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Earth Science
Canada
2022

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Earth Science D-index 79 Citations 24,808 200 World Ranking 200 National Ranking 7

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award

2010 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute

1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

1986 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

1986 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

1977 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Climate change
  • Mathematical analysis
  • Oceanography

Geophysics, Post-glacial rebound, Mantle, Sea level and Deglaciation are his primary areas of study. His Geophysics research incorporates elements of Convection and Mantle convection. His Post-glacial rebound study is concerned with Ice sheet in general.

His study in Mantle is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Geodesy, Compressibility, Discontinuity, Planet and Lithosphere. His Sea level study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Climatology, Last Glacial Maximum and Meltwater pulse 1A. His Deglaciation research includes elements of Ice age, North Atlantic Deep Water, Gravity anomaly and Pleistocene.

His most cited work include:

  • The Physical Science Basis (3670 citations)
  • GLOBAL GLACIAL ISOSTASY AND THE SURFACE OF THE ICE-AGE EARTH: The ICE-5G (VM2) Model and GRACE (1964 citations)
  • An alternative astronomical calibration of the lower Pleistocene timescale based on ODP Site 677 (1374 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

W. R. Peltier mainly focuses on Geophysics, Climatology, Mechanics, Sea level and Post-glacial rebound. His research on Geophysics focuses in particular on Mantle. His Climatology research integrates issues from Glacial period, Ice age, Climate change, Paleoclimatology and Ice sheet.

His research in Ice sheet intersects with topics in Cryosphere, Ice stream and Ice-sheet model. The Sea level study combines topics in areas such as Deglaciation, Holocene and Quaternary. W. R. Peltier combines subjects such as Isostasy and Geodesy with his study of Post-glacial rebound.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Geophysics (24.76%)
  • Climatology (24.45%)
  • Mechanics (18.50%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2010-2021)?

  • Climatology (24.45%)
  • Sea level (16.93%)
  • Mechanics (18.50%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

W. R. Peltier mainly investigates Climatology, Sea level, Mechanics, Oceanography and Turbulence. His studies deal with areas such as Albedo, Atmospheric sciences, Community Climate System Model and Ice sheet as well as Climatology. His work deals with themes such as Meltwater, Glacial period, Paleoclimatology, Ice-sheet dynamics and Ice-sheet model, which intersect with Ice sheet.

His work investigates the relationship between Sea level and topics such as Holocene that intersect with problems in Post-glacial rebound and Forebulge. His research integrates issues of Deglaciation, Mantle and Geodesy in his study of Post-glacial rebound. His Turbulence research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Stratification and Instability.

Between 2010 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Space geodesy constrains ice age terminal deglaciation: The global ICE‐6G_C (VM5a) model (522 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 (228 citations)
  • A data-calibrated distribution of deglacial chronologies for the North American ice complex from glaciological modeling (184 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Climate change
  • Mathematical analysis
  • Oceanography

W. R. Peltier mostly deals with Climatology, Sea level, Post-glacial rebound, Ice sheet and Turbulence. W. R. Peltier interconnects Last Glacial Maximum, Glacial period, Ice age, Deep sea and Quaternary in the investigation of issues within Climatology. His work in Sea level addresses subjects such as Geodetic datum, which are connected to disciplines such as Gravitational field, Radiative forcing and Meltwater pulse 1A.

His Post-glacial rebound study incorporates themes from Oceanic basin, Geoid, Mantle and Holocene. His Ice sheet research focuses on Meltwater and how it relates to Tectonics. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Stratification and Shear flow.

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Best Publications

The Physical Science Basis

E Jansen;J Overpeck;KR Briffa;JC Duplessy.
(2007)

5625 Citations

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

W.R. Peltier.
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences (2004)

2602 Citations

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

N. J. Shackleton;A. Berger;W. R. Peltier.
Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh-earth Sciences (1990)

1918 Citations

Ice Age Paleotopography

W. R. Peltier.
Science (1994)

1476 Citations

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

W.R. Peltier;R.G. Fairbanks.
Quaternary Science Reviews (2006)

1015 Citations

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

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Journal of Climate (2006)

1015 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.
Journal of Geophysical Research (1991)

862 Citations

The impulse response of a Maxwell Earth

W. R. Peltier.
Reviews of Geophysics (1974)

859 Citations

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

W. R. Peltier;D. F. Argus;R. Drummond.
Journal of Geophysical Research (2015)

706 Citations

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

W. R. Peltier.
Reviews of Geophysics (1998)

642 Citations

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