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D-Index
48
Citations
10467
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5465
National Ranking
418

Adrian Lock 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 Adrian Lock sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 84 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Adrian Lock 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 Adrian Lock sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Adrian Lock is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research focuses primarily on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with secondary interests in Environmental Engineering and Oceanography.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Adrian Lock has a record of publications in multiple peer-reviewed venues. The most frequent journals and platforms for their work are:

  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Recent published papers include:

  • "The first Met Office Unified Model-JULES Regional Atmosphere and Land configuration, RAL1," 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • "The Atmospheric Boundary Layer and the "Gray Zone" of Turbulence: A Critical Review," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Representation of Boundary-Layer Processes in Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Models," 2020, Boundary-Layer Meteorology
  • "The second Met Office Unified Model-JULES Regional Atmosphere and Land configuration, RAL2," 2023, Geoscientific Model Development
  • "Greater Future U.K. Winter Precipitation Increase in New Convection-Permitting Scenarios," 2020, Journal of Climate

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors of Adrian Lock include:

  • John Edwards
  • Ian Boutle
  • Charmaine Franklin
  • Rachel North
  • Stuart Webster

Best Publications

  • A New Boundary Layer Mixing Scheme. Part I: Scheme Description and Single-Column Model Tests

    A. P. Lock;A. R. Brown;M. R. Bush;G. M. Martin

  • The Met Office Unified Model Global Atmosphere 7.0/7.1 and JULES Global Land 7.0 configurations

    David Walters;Anthony J. Baran;Anthony J. Baran;Ian Boutle;Malcolm Brooks

  • The HadGEM2 family of Met Office Unified Model climate configurations

    N. Bellouin;W. J. Collins;I. D. Culverwell

  • Evaluation of Large-Eddy Simulations via Observations of Nocturnal Marine Stratocumulus

    Bjorn Stevens;Chin-Hoh Moeng;Andrew S. Ackerman;Christopher S. Bretherton

  • Large‐eddy simulation of the diurnal cycle of shallow cumulus convection over land

    A. R. Brown;R. T. Cederwall;A. Chlond;P. G. Duynkerke

  • Large-Eddy Simulations of a Drizzling, Stratocumulus-Topped Marine Boundary Layer

    Andrew S. Ackerman;Margreet C. Vanzanten;Bjorn Stevens;Verica Savic-Jovcic

  • Seamless Stratocumulus Simulation across the Turbulent Gray Zone

    I. A. Boutle;J. E. J. Eyre;A. P. Lock

  • Geoscientific Model Development The Met Office Unified Model Global Atmosphere 3 . 0 / 3 . 1 and JULES Global Land 3 . 0 / 3 . 1 configurations

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  • The Surface Downwelling Solar Radiation Surplus over the Southern Ocean in the Met Office Model: The Role of Midlatitude Cyclone Clouds

    A. Bodas-Salcedo;K. D. Williams;P. R. Field;A. P. Lock

  • Evaluation of the Diurnal Cycle in the atmospheric boundary layer over land as represented by a variety of single-column models: The second GABLS Experiment

    Gunilla Svensson;A. A. M. Holtslag;V. Kumar;T. Mauritsen

  • Marine low cloud sensitivity to an idealized climate change: The CGILS LES intercomparison

    Peter N. Blossey;Christopher S. Bretherton;Minghua Zhang;Anning Cheng

  • Conservative Explicit Unrestricted-Time-Step Multidimensional Constancy-Preserving Advection Schemes

    B. P. Leonard;A. P. Lock;M. K. MacVean

  • The first Met Office Unified Model-JULES Regional Atmosphere and Land configuration, RAL1

    Mike Bush;Tom Allen;Caroline Bain;Ian Boutle

  • The Met Office Unified Model Global Atmosphere 4 . 0 and JULES Global Land 4 . 0 configurations

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  • Positivity-preserving numerical schemes for multidimensional advection

    B. P. Leonard;M. K. Macvean;A. P. Lock

  • Upgrades to the Boundary-Layer Scheme in the Met Office Numerical Weather Prediction Model

    A. R. Brown;R. J. Beare;J. M. Edwards;A. P. Lock

  • A Pan-African Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Simulation with the Met Office Unified Model: CP4-Africa

    Rachel A. Stratton;Catherine A. Senior;Simon B. Vosper;Sonja S. Folwell

  • CGILS: Results from the first phase of an international project to understand the physical mechanisms of low cloud feedbacks in single column models

    Minghua Zhang;Christopher S. Bretherton;Peter N. Blossey;Phillip H. Austin

  • Tropical and Subtropical Cloud Transitions in Weather and Climate Prediction Models: The GCSS/WGNE Pacific Cross-Section Intercomparison (GPCI)

    J. Teixeira;S. Cardoso;S. Cardoso;M. Bonazzola;J. Cole

  • The Numerical Representation of Entrainment in Parameterizations of Boundary Layer Turbulent Mixing

    A. P. Lock

  • Observations and numerical simulations of the diurnal cycle of the EUROCS stratocumulus case

    Peter G. Duynkerke;Stephan R. de Roode;Margreet C. van Zanten;Javier Calvo

  • The Atmospheric Boundary Layer and the “Gray Zone” of Turbulence: A Critical Review

    Rachel Honnert;Georgios A. Efstathiou;Robert J. Beare;Junshi Ito

  • The parametrization of entrainment in cloudy boundary layers

    A. P. Lock

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher S. Bretherton
Christopher S. Bretherton University of Washington
Andrew S. Ackerman
Andrew S. Ackerman Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Bjorn Stevens
Bjorn Stevens Max Planck Society
Mark J. Webb
Mark J. Webb Met Office
Jean-Christophe Golaz
Jean-Christophe Golaz Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Marat Khairoutdinov
Marat Khairoutdinov Stony Brook University
Kuan-Man Xu
Kuan-Man Xu Langley Research Center
Minghua Zhang
Minghua Zhang Stony Brook University
Paul R. Field
Paul R. Field Met Office
Vincent E. Larson
Vincent E. Larson University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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