Thomas J. Ballinger

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 950 citations indexed

About

Thomas J. Ballinger is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas J. Ballinger has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 950 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Atmospheric Science, 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Thomas J. Ballinger's work include Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (34 papers), Climate change and permafrost (31 papers) and Climate variability and models (26 papers). Thomas J. Ballinger is often cited by papers focused on Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (34 papers), Climate change and permafrost (31 papers) and Climate variability and models (26 papers). Thomas J. Ballinger collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Denmark. Thomas J. Ballinger's co-authors include Edward Hanna, James E. Overland, John E. Walsh, Timo Vihma, E. S. Euskirchen, Johanna Mård, Richard J. Hall, Thomas L. Mote, Muyin Wang and John Cappelen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Child Development and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Thomas J. Ballinger

45 papers receiving 936 citations

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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.

Extreme weather and climate events in northern areas: A review

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas J. Ballinger United States	15	736	568	102	66	51	47	950
Richard Thoman United States	18	737 1.0×	551 1.0×	102 1.0×	137 2.1×	39 0.8×	33	1.0k
Ivana Cvijanović United States	16	522 0.7×	554 1.0×	112 1.1×	57 0.9×	20 0.4×	28	792
Alexandra Jonko United States	12	528 0.7×	581 1.0×	78 0.8×	45 0.7×	35 0.7×	25	748
Fangying Wu China	13	865 1.2×	727 1.3×	61 0.6×	93 1.4×	25 0.5×	20	1.2k
Maria Hatzaki Greece	15	657 0.9×	714 1.3×	162 1.6×	32 0.5×	15 0.3×	57	903
Armineh Barkhordarian Germany	13	311 0.4×	427 0.8×	65 0.6×	72 1.1×	56 1.1×	21	592
Jianhua Lü China	14	866 1.2×	990 1.7×	179 1.8×	59 0.9×	27 0.5×	33	1.2k
Lejiang Yu China	19	865 1.2×	790 1.4×	279 2.7×	54 0.8×	31 0.6×	90	1.1k
Eveline C. van der Linden Netherlands	12	744 1.0×	702 1.2×	122 1.2×	40 0.6×	37 0.7×	25	969
Tymon Zieliński Poland	14	489 0.7×	531 0.9×	105 1.0×	76 1.2×	19 0.4×	61	765

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas J. Ballinger

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ballinger, Thomas J., Peter M. Finocchio, V. A. Alexeev, et al.. (2025). Unprecedented Beaufort Sea ice loss in late summer 2021 and its relationship to an extended period of unusually stormy weather. Environmental Research Letters. 20(11). 114067–114067.

Ballinger, Thomas J., Rick Lader, Peter A. Bieniek, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the Alaska Blocking Index as an indicator of wildfire potential in Alaska's central eastern interior. International Journal of Climatology. 44(7). 2230–2245. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Zhibiao, Qinghua Ding, Renguang Wu, et al.. (2024). Role of atmospheric rivers in shaping long term Arctic moisture variability. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5505–5505. 5 indexed citations

Bieniek, Peter A., et al.. (2024). The Impact of Snowoff Timing and Associated Atmospheric Drivers on the Alaska Wildfire Season. Earth Interactions. 29(1). 2 indexed citations

Webster, Melinda, Aku Riihelä, Sahra Kacimi, et al.. (2024). Summer snow on Arctic sea ice modulated by the Arctic Oscillation. Nature Geoscience. 17(10). 995–1002. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiangdong, Jing Zhang, John E. Walsh, et al.. (2023). Arctic cyclones have become more intense and longer-lived over the past seven decades. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 22 indexed citations

Topál, Dániel, et al.. (2022). Discrepancies between observations and climate models of large-scale wind-driven Greenland melt influence sea-level rise projections. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6833–6833. 7 indexed citations

Overland, James E., Thomas J. Ballinger, Judah Cohen, et al.. (2021). How do intermittency and simultaneous processes obfuscate the Arctic influence on midlatitude winter extreme weather events?. Environmental Research Letters. 16(4). 43002–43002. 92 indexed citations

Ballinger, Thomas J., Edward Hanna, Richard J. Hall, et al.. (2020). The role of blocking circulation and emerging open water feedbacks on Greenland cold‐season air temperature variability over the last century. International Journal of Climatology. 41(S1). 7 indexed citations

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Hanna, Edward, John Cappelen, Xavier Fettweis, et al.. (2020). Greenland surface air temperature changes from 1981 to 2019 and implications for ice‐sheet melt and mass‐balance change. International Journal of Climatology. 41(S1). 94 indexed citations

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James, William, Anshuman Bhardwaj, Jennifer Jensen, et al.. (2020). Glacier Ice Thickness Estimation and Future Lake Formation in Swiss Southwestern Alps—The Upper Rhône Catchment: A VOLTA Application. Remote Sensing. 12(20). 3443–3443. 14 indexed citations

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Ballinger, Thomas J., Thomas L. Mote, Kyle S. Mattingly, et al.. (2019). Greenland Ice Sheet late-season melt: investigating multiscale drivers of K-transect events. The cryosphere. 13(8). 2241–2257. 9 indexed citations

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Hanna, Edward, Richard J. Hall, Thomas Cropper, et al.. (2018). Greenland blocking index daily series 1851–2015: Analysis of changes in extremes and links with North Atlantic and UK climate variability and change. International Journal of Climatology. 38(9). 3546–3564. 54 indexed citations

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Cohen, Judah, Xiangdong Zhang, Jennifer A. Francis, et al.. (2018). Arctic change and possible influence on mid-latitude climate and weather: A US CLIVAR White Paper. PubMed. n/a. 37 indexed citations

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Ballinger, Thomas J., Cameron C. Lee, Scott C. Sheridan, et al.. (2018). Subseasonal atmospheric regimes and ocean background forcing of Pacific Arctic sea ice melt onset. Climate Dynamics. 52(9-10). 5657–5672. 12 indexed citations

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Ballinger, Thomas J., Edward Hanna, Richard J. Hall, et al.. (2017). Greenland coastal air temperatures linked to Baffin Bay and Greenland Sea ice conditions during autumn through regional blocking patterns. Climate Dynamics. 50(1-2). 83–100. 27 indexed citations

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Budikova, Dagmar, Trent W. Ford, & Thomas J. Ballinger. (2017). Connections between north‐central United States summer hydroclimatology and Arctic sea ice variability. International Journal of Climatology. 37(12). 4434–4450. 13 indexed citations

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Ballinger, Thomas J.. (2011). The Influence of Atmosphere-Ocean Teleconnections on Western Arctic Sea Ice and Surface Air Temperature. OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network). 1 indexed citations

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Ballinger, Thomas J.. (2009). A powerful veto for gravitational wave searches using data from Virgo's first scientific run. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 26(20). 204003–204003. 4 indexed citations

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Sundberg, Norman D. & Thomas J. Ballinger. (1968). Nepalese Children's Cognitive Development as Revealed by Drawings of Man, Woman, and Self. Child Development. 39(3). 969–969. 7 indexed citations

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