Thomas Melvin

7.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
49 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Thomas Melvin is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Melvin has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Atmospheric Science, 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 13 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Melvin's work include Tree-ring climate responses (19 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (11 papers). Thomas Melvin is often cited by papers focused on Tree-ring climate responses (19 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (11 papers). Thomas Melvin collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Thomas Melvin's co-authors include Keith R. Briffa, Timothy J. Osborn, Bao Yang, Minhui He, Andrew Staniforth, Chun Qin, Jianglin Wang, Jonathan Barichivich, Karen L. Masters and Chris Lintott and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Melvin

48 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A 3,500-year tree-ring record of annual precipitation on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

2014 432 citations Bao Yang, Chun Qin et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Galaxy Zoo 2: detailed morphological classifications for 304 122 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

2013 421 citations Kyle Willett, Chris Lintott et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
An inherently mass‐conserving semi‐implicit semi‐Lagrangian discretization of the deep‐atmosphere global non‐hydrostatic equations

2013 348 citations Nigel Wood, Andrew Staniforth et al. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Melvin United Kingdom	30	2.5k	2.2k	767	510	426	49	3.9k
James B. Abshire United States	27	1.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 1.7×	179 0.4×	475 1.1×	199	4.3k
Nicholas A. Bond United States	54	4.8k 1.9×	6.6k 3.0×	663 0.9×	1.0k 2.1×	224 0.5×	172	10.1k
B. E. Schutz United States	28	1.5k 0.6×	802 0.4×	833 1.1×	269 0.5×	120 0.3×	147	4.7k
LuAnne Thompson United States	31	1.4k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	456 0.6×	24 0.0×	215 0.5×	120	3.4k
Jack L. Bufton United States	19	790 0.3×	515 0.2×	520 0.7×	149 0.3×	178 0.4×	69	2.2k
Peter Brandt Germany	40	1.8k 0.7×	2.6k 1.2×	494 0.6×	125 0.2×	10 0.0×	210	5.4k
William L. Smith United States	44	6.1k 2.4×	6.0k 2.7×	338 0.4×	393 0.8×	7 0.0×	288	8.1k
N. A. Krivova Germany	41	2.2k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	4.0k 5.3×	16 0.0×	154 0.4×	157	5.7k
Chris Gordon United Kingdom	27	2.1k 0.8×	2.4k 1.1×	1.8k 2.4×	112 0.2×	49 0.1×	58	5.2k
J. B. Minster United States	38	727 0.3×	160 0.1×	635 0.8×	81 0.2×	111 0.3×	95	6.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Melvin, Thomas, Ben Shipway, Nigel Wood, et al.. (2024). A mixed finite‐element, finite‐volume, semi‐implicit discretisation for atmospheric dynamics: Spherical geometry. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 150(764). 4252–4269. 3 indexed citations

Boutle, Ian, et al.. (2024). Physics–dynamics–chemistry coupling across different meshes in LFRic‐Atmosphere: Formulation and idealised tests. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 150(764). 4650–4670.

Sergeev, Denis E., Nathan J. Mayne, Ian Boutle, et al.. (2023). Simulations of idealised 3D atmospheric flows on terrestrial planets using LFRic-Atmosphere. Geoscientific model development. 16(19). 5601–5626. 11 indexed citations

Cotter, Colin J., et al.. (2023). Hybridised multigrid preconditioners for a compatible finite‐element dynamical core. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 149(755). 2454–2476. 3 indexed citations

Kent, James, et al.. (2023). A mixed finite-element discretisation of the shallow-water equations. Geoscientific model development. 16(4). 1265–1276. 7 indexed citations

Hantemirov, Rashit, Christophe Corona, Sébastien Guillet, et al.. (2022). Current Siberian heating is unprecedented during the past seven millennia. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4968–4968. 40 indexed citations

Budd, Chris, et al.. (2019). The moving mesh semi-Lagrangian MMSISL method. Journal of Computational Physics. 393. 484–502. 4 indexed citations

Melvin, Thomas & John Thuburn. (2017). Wave dispersion properties of compound finite elements. Journal of Computational Physics. 338. 68–90. 5 indexed citations

Melvin, Thomas, et al.. (2017). LFRic: Building a new Unified Model. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 13021. 4 indexed citations

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Smethurst, Rebecca, Chris Lintott, Brooke Simmons, et al.. (2015). Galaxy Zoo: evidence for diverse star formation histories through the green valley. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 450(1). 435–453. 93 indexed citations

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Melvin, Thomas, et al.. (2014). Multi-century long density chronology of living and sub-fossil trees from Lake Schwarzensee, Austria. Dendrochronologia. 33. 42–53. 11 indexed citations

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Melvin, Thomas, Karen L. Masters, Chris Lintott, et al.. (2014). Galaxy Zoo: an independent look at the evolution of the bar fraction over the last eight billion years from HST-COSMOS★. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 438(4). 2882–2897. 88 indexed citations

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Yang, Bao, Chun Qin, Jianglin Wang, et al.. (2014). A 3,500-year tree-ring record of annual precipitation on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(8). 2903–2908. 432 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Bao, Minhui He, Thomas Melvin, Yan Zhao, & Keith R. Briffa. (2013). Climate Control on Tree Growth at the Upper and Lower Treelines: A Case Study in the Qilian Mountains, Tibetan Plateau. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e69065–e69065. 66 indexed citations

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Qin, Chun, Bao Yang, Thomas Melvin, et al.. (2013). Radial Growth of Qilian Juniper on the Northeast Tibetan Plateau and Potential Climate Associations. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e79362–e79362. 26 indexed citations

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Briffa, Keith R., Thomas Melvin, Timothy J. Osborn, et al.. (2013). Reassessing the evidence for tree-growth and inferred temperature change during the Common Era in Yamalia, northwest Siberia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 72. 83–107. 90 indexed citations

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Jones, P. D., Thomas Melvin, Colin Harpham, Håkan Grudd, & Samuli Helama. (2013). Cool North European summers and possible links to explosive volcanic eruptions. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 118(12). 6259–6265. 12 indexed citations

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Melvin, Thomas, Håkan Grudd, & Keith R. Briffa. (2012). Potential bias in ‘updating’ tree-ring chronologies using regional curve standardisation: Re-processing 1500 years of Torneträsk density and ring-width data. The Holocene. 23(3). 364–373. 86 indexed citations

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Melvin, Thomas, Andrew Staniforth, & John Thuburn. (2012). Dispersion analysis of the spectral element method. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 138(668). 1934–1947. 28 indexed citations

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Melvin, Thomas, Mark R. Dubal, Nigel Wood, Andrew Staniforth, & M. Zerroukat. (2010). An inherently mass‐conserving iterative semi‐implicit semi‐Lagrangian discretization of the non‐hydrostatic vertical‐slice equations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 136(648). 799–814. 36 indexed citations

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