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Jon D. Pelletier publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jon D. Pelletier sits on this spectrum.

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Jon D. Pelletier D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jon D. Pelletier sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Jon D. Pelletier is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Soil Science, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, Environmental Engineering, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's research addresses several main topics, with a focus on soil erosion and sediment transport, hydrology and sediment transport processes, aeolian processes and effects, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, hydrology and watershed management studies, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and groundwater flow and contamination studies.

Jon D. Pelletier has published in various academic venues, notably with multiple publications in Earth Surface Dynamics and the Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, as well as contributions to Preprints.org, Mine Closure, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Pelletier include:

  • "Resolving Deep Critical Zone Architecture in Complex Volcanic Terrain" (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • "Adverse Safety Events in Emergency Medical Services Care of Children With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest" (2024), JAMA Network Open
  • "Controls on the hydraulic geometry of alluvial channels: bank stability to gravitational failure, the critical-flow hypothesis, and conservation of mass and energy" (2021), Earth Surface Dynamics
  • "Quantification and classification of grainflow morphology on natural dunes" (2022), Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • "An algorithm to reduce a river network or other graph-like polygon to a set of lines" (2020), Computers & Geosciences

Frequent collaborators in Pelletier's research include Pei Zhang, Douglas J. Sherman, Jean T. Ellis, Eugene J. Farrell, and Bailiang Li, each having coauthored multiple papers.

Best Publications

  • The Community Land Model version 5 : description of new features, benchmarking, and impact of forcing uncertainty

    David M. Lawrence;Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;Keith W. Oleson

  • Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling

    Ying Fan;M. Clark;D. M. Lawrence;S. Swenson

  • A gridded global data set of soil, intact regolith, and sedimentary deposit thicknesses for regional and global land surface modeling

    Jon D. Pelletier;Patrick D. Broxton;Pieter Hazenberg;Xubin Zeng

  • Scale-invariance of soil moisture variability and its implications for the frequency-size distribution of landslides

    Jon D. Pelletier;Bruce D. Malamud;Troy Blodgett;Donald L. Turcotte

  • Mountains, monsoons, and megafans

    Andrew L. Leier;Peter G. DeCelles;Jon D. Pelletier

  • Long-range persistence in climatological and hydrological time series: analysis, modeling and application to drought hazard assessment

    Jon D. Pelletier;Donald L. Turcotte

  • Wind erosion in the Qaidam basin, central Asia: Implications for tectonics, paleoclimate, and the source of the Loess Plateau

    Paul Kapp;Jon D. Pelletier;Alexander Rohrmann;Richard Heermance

  • Quantitative Modeling of Earth Surface Processes

    Jon D. Pelletier

  • Geomorphology, complexity, and the emerging science of the Earth's surface

    A. Brad Murray;Eli Dalton Lazarus;Andrew Ashton;Andreas Baas

  • Geomorphically based predictive mapping of soil thickness in upland watersheds

    Jon D. Pelletier;Craig Rasmussen

  • A robust, two‐parameter method for the extraction of drainage networks from high‐resolution digital elevation models (DEMs): Evaluation using synthetic and real‐world DEMs

    Jon D. Pelletier

  • How Water, Carbon, and Energy Drive Critical Zone Evolution: The Jemez–Santa Catalina Critical Zone Observatory

    Jon Chorover;Peter A. Troch;Craig Rasmussen;Paul D. Brooks

  • Forecasting the response of Earth's surface to future climatic and land use changes: A review of methods and research needs

    Jon D. Pelletier;A. Brad Murray;Jennifer L. Pierce;Paul R. Bierman

  • An open system framework for integrating critical zone structure and function

    Craig Rasmussen;Peter A. Troch;Jon Chorover;Paul Brooks

  • Analysis and Modeling of the Natural Variability of Climate

    Jon D. Pelletier

  • A spatially distributed model for the long‐term suspended sediment discharge and delivery ratio of drainage basins

    Jon D. Pelletier

  • The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project : High-Resolution Paleoclimate Records from the East African Rift System and Their Implications for Understanding the Environmental Context of Hominin Evolution

    Christopher J. Campisano;Andrew S. Cohen;J. Ramon Arrowsmith;Asfawossen Asrat

  • The power spectral density of atmospheric temperature from time scales of 10−2 to 106 yr

    Jon D Pelletier

  • Self-Affine Time Series: II. Applications and Models

    Jon D. Pelletier;Donald L. Turcotte

  • Eocene to recent variations in erosion across the central Andean fold-thrust belt, northern Bolivia: Implications for plateau evolution

    J.B. Barnes;T.A. Ehlers;N. McQuarrie;P.B. O'Sullivan

  • Recent bright gully deposits on Mars: Wet or dry flow?

    Jon D. Pelletier;Kelly J. Kolb;Alfred S. McEwen;Randolph L. Kirk

  • Persistent drainage migration in a numerical landscape evolution model

    Jon D. Pelletier

  • Self-organization and scaling relationships of evolving river networks

    Jon D. Pelletier

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig Rasmussen
Craig Rasmussen University of Arizona
Jon Chorover
Jon Chorover University of Arizona
Peter Troch
Peter Troch University of Arizona
Xubin Zeng
Xubin Zeng University of Arizona
Paul D. Brooks
Paul D. Brooks University of Utah
Guo-Yue Niu
Guo-Yue Niu University of Arizona
Marcel G. Schaap
Marcel G. Schaap University of Arizona
Travis E. Huxman
Travis E. Huxman University of California, Irvine
David D. Breshears
David D. Breshears University of Arizona
Jennifer C. McIntosh
Jennifer C. McIntosh University of Arizona

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