
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Li, Fang, Samuel Levis, & D. S. Ward. (2013). Quantifying the role of fire in the Earth system – Part 1: Improved global fire modeling in the Community Earth System Model (CESM1). Biogeosciences. 10(4). 2293–2314. 119 indexed citations
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Li, Fang, Xiaodong Zeng, & Samuel Levis. (2012). A process-based fire parameterization of intermediate complexity in a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model. Biogeosciences. 9(7). 2761–2780. 134 indexed citations
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Lombardozzi, Danica, Samuel Levis, Gordon B. Bonan, & Jed P. Sparks. (2012). Predicting photosynthesis and transpiration responses to ozone: decoupling modeled photosynthesis and stomatal conductance. Biogeosciences. 9(8). 3113–3130. 66 indexed citations
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Lombardozzi, Danica, Jed P. Sparks, Gordon B. Bonan, & Samuel Levis. (2012). Ozone exposure causes a decoupling of conductance and photosynthesis: implications for the Ball-Berry stomatal conductance model. Oecologia. 169(3). 651–659. 65 indexed citations
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Swann, Abigail L. S., Inez Fung, Samuel Levis, Gordon B. Bonan, & Scott C. Doney. (2010). Changes in Arctic vegetation amplify high-latitude warming through the greenhouse effect. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(4). 1295–1300. 226 indexed citations
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Lombardozzi, Danica, Gordon B. Bonan, Samuel Levis, & Jed P. Sparks. (2010). Ozone-induced reductions in photosynthesis and transpiration: Parameterizing the Community Land Model (CLM). AGUFM. 2010. 2 indexed citations
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Kloster, Silvia, N. M. Mahowald, J. T. Randerson, et al.. (2010). Fire dynamics during the 20th century simulated by the Community Land Model. Biogeosciences. 7(6). 1877–1902. 157 indexed citations
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Swann, Abigail L. S., et al.. (2009). Changes in Arctic Vegetation Amplify High-Latitude Warming Through Greenhouse Effect. AGUFM. 2009. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Yi, et al.. (2008). Detecting vegetation-precipitation feedbacks in mid-Holocene North Africa from two climate models. Climate of the past. 4(1). 59–67. 33 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Forrest M., Inez Fung, J. T. Randerson, et al.. (2006). Terrestrial biogeochemistry in the community climate system model (CCSM). Journal of Physics Conference Series. 46. 363–369. 4 indexed citations
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Oleson, Keith W., Yongjiu Dai, Bertrand Bonan, et al.. (2004). Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM). UCAR/NCAR. 582 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bonan, Gordon B., Samuel Levis, Stephen Sitch, Mariana Vertenstein, & Keith W. Oleson. (2003). A dynamic global vegetation model for use with climate models: concepts and description of simulated vegetation dynamics. Global Change Biology. 9(11). 1543–1566. 283 indexed citations
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Delire, Christine, Samuel Levis, Gordon B. Bonan, et al.. (2002). Comparison of the climate simulated by the CCM3 coupled to two different land-surface models. Climate Dynamics. 19(8). 657–669. 36 indexed citations

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