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Adam A. Scaife

Adam A. Scaife

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Environmental Sciences
UK
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
94
Citations
29087
World Ranking
507
National Ranking
37

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Adam A. Scaife is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant number of publications in Environmental Science. Within these fields, Scaife's work concentrates on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The main topics addressed in Scaife's research include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric ozone and climate, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Scaife has authored several papers published in prominent venues. Recent publications include:

  • North Atlantic climate far more predictable than models imply (2020, Nature)
  • Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales (2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • Robust but weak winter atmospheric circulation response to future Arctic sea ice loss (2022, Nature Communications)
  • The 2019 Southern Hemisphere Stratospheric Polar Vortex Weakening and Its Impacts (2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • WMO Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update: A Prediction for 2021-25 (2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Scaife are:

  • Nick Dunstone
  • Doug Smith
  • Steven C. Hardiman
  • Leon Hermanson
  • Jeff Knight

Scaife's work is often published in journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Environmental Research Letters, Atmospheric Science Letters, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

In addition to journal publications, Scaife has contributed to book publications through Princeton University Press, including titles such as "The Little Book of Weather" published in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Climate impacts of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

    Jeff R. Knight;Chris K. Folland;Adam A. Scaife

  • Skillful long‐range prediction of European and North American winters

    A. A. Scaife;A. Arribas;E. Blockley;A. Brookshaw

  • Global Seasonal forecast system version 5 (GloSea5): a high-resolution seasonal forecast system

    C. Maclachlan;A. Arribas;K. A. Peterson;A. Maidens

  • Stratospheric influence on tropospheric jet streams, storm tracks and surface weather

    Joseph Kidston;Adam A. Scaife;Steven C. Hardiman;Daniel M. Mitchell

  • The Met Office Global Coupled Model 3.0 and 3.1 (GC3.0 and GC3.1) Configurations

    K. D. Williams;D. Copsey;E. W. Blockley;A. Bodas‐Salcedo

  • The role of the stratosphere in the European climate response to El Niño

    S. Ineson;A. A. Scaife

  • Simulations of anthropogenic change in the strength of the Brewer–Dobson circulation

    N. Butchart;A. A. Scaife;M. Bourqui;M. Bourqui;J. de Grandpre

  • Solar forcing for CMIP6 (v3.2)

    Katja Matthes;Katja Matthes;Bernd Funke;Monika E. Andersson;Luke Barnard

  • Solar forcing of winter climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere

    Sarah Ineson;Adam A. Scaife;Jeff R. Knight;James C. Manners

  • The association between stratospheric weak polar vortex events and cold air outbreaks in the Northern Hemisphere

    Erik W. Kolstad;Tarjei Breiteig;Tarjei Breiteig;Adam A. Scaife

  • A signal-to-noise paradox in climate science

    Adam A. Scaife;Adam A. Scaife;Doug Smith

  • Skilful predictions of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation one year ahead

    Nick Dunstone;Doug Smith;Adam Scaife;Leon Hermanson

  • Do seasonal-to-decadal climate predictions underestimate the predictability of the real world?

    Rosie Eade;Doug Smith;Adam Scaife;Emily Wallace

  • A stratospheric influence on the winter NAO and North Atlantic surface climate

    Adam A. Scaife;Jeff R. Knight;Geoff K. Vallis;Chris K. Folland

  • Removal of chlorofluorocarbons by increased mass exchange between the stratosphere and troposphere in a changing climate

    Neal Butchart;Adam A. Scaife

  • A comparison between gravity wave momentum fluxes in observations and climate models

    Marvin A. Geller;M. Joan Alexander;Peter T. Love;Julio Bacmeister

  • European Climate Extremes and the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Adam A Scaife;Chris K Folland;Lisa Victoria Alexander;Anders Moberg

  • Decadal to multidecadal variability and the climate change background

    David Parker;Chris Folland;Adam Scaife;Jeff Knight

  • Multidecadal modulation of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variance by Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures

    Buwen Dong;Rowan T. Sutton;Adam A. Scaife

  • Skilful multi-year predictions of Atlantic hurricane frequency

    Doug M. Smith;Rosie Eade;Nick J. Dunstone;David Fereday

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Dunstone
Nick Dunstone Met Office
Doug Smith
Doug Smith Met Office
Jeff R. Knight
Jeff R. Knight Met Office
Rosie Eade
Rosie Eade Met Office
Sarah Ineson
Sarah Ineson Met Office
Lesley J. Gray
Lesley J. Gray University of Oxford
Neal Butchart
Neal Butchart Met Office
Holger Pohlmann
Holger Pohlmann Max Planck Society

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