Vivek K. Arora

26.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
113 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Vivek K. Arora is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Vivek K. Arora has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 41 papers in Atmospheric Science and 18 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Vivek K. Arora's work include Climate variability and models (69 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (59 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (42 papers). Vivek K. Arora is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (69 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (59 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (42 papers). Vivek K. Arora collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Vivek K. Arora's co-authors include G. J. Boer, Chris Jones, Pierre Friedlingstein, Joe R. Melton, Nathan P. Gillett, Gregory M. Flato, John Scinocca, Spencer Liddicoat, James R. Christian and William J. Merryfield and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Vivek K. Arora

110 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Reciprocal Feedback Regulation of PI3K and Androgen Receptor Signaling in PTEN-Deficient Prostate Cancer

2011 890 citations Vivek K. Arora et al. profile →
Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

2013 783 citations Pierre Friedlingstein, Vivek K. Arora et al. profile →
Carbon emission limits required to satisfy future representative concentration pathways of greenhouse gases

2011 700 citations Vivek K. Arora, John Scinocca et al. profile →
Carbon–Concentration and Carbon–Climate Feedbacks in CMIP5 Earth System Models

2013 512 citations Vivek K. Arora, Pierre Friedlingstein et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Vivek K. Arora	6.5k	3.0k	1.4k	1.3k	753	113	9.0k
Ning Zeng	6.5k 1.0×	3.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	746 0.6×	405 0.5×	217	9.4k
José M. García‐Ruiz	4.0k 0.6×	2.4k 0.8×	3.2k 2.3×	3.5k 2.7×	4.3k 5.8×	273	11.5k
W. J. Riley	4.9k 0.8×	4.0k 1.3×	3.2k 2.3×	803 0.6×	2.7k 3.6×	296	11.6k
J. C. Adam	4.9k 0.8×	4.9k 1.6×	667 0.5×	4.2k 3.3×	352 0.5×	76	8.9k
Maximilian Posch	1.2k 0.2×	1.3k 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	630 0.5×	761 1.0×	185	7.0k
Peter Lamb	4.5k 0.7×	3.4k 1.1×	408 0.3×	403 0.3×	324 0.4×	180	10.6k
Anping Chen	11.7k 1.8×	4.1k 1.4×	6.3k 4.5×	1.3k 1.0×	1.6k 2.2×	219	19.5k
Sha Zhou	5.3k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	1.8k 1.3×	1.9k 1.4×	568 0.8×	101	6.8k
Akihiko Ito	3.8k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	420 0.3×	719 1.0×	244	5.7k
Suzanne P. Anderson	792 0.1×	3.6k 1.2×	1.9k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	104	7.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Arora, Vivek K., Aranildo R. Lima, & Rajesh R. Shrestha. (2025). The effect of climate change on the simulated streamflow of six Canadian rivers based on the CanRCM4 regional climate model. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(1). 291–312. 1 indexed citations

Egerer, Sabine, David M. Lawrence, Peter Lawrence, et al.. (2025). Forestation in CMIP6: wide model spread in tree cover and land carbon uptake. Environmental Research Letters. 20(5). 54033–54033. 1 indexed citations

Ishizawa, Misa, Douglas Chan, Doug Worthy, et al.. (2024). Estimation of Canada's methane emissions: inverse modelling analysis using the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) measurement network. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 24(17). 10013–10038. 1 indexed citations

Curasi, Salvatore R., Joe R. Melton, Vivek K. Arora, Elyn Humphreys, & Cynthia Whaley. (2024). Global climate change below 2 °C avoids large end century increases in burned area in Canada. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 228–228. 5 indexed citations

Kou‐Giesbrecht, Sian, Vivek K. Arora, Christian Seiler, et al.. (2023). Evaluating nitrogen cycling in terrestrial biosphere models: a disconnect between the carbon and nitrogen cycles. Earth System Dynamics. 14(4). 767–795. 20 indexed citations

Cole, Jason N. S., Knut von Salzen, Jiangnan Li, et al.. (2023). The Canadian Atmospheric Model version 5 (CanAM5.0.3). Geoscientific model development. 16(18). 5427–5448. 7 indexed citations

Seiler, Christian, Joe R. Melton, Vivek K. Arora, & Libo Wang. (2021). CLASSIC v1.0: the open-source community successor to the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) and the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM) – Part 2: Global benchmarking. Geoscientific model development. 14(5). 2371–2417. 20 indexed citations

Winkler, Alexander J., Ranga B. Myneni, Alexis Hannart, et al.. (2021). Slowdown of the greening trend in natural vegetation with further rise in atmospheric CO ₂. Biogeosciences. 18(17). 4985–5010. 78 indexed citations

Blyth, Eleanor, Vivek K. Arora, Douglas B. Clark, et al.. (2021). Advances in Land Surface Modelling. Explore Bristol Research. 7(2). 45–71. 91 indexed citations

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Pan, Shufen, Naiqing Pan, Hanqin Tian, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of global terrestrial evapotranspiration using state-of-the-art approaches in remote sensing, machine learning and land surface modeling. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(3). 1485–1509. 203 indexed citations

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Tokarska, Katarzyna, Vivek K. Arora, Nathan P. Gillett, et al.. (2020). Uncertainty in carbon budget estimates due to internal climate variability. Environmental Research Letters. 15(10). 104064–104064. 12 indexed citations

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Boysen, Lena, Victor Brovkin, Julia Pongratz, et al.. (2020). Global climate response to idealized deforestation in CMIP6 models. Biogeosciences. 17(22). 5615–5638. 95 indexed citations

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Christensen, Torben R., Vivek K. Arora, Michael Gauss, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, & Frans‐Jan W. Parmentier. (2019). Tracing the climate signal: mitigation of anthropogenic methane emissions can outweigh a large Arctic natural emission increase. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 1146–1146. 20 indexed citations

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Arora, Vivek K. & Joe R. Melton. (2018). Reduction in global area burned and wildfire emissions since 1930s enhances carbon uptake by land. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1326–1326. 89 indexed citations

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Polavarapu, Saroja, Dylan B. A. Jones, Feng Deng, et al.. (2018). Coupling the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM v. 2.0) to Environment and Climate Change Canada's greenhouse gas forecast model (v.107-glb). Geoscientific model development. 11(2). 631–663. 2 indexed citations

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Arora, Vivek K., et al.. (2017). An assessment of geographical distribution of different plant functional types over North America simulated using the CLASS–CTEM modelling framework. Biogeosciences. 14(20). 4733–4753. 1 indexed citations

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Jones, Chris, Vivek K. Arora, Pierre Friedlingstein, et al.. (2016). The C4MIP experimental protocol for CMIP6. Spiral (Imperial College London). 5 indexed citations

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Melton, Joe R. & Vivek K. Arora. (2016). Competition between plant functional types in the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM) v. 2.0. Geoscientific model development. 9(1). 323–361. 94 indexed citations

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Melton, Joe R., et al.. (2015). The influence of soils on heterotrophic respiration exerts a strong control on net ecosystem productivity in seasonally dry Amazonian forests. Biogeosciences. 12(4). 1151–1168. 23 indexed citations

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Boysen, Lena, Victor Brovkin, Vivek K. Arora, et al.. (2014). Global and regional effects of land-use change on climate in 21st century simulations with interactive carbon cycle. Earth System Dynamics. 5(2). 309–319. 71 indexed citations

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