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W. R. Peltier 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 W. R. Peltier sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 512 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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W. R. Peltier 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 W. R. Peltier sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 114 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

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

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

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

  • Ice Age Paleotopography

    W. Richard Peltier

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

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

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

    W.R. Peltier;R.G. Fairbanks

  • 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

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

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik Ivins;Eric Rignot;Ben Smith

  • Global changes in postglacial sea level: A numerical calculation☆

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

  • The impulse response of a Maxwell Earth

    W. R. Peltier

  • 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

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

    W. R. Peltier

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

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

  • Glacial-Isostatic Adjustment—I. The Forward Problem

    W. R. Peltier;J. T. Andrews

  • 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

  • On postglacial geoid subsidence over the equatorial oceans

    J. X. Mitrovica;W. R. Peltier

  • 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

  • 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

  • Viscous gravitational relaxation

    Patrick Wu;W. R. Peltier

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

    W. R. Peltier;A. M. Tushingham

  • On eustatic sea level history: Last Glacial Maximum to Holocene

    W.R. Peltier

  • 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

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

    W. R. Peltier

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin P. Horton
Benjamin P. Horton City University of Hong Kong
Simon E. Engelhart
Simon E. Engelhart Durham University
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Jerry X. Mitrovica
Jerry X. Mitrovica Harvard University
Lev Tarasov
Lev Tarasov Memorial University of Newfoundland
Yongyun Hu
Yongyun Hu Peking University
William D. Smyth
William D. Smyth Oregon State University
Patrick Wu
Patrick Wu University of Hong Kong
Pascale Braconnot
Pascale Braconnot Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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