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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
69
Citations
27944
World Ranking
1737
National Ranking
78

Peter Rayner publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Rayner sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 230 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Peter Rayner D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Rayner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Peter Rayner is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research spans multiple domains within environmental and earth sciences, focusing on the interactions of atmospheric gases and their impacts on climate and health.

The primary fields of study for this scientist are Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these areas, Rayner has contributed extensively to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics including:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate variability and models
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Rayner has published research in various scientific journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers highlight diverse aspects of climate science and urban environmental studies. Notable publications include:

  • "The shared socio-economic pathway (SSP) greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions to 2500" (2020, Geoscientific model development)
  • "Toward an Operational Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions Monitoring and Verification Support Capacity" (2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • "On the impact of urbanisation on CO2 emissions" (2023, npj Urban Sustainability)
  • "Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 2100" (2022, Global Environmental Change)
  • "Warming and redistribution of nitrogen inputs drive an increase in terrestrial nitrous oxide emission factor" (2022, Nature Communications)

Rayner often collaborates with a group of co-authors who have contributed to multiple projects, including Jeremy D. Silver, Yohanna Villalobos, Steven Thomas, Zoë Loh, and Nicholas M. Deutscher.

Best Publications

  • Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

    Pierre Friedlingstein;P. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Laurent Bopp

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems

    D. S. Schimel;J. I. House;K. A. Hibbard;P. Bousquet

  • The shared socio-economic pathway (SSP) greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions to 2500

    Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen;Zebedee R. J. Nicholls;Jared Lewis;Matthew J. Gidden

  • Towards robust regional estimates of CO2 sources and sinks using atmospheric transport models.

    K. R. Gurney;R. M. Law;A. S. Denning;P. J. Rayner

  • The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

    D Crisp;RM Atlas;FM Breon;LR Brown

  • Historical greenhouse gas concentrations for climate modelling (CMIP6)

    Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen;Elisabeth Vogel;Alexander Nauels;Katja Lorbacher

  • The utility of remotely sensed CO2 concentration data in surface source inversions

    P. J. Rayner;D. M. O'Brien

  • TransCom 3 inversion intercomparison: Impact of transport model errors on the interannual variability of regional CO2 fluxes, 1988–2003

    D. F. Baker;D. F. Baker;Rachel M. Law;Kevin R. Gurney;Kevin R. Gurney;Peter Rayner

  • Reconstructing the recent carbon cycle from atmospheric CO2, δ13C and O2/N2 observations*

    P. J. Rayner;I. G. Enting;R. J. Francey;R. Langenfelds

  • Global atmospheric carbon budget: results from an ensemble of atmospheric CO2 inversions.

    P. Peylin;R. M. Law;K. R. Gurney;F. Chevallier

  • Precision Requirements for Space-based XCO2 Data

    C. E. Miller;D. Crisp;P. L. DeCola;S. C. Olsen

  • How positive is the feedback between climate change and the carbon cycle

    P. Friedlingstein;J. L. Dufresne;P. M. Cox;P. Rayner

  • A synthesis of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel combustion

    R.J. Andres;T.A. Boden;F.-M. Bréon;P. Ciais

  • Contribution of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory to the estimation of CO2 sources and sinks: Theoretical study in a variational data assimilation framework

    Frédéric Chevallier;François-Marie Bréon;Peter J. Rayner

  • Transcom 3 inversion intercomparison: Model mean results for the estimation of seasonal carbon sources and sinks

    Kevin Robert Gurney;Rachel M. Law;A. Scott Denning;Peter J. Rayner

  • Two decades of terrestrial carbon fluxes from a carbon cycle data assimilation system (CCDAS)

    Peter J. Rayner;Marko Scholze;Marko Scholze;Wolfgang Knorr;Wolfgang Knorr;Thomas Kaminski

  • TransCom 3 CO2 inversion intercomparison: 1. Annual mean control results and sensitivity to transport and prior flux information

    Kevin Robert Gurney;Rachel M. Law;A. Scott Denning;Peter J. Rayner

  • Model–data synthesis in terrestrial carbon observation: methods, data requirements and data uncertainty specifications

    M. R. Raupach;P. J. Rayner;D. J. Barrett;R. S. DeFries

  • On aggregation errors in atmospheric transport inversions

    Thomas Kaminski;Peter J. Rayner;Martin Heimann;Ian G. Enting

  • The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

    D. Crisp;P. Ciais;S. Pawson;P. Rayner

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel M. Law
Rachel M. Law Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
F. Chevallier
F. Chevallier University of Paris-Saclay
Marko Scholze
Marko Scholze Lund University
Cathy M. Trudinger
Cathy M. Trudinger Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
P. Ciais
P. Ciais French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Kevin R. Gurney
Kevin R. Gurney Northern Arizona University
Martin Heimann
Martin Heimann Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Wolfgang Knorr
Wolfgang Knorr Lund University
Philippe Peylin
Philippe Peylin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ying-Ping Wang
Ying-Ping Wang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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