2026 W. R. Peltier: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	114	56	45	1	1	512	52148

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
2013 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council
2010 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
1986 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1986 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
1977 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

W. R. Peltier is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has produced scholarly work primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Geophysics, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Climate variability and models, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Marine and coastal ecosystems, and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Deepak Chandan, Gerrit Lohmann, Zhongshi Zhang, Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, and Ayako Abe-Ouchi.

W. R. Peltier has published extensively in notable journals and venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

Climate of the past
Geophysical Research Letters
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent papers from W. R. Peltier include:

The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations, 2021, Climate of the past
The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2: large-scale climate features and climate sensitivity, 2020, Climate of the past
Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020, 2023, Earth system science data
Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations, 2020, Climate of the past
Lessons from a high-CO ₂ world: an ocean view from ∼ 3 million years ago, 2020, Climate of the past

The scientist has received several awards including the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize from Canada Council in 2013 and the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute in 2010. They were also named Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1986, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science) in 1986, Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1986, and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1977.

Best Publications

GLOBAL GLACIAL ISOSTASY AND THE SURFACE OF THE ICE-AGE EARTH: The ICE-5G (VM2) Model and GRACE

W.R. Peltier

3218
Citations
An alternative astronomical calibration of the lower Pleistocene timescale based on ODP Site 677

N. J. Shackleton;A. Berger;W. R. Peltier

2059
Citations
Ice Age Paleotopography

W. Richard Peltier

1589
Citations
Space geodesy constrains ice age terminal deglaciation: The global ICE‐6G_C (VM5a) model

W. R. Peltier;D. F. Argus;R. Drummond

1480
Citations
Global glacial ice volume and Last Glacial Maximum duration from an extended Barbados sea level record

W.R. Peltier;R.G. Fairbanks

1220
Citations
Investigating the Causes of the Response of the Thermohaline Circulation to Past and Future Climate Changes

Ronald J. Stouffer;J. Yin;J. M. Gregory;J. M. Gregory;K. W. Dixon

1171
Citations
Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2017.

Andrew Shepherd;Erik Ivins;Eric Rignot;Ben Smith

1116
Citations
Global changes in postglacial sea level: A numerical calculation☆

James A. Clark;William E. Farrell;W.Richard Peltier

1008
Citations
The impulse response of a Maxwell Earth

W. R. Peltier

995
Citations
Ice‐3G: A new global model of Late Pleistocene deglaciation based upon geophysical predictions of post‐glacial relative sea level change

A. M. Tushingham;W. R. Peltier

910
Citations
Postglacial variations in the level of the sea: Implications for climate dynamics and solid‐Earth geophysics

W. R. Peltier

719
Citations
Neoproterozoic ‘snowball Earth’ simulations with a coupled climate/ice-sheet model

William T. Hyde;Thomas J. Crowley;Steven K. Baum;W. Richard Peltier

632
Citations
Glacial-Isostatic Adjustment—I. The Forward Problem

W. R. Peltier;J. T. Andrews

602
Citations
A data-calibrated distribution of deglacial chronologies for the North American ice complex from glaciological modeling

Lev Tarasov;Arthur S. Dyke;Radford M. Neal;W.R. Peltier

576
Citations
On postglacial geoid subsidence over the equatorial oceans

J. X. Mitrovica;W. R. Peltier

559
Citations
The Antarctica component of postglacial rebound model ICE-6G_C (VM5a) based on GPS positioning, exposure age dating of ice thicknesses, and relative sea level histories

Donald F. Argus;W. R. Peltier;R. Drummond;Angelyn W. Moore

556
Citations
Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)

S. Joussaume;K. E. Taylor;P. Braconnot;J. F.B. Mitchell

500
Citations
Viscous gravitational relaxation

Patrick Wu;W. R. Peltier

499
Citations
Global Sea Level Rise and the Greenhouse Effect: Might They Be Connected?

W. R. Peltier;A. M. Tushingham

474
Citations
On eustatic sea level history: Last Glacial Maximum to Holocene

W.R. Peltier

452
Citations
Comment on "An Assessment of the ICE-6G_C (VM5a) Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Model" by Purcell et al.

W. Richard Peltier;Donald F. Argus;Rosemarie Drummond

445
Citations
GLOBAL GLACIAL ISOSTASY AND THE SURFACE OF THE ICE-AGE EARTH: The ICE-5G (VM2)

W. R. Peltier

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin P. Horton City University of Hong Kong

Simon E. Engelhart Durham University

Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo

Jerry X. Mitrovica Harvard University

Lev Tarasov Memorial University of Newfoundland

Yongyun Hu Peking University

William D. Smyth Oregon State University

Patrick Wu University of Hong Kong

Raffaele Ferrari MIT

Pascale Braconnot Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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